We assessed Expressed Emotion (EE) with an adapted version of the Five Minute Speech Sample in 847 pregnant women. The prevalence of high EE was 6%. High EE was significantly associated with having a first child, low income, maternal childhood trauma and lack of parental emotional warmth during childhood.

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Psychiatry Research
Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam

Lambregtse-van den Berg, M., Lucassen, N., Kuipers-Nap, M., Dingemans, P., Jaddoe, V., Hofman, A., … Tiemeier, H. (2013). Assessing expressed emotion during pregnancy. Psychiatry Research, 205(3), 285–288. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.08.037