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- This study investigated how both prenatal anxiety in mothers and their postnatal caregiving sensitivity affect infants' stress responses as measured by cortisol levels during a still-face procedure.
- It involved 88 mothers and their 7-month-old babies, assessing maternal anxiety during pregnancy and how sensitive they were in their caregiving postnatally.
- Findings showed that both maternal prenatal anxiety and caregiving sensitivity independently influenced infant cortisol levels, indicating that infants' stress responses are shaped by their mothers' psychological states and parenting behaviors.
Article Abstract
This study prospectively examined the separate and combined influences of maternal prenatal anxiety disorder and postnatal caregiving sensitivity on infants' salivary cortisol responses to the still-face procedure. Effects were assessed by measuring infant salivary cortisol upon arrival at the laboratory, and at 15-, 25-, and 40-min following the still-face procedure. Maternal symptoms of anxiety during the last 6 months of pregnancy were assessed using clinical diagnostic interview. Data analyses using linear mixed models were based on 88 women and their 7-month-old infants. Prenatal anxiety and maternal sensitivity emerged as independent, additive moderators of infant cortisol reactivity, F (3, 180) = 3.29, p = .02, F (3, 179) = 2.68, p = .05 respectively. Results were independent of maternal prenatal depression symptoms, and postnatal symptoms of anxiety and depression. Infants' stress-induced cortisol secretion patterns appear to relate not only to exposure to maternal prenatal anxiety, but also to maternal caregiving sensitivity, irrespective of prenatal psychological state.
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