Social and Behavioral Interventions Program, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2103, USA,
Matern Child Health J. 2014 May;18(4):930-8. doi: 10.1007/s10995-013-1320-z.
To examine how maternal and paternal pregnancy wantedness and couple concordance regarding pregnancy wantedness predict children's social-emotional development in kindergarten. We used data from nationally representative US sample from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort. Exposures of interest were maternal and paternal pregnancy wantedness, and couple concordance regarding pregnancy wantedness. Children's social-emotional development was evaluated by the child's kindergarten teacher using an adapted version of the Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales. We examined bivariate associations between pregnancy wantedness and key socio-demographic variables in relation to children's social-emotional development. Multiple linear regression was used to assess the relationship between each pregnancy wantedness predictor and children's social-emotional development scores. Items related to child concentration and attention appeared to be the components driving almost all the associations with social-emotional development. Maternal report of unwanted pregnancy, resident father's report of mistimed pregnancy, and discordance of parental pregnancy wantedness (specifically when the mother wanted but the father did not want the pregnancy) predicted lower children's social-emotional development scores. Results suggest that maternal unwanted pregnancy and couple discordance in pregnancy wantedness were associated with poorer social-emotional development, especially in the area of concentration and attention, in kindergarten.
为了探究母婴双方对妊娠的期望以及夫妻双方对妊娠期望的一致性如何预测儿童在幼儿园的社会情感发展。我们使用了来自美国全国代表性样本的幼儿纵向研究出生队列的数据。感兴趣的暴露因素包括母婴双方对妊娠的期望以及夫妻双方对妊娠期望的一致性。儿童的社会情感发展由幼儿园教师使用经过改编的学龄前和幼儿园行为量表进行评估。我们考察了妊娠期望与儿童社会情感发展之间的二元关联，以及与关键社会人口学变量的关联。我们使用多元线性回归来评估每个妊娠期望预测因子与儿童社会情感发展评分之间的关系。与儿童注意力和集中力相关的项目似乎是与社会情感发展相关的所有指标的驱动因素。母亲报告意外怀孕、居住父亲报告怀孕时机不当以及父母妊娠期望不一致（特别是当母亲想要但父亲不想要怀孕）预测儿童社会情感发展评分较低。研究结果表明，母亲意外怀孕和夫妻双方对妊娠期望的不一致与较差的社会情感发展有关，尤其是在注意力和集中力方面。
