Maternal caregiving moderates relations between maternal childhood maltreatment and infant cortisol regulation

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 8, 2025

Background Children of maltreated mothers are at increased risk for adverse physical and psychological health. Both prenatal postnatal alterations in offspring biological stress systems have been proposed as mechanisms contributing to such transmission. The aim the current study was assess whether maternal care infant moderated any effect childhood maltreatment on cortisol output during a mild stressor 4 months age. Methods Participants included 181 mother–infant dyads, screened recruitment result 57.4% reporting one or more forms maltreatment. Mothers were assessed quality caregiving, infants salivary Still‐Face Paradigm age months. Maternal using Maltreatment Abuse Chronology Exposure (MACE) self‐report scales. Results Greater severity neglect interacted with higher levels disoriented caregiving predict over course Paradigm. In contrast, abuse negative‐intrusion lower output. role confusion linked greater regardless history. Conclusions may moderate effects factors existing prior infant's birth. Disoriented context negative‐intrusive behavior associated opposite directions hormone results suggest that interventions addressing risks from both periods be most effective mitigating intergenerational

Язык: Английский

Therapeutic Interventions for Trauma-exposed Infants, Young Children, and Their Caregivers

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 34(2), С. 291 - 310

Опубликована: Окт. 3, 2024

Язык: Английский