TY - JOUR T1 - Mother's affection at 8 months predicts emotional distress in adulthood: errors in interpretation JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 384 LP - 384 DO - 10.1136/jech.2010.122804 VL - 65 IS - 4 AU - Andrew J P Francis Y1 - 2011/04/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/65/4/384.abstract N2 - In their study of childhood determinants of adult mental health, Maselko and colleagues reported in this journal that their findings ‘provide strong support for the assertion that even very early life experiences can influence adult health’ (p 4).1 This claim is substantively based on an association they found (using regression analyses) between a measure of observed maternal affection towards their child at the age of 8 months, derived from archival data supplied by the National … ER -