The impact of allostatic load on maternal sympathovagal functioning in stressful child contexts: implications for problematic parenting.
The impact of allostatic load on maternal sympathovagal functioning in stressful child contexts: implications for problematic parenting.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579411000332
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发表时间：
2011-08
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Heinzelman W
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作者：
Sturge-Apple ML;Skibo MA;Rogosch FA;Ignjatovic Z;Heinzelman W
本研究采用非稳态负荷框架，探讨了母亲社会心理危险因素与不良父母教养行为之间的关系。具体而言，低社会经济地位和母亲的抑郁症状，母亲交感神经功能在幼儿的痛苦的影响进行了研究，以及是否功能反过来，与母亲的不敏感，敌意，侵入性，和脱离母子二人互动。与变稳态框架一致，交感迷走神经功能的三种模式预计将出现：正常唤醒，过度唤醒和低唤醒配置文件。此外，产妇的心理社会风险因素，适应不良的养育行为，和交感迷走神经功能的三个配置文件之间的有意义的关联进行了预期。参与者包括153名母亲，幼儿二人组招募比例较低和中等社会经济地位的背景。母亲的交感迷走神经反应，他们的孩子的痛苦进行了评估期间的奇怪的情况下的范例，和母亲的养育行为进行了评估期间的二元自由发挥的互动。正如假设的那样，确定了母体交感迷走神经功能的正常唤醒、过度唤醒和低唤醒特征。母亲的抑郁性抑郁症可以预测过度觉醒，而社会经济逆境则可以预测低觉醒。此外，非稳态负荷配置文件差异与有问题的养育行为。这些发现强调了生理失调作为近端风险因素和实际适应不良的父母行为之间关系的机制的作用。
The present study applies an allostatic load framework to an examination of the relationship between maternal psychosocial risk factors and maladaptive parenting behaviors. Specifically, the implications of low socioeconomic status and maternal depressive symptoms for maternal sympathovagal functioning during young children’s distress were examined, as well as whether that functioning was, in turn, associated with maternal insensitivity, hostility, intrusiveness, and disengagement during mother–child dyadic interaction. Consistent with an allostatic framework, three patterns of sympathovagal functioning were expected to emerge: normative arousal, hyperarousal, and hypoarousal profiles. Furthermore, meaningful associations between maternal psychosocial risk factors, maladaptive parenting behaviors, and the three profiles of sympathovagal functioning were anticipated. Participants included 153 mother–toddler dyads recruited proportionately from lower and middle socioeconomic status backgrounds. Mothers’ sympathovagal response to their child’s distress was assessed during the Strange Situation paradigm, and mothers’ parenting behavior was assessed during a dyadic free-play interaction. As hypothesized, normative arousal, hyperarousal, and hypoarousal profiles of maternal sympathovagal functioning were identified. Maternal depressive symptomatology predicted the hyperarousal profile, whereas socioeconomic adversity predicted hypoarousal. Moreover, allostatic load profiles were differentially associated with problematic parenting behaviors. These findings underscore the role of physiological dysregulation as a mechanism in the relationship between proximal risk factors and actual maladaptive parenting behaviors.