ArticleInfant behavior & development2014
Maternal prenatal stress and infant regulatory capacity in Mexican Americans.
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- Prenatal and Intrapartum Factors Associated With Infant Temperament: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Maternal depression in Latinas and child socioemotional development: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Association of maternal psychological distress and milk cortisol with infant temperament and growth.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Impact of Early Life Experiences on Stress Neurobiology and the Development of Anxiety.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Developmental cascades from maternal preconception stress to child behavior problems: Testing multilevel preconception, prenatal, and postnatal influences.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Experience of discrimination reported during pregnancy and infant's emerging effortful control.Developmental psychobiology · 2024Article
- Differences in infant negative affectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic.Infant mental health journal · 2023Article
- Differential effects of prenatal psychological distress and positive mental health on offspring socioemotional development from infancy to adolescence: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
- The Pandemial babies: effects of maternal stress on temperament of babies gestated and born during the pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Effects of Maternal and Child Lifetime Traumatic Stress Exposures, Infant Temperament, and Caregiving Quality on Preschoolers' Executive Functioning.Developmental neuropsychology · 2022Article
- Pathways to Maternal and Child Well-Being: Stability and Transaction across Toddlerhood.Parenting, science and practice · 2021Article
- Self-regulation and emotional reactivity in infants with prenatal exposure to opioids and alcohol.Early human development · 2020Article
- Mother-infant dyadic dysregulation and postpartum depressive symptoms in low-income Mexican-origin women.Biological psychology · 2019Article
- Differential Effects of Stress Exposures, Caregiving Quality, and Temperament in Early Life on Working Memory versus Inhibitory Control in Preschool-Aged Children.Developmental neuropsychology · 2019Article
- Associations among prenatal stress, maternal antioxidant intakes in pregnancy, and child temperament at age 30 months.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2017Article
- Ontogeny of emotional and behavioral problems in a low-income, Mexican American sample.Developmental psychology · 2017Article
- Sensory Processing in Rhesus Monkeys: Developmental Continuity, Prenatal Treatment, and Genetic Influences.Child development · 2017Article
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Abstract
The early postpartum period lays important groundwork for later self-regulation as infants' dispositional traits interact with caregivers' co-regulatory behaviors to produce the earliest forms of self-regulation. Although emerging literature suggests that fetal exposure to maternal stress may be integral in determining child self-regulatory capacity, the complex pathways that characterize these early developmental processes remain unclear. The current study considers these complex, transactional processes in a low income, Mexican American sample. Data were collected from 295 Mexican American infants and their mothers during prenatal, 6- and 12-week postpartum home interviews. Mother reports of stress were obtained prenatally, and mother reports of infant temperament were obtained at 6 weeks. Observer ratings of maternal sensitivity and infant regulatory behaviors were obtained at the 6- and 12-week time points. Study results indicate that prenatal stress predicts higher levels of infant negativity and surgency, both of which directly or interactively predict later engagement in regulatory behaviors. Unexpectedly, prenatal stress also predicted more engagement in orienting, but not self-comforting behaviors. Advancing understandings about the nature of these developmental pathways may have significant implications for targets of early intervention in this high risk population.
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