TY - JOUR
T1 - Shaping emotion regulation
T2 - attunement, symptomatology, and stress recovery within mother–infant dyads
AU - Ostlund, Brendan D.
AU - Measelle, Jeffrey R.
AU - Laurent, Heidemarie K.
AU - Conradt, Elisabeth
AU - Ablow, Jennifer C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by research grants from the NIMH (R03MH068 692-01A1), the NSF (0643393), the University of Oregon Associate Dean of Natural Sciences Discretionary Funds Award, and the Oregon Community Credit Union Fellowship (all awarded to J.C.A.). We express our gratitude to the research assistants who worked on this project as well as the mothers and babies who participated in this study.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - The foundations of emotion regulation are organized, in part, through repeated interactions with one's caregiver in infancy. Less is known about how stress physiology covaries between a mother and her infant within these interactions, leaving a gap in our understanding of how the biological basis of emotion regulation develops. This study investigated physiological attunement between mothers and their 5-month-old infants, as well as the influence of maternal depression and anxiety, during stress recovery. During the reengagement phase of the Still Face Paradigm, mother-infant dyads exhibited negative attunement, as measured by inverse covariation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). Increases in maternal RSA corresponded to decreases in infant RSA, underscoring dyadic adjustment during recovery. Moreover, infant regulation differed as a function of maternal anxiety, with more anxious mothers having infants with higher RSA during reengagement. Implications for the consolidation of regulatory capabilities within the context of the early caregiving relationship are discussed.
AB - The foundations of emotion regulation are organized, in part, through repeated interactions with one's caregiver in infancy. Less is known about how stress physiology covaries between a mother and her infant within these interactions, leaving a gap in our understanding of how the biological basis of emotion regulation develops. This study investigated physiological attunement between mothers and their 5-month-old infants, as well as the influence of maternal depression and anxiety, during stress recovery. During the reengagement phase of the Still Face Paradigm, mother-infant dyads exhibited negative attunement, as measured by inverse covariation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). Increases in maternal RSA corresponded to decreases in infant RSA, underscoring dyadic adjustment during recovery. Moreover, infant regulation differed as a function of maternal anxiety, with more anxious mothers having infants with higher RSA during reengagement. Implications for the consolidation of regulatory capabilities within the context of the early caregiving relationship are discussed.
KW - RSA
KW - emotion regulation
KW - maternal anxiety
KW - mother–infant relations
KW - physiological attunement
KW - respiratory sinus arrhythmia
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U2 - 10.1002/dev.21448
DO - 10.1002/dev.21448
M3 - Article
C2 - 27481553
AN - SCOPUS:84994424462
SN - 0012-1630
VL - 59
SP - 15
EP - 25
JO - Developmental psychobiology
JF - Developmental psychobiology
IS - 1
ER -