Does Maternal Prenatal Stress Adversely Affect the Child's Learning and Memory at Age Six?

Autor/inn/en	Gutteling, Barbara M.; de Weerth, Carolina; Zandbelt, Noortje; Mulder, Eduard J. H.; Visser, Gerard H. A.; Buitelaar, Jan K.
Titel	Does Maternal Prenatal Stress Adversely Affect the Child's Learning and Memory at Age Six?
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34 (2006) 6, S.787-796 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-006-9054-7
Schlagwörter	Prenatal Influences; Pregnancy; Child Development; Learning; Memory; Young Children; Anxiety; Questionnaires; Multiple Regression Analysis; Mothers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pränataler Einfluss; Schwangerschaft; Kindesentwicklung; Lernen; Gedächtnis; Frühe Kindheit; Angst; Fragebogen; Mother; Mutter
Abstract	Prenatal maternal stress has been shown to affect postnatal development in animals and humans. In animals, the morphology and function of the offspring's hippocampus is negatively affected by prenatal maternal stress. The present study prospectively investigated the influence of prenatal maternal stress on learning and memory of 112 children (50 boys, 62 girls, Age: M=6.7 years, SD=8.4 months), with the Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL). Maternal stress levels were determined three times during pregnancy by self-report questionnaires. Furthermore, maternal saliva cortisol samples were used as a measure of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning. Results of hierarchical multivariate regression analyses showed that maternal life events measured during the first part of pregnancy were negatively associated with the child's attention/concentration index, while controlling for overall IQ, gender, and postnatal stress. No associations were found between prenatal maternal cortisol and the offspring's learning and memory. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10