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ERIC Number: EJ1246006
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Prenatal Maternal Stress and Child IQ
Cortes Hidalgo, Andrea P.; Neumann, Alexander; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Rijlaarsdam, Jolien; Verhulst, Frank C.; White, Tonya; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Tiemeier, Henning
Child Development, v91 n2 p347-365 Mar-Apr 2020
The evidence for negative influences of maternal stress during pregnancy on child cognition remains inconclusive. This study tested the association between maternal prenatal stress and child intelligence in 4,251 mother-child dyads from a multiethnic population-based cohort in the Netherlands. A latent factor of prenatal stress was constructed, and child IQ was tested at age 6 years. In Dutch and Caribbean participants, prenatal stress was not associated with child IQ after adjustment for maternal IQ and socioeconomic status. In other ethnicities no association was found; only in the Moroccan/Turkish group a small negative association between prenatal stress and child IQ was observed. These results suggest that prenatal stress does not predict child IQ, except in children from less acculturated minority groups.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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