SynthesisChild psychiatry and human development2017
The Relations Between Maternal Prenatal Anxiety or Stress and Child's Early Negative Reactivity or Self-Regulation: A Systematic Review.
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The Effect of Mobile-Based Exercise Application in the Postpartum Period on Depressive Symptoms, Maternal Attachment and Baby Crying: A Randomized Controlled Study
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to Prevent Relapse or Recurrence of Preconception Anxiety and/or Depression in Perinatal Women: A Systematic Review.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review of the link between maternal anxiety and overprotection.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Pooled it
- The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Pooled it
- Prenatal and Intrapartum Factors Associated With Infant Temperament: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Longitudinal links between prenatal maternal depression and anxiety symptoms and infant temperament: The roles of postnatal symptoms and perceived partner support.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Prenatal Origins of Stress Regulation: Maternal Psychological Distress and Inflammation During Pregnancy Prospectively Predict Infant Behavioral Reactivity and Regulation.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Adaptive Skills May Moderate the Association between Prenatal Stress Exposure and Limbic Brain Activation: A Developmental Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Superstorm Sandy Exposure.Developmental neuroscience · 2026Article
- Fetal attachment and infant temperament: The mediating role of perinatal mental health.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Evaluating the factor structure of the pregnancy-related anxiety scale: implications for maternal and infant wellbeing.Journal of reproductive and infant psychology · 2026Article
- Prenatal Psychosocial Distress Interacting with Postnatal Maternal Sensitivity in Shaping Infant Observed Affect and RSA Profiles.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Developmental Cascades From Prenatal Tobacco, Tobacco-cannabis Co-exposure to Early school-age externalizing Problems.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Mother-Infant Interaction and Maternal Postnatal Psychological Distress Associate with Child's Social-Emotional Development During Early Childhood: A FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Participation in early childhood education and care in Finland mitigates the associations between maternal psychological distress and child social and emotional problems at age two.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Fetal programming of infant temperament: An examination of prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Association between perinatal mood and anxiety disorder diagnosis and primary cesarean delivery among national Medicaid enrollees, 2017-2022.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Maternal perinatal depression and infant self-regulation: A meta-analytic review.Development and psychopathology · 2025Review
- Effectiveness and treatment moderators of parenting interventions in Finnish perinatal primary care.Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
- From prenatal maternal anxiety and respiratory sinus arrhythmia to toddler internalizing problems: The role of infant negative affectivity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Mapping Dysregulation: Prenatal Predictors and Developmental Trajectories of Multiple Regulatory Problems in Early Childhood.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
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Abstract
In the present review, we examine the association between maternal prenatal stress or anxiety and children's early negative reactivity or self-regulation. The review includes 32 studies that focus on pregnancy-related anxiety, state or trait anxiety, perceived stress, and stressful life events in relation to child's crying, temperament, or behavior during the first 2 years of life. We searched four electronic databases and 32 studies were selected based on the inclusion criteria. Twenty-three studies found an association between maternal prenatal anxiety or stress and a child's negative reactivity or self-regulation, and typically the effect sizes varied from low to moderate. The association was found regardless of the form of prenatal stress or anxiety and the trimester in which the prenatal stress or anxiety was measured. In conclusion, several forms of prenatal anxiety and stress may increase the risk of emotional and self-regulatory difficulties during the first 2 years of life.
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