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Maternal Psychological Distress, Prenatal Cortisol, and Fetal Weight

From the Touch Research Institutes, Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida (M.A.D., T.F., M.H.-R.); the Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University (N.A.J.); Fielding Graduate University (T.F.); the Department of Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center (S.S., C.K.); and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida (A.G.-G.).

View larger version (9K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Hypothesized model 2 (66, N = 98) = 64.79, p = .04, comparative fit index = 0.96, root mean square error of approximation = 0.06.

View larger version (8K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Final model 2 (66, N = 98) = 42.46, p = .28, comparative fit index = 0.99, root mean square error of approximation = 0.03. The path between psychological distress and fetal weight (dashed path) was significant only when cortisol was not entered into the model (beta = –0.08, p < .05 without cortisol; beta = –0.04, not significant with cortisol entered into the model).