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Maternal Attentiveness of Cocaine Abusers During Child—Based Assessments
Author(s) -
Ball Samuel A.,
Mayes Linda C.,
DeTeso Jeffrey A.,
Schottenfeld Richard S.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1997.tb00562.x
Subject(s) - addiction , psychology , depression (economics) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , cocaine use , medicine , macroeconomics , economics
Cocaine‐abusing mothers were compared with non‐cocaine‐using mothers on videotaped ratings of attentiveness to their children during developmental assessments done at age 3 months ( n = 64), 6 months ( n = 80), 12 months ( n = 90), and 18 months ( n = 53). At the 3‐month assessment only, cocaine‐abusing women spent a lower percentage of time being attentive and made more shifts in attentiveness than did control‐group mothers. These differences were not found at 6‐, 12‐, or 18‐month assessments. Maternal attentiveness appears to be more strongly related to current depression symptoms than addiction severity in the cocaine‐abusing group.