Negative emotionality and cortisol during adolescent pregnancy and its effects on infant health and autonomic nervous system reactivity

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-174

  Ponirakis, Angelo ^a   Susman, Elizabeth J ^a   Stifter, Cynthia A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent pregnancy; Cardiac vagal tone; Emotionality; Social support

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RESUSCITATION; SALIVA LEVEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VAGUS TONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031715203     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199809)33:2<163::AID-DEV7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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