The ability of a mother to perceive and react to their child's emotional cues and needs. 

University of Illinois at Chicago

From this present study, researchers found that maternal HoD had an indirect effect on their offspring developing mental health problems with maternal sensitivity as the mediating variable. In other words, maternal HoD was associated with reduced maternal sensitivity, which then was linked to higher child psychopathology. 

Maternal History of Depression has an indirect effect on child psychopathology 

Bödeker, K., Fuchs, A., Führer, D., Kluczniok, D., Dittrich, K., Reichl, C., ... & Resch, F. (2019). Impact of maternal early life maltreatment and maternal history of depression on child psychopathology: Mediating role of maternal sensitivity?. Child psychiatry & human development, 50(2), 278-290.

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