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This study was conducted to explore the effects of early exposure to maternal depressive symptoms on a trajectory of child internalizing and externalizing behaviors over time. In the past, it is evident that not all children of depressed mother fair worse than other children. Actually, many of children of depressed mother exhibit competent adaptation to other circumstances, so it is also important for us to explore what makes these children resilient to the adverse environment, and fathers' role in family study has been neglected. And this study examined father's positive involvement and a fact modified in this association of interests.

The data results for this study come from the mother/child data center national longitudinal survey of youth, which I refer to as NLSY79. The study period I chose is between 1992 to 2002, given that the maternal depressive symptom was first measured in this longitudinal study starting in 1992. At baseline, child age ran from zero to ten years old, and mothers' ages range from 27 to 34 in 1992. NLSY 79 was conducted every two years. Mother and children were both followed up every two years. And most of the survey were in-person survey, computer assisted. The study inclusion criteria include complete data on exposure, which is maternal depressive symptom in this case, and children have to have lived with the mother in 1992. And since this is a longitudinal study, the child outcome data has to have at least more than one wave of data between 1992 and 2002.