ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2018
Physiological attunement in mother-infant dyads at clinical high risk: The influence of maternal depression and positive parenting.
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- Parental Postnatal Depression in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of Its Effects on the Parent-Child Relationship and the Child's Developmental Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Home Visiting and Antenatal Depression Affect the Quality of Mother and Child Interactions in South Africa.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Observed Maternal Positive Affect Responsivity Prospectively Predicts Lower Internalizing Problems in Toddlers of Mothers With Depression: A Dynamic Systems Analysis.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Infant-mother attachment security and cortisol reactivity during the strange situation procedure: Longitudinal associations with maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- Conversationally Attuned: Links Between Interpersonal Linguistic Synchrony and Social Functioning Across the Early-Psychosis Spectrum.Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Parent and Child Influences on Adrenocortical Synchrony During Middle Childhood.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Dynamics of mother-infant parasympathetic regulation during face-to-face interaction: The role of maternal emotion dysregulation.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- Bringing the laboratory into the home: A protocol for remote biobehavioral data collection in pregnant women with emotion dysregulation and their infants.Journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- Ontogeny of the Dyad: the Relationship Between Maternal and Offspring Neuroendocrine Function.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- Maternal experiences of childhood maltreatment moderate patterns of mother-infant cortisol regulation under stress.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Adverse impact of multiple separations or loss of primary caregivers on young children.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2019Article
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Abstract
A growing number of research studies have examined the intradyadic coregulation (or attunement) of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning in mothers and their children. However, it is unclear how early this coregulation may be present in dyads at clinical high risk and whether certain factors, such as maternal depression or positive parenting, are associated with the strength of this coregulation. The present study examined cortisol attunement within mother-infant dyads in a high-risk sample of 233 mothers who received treatment for psychiatric illness during pregnancy and whose infants were 6 months old at the study visit. Results showed that maternal and infant cortisol covaried across four time points that included a stressor paradigm and a mother-infant interaction task. Greater maternal positive affect, but not depression, predicted stronger cortisol attunement. In addition, infants' cortisol level following separation from the mother predicted mothers' cortisol level at the next time point. Mothers' cortisol level following the separation and the laboratory stress paradigm predicted infants' cortisol levels at each successive time point, over and above infants' own cortisol at the previous time point. These findings suggest that maternal and infant cortisol levels influence one another in a bidirectional fashion that may be temporally and context dependent.
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