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Is there a direct relationship between children’s developmental stages and maternal depression? Research suggests that children’s development can be adversely affected by maternal depression. A depressed person has more negative cognitions than that of non-depressed counterparts. Depressed adults have also been found to demonstrate negative self-perceptions in their cognition, including negative internal, stable, and global attributions of events, and greater memory of, negative stimuli. In addition, depressed adults show high levels of self-punishment …

…for understanding stressful situations. For example, if an eight or nine year old child has been able to formulate fairly stable self-perceptions and beliefs, They will be less vulnerable to parental depression and depressive cognitions and criticisms. The disadvantage of this is the ability to increase vulnerability of negative cognitions with age. An example of this would illustrate the relative contribution of depression with marital discord to both conduct disorder and depression in their children.