Positive maternal mental health attenuates the associations between prenatal stress and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Positive maternal mental health can improve perceptions of stressful situations and promote the use of adaptive coping strategies. However, few studies have examined how positive maternal mental health affects children's development. The aims of this study were to examine the associations between positive maternal mental health and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and to ascertain whether positive maternal mental health moderated the associations between prenatal stress and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms. This study is based on the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), and comprised 36,584 mother-child dyads. Prenatal stress was assessed using 41 self-reported items measured during pregnancy. Positive maternal mental health (self-

SUBMITTER: Clayborne ZM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9659676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature