SynthesisClinical child and family psychology review2022
Parent-Child Synchrony After Early Childhood: A Systematic Review.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Beyond snapshots: A systematic review of dyadic and triadic parent-adolescent ecological momentary assessment studies across diverse and general populations.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review on Parent-Child Synchrony: The Role of Stress, Resilience and Psychopathology.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Interpersonal neural synchrony and mental disorders: unlocking potential pathways for clinical interventions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Out of Sync: Parent-Child Behavioral Synchrony in Conduct Problem Subgroups.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Parent-Child Neural Similarity and Synchrony: Toward an Integrative Framework.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2026Review
- Mother-Child Synchrony and Behavioral Problems in Chinese Children: A Preliminary fNIRS-Hyperscanning Study.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Children's affect: Automated coding, context effects, relations with maternal affect, and heritability.Child development · 2026Article
- Enhanced word learning and neural synchrony during children's storytelling.NPJ science of learning · 2026Article
- Cardiac synchrony, peer relationships, and affective experiences in children during group interactions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Mother-Child Biobehavioral Synchrony and Its Association With Social Functioning in Autistic School-Aged Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Child and parent behavioral and physiological reactivity to threat and distress predict children's proactive and reactive aggression.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Dyadic Context of Preadolescent Girls' Depressive Symptoms: Elucidating The Role of Biobehavioral Synchrony.Journal of child and family studies · 2026Article
- Neural and physiological correlates of parent-child observational threat extinction.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Emotion and Feeling in Parent-Child Dyads: Neurocognitive and Psychophysiological Pathways of Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Parent and Child Influences on Adrenocortical Synchrony During Middle Childhood.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions.Infant behavior & development · 2025Article
- An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well-Being in Black American Families.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Review
- Mother-Child Inter- and Intra-personal Affect Is Associated With Dynamic Trajectories of Physiological Self-Regulation in Black and Latinx Youth.Developmental psychobiology · 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
- Multimodal analysis of mother-child interaction using hyperscanning and diffusion maps.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Parent-child synchrony, or the coordination of biological and behavioral processes between parent and child, is thought to promote healthy relationships and support youth adjustment. Although extensive work has been conducted on parent-child synchrony during infancy and early childhood, less is known about synchrony in middle childhood and adolescence and the contextual factors that impact synchrony, particularly physiological synchrony. This is a systematic and qualitative review of 37 studies of behavioral and physiological synchrony in parent-child interactions after early childhood (parents with youth ages 5-18). Behavioral and physiological synchrony were typically identified in youth and their parents beyond early childhood and related to positive outcomes; however, research on father-child synchrony is rarer with mixed findings. Multiple factors are associated with synchrony, including parent and youth psychological symptoms and disorders, parenting factors, such as over-controlling parenting, and parent characteristics, such as interparental aggression and conflict. Few studies have examined behavioral and physiological synchrony simultaneously and longitudinally, limiting our ability to understand the relationship between types of synchrony and later adjustment. Available studies suggest that the context, such as presence of psychopathology or exposure to trauma, influences whether synchrony is associated with positive or negative outcomes. This review highlights the need for additional research to understand the relationship between types of synchrony and the long-term effects and contextual factors that impact youth outcomes.
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