Pregnancy and Prenatal Stress

Encyclopedia of Mental Health: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 318-329

  Lobel, M ^a   Dunkel Schetter, C ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Birth; Child development; Coping; Depression; Emotions; Health behavior; Infants; Pregnancy; Pregnancy anxiety; Prenatal stress; Reproductive system; Stress; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982204243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397045-9.00164-6     Document Type: Chapter

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