ArticleBiological psychology2021
Individual differences in parent and child average RSA and parent psychological distress influence parent-child RSA synchrony.
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- A Systematic Review on Parent-Child Synchrony: The Role of Stress, Resilience and Psychopathology.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
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- Synchrony and Reciprocity in Rhythmic Interaction.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- A holistic review of fatherhood in humans and non-human animals: mechanisms of fatherhood, effects on fathers themselves, and interactions of fathers with others.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well-Being in Black American Families.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Review
- Parent-child relationship quality buffers the association between mothers' adverse childhood experiences and physiological synchrony.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Individual patterns and synchrony of heart rate variability in adolescent patients with borderline personality psychopathology and their mothers: a case-control study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia self-regulation and coregulation in response to caregiving challenges in at-risk mother-child and father-child dyads.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- Maternal postnatal depressive symptoms and children's internalizing problems: The moderating role of mother-infant RSA synchrony.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- The role of youths' cardiac autonomic balance and parental responses to youth emotion in vulnerability to borderline personality disorder development.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Dynamics of mother-infant parasympathetic regulation during face-to-face interaction: The role of maternal emotion dysregulation.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- Adolescent borderline personality traits and dyadic behavior shape mother-adolescent cortisol synchrony.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2023Article
- Understanding How Child Temperament, Negative Parenting, and Dyadic Parent-Child Behavioral Variability Interact to Influence Externalizing Problems.Social development (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Parental history of childhood maltreatment and child average RSA shape parent-child RSA synchrony.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Parent-child synchrony of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) varies by risk, but novel approaches are needed to capture individual contributions to synchrony. Multilevel state-trait modeling was applied to examine how parental psychological distress and parent and child average RSA during challenge (reflecting individual regulatory capacities) shaped RSA synchrony in mother-child (n = 71) and father-child (n = 47) interactions. RSA synchrony was curvilinear such that greater in-the-moment RSA reactivity in one partner prompted greater reactivity in the other. Higher risk (lower average RSA; higher distress) predicted in-the-moment RSA withdrawal to partner RSA changes, whereas lower risk (higher average RSA; lower distress) predicted in-the-moment RSA augmentation. In some models, one's higher average RSA prompted the partner's greater reactivity and thus synchrony when parental distress was higher. However, the presence and direction of synchrony was not consistently adaptive nor maladaptive across models, suggesting its meaning relies on theory and the parent and risk factors in question.
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