Mutual touch during mother–infant face-to-face still-face interactions: Influences of interaction period and infant birth status

Mantis, Irene; Stack, Dale M.; Ng, Laura; Serbin, Lisa A.; Schwartzman, Alex E.

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.04.005

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“…As above mentioned, no structured protocols of developmental care practices were implemented in the NICU in which the enrolled infants and mothers were hospitalized. It should be noted that the capacity of mothers to feel bonded to the infant and to develop confidence in her own parental role and skills is positively affected by the NIDCAP (Nelson & Bedford, ), and, conversely, maternal affectionate behaviors are crucial to help VPT infants in regulating socio‐emotional stress (Mantis, Stack, Ng, Serbin, & Schwartzman, ). Therefore, the lack of NIDCAP support might have limited the capacity of these mothers of effectively supporting their infants’ socio‐emotional stress self‐regulation.…”

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Very Preterm and Full‐Term Infants’ Response to Socio‐Emotional Stress: The Role of Postnatal Maternal Bonding

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Bernasconi

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Infancy

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Very preterm (VPT) infants are at risk for altered socio‐emotional stress regulation, even in the absence of perinatal complications. Moreover, becoming a mother of a VPT infant is a traumatic event, which might affect the establishment of a bonding relationship toward the infant during the postnatal period. The main aim of the present study was to assess the association between maternal postnatal bonding and socio‐emotional stress response in 3‐month‐old VPT infants, compared to full‐term (FT) controls. Thirty‐three VPT and 28 FT infant‐mother dyads underwent the maternal Face‐to‐Face Still‐Face (FFSF) procedure to assess socio‐emotional stress regulation. Maternal postnatal bonding was measured through the Maternal Post‐Natal Attachment Scale (MPAS), which includes three scales: Quality of attachment, Absence of hostility, and Pleasure in interaction. The VPT infants exhibited less self‐directed and other‐directed regulatory behaviors during the Still‐Face episode. Mothers of VPT infants reported lower Quality of attachment compared to FT counterparts. Importantly, higher levels of Quality of attachment were associated with more other‐directed behaviors during the Still‐Face episode in FT dyads, whereas this was not observed in VPT dyads. In conclusion, VPT infants might be exposed to a double‐risk condition for socio‐emotional development, encompassing both difficulties in stress response and the exposure to a less‐than‐optimal maternal bonding.

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Very Preterm and Full‐Term Infants’ Response to Socio‐Emotional Stress: The Role of Postnatal Maternal Bonding

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“…Second, all infants were healthy and full-term, so the results cannot be applied to at-risk populations. Future studies are warranted to investigate the role of dyadic reparation in affecting behavioral and physiological social stress regulation in infants at risk, for example, in case of exposure to altered parenting (Giuliano, Skowron, & Berkman, 2015) or premature birth (Mantis, Stack, Nq, Serbin, & Schwartzman, 2014). Previous research has shown that infants' temperament could be a potential variable at the interface between physiologically based stress susceptibility (e.g., RSA suppression; Dale, O'Hara, Keen, & Porges, 2011) and social stress regulation across the FFSF paradigm (Yoo & Reeb-Sutherland, 2013).…”

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Mother–infant dyadic reparation and individual differences in vagal tone affect 4-month-old infants’ social stress regulation

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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“…Stress may exacerbate both maternal negativity and hostility and an infant's difficult temperament. Thus, a dyadic approach that accounts for both maternal and infant factors, as well as the larger environmental context, allows for a deeper examination of the transactions taking place (Bronfenbenner, ; Kuczynski & De Mol, ; Mantis, Stack, Ng, Serbin, & Schwartzman, ; Sameroff, ; Serbin, Stack, Kingdon, Mantis, & Enns, ; Stack et al., ). In support of the influence of environmental context on mother–child relationships, Stack et al.…”

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Coregulation and the Quality of the Relationship in Full‐Term and Very Low‐Birthweight Preterm Infant‐Mother Dyads During Face‐To‐Face Interactions

Doiron¹,

Stack²

2017

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Interactions with parents build the foundation for infants' social-emotional development. This study investigated coregulation of the interaction and quality of relationship between mothers and their 6-month-old full-term (n = 43) and very low-birthweight/preterm (VLBW/preterm; n = 44; ages corrected for prematurity) infants. The objectives were to examine (1) how coregulation changed following a perturbed interaction, (2) how coregulation differed between full-term and VLBW/preterm infant-mother dyads, and (3) the association between coregulation and relationship quality. Coregulation was coded using the Revised Relational Coding System . Quality of the relationship was measured using the Emotional Availability scales (Biringen et al., 2014;Carter et al., 1998). Dyads participated in the Still-Face (SF) procedure (Tronick et al., 1978) consisting of two natural and one SF period where mothers assumed a neutral expression, refraining from interacting with their infants. Following the SF period, dyads engaged in more symmetrical and more disruptive patterns of coregulation. While full-term dyads engaged in more sequential-symmetrical, VLBW/preterm dyads engaged in more resonant-symmetrical coregulation. These results suggest that VLBW/preterm dyads may show more emotional reactivity in their interactions than full-term dyads; however, in both groups infant responsiveness and parenting stress influenced the types of coregulation exhibited.Correspondence should be sent to Kelly M. Doiron or Dale M. Stack,

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Mutual touch during mother–infant face-to-face still-face interactions: Influences of interaction period and infant birth status

Cited by 38 publications

References 68 publications

Very Preterm and Full‐Term Infants’ Response to Socio‐Emotional Stress: The Role of Postnatal Maternal Bonding

Very Preterm and Full‐Term Infants’ Response to Socio‐Emotional Stress: The Role of Postnatal Maternal Bonding

Mother–infant dyadic reparation and individual differences in vagal tone affect 4-month-old infants’ social stress regulation

Coregulation and the Quality of the Relationship in Full‐Term and Very Low‐Birthweight Preterm Infant‐Mother Dyads During Face‐To‐Face Interactions

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