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- Title
The Pandemial babies: effects of maternal stress on temperament of babies gestated and born during the pandemic.
- Authors
López-Morales, Hernán; Gelpi Trudo, Rosario; del-Valle, Macarena Verónica; Canet-Juric, Lorena; Biota, Magdalena; Andrés, María Laura; Urquijo, Sebastián
- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic may configure an adverse prenatal context for early development. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of pandemic-related negative experiences, prenatal anxiety and depression on the temperament of six-month-old babies. The sample consisted of 105 mother–child dyads. A longitudinal evaluation was carried out using pre- and postnatal online surveys. Mothers completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory – II, the Pandemic Impact Questionnaire and the Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised. Serial mediation models were tested, in which the pandemic-related negative experiences constituted the independent variable, the prenatal anxiety and depression were the mediators, and the children's temperament dimensions were the dependent variables. Pandemic-related negative experiences were indirectly associated with the offspring's negative affect and surgency through anxious symptomatology, which acted as a mediating variable. This was the first study to identify the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on temperament. Such an adverse context implies risks for child development. Public health policies aiming to evaluate socioemotional variables during early childhood become necessary to allow on-time interventions for lessening these risks.
- Subjects
TEMPERAMENT; STATE-Trait Anxiety Inventory; PRENATAL depression; MOTHER-infant relationship; BECK Depression Inventory; COVID-19 pandemic; PANDEMICS
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 16, p14881
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-022-03976-1