A transactional analysis of the relation between maternal sensitivity and child vagal regulation.

Perry, Nicole B.; Mackler, Jennifer S.; Calkins, Susan D.; Keane, Susan P.

doi:10.1037/a0033819

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“…Adoptive parents’ perceptions of their adopted child’s anger, measured before parenting observations, support the importance of considering reciprocal effects in studies of parenting (Bell, 1968; Brody & Ge, 2001; Lengua, 2006; Perry et al, 2014, 2017; Shaw & Bell, 1993). That is, children who display more anger may be at greater risk of eliciting negative parenting behaviors, particularly from their mothers, a finding that is consistent with similar work in this area (e.g., Larsson et al, 2008; Marceau et al, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Contributions of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting to children's self‐regulation: Evidence from an adoption study

Bridgett

Ganiban

Neiderhiser

et al. 2018

Developmental Science

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The origins of top-down self-regulation are attributed to genetic and socialization factors as evidenced by high heritability estimates from twin studies and the influential role of parenting. However, recent evidence suggests that parenting behavior itself is affected by parents' own top-down self-regulation. Because children's top-down self-regulation is influenced by genetic factors and parenting is influenced by top-down self-regulation, the effects of parenting on children's top-down self-regulation identified in prior studies may partially reflect passive gene-environment correlation. The goal of this study was to examine parenting influences on children's top-down self-regulation using a longitudinal, adoption-at-birth design, a method of identifying parenting influences that are independent of the role of shared genetic influences on children's characteristics because adoptive parents are genetically unrelated to their adopted child. Participants (N = 361) included adoptive families and biological mothers of adopted children. Adoptive mothers' and fathers' harsh/negative parenting were assessed when children were 27 months of age and biological mothers' top-down self-regulation was assessed when children were 54 months of age. Adopted children's top-down self-regulation was assessed when they were 54 and 72 months of age. Results, accounting for child gender, biological mother top-down self-regulation, and the potential evocative effects of adopted child anger, provide evidence that inherited influences and socialization processes uniquely contribute to children's top-down self-regulation. Furthermore, findings demonstrate the importance of both mother's and father's parenting behavior as an influence on young children's top-down self-regulation. The implications of these findings for understanding the complex mechanisms that influence children's top-down self-regulation are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Contributions of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting to children's self‐regulation: Evidence from an adoption study

Bridgett

Ganiban

Neiderhiser

et al. 2018

Developmental Science

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“…Parenting, including maltreatment, also has demonstrated relations with children’s emotional SR (e.g., Cole, Dennis, Smith-Simon, & Cohen, 2009; Lilly, London, & Bridgett, 2014; Roth & Assor, 2012), including vagal withdrawal and RSA (e.g., Perry, Mackler, Calkins, & Keane, 2014; Skowron et al, 2011). Evidence also is accumulating that shows relations linking caregiving with the structural/functional development of neural areas essential for children’s top-down and bottom-up SR (See Belsky & de Haan, 2011 for a review).…”

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confidence: 99%

Intergenerational transmission of self-regulation: A multidisciplinary review and integrative conceptual framework.

Bridgett¹,

Burt²,

Edwards³

et al. 2015

Psychological Bulletin

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This review examines mechanisms contributing to the intergenerational transmission of self-regulation. To provide an integrated account of how self-regulation is transmitted across generations, we draw from over 75 years of accumulated evidence, spanning case studies to experimental approaches, in literatures covering developmental, social, and clinical psychology, and criminology, physiology, genetics, and human and animal neuroscience (among others). First, we present a taxonomy of what self-regulation is and then examine how it develops – overviews that guide the main foci of the review. Next, studies supporting an association between parent and child self-regulation are reviewed. Subsequently, literature that considers potential social mechanisms of transmission, specifically parenting behavior, inter-parental (i.e., marital) relationship behaviors, and broader rearing influences (e.g., household chaos) are considered. Finally, literature providing evidence that prenatal programming may be the starting point of the intergenerational transmission of self-regulation is covered, along with key findings from the behavioral and molecular genetics literatures. To integrate these literatures, we introduce the Self-Regulation Intergenerational Transmission Model, a framework that brings together prenatal, social, and neurobiological mechanisms (spanning endocrine, neural, and genetic levels, including gene-environment interplay and epigenetic processes) to explain the intergenerational transmission of self-regulation. This model also incorporates potential transactional processes between generations (e.g., children’s self-regulation and parent-child interaction dynamics that may affect parents’ self-regulation) that further influence intergenerational processes. In pointing the way forward, we note key future directions and ways to address limitations in existing work throughout the review and in closing. We also conclude by noting several implications for intervention work.

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“…For example, researchers have found affective and autonomic synchrony to be present in parent–infant interactions (for a review, see Feldman, 2012), and bidirectional longitudinal relations between children’s physiological regulation and maternal sensitivity across early childhood (Perry, Mackler, Calkins, & Keane, 2014). Hastings and colleagues (2008) also reported that mothers who used more negative control had children with lower levels of RSA.…”

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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, effortful control, and parenting as predictors of children’s sympathy across early childhood.

Taylor¹,

Eisenberg

Spinrad

2015

Developmental Psychology

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The goal of this study was to examine physiological and environmental predictors of children’s sympathy (an emotional response consisting of feelings of concern or sorrow for others who are distressed or in need) and whether temperamental effortful control mediated these relations. Specifically, in a study of 192 children (23% Hispanic; 54% male), respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), a measure thought to reflect physiological regulation, and observed authoritative parenting (both at 42 months) were examined as predictors of children’s effortful control (at 54 months) and, in turn, children’s sympathy (at 72 and 84 months). Measures of both baseline RSA and RSA suppression were examined. In a structural equation model, observed parenting was positively related to children’s subsequent sympathy through its positive relation to effortful control. Furthermore, the indirect path from baseline RSA to higher sympathy through effortful control was marginally significant. Authoritative parenting and baseline RSA uniquely predicted individual differences in children’s effortful control. Findings highlight the potential role of both authoritative parenting and physiological regulation in the development of children’s sympathy.

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A transactional analysis of the relation between maternal sensitivity and child vagal regulation.

Cited by 58 publications

References 79 publications

Contributions of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting to children's self‐regulation: Evidence from an adoption study

Contributions of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting to children's self‐regulation: Evidence from an adoption study

Intergenerational transmission of self-regulation: A multidisciplinary review and integrative conceptual framework.

Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, effortful control, and parenting as predictors of children’s sympathy across early childhood.

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