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Publication Date: 2012
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Profiles of Reactivity in Cocaine-Exposed Children
Schuetze, Pamela; Molnar, Danielle S.; Eiden, Rina D.
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, v33 n6 p282-293 Nov-Dec 2012
This study explored the possibility that specific, theoretically consistent profiles of reactivity could be identified in a sample of cocaine-exposed infants and whether these profiles were associated with a range of infant and/or maternal characteristics. Cluster analysis was used to identify distinct groups of infants based on physiological, behavioral and maternal reported measures of reactivity. Five replicable clusters were identified which corresponded to 1) Dysregulated/High Maternal Report Reactors, 2) Low Behavioral Reactors, 3) High Reactors, 4) Optimal Reactors and 5) Dysregulated/Low Maternal Report Reactors. These clusters were associated with differences in prenatal cocaine exposure status, birthweight, maternal depressive symptoms, and maternal negative affect during mother-infant interactions. These results support the presence of distinct reactivity profiles among high risk infants recruited on the basis of prenatal cocaine exposure and demographically similar control group infants not exposed to cocaine. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Profiles, Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Infants, Cocaine, Drug Abuse, At Risk Persons, Individual Characteristics, Mothers, Behavior Problems, Mental Disorders, Responses, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Body Weight, Affective Behavior
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