Prenatal Maternal Stress and Child IQ

Andrea P. Cortes Hidalgo; Alexander Neumann; Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg; Vincent W.V. Jaddoe; Jolien Rijlaarsdam; Frank C. Verhulst; Tonya White; Marinus H. van IJzendoorn; Henning Tiemeier

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Prenatal Maternal Stress and Child IQ

Andrea P. Cortes Hidalgo, Alexander Neumann, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Vincent W.V. Jaddoe, Jolien Rijlaarsdam, Frank C. Verhulst, Tonya White, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Henning Tiemeier^*

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	347-365
Number of pages	19
Journal	Child Development
Volume	91
Issue number	2
Early online date	30 Oct 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13177
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	602768, 733206, 633595, 648916
European Research Council
ZonMw	VIDI 016.136.361
Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport
Erasmus Medisch Centrum

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