Does the development of executive functioning in infants born preterm benefit from maternal directiveness?

Objective: Problems in early development of executive functioning may underlie the vulnerability and individual variability of infants born preterm for behavioral and learning problems. Parenting behaviors may aggravate or temper this increased risk for dysfunction. This study assessed how maternal...

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Publicado en:Early Human Development Vol. 103; pp. 155 - 161
Autores principales: van de Weijer-Bergsma, Eva, Wijnroks, Lex, van Haastert, Ingrid C., Boom, Jan, Jongmans, Marian J.
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Dec2016
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          van de Weijer-Bergsma, Eva
          Wijnroks, Lex
          van Haastert, Ingrid C.
          Boom, Jan
          Jongmans, Marian J.
        affil: Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
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          Executive Function
          Infant, Premature
          Maternal Behavior
          Mother-Child Relations
          Female
          Adult
          Male
          Infant, Premature Psychosocial Factors
          Infant, Newborn
          Human
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month
          Female
          Male
      ab: Objective: Problems in early development of executive functioning may underlie the vulnerability and individual variability of infants born preterm for behavioral and learning problems. Parenting behaviors may aggravate or temper this increased risk for dysfunction. This study assessed how maternal parenting behaviors predict individual differences in early development of executive functioning in infants born preterm, and whether this varies with infant temperament, i.e., self-regulation.Methods: Participants were 76 infants born preterm (≤36weeks' gestation and <2500g birth weight) and their mothers. Maternal sensitive responsiveness and directiveness were observed during a mother-infant interaction situation at 7, 10 and 14months corrected age. At the same ages, executive functioning was measured using the A-not-B task. An infant self-regulation questionnaire (IBQ-R) was completed by mothers at 7months.Results: After controlling for perinatal risk factors, Multivariate Latent Growth Modeling showed that consistently higher levels of maternal directiveness predicted a stronger increase in A-not-B performance, which did not vary with infant self-regulation. No relationship between maternal sensitive responsiveness and development in A-not-B performance in infants born preterm was found.Conclusions: These results suggest that preterm infants' early executive functioning development in the first year of life may benefit from a more and consistent directive approach by their mothers. These findings have important implications for early intervention programs aimed at facilitating preterm infants' development.
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