Bringing the laboratory into the home: A protocol for remote biobehavioral data collection in pregnant women with emotion dysregulation and their infants

Gao, Mengyu; Saenz, Celine; Neff, Dylan; Santana, Marilynn Lape; Amici, Joseph; Butner, Jonathan; Raby, K. Lee; Crowell, Sheila E.; Conradt, Elisabeth

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“…Compared to infants of less dysregulated mothers, infants of highly dysregulated mothers were slower in returning to their RSA homeostatic points. In studies applying traditional regression approaches to model infant RSA, infants of less sensitive or emotionally dysregulated mothers did not exhibit RSA recovery following the stress of the Still‐Face episode (Conradt & Ablow, 2010; Gao et al, 2022). However, without a dynamic systems‐informed analysis, it is difficult to discern whether the lack of RSA recovery reflects a delayed stress response (i.e., RSA level does not change until moments later) or a more rigid moment‐to‐moment physiological responding (i.e., RSA level is changing but in slow speed).…”

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“…All study procedures were approved by University of Utah's Institutional Review Boards. More details about recruitment, study design, eligibility criteria, and assessment procedures can be found in Gao et al (2022).…”

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“…More details about recruitment, study design, eligibility criteria, and assessment procedures can be found in Gao et al (2022).…”

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Dynamics of mother‐infant parasympathetic regulation during face‐to‐face interaction: The role of maternal emotion dysregulation

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The dynamics of parent‐infant physiology are essential for understanding how biological substrates of emotion regulation are organized during infancy. Although parent‐infant physiological processes are dyadic in nature, research is limited in understanding how one person's physiological responses predict one's own and as well as the other person's responses in the subsequent moment. In this study, we examined mother‐infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) dynamics during the Still‐Face Paradigm (SFP) among 106 mothers (Mage = 29.54) and their 7‐month‐old infants (55 males). Given mothers' role in shaping dyadic interactions with their infant, we also tested how mothers' self‐reported emotion dysregulation (measured via the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) associated with these dynamics. Results showed that both mothers' and infants' RSA tended to return to their respective homeostatic points (i.e., exhibited return strength) during each SFP episode, indicating stability in RSA for mother‐infant dyads. Significant shifts in mother and infant RSA return strength were observed across SFP episodes, highlighting the role of contextual demands on each individual's physiological dynamics. Mother‐infant RSA dynamics varied as a function of maternal self‐reported emotion dysregulation. Specifically, RSA levels of infants with more dysregulated mothers had a weaker tendency to return to homeostasis during the Reunion episode and were less affected by their mothers' RSA during the Still‐Face and Reunion episodes of the SFP, suggesting a less effective coregulatory influence. Our findings have implications for the intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation via mother‐infant physiological dynamics.

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“…Progress in the field of perinatal mental health includes: contextualized measures of parental perinatal exposures including socioeconomic disadvantage measures, racial/ethnic discrimination and environmental factors in single cohort [109,151,152] and multicohort studies [8, 135,[153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161]162 && ]; improvement in measures of offspring neurobehavioral development, including neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies which take relevant and necessary confounders [163] into account [164][165][166][167] and scan the offspring at different ages [31,168 && , [169][170][171][172][173]; studies of the influence of genetic architecture as well environmental toxins and early-life adversity (including poverty) on neurobehavioral development [8, 109,135,158,159,[174][175][176].…”

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Current perspectives on perinatal mental health and neurobehavioral development: focus on regulation, coregulation and self-regulation

Van den Bergh,

Antonelli,

Stein

2024

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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Purpose of review Perinatal mental health research provides an important perspective on neurobehavioral development. Here, we aim to review the association of maternal perinatal health with offspring neurodevelopment, providing an update on (self-)regulation problems, hypothesized mechanistic pathways, progress and challenges, and implications for mental health. Recent findings (1) Meta-analyses confirm that maternal perinatal mental distress is associated with (self-)regulation problems which constitute cognitive, behavioral, and affective social-emotional problems, while exposure to positive parental mental health has a positive impact. However, effect sizes are small. (2) Hypothesized mechanistic pathways underlying this association are complex. Interactive and compensatory mechanisms across developmental time are neglected topics. (3) Progress has been made in multiexposure studies. However, challenges remain and these are shared by clinical, translational and public health sciences. (4) From a mental healthcare perspective, a multidisciplinary and system level approach employing developmentally-sensitive measures and timely treatment of (self-)regulation and coregulation problems in a dyadic caregiver-child and family level approach seems needed. The existing evidence-base is sparse. Summary During the perinatal period, addressing vulnerable contexts and building resilient systems may promote neurobehavioral development. A pluralistic approach to research, taking a multidisciplinary approach to theoretical models and empirical research needs to be fostered.

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“…Potential solutions to these barriers include remote assessments that can be conducted at a time convenient to the family. For example, in response to the pandemic, our lab (Gao et al, 2022) and others (Tabachnick et al, 2022) have found ways to support families by collecting physiological data in the home.…”

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Applying Research Domain Criteria to the study of emotion dysregulation in infancy and early childhood

Brown,

Crowell,

Conradt

2023

Infant and Child Development

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Emotion regulation is a principal task of early development. The failure to develop effective emotion regulation skills is associated with behavioural, academic, psychological and socioemotional difficulties. Although researchers have studied emotion regulation for decades, work on emotion dysregulation—defined as the inability to maintain emotional control, engage with the environment or recover from distress in a developmentally appropriate manner—is rare and there are discrepancies in its conceptualisation among very young samples. While some scientists refer to emotion dysregulation as if it were a discrete concept, it may be more accurately depicted as a multidimensional system of developmental processes. The National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is a framework that allows researchers to track dysfunction across multiple areas of analysis and may be an ideal system for exploring the multidimensional nature of infant emotion dysregulation. In this paper, we draw on empirical studies to describe how the RDoC framework can be used to support studies of emotion dysregulation in infancy. This proposed model can also serve as a roadmap for future researchers to follow to generate the evidence base for a multidimensional conceptualisation of infant emotion dysregulation and its underlying mechanisms.

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Bringing the laboratory into the home: A protocol for remote biobehavioral data collection in pregnant women with emotion dysregulation and their infants

Cited by 8 publications

References 87 publications

Dynamics of mother‐infant parasympathetic regulation during face‐to‐face interaction: The role of maternal emotion dysregulation

Dynamics of mother‐infant parasympathetic regulation during face‐to‐face interaction: The role of maternal emotion dysregulation

Current perspectives on perinatal mental health and neurobehavioral development: focus on regulation, coregulation and self-regulation

Applying Research Domain Criteria to the study of emotion dysregulation in infancy and early childhood

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