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Negative emotionality as a candidate mediating mechanism linking prenatal maternal mood problems and offspring internalizing behaviour
- Cathryn Gordon Green, Eszter Szekely, Vanessa Babineau, Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, Andrée-Anne Bouvette-Turcot, Klaus Minde, Roberto Sassi, Leslie Atkinson, James L. Kennedy, Meir Steiner, John Lydon, Helene Gaudreau, Jacob A. Burack, Catherine Herba, Marie-Helene Pennestri, Robert Levitan, Michael J. Meaney, Ashley Wazana
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- Development and Psychopathology / Volume 35 / Issue 2 / May 2023
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- 20 April 2022, pp. 604-618
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Negative emotionality (NE) was evaluated as a candidate mechanism linking prenatal maternal affective symptoms and offspring internalizing problems during the preschool/early school age period. The participants were 335 mother–infant dyads from the Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment project. A Confirmatory Bifactor Analysis (CFA) based on self-report measures of prenatal depression and pregnancy-specific anxiety generated a general factor representing overlapping symptoms of prenatal maternal psychopathology and four distinct symptom factors representing pregnancy-specific anxiety, negative affect, anhedonia and somatization. NE was rated by the mother at 18 and 36 months. CFA based on measures of father, mother, child-rated measures and a semistructured interview generated a general internalizing factor representing overlapping symptoms of child internalizing psychopathology accounting for the unique contribution of each informant. Path analyses revealed significant relationships among the general maternal affective psychopathology, the pregnancy- specific anxiety, and the child internalizing factors. Child NE mediated only the relationship between pregnancy-specific anxiety and the child internalizing factors. We highlighted the conditions in which prenatal maternal affective symptoms predicts child internalizing problems emerging early in development, including consideration of different mechanistic pathways for different maternal prenatal symptom presentations and child temperament.
Prenatal maternal depression and child serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) genotype predict negative emotionality from 3 to 36 months
- Cathryn Gordon Green, Vanessa Babineau, Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, Andrée-Anne Bouvette-Turcot, Klaus Minde, Roberto Sassi, Martin St-André, Normand Carrey, Leslie Atkinson, James L. Kennedy, Meir Steiner, John Lydon, Helene Gaudreau, Jacob A. Burack, Robert Levitan, Michael J. Meaney, Ashley Wazana, The Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability, and Neurodevelopment Research Team
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- Development and Psychopathology / Volume 29 / Issue 3 / August 2017
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- 18 July 2016, pp. 901-917
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Prenatal maternal depression and a multilocus genetic profile of two susceptibility genes implicated in the stress response were examined in an interaction model predicting negative emotionality in the first 3 years. In 179 mother–infant dyads from the Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability, and Neurodevelopment cohort, prenatal depression (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depressions Scale) was assessed at 24 to 36 weeks. The multilocus genetic profile score consisted of the number of susceptibility alleles from the serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region gene (5-HTTLPR): no long-rs25531(A) (LA: short/short, short/long-rs25531(G) [LG], or LG/LG] vs. any LA) and the dopamine receptor D4 gene (six to eight repeats vs. two to five repeats). Negative emotionality was extracted from the Infant Behaviour Questionnaire—Revised at 3 and 6 months and the Early Child Behavior Questionnaire at 18 and 36 months. Mixed and confirmatory regression analyses indicated that prenatal depression and the multilocus genetic profile interacted to predict negative emotionality from 3 to 36 months. The results were characterized by a differential susceptibility model at 3 and 6 months and by a diathesis–stress model at 36 months.
Foreword
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- By Klaus J. Jacobs, Chairman, Jacobs Foundation
- Edited by Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy, Lauren B. Resnick, University of Pittsburgh, Tania Zittoun, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Barbara Burge, University of Pittsburgh
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- Joining Society
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- 08 January 2010
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- 17 November 2003, pp xiii-xiv
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The mission of the Johann Jacobs Foundation is international. Currently, its grant-making policy operates through communication networks to influence decision makers and educators, to facilitate interdisciplinary research, and to promote research for incentive and mutual aid.
Each year the foundation sponsors a major conference related to one of these priorities as defined by the board. The “Joining Society: Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth” conference, held at Marbach Castle, Germany, in 1997, provides the basis for this volume. That topic is directly connected with the Johann Jacobs Foundation's growing interest in the adolescent phase of human development in the social context of a rapidly changing world. The Foundation promotes research in this area and contributes to the development of action programs with a three-pronged goal: to improve opportunities for adolescents, to promote the development of respect for the environment, and to identify future widespread problems that may result from the unreasonable exploitation of environmental resources. This effort also involves correcting or preventing the marginalization of youth, particularly in inner cities, and proposing ways in which disadvantaged teens can become competitive users of new information technologies.
For the organization of this conference, the Johann Jacobs Foundation invited Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, a psychology professor at the University of Neuchâtel, to set up a small international team. She was chosen because of her special interests in the social psychology of education and her extensive research on the importance of horizontal (peer) interactions in cognitive development.
