Impact of prenatal stress on the dyadic behavior of mothers and their 6-month-old infants during a play situation: role of different dimensions of stress
Prenatal stress (PS) is an established risk factor in the etiology of mental disorders. Although mother-child interaction is the infant’s first important training in dealing with stress, little is yet known about the impact of PS on mother-infant dyadic behavior. The current study aimed to elucidate...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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29 July 2017
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Journal of neural transmission
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 124, Heft: 10, Pages: 1251-1260 |
| ISSN: | 1435-1463 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00702-017-1770-3 |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00702-017-1770-3 Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-017-1770-3 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Isabell Ann-Cathrin Wolf, Maria Gilles, Verena Peus, Barbara Scharnholz, Julia Seibert, Christine Jennen-Steinmetz, Bertram Krumm, Michael Deuschle, Manfred Laucht |
| Zusammenfassung: | Prenatal stress (PS) is an established risk factor in the etiology of mental disorders. Although mother-child interaction is the infant’s first important training in dealing with stress, little is yet known about the impact of PS on mother-infant dyadic behavior. The current study aimed to elucidate the prospective influence of psychological and physiological stresses during pregnancy on mother-infant dyadic behavior. Mother-infant interactions were videotaped at 6-month postpartum and coded into three dyadic patterns: (1) both positive; (2) infant protesting-mother positive; and (3) infant protesting-mother negative, using the infant and caregiver engagement phases. Exposure to PS was assessed during pregnancy using psychological (i.e., psychopathological, perceived, and psychosocial PS; n = 164) and physiological stress measures (i.e., maternal cortisol; n = 134). Group comparisons showed that psychosocial PS was predictive of mother-infant behavior at 6-month postpartum, indicating that dyads of prenatally high-stressed mothers exhibited significantly more positive interaction patterns (i.e., infant positive-mother positive) as compared to the prenatally low-stressed group. Physiological PS was unrelated to mother-infant behavior. These results suggest that mild psychosocial PS may be advantageous for positive mother-infant dyadic behavior, which is in accordance with the stress-inoculation model that assumes a beneficial effect of PS. |
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| ISSN: | 1435-1463 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00702-017-1770-3 |