Children of psychotic mothers. An evaluation of 1-year-olds on a test of object permanence.
Fifteen 1-year-old infants at high risk for later psychopathologic behavior were tested on the Piaget Object Scale. Their performance was compared to that of a matched group of controls at low risk. Results indicate a trend in the high-risk group toward lowered object scale performance. Affective styles were found to vary between the groups. The high-risk infants, particularly those with low scores on the object scale, demonstrated more intense anxiety.
D001007:Anxiety; D001288:Attention; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D012306:Risk; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics