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Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2014 Mar 20;34(7):555–561. doi: 10.1038/jp.2014.43

Table 5.

Correlations between Maternal Stress in NICU and Child Developmental Outcomes at Age 4 years

Child Developmental Outcomes (N=49)	Maternal PSS: NICU Score
	Overall Stress		Parental Role Alteration Stress
	r	p^a	r	p^a
Cognitive ability
WPPSI-R total IQ score	−.06	.35	−.21	.07
Language development^b
CELF-P receptive language score	−.28	.04	−.31	.02
CELF-P expressive language score	−.17	.14	−.19	.11
CELF-P total language score	−.25	.05	−.29	.03
Emotional and behavioral adjustment
SDQ emotional symptoms score	.28	.03	.24	.05
SDQ conduct problems score	.003	.49	−.06	.33
SDQ inattention/hyperactivity score	.004	.49	−.14	.17
SDQ peer relationship problems score	.13	.19	.14	.17
SDQ prosocial behavior score	−.07	.32	−.07	.32
SDQ overall behavioral difficulties score	.12	.21	.02	.44

Significance testing for 1-tailed test.

Excludes 6 cases.