ArticleInfant behavior & development2017
Chronic stress in the mother-infant dyad: Maternal hair cortisol, infant salivary cortisol and interactional synchrony.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 88 citations in OpenAlex.
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- What factors influence dyadic synchrony? A systematic review of the literature on predictors of mother-infant dyadic processes of shared behavior and affect.Infant mental health journal · 2022Pooled it
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- Chronic stress and hair cortisol concentration in mothers: A two-study investigation.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
- A context-dependent model of resilient functioning after childhood maltreatment-the case for flexible biobehavioral synchrony.Translational psychiatry · 2024Review
- Hair cortisol is not associated with reactogenicity after MMR-vaccination in 6-month-old infants.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Article
- Maternal-infant interaction quality is associated with child NR3C1 CpG site methylation at 7 years of age.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Article
- Infant regulatory problems and the quality of dyadic emotional connection-a proof-of-concept study in a multilingual sample.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age.Child development · 2022Article
- Circulating FGF21 vs. Stress Markers in Girls during Childhood and Adolescence, and in Their Caregivers: Intriguing Inter-Relations between Overweight/Obesity, Emotions, Behavior, and the Cared-Caregiver Relationship.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Social Fear in US Infants: The Roles of Hair and Salivary Cortisol.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2022Article
- Potential epigenetic mechanisms in psychotherapy: a pilot study on DNA methylation and mentalization change in borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Atypical maternal interaction is associated with elevated levels of hair cortisol in children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Child maltreatment affects fathers' response to infant crying, not mediated by cortisol or testosterone.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Stress physiology is shaped by early experience, with enduring effects on health. The relation of chronic maternal physiological stress, as indexed by hair cortisol, to infants' stress systems and to mother-infant interaction quality has not been established. We examined maternal hair and salivary cortisol, six-month-old infants' salivary cortisol, and mother-infant interaction in 121 mother-infant dyads. High maternal hair cortisol was related to higher infant average salivary cortisol concentration. Maternal hair cortisol and bedtime salivary cortisol were both uniquely related to infant bedtime salivary cortisol. Mothers with higher hair cortisol were more intrusive and had lower positive engagement synchrony with their infants. Maternal intrusiveness moderated the association of maternal hair cortisol and infant salivary cortisol, such that maternal hair and infant average salivary cortisol were related only when mothers were more intrusive. Maternal chronic physiological stress may upregulate infants' developing stress systems, particularly in the context of lower mother-infant interaction quality.
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