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The objective of this study was to explore how maternal mood during pregnancy, i.e., general anxiety, pregnancy-specific anxiety, and depression predicted parenting stress 3 months after giving birth, thereby shaping the child's early postnatal environmental circumstances. To this end, data were used from 1073 women participating in the Dutch longitudinal cohort Generations2, which studies first-time pregnant mothers during pregnancy and across the transition to parenthood. Women filled out the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Questionnaire-revised (PRAQ-R), and Beck Depression Index (BDI) three times during pregnancy: at 12, 22, and 32 weeks gestational age. Three months postpartum, a parenting stress questionnaire was filled out yielding seven different parenting constructs. Latent scores were computed for each of the repeatedly measured maternal mood variables with Mplus and parenting stress constructs were simultaneously regressed on these latent scores. Results showed that trait anxiety and pregnancy-specific anxiety were uniquely related to almost all parenting stress constructs, taking depression into account. Early prevention and intervention to reduce maternal anxiety in pregnancy could hold the key for a more advantageous trajectory of early postnatal parenting.
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Affiliation(s)
- A.C. Huizink
- Department of Clinical Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Department of Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Department of Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Department of Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Department of Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Department of Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Section of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Department of Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ,EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Luijk MPCM, Linting M, Henrichs J, Herba CM, Verhage ML, Schenk JJ, Arends LR, Raat H, Jaddoe VWV, Hofman A, Verhulst FC, Tiemeier H, van IJzendoorn MH. Hours in non-parental child care are related to language development in a longitudinal cohort study. Child Care Health Dev 2015; 41:1188-98. [PMID: 25722078 DOI: 10.1111/cch.12238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND The effects of child care services on several domains of child development have been extensively investigated, but evidence regarding the effects of child care on language development remains inconclusive. METHODS Within a large-scale population-based study, we examined the longitudinal associations between non-parental child care and language development from 1 to 6 years (n = 5375). RESULTS Results showed that more hours in non-parental child care were associated with better language abilities. However, more hours in care in the first year of life were associated with less language proficiency at ages 1 to 1.5. At later ages, this effect disappeared and language proficiency increased. Furthermore, children who spent more hours in centre-based care had better language scores than children in home-based care. Ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender or parity did not change these results. CONCLUSIONS This large, multi-ethnic study demonstrates beneficial effects of non-parental child care, particularly centre-based care, on language proficiency later in childhood.
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Affiliation(s)
- M P C M Luijk
- School of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal and Centre de Recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Institute for Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Huizink AC, Menting B, Oosterman M, Verhage ML, Kunseler FC, Schuengel C. The interrelationship between pregnancy-specific anxiety and general anxiety across pregnancy: a longitudinal study. J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 2014; 35:92-100. [PMID: 25093467 DOI: 10.3109/0167482x.2014.944498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND High levels of prenatal maternal anxiety - either pregnancy-specific anxiety or general anxiety - may have detrimental effects on both the mother and her child. It is currently unknown how these two different expressions of anxiety influence each other over time during pregnancy. AIMS This study aimed to describe the relationship between state, trait and pregnancy-specific anxiety levels across pregnancy. METHODS Longitudinal data from three data-waves of a large-scaled sample of nulliparous normal risk pregnant women were used to display associations over time by means of autoregressive and cross-lagged panel models. RESULTS Cross-lagged, cross-time pathways from pregnancy-specific anxiety to state as well as trait anxiety were positively significant, while vice versa the most consistent links were found from trait anxiety to pregnancy-specific anxiety. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that pregnancy-specific anxiety and general anxiety appear to influence each other over time, resulting in heightened anxiety for some soon-to-be mothers.
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