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Prenatal maternal anxiety and early childhood temperament
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The consequences of exposure to prenatal maternal anxiety for the development of child temperament were examined in a sample of 120 healthy, 2-year-old children. Prenatal maternal state and pregnancy-specific anxiety (PSA) were measured five times during pregnancy, and maternal state anxiety was measured again at 2 years post partum. Child temperament was measured at 2 years using the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire. The relationship between the trajectory of maternal anxiety across gestation and negative affectivity was evaluated using hierarchical linear growth curve modeling. Higher maternal PSA between 13 and 17 weeks of gestation was associated with increased negative temperament in the children. This association could not be explained by postnatal maternal anxiety, demographic, or obstetric factors. Prenatal maternal state anxiety was not associated with child temperament. These findings demonstrate that PSA early in gestation has a distinctive influence on the developing fetus.
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- Authors
- Blair, M. M., Glynn, L. M., Sandman, C. A., & Davis, E. P.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Chapman University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Davis, Elysia Poggi
- Venue
- Stress
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-07-26
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 644-651
- ISSN
- 1025-3890 (ISSN-L)
- 1607-8888
- PMC
- PMC10486312
- OpenAlex
- W2122743728
- Cited by
- 183
- References
- 74
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- FWCI
- 7.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Stress (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Chapman University Digital Commons (Chapman University) (submittedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS041298, R01NS041298)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD051852, R03HD052669, R01HD050662)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Keywords
- pregnancy-specific anxiety, child temperament, negative affectivity, early childhood development, fetal development, prenatal stress, early pregnancy
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Child Behavior, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Pregnancy Trimester, First, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Temperament
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