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- Edited by Roland Vandenberghe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, A. Michael Huberman
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- Understanding and Preventing Teacher Burnout
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- 06 January 2010
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- 28 May 1999, pp xv-xvi
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This volume is the fifth in a series sponsored by the Johann Jacobs Foundation. It is intended to build bridges between the scientific community and the practitioners in the field about an issue that has assumed growing importance – the burnout syndrome of teachers and its nefarious effects on their pupils. The quality of the relationship between teachers and pupils is indeed one of the most rewarding features of the teaching profession; it is potentially also the most vulnerable one, especially when viewed against the backdrop of an ever more rapidly changing world that compels both teachers and pupils to learn how to adapt. Because burnout in the teaching profession is a phenomenon that knows no national boundaries, the Johann Jacobs Foundation convened from November 2 to 4, 1995, an international conference with more than 40 scientists and young scholars at its Communication Center at Marbach Castle on Lake Constance in Germany. This book provides a well-balanced overview of the work of the conference, with a special and purposeful “confrontation” between North American and European perspectives. The various chapters in this text are drawn from papers and commentaries presented at the conference, reflecting the intensive and fruitful discussions that characterized the event. Moreover, the book also offers suggestions for future research and the development of useful interventions.
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- Edited by Ruby Takanishi, Foundation for Child Development, David A. Hamburg, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York
- Foreword by Klaus Jacobs
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- Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century
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- 10 May 2010
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- 28 March 1997, pp xi-xii
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Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century is the fourth volume of the Johann Jacobs Foundation's Conference Series. Like the previous ones, this volume promotes our Foundation's basic aim: to support young adolescents in becoming healthy and productive adults capable of making valuable contributions to society. This goal is accomplished through financial support of basic research on human development, the elaboration of educational and policy programs, and the furtherance of reliable research-based intervention strategies from which all adolescents can benefit.
This interest of the Johann Jacobs Foundation was particularly well served by two recent conferences. The first was held at our Marbach Castle Communication Center on the topic “Frontiers in the Education of Young Adolescents” (November 3–5,1994). The second took place in Geneva, Switzerland (February 3–5, 1995), on “Schools as Health Promoting Environments.” At both conferences, many interesting and original views were expressed regarding the difficult contexts in which young adolescents are negotiating on the often tortuous path to adulthood.
Not long ago, young people were often considered privileged, handed all the benefits of the consumer society on a silver tray. At the same time, other observers fretted about youth, making them feel guilty for misdeeds and reprehensible behavior for which they were not responsible. It is widely recognized that today's youths face completely different and incomparably more complicated challenges than those that confronted previous generations, including the prospect of a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
Foreword
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- By Klaus J. Jacobs, Chairman of the Board, Johann Jacobs Foundation
- Edited by Albert Bandura, Stanford University, California
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- Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies
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- 04 August 2010
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- 28 April 1995, pp vii-viii
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It has become commonplace to speak of the accelerated rate of social, economic, technological, and cultural changes that our world is undergoing. Genetic engineering, global multimedia communication, superhighways of information, and other breathtaking innovations no longer belong to the domain of science fiction. They are now part of our daily lives. Navigating between the reefs of the uncharted waters of our assailed present and daunting future is disconcerting for the best-prepared adults but even more so for the youth of our society.
Much ink has flowed on the subject of whether tomorrow's world will be a true or false El Dorado. Less effort has been invested in preparing ourselves, and particulary our youth, to cope with the extraordinary changes they face.
For this reason, I am especially pleased to introduce Albert Bandura's volume, Self-efficacy in Changing Societies. It is a great honor for the Johann Jacobs Foundation that the various contributions presented in this volume originated from the conference held on November 4–6, 1993, at our Communication Center, Marbach Castle (Germany), with the participation of 45 international social scientists and young scholars.
In his preface, Albert Bandura summarizes the structure of this volume, which is built around the central theme that young people's beliefs in their personal efficacy to manage the demands of rapidly changing societal conditions help them to meet these challenges.
Convinced of the fruitful applications of many of the ideas presented at the Marbach Conference on self-efficacy, the Johann Jacobs Foundation organized a follow-up policy conference on January 28–30, 1994, with the participation of some of the contributors to this volume, as well as prominent policy makers and field workers involved in youth work, particularly school systems.
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- By Klaus J. Jacobs, Chairman of the Board, Johann Jacobs Foundation
- Edited by Anne C. Petersen, University of Minnesota, Jeylan T. Mortimer, University of Minnesota
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- Youth Unemployment and Society
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- 05 May 2010
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- 27 May 1994, pp ix-x
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This volume is the first title, it is hoped, of a long series devoted to the better understanding of human development, particularly that of adolescents and young people. The chapters published in this book were presented from November 7–9, 1991, at the Johann Jacobs Communication Center, Marbach Castle, Germany, during a conference sponsored by the foundation of the same name. The event was organized by Anne C. Petersen, then dean of the College of Health and Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University and now, since March 1992, vice-president for research and dean of the Graduate School, University of Minnesota.
The goal of the conference was to examine the causes and consequences of youth unemployment, for both society and the individual. In addition, part of the conference was devoted to the analysis of policies and programs to prevent the causes and treat the consequences.
Forty-five scientists and young scholars from Europe and the United States also studied some of the misconceptions about youth unemployment, which may lead to both wasteful government programs and missed opportunities. In addition, they analyzed some of the existing successful programs and considered how these might be exported to other countries and other cultures. Finally, they looked at the need for ongoing research to help render interventions by government, industry, or families as effective as possible.
Most people will agree that the theme of this first Johann Jacobs conference is an important one, and I am afraid its importance will continue to increase.