Cognitive Adaptations to High-Risk Infants: The Search for Mastery, Meaning, and Protection From Future Harm.

The article explores the cognitive adaptations suggesting orientations to control over stress in a sample of mothers who were interviewed after discharge of their infants from a newborn intensive care unit in the U.S. Mothers reported how much their infants' recovery and future developmental status were or are dependent on personal actions and the degree to which they thought they could prevent perinatal complications in future deliveries.