ArticleInfant mental health journal2023
Differences in infant negative affectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Fetal programming of infant temperament: An examination of prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Postpartum maternal sleep disruption is associated with perception of infant temperament: findings from a 6-month longitudinal study.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Maternal perinatal depression and infant self-regulation: A meta-analytic review.Development and psychopathology · 2025Review
- The association between prenatal maternal anxiety, infant brain volumes, and temperament during the COVID-19 pandemic.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Using Machine Learning to Identify Predictors of Maternal and Infant Hair Cortisol Concentration Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Article
- Trajectories of mothers' perinatal depressive symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns: The protective role of romantic relationship quality.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Cognitive household labor: gender disparities and consequences for maternal mental health and wellbeing.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- The relationships between the family impact and distress of the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic, parent insomnia, infant temperamental negative affectivity, and parent-reported infant sleep: a path analysis.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2024Article
- COVID-19 pandemic effects: Examining prenatal internalizing symptoms and infant temperament.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
This longitudinal study compared infant temperament rated at 3 months postpartum by 263 United-States-based women who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic and 72 who gave birth prior to the pandemic. All women completed questionnaires assessing perinatal mental health, social contact, and infant temperament. Mothers whose infants were born during the pandemic reported higher levels of infant negative affectivity as compared with mothers whose infants were born earlier (F(1, 324) = 18.28, p < .001), but did not differ in their ratings of surgency or effortful control. Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms, prenatal stress, and postpartum stress mediated differences in infant negative affectivity between pandemic and pre-pandemic groups. Within the pandemic group, decreased postpartum social contact was associated with higher ratings of infant negative affectivity. These findings suggest that the pandemic has affected maternal perceptions of infant temperament, perinatal mental health, and social contact.
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