Stress in pregnancy: The influence of psychological and social mediators in perinatal experiences

Molfese, Victoria J.; Bricker, Mary; Manion, Leslie; Yaple, Karen; Beadnell, Blair

doi:10.3109/01674828709023859

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“…Both stress during early pregnancy and the child's temperament at the age of 6 months were negatively correlated with the child's school marks at the age of 6 years. However, reports of maternal isolation or feeling alone and no fetal movement being stress increasing for the mothers were not correlated here as in other similar studies [Erkkola, et al, 1984;Georgas et al, 1984;Selvaggi et al, 1984;Istvan, 1986;Arizmendi and Affonso, 1987;Molfese, 1987]. These authors stated that feeling alone increases fetal movement, after having examined the mothers during the third trimester.…”

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confidence: 43%

Prenatal Maternal Stress, Prenatal Fetal Movements and Perinatal Temperament Factors Influence Behavior and School Marks at the Age of 6 Years

Niederhofer

Reiter

2004

Fetal Diagn Ther

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Niederhofer showed in 1994 that maternal stress during pregnancy seemed to be associated with temperament in early childhood. This study examined the correlation between maternal stress during pregnancy in 227 women, ultrasound observation of intrauterine fetal movements, the child’s temperament in early childhood, and the child’s school marks at the age of 6 years. Our results show a significant correlation between prenatal maternal stress, perinatal temperament of the child and his/her school marks at the age of 6 years. Only intrauterine fetal movements were associated neither with stress during pregnancy nor with early personality.

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confidence: 43%

Prenatal Maternal Stress, Prenatal Fetal Movements and Perinatal Temperament Factors Influence Behavior and School Marks at the Age of 6 Years

Niederhofer

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2004

Fetal Diagn Ther

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“…Schwartz (1977) reported that life change units (LCUs) for the time period covering pregnancy and the preceding 2.5 years were higher for women who delivered preterm infants. Molfese et al (1987a) found that objectively weighted stress scores calculated during pregnancy for the past 12 months were significant predictors of labor and delivery complications. In contrast, Smilkstein et al (1984) did not find a significant association between objectively weighted stress scores for pregnancy and total number of labor and delivery complications.…”

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“…As shown in Table V, only three of nine studies find significant main effects of objectively weighted life event scores (Jones, 1978;Molfese et al, 1987a;Schwartz, 1977), and one of these three reports a negative association between event weights and complications. A fourth study (Nuckolls et al, 1972), with the lowest point value in this set of studies, finds a significant interaction with psychosocial assets.…”

Section: Objective Life Event Weightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several studies report no association with gestational age (Molfese et al, 1987a;Picone et al, 1982) or preterm delivery (Ching and Newton, 1982;Larsson et aL, 1987;Williams et al, 1975), with birth weight (Ching and Newton, 1982;Larsson et al, 1987;Picone et al, 1982), or with neonatal morbidity (Ching and Newton, 1982;Larsson et aL, 1987). The best conducted study of objectively weighted life event stress, with a point value of 5, finds that it has no significant effects (Picone et al).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Conceptualizations, measurement, and effects of prenatal maternal stress on birth outcomes

1994

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This article analyzes the conceptual and methodological approaches which have been used to investigate effects of prenatal maternal stress on birth outcomes and highlights the major findings of this research. By viewing the most widely used operational definitions of prenatal stress in a broader theoretical framework, it can be seen that most studies have failed to conceptualize stress reliably. This, in addition to common methodological and design flaws which are described in the article, has produced equivocal findings about the role of stress in adverse birth outcomes such as preterm delivery and low birth weight. Recent studies using more powerful, multidimensional approaches to stress definition and measurement provide more definitive evidence and suggest some precise effects. Implications and strategies for future research are presented.

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“…The perception that support would be available if needed is also related to better birth outcomes (Molfese et al, 1987), and perceived prenatal social support emerged as a predictor of infant birth weight. Women who reported low satisfaction with their social support in the second trimester were more likely to give birth to infants with LBW (Da Costa et al, 2000).…”

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Birth Weight, Domestic Violence, Coping, Social Support, and Mental Health of Young Iranian Mothers in Tehran

Abadi

Ghazinour²,

Nygren³

et al. 2013

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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The aim of this study was to investigate associations of birth weight with sociodemographic variables, domestic violence, ways of coping, social support, and general mental health of Iranian mothers. Six hundred mothers aged 15 to 29 years participated between June 2009 and November 2010. t-Test, analysis of variance, Spearman's correlation, and multiple regression were used. The results showed that there was no significant association between birth weight and general mental health of the mothers. Prenatal care visits, the mothers' history of having children with low birth weight (LBW), and weight gain during pregnancy were significantly associated with birth weight. The women who reported physical abuse during pregnancy had infants with lower birth weight. Satisfaction with social support and use of positive reappraisal were significantly associated with higher birth weight. In conclusion, a high quality of prenatal care and screening of pregnant women are recommended. Social environments good enough during pregnancy have protective effects against LBW.

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Stress in pregnancy: The influence of psychological and social mediators in perinatal experiences

Cited by 16 publications

References 32 publications

Prenatal Maternal Stress, Prenatal Fetal Movements and Perinatal Temperament Factors Influence Behavior and School Marks at the Age of 6 Years

Prenatal Maternal Stress, Prenatal Fetal Movements and Perinatal Temperament Factors Influence Behavior and School Marks at the Age of 6 Years

Conceptualizations, measurement, and effects of prenatal maternal stress on birth outcomes

Birth Weight, Domestic Violence, Coping, Social Support, and Mental Health of Young Iranian Mothers in Tehran

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