Associations between infant-mother physiological synchrony and 4-and 6-month-old infants' emotion regulation
Associations between infant-mother physiological synchrony and 4-and 6-month-old infants' emotion regulation
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DOI：
10.1002/dev.22161
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发表时间：
2021-07-22
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Bertenthal, Bennett I.
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作者：
Abney, Drew H.;daSilva, Elizabeth B.;Bertenthal, Bennett I.
在这项研究中，我们评估了婴儿和母亲之间的生理同步是否有助于婴儿在轻度社会应激后的情绪调节。4至6个月大的婴儿和他们的母亲进行了测试，在面对面仍然面对范式和行为和生理的自我调节过程中和之后的压力进行了评估。通过连续测量呼吸性窦性心律失常（RSA）来计算生理同步性，使我们能够将婴儿和母亲的RSA反应相互关联。在不考虑生理同步性的情况下，证据表明，婴儿的痛苦遵循的原型模式是在“静止面孔”事件期间增加，然后在团聚事件期间减少。一旦将生理同步性加入到模型中，我们观察到，如果母婴同步性是积极的，婴儿的情绪调节就会改善，但如果是消极的，则不会。婴儿在静止面孔发作期间是否抑制了他们的RSA反应，进一步验证了这一结果。总之，这些发现突出了婴儿生理反应的个体差异如何显著影响他们的自我调节能力。
In this study we assessed whether physiological synchrony between infants and mothers contributes to infants' emotion regulation following a mild social stressor. Infants between 4 and 6 months of age and their mothers were tested in the face-to-face-still-face paradigm and were assessed for behavioral and physiological self-regulation during and following the stressor. Physiological synchrony was calculated from a continuous measure of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) enabling us to cross-correlate the infants' and mothers' RSA responses. Without considering physiological synchrony, the evidence suggested that infants' distress followed the prototypical pattern of increasing during the Still Face episode and then decreasing during the reunion episode. Once physiological synchrony was added to the model, we observed that infants' emotion regulation improved if mother-infant synchrony was positive, but not if it was negative. This result was qualified further by whether or not infants suppressed their RSA response during the Still Face episode. In sum, these findings highlight how individual differences in infants' physiological responses contribute significantly to their self-regulation abilities.