Behavioral and neural correlates of parenting self-evaluation in mothers of young children

Noll, Laura K.; Giuliani, Nicole R.; Beauchamp, Kathryn G.; Fisher, Philip A.

doi:10.1093/scan/nsy031

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“…A total of 37 mothers came in for the initial MRI scan, after which they were assigned to either intervention (FIND program; EXP) or control (waitlist; CTL) groups. These 37 mothers are the sample explored in Noll et al (2018). As such, some of the methods described below overlap with those methods, and are noted as such.…”

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“…Mother’s self-reported experience of parenting stress, self-efficacy, and adversity were measured consistent with the procedures described by Noll et al (2018). Specifically, parenting stress was measured using the Parenting Stress Index, Third Edition Short Form (PSI-3-SF; Abidin, 1990), which contains subscales assessing parental distress, parent-child dysfunctional interaction, and difficult child (DC).…”

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“…Mothers’ self-identification with positive and negative parenting qualities was assessed using the parenting self-evaluation task (PSET; Noll et al, 2018). As described by Noll et al (2018), in the PSET, participants are presented with positively- and negatively-valenced terms that index child-supportive (“DS”) or developmentally unsupportive (“DU”) caregiving behavior, respectively. Blocks vary by instruction, asking participants to evaluate whether these words described them as a parent (Self) or, conversely, whether they believe these qualities can change for parents in general (Change).…”

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“…As described in Noll et al (2018), data in the current study were acquired using a 3.0 Tesla Siemens Skyra scanner at the LCNI. Blood oxygen-level dependent echo planar images (BOLD-EPI) were acquired with a T2*-weighted gradient echo sequence (TR = 2,000 ms, TE = 25 ms, flip angle = 90, matrix size = 104 × 104, 72 contiguous axial slices with interleaved acquisition, field of view = 200 mm, slice thickness = 2 mm; total time = 5 min 50 s per run × 2 runs for PSET; total time = 6 min 6 s per run × 2 runs for SST).…”

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“…Taken together, this large and growing literature suggests that there may be two categories of self-evaluations that caregivers make about their own parenting behavior: developmentally supportive and developmentally unsupportive. Supportive traits promote serve and return interactions, such as “attentive,” “encouraging,” and “responsive.” In contrast, unsupportive traits act in opposition of these interactions, such as “distracted,” “exhausted,” and “overwhelmed” (Noll et al, 2018). As such, it may be that, by showing caregivers brief video clips of themselves naturally engaging in child-supportive interactions with their children, FIND increases their positive parenting self-evaluations and decreases their negative ones.…”

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A Preliminary Study Investigating Maternal Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying a Child-Supportive Parenting Intervention

Giuliani

Beauchamp

Noll

et al. 2019

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Although interventions that promote child-supportive parenting for children have been shown to positively impact caregiving behaviors as well as child behavioral and neurobiological functioning, less is known about which aspects of maternal brain functioning are affected by such interventions. In the present study, we conducted a preliminary evaluation of the impact of the Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) video coaching program on mothers with at least one child age four or younger. We employed a waitlist control design with pre-post data. Compared to mothers in the control condition ( n = 16), mothers who received FIND ( n = 16) showed changes in neural measures of inhibitory control and behavioral measures of parenting self-evaluation during a series of functional neuroimaging tasks. Specifically, we found a group by time interaction in clusters in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and insula for the Correct Stop > Correct Go contrast of the stop signal task (SST), where FIND increased brain activity associated with inhibitory control compared to mothers in the control condition; and FIND increased mothers’ endorsement of child-supportive parenting traits in the parenting self-evaluation task (PSET). Exploratory moderators, study limitations, and the implications of these findings for strength-based parenting programs are discussed.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Preliminary Study Investigating Maternal Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying a Child-Supportive Parenting Intervention

Giuliani

Beauchamp

Noll

et al. 2019

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Neural responses for evaluating self and mother traits in adolescence depend on mother–adolescent relationships

Cruijsen

Buisman

Green

et al. 2019

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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An important task in adolescence is to achieve autonomy while preserving a positive relationship with parents. Previous fMRI studies showed largely overlapping activation in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) for evaluating self and close-other traits but separable activation for self and non-close other. Possibly, more similar mPFC activation reflects closeness or warmth in relationships. We investigated neural indicators of the mother–adolescent relationship in adolescents between 11 and 21 years (N = 143). Mother–adolescent relationship was measured using (i) mothers’ and adolescents’ trait evaluations about each other, (ii) observations of warmth, negativity and emotional support in mother–adolescent conversation and (iii) similarity in adolescents’ neural activation for evaluating self vs mother traits. Results showed relatively more similar mPFC activation in adolescents who evaluated their mothers’ traits more positively, suggesting that this is possibly a neural indicator of mother–adolescent relationship quality. Furthermore, mid-adolescence was characterized by more negative mother–adolescent interaction compared to early and late adolescence. This effect co-occurred with mid-adolescent peaks in dorsal striatum, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and superior temporal sulcus activation in evaluating traits of self vs mother. These results suggest more negative relationships and stronger self-focus in mid-adolescence.

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Factors Related to Psychological Distress in Multiparous Women in the First Trimester: A Cross-Sectional Study

Wang

Chen

et al. 2022

Journal of Nursing Research

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Background: The birth rate in Taiwan has declined rapidly; thus, encouraging women to give birth is an important issue in the country. Pregnant women may experience psychological distress, which may negatively impact the health of children and mothers. Prenatal psychological distress is more common in multiparous women than in primiparous women. In addition, compared with that in the second and third trimesters, psychological distress in the first trimester is relatively high. Understanding psychological distress and the associated factors for multiparous women in the first trimester is important to providing early interventions and preventing subsequent maternal and child health problems.Purpose: This study was designed to examine the important predictive factors related to depression, anxiety, and stress among Taiwanese multiparous women in the first trimester.Methods: A cross-sectional design was used. In all, 216 multiparous women at 16 weeks of pregnancy were recruited from three hospitals in Taiwan. Self-reported questionnaires were used to gather data on demographic characteristics, the parenting stress of motherhood, spousal support, and psychological distress. A multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine the factors associated with psychological distress. Results:The prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress in multiparous women was found to be 31.9%, 42.6%, and 11.1%, respectively. The multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that the stress related to parent-child interaction was a significant predictor of depression and anxiety, the stress related to child-rearing was a significant predictor of anxiety, and low spousal instrumental support was a significant predictor of stress. The model respectively explained 30%, 27%, and 23% of the variance in depression, anxiety, and stress.Conclusions/Implications for Practice: Reducing the stress related to parent-child interaction and child-rearing and encouraging spousal instrumental support should be considered during prenatal care when designing interventions to reduce the psychological distress of multiparous women in their first trimester.

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Behavioral and neural correlates of parenting self-evaluation in mothers of young children

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

A Preliminary Study Investigating Maternal Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying a Child-Supportive Parenting Intervention

A Preliminary Study Investigating Maternal Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying a Child-Supportive Parenting Intervention

Neural responses for evaluating self and mother traits in adolescence depend on mother–adolescent relationships

Factors Related to Psychological Distress in Multiparous Women in the First Trimester: A Cross-Sectional Study

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