Paternal bonding is influenced by prenatal paternal depression and trait-anxiety.

Patricia Trautmann-VillalbaPetra DavidovaMiriam KalokCorina EsselFadia Ben AhmedYasmina KingeterAnna Linda LeutritzAndreas ReifFranz BahlmannKatharina Lichter

Published in: Journal of reproductive and infant psychology (2023)

Paternal depressive and anxiety symptoms during pregnancy are highly predictive for the quality of bonding as well as for the presence of depressive and anxiety symptoms 3 month pp. It is necessary to identify these symptoms as soon as possible in order to prevent later negative impacts on parental mental health and on child developmental outcomes.

Keyphrases

sleep quality
mental health
depressive symptoms
bipolar disorder
stress induced
gene expression
skeletal muscle
type diabetes
genome wide