Attunement of maternal and child adrenocortical response to child challenge

Sethre-Hofstad, Lisa; Stansbury, Kathy; Rice, Margaret Ann

doi:10.1016/s0306-4530(01)00077-4

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“…However, patterns of RSA coregulation appeared to vary in relation to individual maternal factors, such as the level of engagement mothers exhibited with their children in an active teaching task, as well as their physiological state during the course of the interaction. These findings are in line with prior work that has demonstrated that synchrony in mothers' and children's physiological states varies with regard to maternal sensitivity to children's needs (Ruttle et al, 2011;Sethre-Hofstad et al, 2002).…”

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The effects of maternal respiratory sinus arrhythmia and behavioral engagement on mother‐child physiological coregulation

Skoranski

Lunkenheimer

Lucas‐Thompson

2017

Developmental Psychobiology

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THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL RESPIRATORY SINUS ARRHYTHMIA AND BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT ON MOTHER-CHILD PHYSIOLOGICAL COREGULATIONParent-child coregulation, observed as the active organization and coordination of parents' and children's behavioral and physiological states, is an important precursor for children's developing self-regulation, but we know little about how individual parent factors shape parent-child coregulation. We examined whether differences in maternal physiology and behavioral engagement were associated with coregulation of mothers' and their 3-year-old children's physiological states over time. We examined coregulation in real time by modeling maternal and child respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) for 47 families across 18 minutes of dyadic interaction using multilevel coupled autoregressive models fitted in Mplus. Maternal basal RSA, maternal teaching, and maternal behavioral disengagement were each entered as between-subjects predictors to determine the extent to which mother-child coregulation was strengthened or weakened by maternal factors. Whereas greater maternal teaching during the mother-child interaction was associated with stronger coregulation in mother and child RSA over time, maternal disengagement was related to weaker coregulation: specifically, there were moredivergent parent and child RSA at higher levels of maternal disengagement. Coregulation in mother-child RSA was also weakened when mothers' basal RSA was higher. Findings contribute to the emerging knowledge base on real-time patterns of parent-child coregulation and iii suggest a role for parent-child physiological coregulation as a mechanism by which parent factors support or hinder children's developing self-regulation.

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confidence: 91%

The effects of maternal respiratory sinus arrhythmia and behavioral engagement on mother‐child physiological coregulation

Skoranski

Lunkenheimer

Lucas‐Thompson

2017

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…We believe that assessment of the environment in which infants are sleeping in relation to their cortisol will be an important avenue for future work. Additionally, because there is some evidence that mothers with higher cortisol reactivity display lower quality parenting (42-43), and mother and infant cortisol are positively correlated (44-47), it may be that the relations between maternal EA and infant cortisol detected in this study can by accounted for by the correlation between mother and infant cortisol. Teasing apart these associations is another area for further study.…”

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Maternal emotional availability at bedtime and infant cortisol at 1 and 3months

Philbrook

Hozella

Kim

et al. 2014

Early Human Development

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“…However, experiences of providing successful care, maintaining positive parenting beliefs, and the perception of parental control likely enhance parents' abilities to cope and regulate their arousal while attending to the needs of their children (Deater-Deckard, 1998;Frey, Greenberg, & Fewell, 1989;Miller, Gordon, & Daniele, 1992). As such, appropriate physiological responses to the needs of one's child are likely to be associated with more attentive and responsive caregiving (Mills-Koonce et al, 2007;Sethre-Hofstad, Stansbury, & Rice, 2002).…”

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Psychophysiological correlates of parenting behavior in mothers of young children

Mills‐Koonce

Propper

Gariépy

et al. 2009

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This study investigated HPA and vagal functioning as correlates of parenting in mothers of 175 six-month-old children. Salivary cortisol indexed HPA functioning and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reduction indexed vagal regulation. Positive engagement and negative intrusiveness were observed during the Face-to-Face Still Face Paradigm (FFSFP) reunion and a semi-structured free play episode. Mixed modeling was used to examine differences in maternal behaviors across contexts as a function of psychophysiology. Main effects of cortisol levels, as well as interactions with RSA reduction and context, predicted negative intrusiveness. Mothers with high cortisol exhibited more negative intrusiveness if they also had lower RSA reduction. Mothers were also less negatively intrusive during the FFSFP than the free play if they had lower cortisol levels. There were no associations between psychophysiological measures and positive engagement. The findings suggest: (1) that parenting behaviors are associated with maternal stress physiology; (2) considerations of single physiological systems related to parenting behaviors may be incomplete; and (3) type and context of behaviors must be considered when examining biobehavioral associations with parenting.

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Attunement of maternal and child adrenocortical response to child challenge

Cited by 101 publications

References 49 publications

The effects of maternal respiratory sinus arrhythmia and behavioral engagement on mother‐child physiological coregulation

The effects of maternal respiratory sinus arrhythmia and behavioral engagement on mother‐child physiological coregulation

Maternal emotional availability at bedtime and infant cortisol at 1 and 3months

Psychophysiological correlates of parenting behavior in mothers of young children

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