Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 65(4), P. 481 - 507

Published: Feb. 23, 2024

During development we transition from coregulation (where regulatory processes are shared between child and caregiver) to self‐regulation. Most early coregulatory interactions aim manage fluctuations in the infant's arousal alertness; but over time, become progressively elaborated encompass other functions such as sociocommunicative development, attention executive control. The fundamental of is help maintain an optimal ‘critical state’ hypo‐ hyperactivity. Here, present a dynamic framework for understanding child–caregiver context psychopathology. Early involve both passive entrainment, through which child's state entrains caregiver's, active contingent responsiveness, caregiver changes their behaviour response behaviours child. Similar principles, interactive asymmetric contingency, drive joint maintenance epistemic states well arousal/alertness, emotion regulation development. We describe three ways can develop atypically, conditions Autism, ADHD, anxiety depression. most well‐known these insufficient leading reduced synchrony, has been shown across range modalities different disorders, target current interventions. also evidence that excessive responsiveness synchrony some circumstances. And show positive feedback develop, mutually amplificatory further critical state. discuss implications findings future intervention research, directions work.

Language: Английский

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The Influence of Parents on Emotion Regulation in Middle Childhood: A Systematic Review

Children, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 9(8), P. 1200 - 1200

Published: Aug. 10, 2022

Emotion regulation (ER) has been identified as a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology, making it an ideal target prevention and treatment. This study explores how parents can nurture the development of child ER. In April 2022, systematic review was executed focusing on malleable factors in parental emotion-socialization process during middle childhood. Papers PubMed, Web Science Medline were screened content-related methodological criteria. Their quality assessed. Knowledge assembled using summarizing framework encompassing four involved emotion socialization. Fifty papers shed light modifiable at level meta-emotion philosophy, emotion-related socialization behaviors, ER skills emotional climate family. Adaptive appears to be context- child-specific, thereby taxing parents' their ability put them into practice flexibly. The changeable are highly intertwined, resulting possible entries parent-directed interventions. Importantly, time should devoted capacities attune situation child. Regarding latter, replication studies necessary. Recommendations clinical interventions provided.

Language: Английский

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Mother–infant stress contagion? Effects of an acute maternal stressor on maternal caregiving behavior and infant cortisol and crying

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 21, 2025

Background Postpartum maternal distress has been associated with adverse infant outcomes. A potential pathway of how affects outcomes could be alterations in caregiving behavior. However, the associations between distress, behavior, and have never tested a controlled experiment. This preregistered study utilized an experimental design to investigate effects acute stressor on cortisol crying possible mediating role Methods Mother‐infant dyads ( N = 91) participated lab visit at 8 weeks postpartum, where mothers were separated from their infants either perform Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) or control task. The task was immediately followed by mother‐infant interaction assess behavior crying. Results Our structural equation model found no differences conditions (stressor/control) response stress. Secondary findings revealed that higher quality related lower levels end visit, but not reunion. Conclusions do support occurrence stress contagion this setting indicate link behavioral responses. Given high prevalence mental health problems negative association offspring development, further (experimental) research is needed understand just postpartum young infants.

Language: Английский

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Neurodevelopmental Pathways from Temperamental Fear to Anxiety

Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Do maternal and paternal social trait anxiety explain individual differences in offspring stress reactions during a social performance task?

Personality and Individual Differences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 238, P. 113083 - 113083

Published: Feb. 5, 2025

Language: Английский

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Intergenerational transmission of trait anxiety: Insights from different parenting styles using the actor-partner interdependence model

Acta Psychologica, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 254, P. 104838 - 104838

Published: Feb. 24, 2025

Language: Английский

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The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 30, 2025

Temperament traits are early appearing and relatively stable phenotypic profiles of behavior that present across space time. This definition invariably reflects the timescale imposed when gathering repeated measures our variables interest reliance on aggregate, mean-level values. However, if observations is shortened frequency increased, underlying or latent fluctuations variability may emerge. Embedding short-term into slower developmental trajectories improve understanding in moment while also strengthening prediction. Researchers should embrace a more granular research, incorporating new technology analytical approaches, enhancing ability to capture change. article illustrates how shifting timescales can provide insight social, behavioral, cognitive processes development.

Language: Английский

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Examining the unique contribution of parent anxiety sensitivity on adolescent neural responses during an emotion regulation task

Development and Psychopathology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 11

Published: April 10, 2025

Abstract Parent factors impact adolescent’s emotion regulation, which has key implications for the development of internalizing psychopathology. A transdiagnostic factor may contribute to youth pathology is parent anxiety sensitivity (fear anxiety-related physiological sensations). In a sample 146 adolescents (M/SD age = 12.08/.90 years old) and their parents (98% mothers) we tested whether was related brain activation, over above child’s sensitivity. Adolescents completed an regulation task in scanner that required them either regulate vs. react negative neutral stimuli. associated with adolescent neural responses bilateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), anterior cingulate, paracingulate, left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, such higher greater activation when were allowed embrace emotional reaction(s) right OFC region only, also decreased asked responses. The findings are consistent idea at-risk be modeling heightened attention responsivity environmental stimuli they observe parents.

Language: Английский

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Is parental overcontrol a specific form of child maltreatment? Insights from a resting state EEG connectivity study

Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 155, P. 106962 - 106962

Published: July 27, 2024

Recent studies suggest that parental overcontrol could be considered a specific form of childhood trauma (CT). Although previous research has shown CT alters the functional and structural architecture large-scale networks in brain, neural basis associated with not been sufficiently explored. Therefore, main aim current study was to investigate relationship between electroencephalography (EEG) triple network (TN) connectivity during resting state (RS) condition non-clinical sample (N = 71; 39 females, mean age 23.94 ± 5.89 SD). EEG recorded 5 min RS eyes closed. All participants were asked self-report maternal paternal overcontrol, general psychopathology. analyses performed using exact low-resolution electromagnetic tomography software (eLORETA). Our results showed significant positive correlation theta salience central executive network. This pattern independently even when controlling for relevant confounding variables, including severity level neurophysiological may reflect predisposition detect respond potentially threatening stimuli environment, which is typically excessive overcontrol. findings support hypothesis should all respects independent forms traditionally studied literature (i.e., emotional abuse, physical sexual neglect).

Language: Английский

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Affective language spreads between anxious children and their mothers during a challenging puzzle task.

Emotion, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 23(6), P. 1513 - 1521

Published: Jan. 3, 2023

Humans influence each other's emotions. The spread of emotion is well documented across behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroscientific levels analysis, but might this also be evident in language (e.g., are people more likely to use words after hearing someone else them)? current study tests whether mothers children affective language. From 2018 2020, aged 6-12 who met diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders their (

Language: Английский

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