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Prenatal Maternal Mindfulness as a Predictor of Infant Emerging Effortful Control and Negative Affect.

Ilana Haliwa, Tessa Benefield, Özlü Aran, Ella-Marie P Hennessey, Benjamin L Hankin, Elysia Poggi Davis, Jenalee R Doom

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Article in Mindfulness, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Ilana HaliwaDepartment of Psychology, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, USA.
Tessa BenefieldDepartment of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Özlü AranDepartment of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Ella-Marie P HennesseyDepartment of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Benjamin L HankinDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
Elysia Poggi DavisDepartment of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Jenalee R DoomDepartment of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.

Funding

Reducing Fetal Exposure to Maternal Depression to Improve Infant Risk MechanismsR01MH109662 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY) · PI DAVIS, ELYSIA POGGI, HANKIN, BENJAMIN L · 2017 to 2021
$4.0M
Reducing maternal prenatal depression to improve child cardiovascular healthR01HL155744 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY) · PI DAVIS, ELYSIA POGGI, DOOM, JENALEE RAE · 2021 to 2025
$3.6M
Testing cortisol dysregulation as a mediator between early stress and adolescent cardiovascular healthK01HL143159 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY) · PI DOOM, JENALEE RAE · 2019 to 2023
$788k
NHLBI NIH HHS K01 HL143159NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL155744NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH109662
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: The present study tested the unique contributions of prenatal maternal mindfulness to infant emerging effortful control and negative affect at 6 months postnatal. Exploratory analyses evaluated the role of individual facets of mindfulness in predicting infant outcomes. Method: The sample consisted of 178 individuals. Participants completed self-report measures of mindfulness during pregnancy (M = 16.91 gestational weeks; SD = 4.37) and postnatally (M = 6.54 months after birth; SD = 2.12). At 6 months postpartum, participants also reported on their infants' (55% female) emerging effortful control and negative affect using the Infant Behavior Questionnaire. Results: Greater prenatal maternal mindfulness was associated with higher infant emerging effortful control ( Conclusions: Maternal prenatal mindfulness predicted both infant emerging effortful control and negative affect. Individual facets of prenatal mindfulness demonstrated unique patterns of association with infant emerging effortful control, suggesting that aspects of mindfulness may be promotive factors to consider in future interventions. These findings highlight that mindfulness during pregnancy is linked to improved infant self-regulation and reduced emotional reactivity.

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Infant TemperamentMindfulnessPregnancy

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PMID41767090
PMCPMC12945379

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