Trial reportChild development2019
Marital Conflict Predicts Mother-to-Infant Adrenocortical Transmission.
Trial report in Child development, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Family risk, parental cortisol contagion, and parenting: A process-oriented approach to spillover.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- The moderating effect of marital conflict on the relationship between social avoidance and socio-emotional functioning among young children in suburban China.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action.Infant behavior & development · 2021Article
- Child Maltreatment and Mother-Child Transmission of Stress Physiology.Child maltreatment · 2019Article
- Socioeconomic risk moderates the association between caregiver cortisol levels and infant cortisol reactivity to emotion induction at 24 months.Developmental psychobiology · 2019Article
- The impact of marital withdrawal and secure base script knowledge on mothers' and fathers' parenting.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Employing an experimental design, mother-to-infant transmission of stress was examined. Mothers (N = 117) were randomized to either have a positive or conflictual discussion with their marital partners, after which infants (age = 6 months) participated in a fear and frustration task. Saliva samples were collected to assess maternal cortisol responses to the discussion and infant cortisol responses to the challenge task. Results indicate maternal cortisol reactivity and recovery to the conflict (but not positive) discussion predicted infant cortisol reactivity to the infant challenge. Mothers' positive affect during the discussion buffered, and intrusion during the free-play potentiated, mother-to-infant adrenocortical transmission. These findings advance our understanding of the social and contextual regulation of adrenocortical activity in early childhood.
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