Prenatal Maternal Predictors of Cognitive and Emotional Delays in Children of Adolescent Mothers

• Published in: Adolescence Vol. 35; no. 137; pp. 87 - 112
• Main Authors: Sommer, Kristen S, Whitman, Thomas L, Borkowski, John G, Gondoli, Dawn M, Burke, Jennifer, Maxwell, Scott E, Weed, Keri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Roslyn Heights, NY Libra Publishers 22.03.2000; Libra Publishers, Inc; Libra Publishers Incorporated
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Adjustment (to Environment); Adolescent; Adolescent mothers; Affective Symptoms - psychology; Antenatal; Behavior Problems; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child development; Child of Impaired Parents - psychology; Child, Preschool; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive development; Development; Developmental Delays; Early Parenthood; Emotional development; Emotions; Factors; Family environment. Family history; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant development; Infant, Newborn; Infants; Intelligence; Internal-External Control; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical sciences; Mothers; Mothers - psychology; Parenting - psychology; Personality Assessment; Predictors; Pregnancy; Pregnancy in Adolescence - psychology; Prenatal Influences; Preschool children; Psychological aspects; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Risk Assessment; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; Social Support; Social Support Groups; Teenage mothers; Teenage parents; Teenage pregnancy; USA; Young Children; United States; Human; Measurement; Intellectual development; Prediction; Developmental disorder; Mother child relation; Prenatal; Maternal behavior; Follow up study; Social interaction; Adolescent; Risk factor; Language development; Evolution; Female; Social support
• ISSN: 0001-8449

Examines relationships among prenatal characteristics of 121 adolescent mothers -- including cognitive readiness for parenting, intelligence, social support, and personal adjustment -- and intellectual-linguistic development, social-emotional functioning, and adaptive behavior of their children at three years of age. Only 28% of the children scored within normal ranges on all three types of outcomes. (Author/MKA)