Emerging Self-regulation in Toddlers Born Preterm or Low Birth Weight: Differential Susceptibility to Parenting?

Overview

Journal Dev Psychopathol

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Psychiatry
Psychology

Date 2011 Jan 26

PMID 21262047

Citations 42

Authors

Julie Poehlmann

A J M Schwichtenberg

Rebecca J Shlafer

Emily Hahn

Jon-Paul Bianchi

Rachael Warner

Affiliations

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Abstract

The differential susceptibility to parenting model was examined in relation to toddler self-regulation in a prospective longitudinal study of infants born preterm or low birth weight. We followed 153 mother-infant dyads across five time points between the infant's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit stay and 24 months postterm. Assessments of infant temperament, quality of early parenting interactions, contextual variables, and toddler effortful control and behavior problems were conducted. Results supported differential susceptibility and dual risk models in addition to documenting main effects of early parenting on children's emerging self-regulation. Our data suggested that preterm or low birth weight infants who were prone to distress or rated by mothers as more difficult were particularly susceptible to the effects of early negative parenting.

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