Infant Symbolic Play as an Early Indicator of Fetal Alcohol-Related Deficit

Autor/inn/en	Molteno, Christopher D.; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Carter, R. Colin; Jacobson, Joseph L.
Titel	Infant Symbolic Play as an Early Indicator of Fetal Alcohol-Related Deficit
Quelle	In: Infancy, 15 (2010) 6, S.586-607 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
DOI	10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00031.x
Schlagwörter	Play; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Drinking; Intelligence Quotient; Infants; Social Environment; Prenatal Influences; Environmental Influences; Predictor Variables; Foreign Countries; Alcohol Abuse; Psychological Patterns; Parenting Skills; Child Rearing; Young Children; At Risk Persons; Depression (Psychology); Marital Status; Mothers; Educational Attainment; Age Differences; Stress Variables; South Africa; Beck Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; Alkoholembryopathie; Trinken; Intelligenzquotient; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Soziales Umfeld; Pränataler Einfluss; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Prädiktor; Ausland; Kindererziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Risikogruppe; Familienstand; Mother; Mutter; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Infant symbolic play was examined in relation to prenatal alcohol exposure and socioenvironmental background and to predict which infants met criteria for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) at 5 years. A total of 107 Cape-Colored, South African infants born to heavy drinking mothers and abstainers/light drinkers were recruited prenatally. Complexity of play, sociodemographic and psychological correlates of maternal alcohol use, and quality of parenting were assessed at 13 months, and intelligence quotient and FAS diagnosis at 5 years. The effect of drinking on spontaneous play was not significant after control for social environment. In contrast, prenatal alcohol and quality of parenting related independently to elicited play. Elicited play predicted 5-year Digit Span and was poorer in infants subsequently diagnosed with FAS/partial FAS and in nonsyndromal heavily exposed infants, compared with abstainers/light drinkers. Thus, symbolic play may provide an early indicator of risk for alcohol-related deficits. The independent effects of prenatal alcohol and quality of parenting suggest that infants whose symbolic play is adversely affected by alcohol exposure may benefit from stimulation from a responsive caregiver. (Contains 1 footnote and 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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