Effects Of Prenatal Risk and Early Life Care on Behavioral Problems, Self-Regulation, and Modulation of Physiological Stress Response in 6 to 7 Year-Old Children of Intercountry Adoption (ICA)
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Guided by teratology, attachment, and stress theories, this cross-sectional secondary dataset analysis examined relationships between prenatal exposure to risk and preadoptive placement on behavior problems, self-regulation, and stress response modulation in 6-7 year old children of ICA.Early care comparisons were made between three groups matched on age at assessment (m = 6.9 years; SD = 0.6) and gender (girlschildren reared in institutional care (IC) (n = 40; m adoption age = 19 months; SD= 6.7 months), foster care (FC) (n = 40; m adoption age = 8.0 months; SD = 5.3), or birth family care (BC) (n = 40).Prenatal risk comparisons were made between the IC and FC groups; children were exposed to low (0 or 1) or high (2-3) prenatal risks (global measure of alcohol, malnutrition, and/or prematurity).Adoptive parents provided child/family demographics, historical adoption and known prenatal risk information, completed behavior and temperament scales, and collected home baseline salivary cortisol samples.In the lab, children were tested on inhibitory control, attention regulation, and salivary cortisol sampling.Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), independent samples t-tests, and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) tested the individual effects of prenatal risk and early care on outcomes.Two-way ANCOVAs were used to investigate whether early care moderated prenatal risk on children's outcomes when controlling for
Author: Maureen Riley-Behringer
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Language: English
Topic: Child Welfare and Adoption
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2599764966