ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2019
Fathering across contexts: The moderating role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in predicting toddler emotion regulation.
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- Emotion regulation in children and adolescents: a systematic review and quality assessment of behavioral and physiological assessment methods and their theoretical foundations.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between parenting and child autonomic nervous system activity.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Synchronizing brains and hearts: A practical guide for caregiver-child fNIRS-ECG multimodal hyperscanning.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- From family to school: the dual protection of father-child relationship and teacher-student relationship on children's mental health problems.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Prenatal tobacco, tobacco-cannabis coexposure, and child emotion regulation: The role of child autonomic functioning and sensitive parenting.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Pathways to emotion regulation in young Black children: An attachment perspective.Advances in child development and behavior · 2023Article
- Parental history of childhood maltreatment and child average RSA shape parent-child RSA synchrony.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Infant biological sensitivity to father engagement in low-income Mexican American families.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Differences in mother-child and father-child RSA synchrony: Moderation by child self-regulation and dyadic affect.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Caregivers play an integral role in promoting children's emotion regulation, while children's individual physiology affects how they respond to the caregiving environment. Relatively little is known about how fathering influences toddler emotion regulation, particularly within African American and low-income communities, where risk related to the development of emotion regulation is higher. This study investigated relations among fathering, toddler parasympathetic regulation, and toddler emotion regulation in a sample of 92 families. Fathering was assessed during two interactions: engagement following a stressor during a triadic task and a dyadic play task. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (resting and reactivity) was obtained as an index of toddler parasympathetic arousal. Findings demonstrated an association between fathers' engagement poststressor and toddler emotion regulation. Toddler RSA moderated this association: toddlers with elevated levels of resting RSA benefitted from parenting engagement following a stressor. Fathering during play did not relate to toddler emotion regulation. The importance of fathering and physiologic contexts in early regulatory development is discussed.
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