Gestational Stress and Parenting: A Review of Human and Animal Literature

Cost, Katherine Tombeau; McGowan, Patrick O.; Pawluski, Jodi L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60159-1_12

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“…Surprisingly, few studies have examined the associations between genetic risk, prenatal adversity, and maternal care in predicting child psychological functioning, even though the quality of early parental care can be a crucial mitigating factor of the effect of prenatal environmental or genetic risk (19). In a three-way interaction model, we found that maternal looking away behaviour (negatively correlated with maternal sensitivity) moderates the risk associated with prenatal depression and the 5-HTTLPR genotype to predict depressive symptoms at 18 months, but not at 24 months (20).…”

Section: Gene-environment Interplaymentioning

confidence: 99%

The DREAM BIG project as a model for harmonizing early measures of parental care and parent-child interactions across epidemiological cohorts

Szekely,

Laplante,

Tiemeier

et al. 2023

Front. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry

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Parenting is a key contributor to child development. The effects of parenting, however, also depend on child characteristics, including genetic factors. A more complete appraisal of the role of parenting thus requires a comprehensive developmental model which explores questions about parenting behavior, child susceptibility to parenting, and child psychopathology. Moving forward, we need to not only be concerned about sample sizes that limit testing of comprehensive models but also the need to replicate findings across multiple settings and samples. A consortium which harmonises key measures offers the opportunity to examine these questions. The Developmental Research in Environmental Adversity, Mental health, BIological susceptibility and Gender (DREAM BIG) consortium includes six international longitudinal prospective birth cohorts to explore the early life origins of major psychiatric disorders in childhood. Here, we will provide a brief overview of parental care research, methodological limitations, and two exciting recent attempts (i.e., the DREAM BIG consortium and the CATS-project), that address key methodological challenges.

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Section: Gene-environment Interplaymentioning

confidence: 99%

The DREAM BIG project as a model for harmonizing early measures of parental care and parent-child interactions across epidemiological cohorts

Szekely,

Laplante,

Tiemeier

et al. 2023

Front. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry

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“…Finally, there might be other important mediators that were not tested such as parental sensitivity, family environment, attachment security, some of which are also linked in part with prenatal stress. Biological mediators such as child HPA and autonomic function could also play a role in the development of NE and child internalizing difficulties (Cost, McGowan, & Pawluski, 2021).…”

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Negative emotionality as a candidate mediating mechanism linking prenatal maternal mood problems and offspring internalizing behaviour

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Negative emotionality (NE) was evaluated as a candidate mechanism linking prenatal maternal affective symptoms and offspring internalizing problems during the preschool/early school age period. The participants were 335 mother–infant dyads from the Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment project. A Confirmatory Bifactor Analysis (CFA) based on self-report measures of prenatal depression and pregnancy-specific anxiety generated a general factor representing overlapping symptoms of prenatal maternal psychopathology and four distinct symptom factors representing pregnancy-specific anxiety, negative affect, anhedonia and somatization. NE was rated by the mother at 18 and 36 months. CFA based on measures of father, mother, child-rated measures and a semistructured interview generated a general internalizing factor representing overlapping symptoms of child internalizing psychopathology accounting for the unique contribution of each informant. Path analyses revealed significant relationships among the general maternal affective psychopathology, the pregnancy- specific anxiety, and the child internalizing factors. Child NE mediated only the relationship between pregnancy-specific anxiety and the child internalizing factors. We highlighted the conditions in which prenatal maternal affective symptoms predicts child internalizing problems emerging early in development, including consideration of different mechanistic pathways for different maternal prenatal symptom presentations and child temperament.

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Gestational Stress and Parenting: A Review of Human and Animal Literature

Cited by 2 publications

References 138 publications

The DREAM BIG project as a model for harmonizing early measures of parental care and parent-child interactions across epidemiological cohorts

The DREAM BIG project as a model for harmonizing early measures of parental care and parent-child interactions across epidemiological cohorts

Negative emotionality as a candidate mediating mechanism linking prenatal maternal mood problems and offspring internalizing behaviour

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