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Prenatal Risk Predicts Preschooler Executive Function: A Cascade Model
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Camerota, Marie; Willoughby, Michael T. – Child Development, 2020
Little research has considered whether prenatal experience contributes to executive function (EF) development above and beyond postnatal experience. This study tests direct, mediated, and moderated associations between prenatal risk factors and preschool EF and IQ in a longitudinal sample of 1,292 children from the Family Life Project. A composite…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Risk, Predictor Variables, Preschool Children
Fetal Substance Exposure and Cumulative Environmental Risk in an African American Cohort
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Yumoto, Chie; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Jacobson, Joseph L. – Child Development, 2008
Two models of vulnerability to socioenvironmental risk were examined in 337 African American children (M = 7.8 years) recruited to overrepresent prenatal alcohol or cocaine exposure: The cumulative risk model predicted synergistic effects from exposure to multiple risk factors, and the fetal patterning of disease model predicted that prenatal…
Descriptors: African American Children, At Risk Persons, Risk, Prenatal Influences
The Effects of Maternal Alcohol Consumption and Cigarette Smoking during Pregnancy on Acoustic Cry Analysis.
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Nugent, J. Kevin; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Measured the neurobehavioral integrity of Irish infants and maternal alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking. Subjects were 127 primiparous mothers. Results demonstrated significant cry effects on infants of heavily drinking mothers, supporting the conclusion that newborn infants show functional disturbances in the nervous system resulting from…
Descriptors: Child Development, Crying, Drinking, Drug Use
Preventing Intellectual and Interactional Sequelae of Fetal Malnutrition: A Longitudinal Transactional, and Synergistic Approach to Development.
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Zeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1981
Presents longitudinal data regarding detrimental effects through 36 months of age on intellectual, behavioral, and social-interactional development in a nonsupportive caregiving environment, and the continuing amelioration of those effects in a supportive caregiving environment. Suggests that mothers of fetally malnourished infants may have had…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Differences