ArticleJournal of experimental child psychology2015
Prenatal substance exposure and child self-regulation: Pathways to risk and protection.
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- Change in maternal harshness and home environment across early childhood as predictors of autonomic regulation in adolescence in the context of prenatal substance exposure.Child development · 2026Article
- Mapping Dysregulation: Prenatal Predictors and Developmental Trajectories of Multiple Regulatory Problems in Early Childhood.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Caregiving Environmental Risk and Aggression From Infancy to Adolescence in a High-Risk Sample: An Examination of Between-Family and Within-Family Effects.Aggressive behavior · 2025Article
- Family Risk Exposure Profiles During Early Childhood: Developmental Processes and Adolescent Well-Being.Adversity and resilience science · 2023Article
- Child Community Violence Exposure in an at-Risk Sample: Developmental Trajectories, Caregiving Risks, and the Role of Child Temperament.Psychology of violence · 2022Article
- Are empathic processes mechanisms of pregnancy's protective effect on smoking? Identification of a novel target for preventive intervention.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome: a review of the science and a look toward the use of buprenorphine for affected infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Review
- Pathways From Early Family Violence to Adolescent Reactive Aggression and Violence Victimization.Journal of family violence · 2021Article
- Developmental cascades to children's conduct problems: The role of prenatal substance use, socioeconomic adversity, maternal depression and sensitivity, and children's conscience.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
- A Longitudinal Study of Gun Violence Attitudes: Role of Childhood Aggression and Exposure to Violence, and Early Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Victimization.Journal of school violence · 2020Article
- Longitudinal changes of amygdala functional connectivity in adolescents prenatally exposed to cocaine.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
- Developmental Pathways from Prenatal Substance Exposure to Reactive Aggression.Journal of applied developmental psychologyArticle
- Autonomic functioning among cocaine-exposed kindergarten-aged children: Examination of child sex and caregiving environmental risk as potential moderators.Neurotoxicology and teratologyArticle
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Abstract
A conceptual model of the association between prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) and child self-regulation via maternal harshness and language development was examined. Specifically, the model tested whether PCE was associated with self-regulation either directly or indirectly via high maternal harshness and poor language development. The role of child sex, autonomic reactivity, and cumulative environmental risk as potential moderators was also explored. The sample was 216 mother-child dyads recruited at birth and assessed at 2, 7, 13, 24, 36, and 48 months of child ages. Participating mothers were primarily African American (72%). Results indicated a significant indirect association between PCE and child effortful control at 36 months via higher maternal harshness. Autonomic reactivity moderated the association between maternal harshness and self-regulation such that among children with poor autonomic reactivity, high maternal harshness was associated with lower conscience at 3 years. Child sex and environmental risk did not moderate the association between PCE and self-regulation. Thus, the quality of caregiving experience played a significant role in the development of self-regulation among PCE children, especially those at higher autonomic risk. In particular, PCE children who also exhibit poor autonomic reactivity may be particularly susceptible to environmental influences such as parenting.
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