Developmental trajectories of positive and negative affect in children at high and low familial risk for depressive disorder.

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BACKGROUND: Although low positive affect (PA) and high negative affect (NA) have been posited to predispose to depressive disorders, little is known about the developmental trajectories of these affects in children at familial risk for mood disorders. METHODS: We examined 202 offspring of mothers who had a history of juvenile-onset unipolar depressive disorder (n = 60) or no history of major psychopathology (n =...

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• Affect
• Child of Impaired Parents
• Depressive Disorder
• Individuality
• Maternal Behavior