Journal
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 60, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101468
Keywords
Pregnancy; Anxiety; Trajectories; Infancy; Development
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- National Institutes of HealthR01 [HD073491]
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A longitudinal study of a sample of women and their offspring from two urban areas (N = 233) was conducted to test whether maternal prenatal anxiety trajectories from early to late pregnancy are associated with 12-month infant developmental outcomes, independent of maternal postpartum anxiety symptoms, prenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms, parity, birth outcomes and maternal education. Three types of maternal anxiety trajectories over the course of pregnancy were identified and labeled increasing, decreasing, and stable-low. Only increasing maternal prenatal anxiety was associated with 12-month infant outcomes, specifically lower Bayley-III scores on receptive language and gross motor skills. Maternal anxiety measured at each individual timepoint in pregnancy was not associated with infant Bayley-III outcomes, highlighting the importance of examining trajectories of maternal affect.
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