Maternal depressive symptoms and infants' emotional reactivity: The moderating role of mothers' prenatal cry processing / Avigail GORDON-HACKER in Development and Psychopathology, 37-3 (August 2025)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 37-3 (August 2025) . - p.1431-1443 Titre : Maternal depressive symptoms and infants' emotional reactivity: The moderating role of mothers' prenatal cry processing Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Avigail GORDON-HACKER, Auteur ; Alisa EGOTUBOV, Auteur ; Eyal SHEINER, Auteur ; Florina UZEFOVSKY, Auteur ; Noa GUERON-SELA, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1431-1443 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Cry-processing  empathy  infancy  maternal depression  negative emotionality Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Exposure to maternal depressive symptoms (MDS) may have a pertinent role in shaping children?s emotional development. However, little is known about how these processes emerge in the early postpartum period. The current study examined the direct and interactive associations between MDS and cry-processing cognitions in the prediction of infant negative emotionality and affective concern. Participants were 130 mother-child dyads (50% female) assessed at three time points. During the second trimester of pregnancy, expectant mothers completed a procedure to assess responses to video clips of distressed infants and reported about MDS. Mothers also reported about MDS at 1- and 3-months postpartum. At age 3 months, infants' negative emotionality and affective concern responses were observed and rated. We found no direct associations between MDS and both measures of infant emotional reactivity. However, MDS interacted with cry-processing cognitions to predict affective concern and negative emotionality. Overall, MDS were related to increased affective concern and decreased negative emotionality when mothers held cognitions that were more focused on their own emotions in the face of the infant?s cry rather than the infant?s emotional state and needs. Clinical implications for early screening and intervention are discussed. En ligne : https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/ADE1E0B5C677782C9A3F09BB3E5F48E5 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=564 [article] Maternal depressive symptoms and infants' emotional reactivity: The moderating role of mothers' prenatal cry processing [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Avigail GORDON-HACKER, Auteur ; Alisa EGOTUBOV, Auteur ; Eyal SHEINER, Auteur ; Florina UZEFOVSKY, Auteur ; Noa GUERON-SELA, Auteur . - p.1431-1443. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 37-3 (August 2025) . - p.1431-1443 Mots-clés : Cry-processing  empathy  infancy  maternal depression  negative emotionality Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Exposure to maternal depressive symptoms (MDS) may have a pertinent role in shaping children?s emotional development. However, little is known about how these processes emerge in the early postpartum period. The current study examined the direct and interactive associations between MDS and cry-processing cognitions in the prediction of infant negative emotionality and affective concern. Participants were 130 mother-child dyads (50% female) assessed at three time points. During the second trimester of pregnancy, expectant mothers completed a procedure to assess responses to video clips of distressed infants and reported about MDS. Mothers also reported about MDS at 1- and 3-months postpartum. At age 3 months, infants' negative emotionality and affective concern responses were observed and rated. We found no direct associations between MDS and both measures of infant emotional reactivity. However, MDS interacted with cry-processing cognitions to predict affective concern and negative emotionality. Overall, MDS were related to increased affective concern and decreased negative emotionality when mothers held cognitions that were more focused on their own emotions in the face of the infant?s cry rather than the infant?s emotional state and needs. Clinical implications for early screening and intervention are discussed. En ligne : https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/ADE1E0B5C677782C9A3F09BB3E5F48E5 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=564

Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and inhibitory control in early childhood: the role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia / Steven J. HOLOCHWOST in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59-9 (September 2018)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 59-9 (September 2018) . - p.973-981 Titre : Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and inhibitory control in early childhood: the role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Steven J. HOLOCHWOST, Auteur ; Vanessa V. VOLPE, Auteur ; Noa GUERON-SELA, Auteur ; Cathi B. PROPPER, Auteur ; W. Roger MILLS-KOONCE, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.973-981 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Risk factors  parenting  inhbitory control  respiratory sinus arrhythmia  vagal tone Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Deficits of inhibitory control in early childhood are linked to externalizing behaviors and attention problems. While environmental factors and physiological processes are associated with its etiology, few studies have examined how these factors jointly predict inhibitory control. This study examined whether respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) functioned as a mediator or moderator of both cumulative sociodemographic risk and parenting behaviors on inhibitory control during early childhood. Methods The sample included 206 children and their biological mothers. At 24, 30, and 36 months of child age dyads participated in a series of laboratory visits in which sociodemographic, parenting, and baseline RSA (RSAB) data were collected. Inhibitory control was assessed at 36 months using a gift-wrap delay task. Results A series of structural equation models yielded no evidence that RSAB mediated the relations of risk or parenting and inhibitory control. RSAB moderated the effects of risk, such that high-risk children with low RSAB performed more poorly on tasks of inhibitory control, while high-risk children with high RSAB did not. Conclusions These results suggest that higher levels of RSAB may mitigate the influence of environmental risk on the development of inhibitory control early childhood. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12889 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=368 [article] Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and inhibitory control in early childhood: the role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Steven J. HOLOCHWOST, Auteur ; Vanessa V. VOLPE, Auteur ; Noa GUERON-SELA, Auteur ; Cathi B. PROPPER, Auteur ; W. Roger MILLS-KOONCE, Auteur . - p.973-981. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 59-9 (September 2018) . - p.973-981 Mots-clés : Risk factors  parenting  inhbitory control  respiratory sinus arrhythmia  vagal tone Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Deficits of inhibitory control in early childhood are linked to externalizing behaviors and attention problems. While environmental factors and physiological processes are associated with its etiology, few studies have examined how these factors jointly predict inhibitory control. This study examined whether respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) functioned as a mediator or moderator of both cumulative sociodemographic risk and parenting behaviors on inhibitory control during early childhood. Methods The sample included 206 children and their biological mothers. At 24, 30, and 36 months of child age dyads participated in a series of laboratory visits in which sociodemographic, parenting, and baseline RSA (RSAB) data were collected. Inhibitory control was assessed at 36 months using a gift-wrap delay task. Results A series of structural equation models yielded no evidence that RSAB mediated the relations of risk or parenting and inhibitory control. RSAB moderated the effects of risk, such that high-risk children with low RSAB performed more poorly on tasks of inhibitory control, while high-risk children with high RSAB did not. Conclusions These results suggest that higher levels of RSAB may mitigate the influence of environmental risk on the development of inhibitory control early childhood. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12889 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=368

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