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In the article //Mothers' symptoms of depression predict how they respond to child behavior// lead researcher Theodore Dix and other researcher's of the University of Texas at Austin did a experiment on 319 mothers and their children over a two-year period to see if mothers who are going through depression affect a child in a long run and in what different ways do depressed mother to their children. Research showed that depressed mothers respond to their children depending on the child and the situation. Depressed mothers will try to avoid conflict with their children to lower the amount of stress or discomfort which in long run can unresponsive unauthoritative parenting style. Or it could go the other way and basically lead to accelerate that conflict to confront their child's behavior, leading to the term called over-reactive parenting. All in all in conclusion research showed that the more the depression increased the less responsive the mother is to their children but only when that behavior wasn't overly unpleasant as in over the top. But when the child's behavior was particularly unpleasant, the mothers' symptoms of depression predicted increasingly negative response.In many of my friends homes I personally found that this research to be true because parents who I have encountered that were going through a stressful time tend to want to isolate themselves from their children to avoid confrontation unless them have to generally step in because of overbearing behaviors.

References: Association for Psychological Science. "Mothers' symptoms of depression predict how they respond to child behavior." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 15 May 2014. 

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