Maternal life events during pregnancy and offspring language ability in middle childhood: The Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study

Early Human Development

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 487-492

  Whitehouse, Andrew J O ^a   Robinson, Monique ^a   Zubrick, Stephen R ^b   Ang, Q W ^c   Stanley, Fiona J ^a   Pennell, Craig E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Language development; Maternal stress; Prenatal stress; Raine study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955846608     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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