Probing the association between maternal anxious attachment style and mother-child brain-to-brain coupling during passive co-viewing of visual stimuli

Azhari, Atiqah; Gabrieli, Giulio; Bizzego, Andrea; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca

doi:10.1080/14616734.2020.1840790

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“…For this reason, maternal depression, which can undermine maternal sensitivity, is associated with less optimal child stress response and developmental outcomes (Feldman et al, 2009 ; Barker et al, 2011 ; Laurent et al, 2011 ; Apter-Levi et al, 2016 ; Granat et al, 2017 ; Pratt et al, 2019 ). A related study by Azhari et al ( 2020b ) found that maternal anxious attachment is slightly, albeit non-significantly, correlated with decreased brain-to-brain synchrony between mothers and their infants using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Similarly, only infants with disorganized attachment show higher cortisol levels in stressful situations compared with playful situations (Bernard and Dozier, 2010 ).…”

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Interpersonal Synchrony in the Context of Caregiver-Child Interactions: A Document Co-citation Analysis

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Social interactions accompany individuals throughout their whole lives. When examining the underlying mechanisms of social processes, dynamics of synchrony, coordination or attunement emerge between individuals at multiple levels. To identify the impactful publications that studied such mechanisms and establishing the trends that dynamically originated the available literature, the current study adopted a scientometric approach. A sample of 543 documents dated from 1971 to 2021 was derived from Scopus. Subsequently, a document co-citation analysis was conducted on 29,183 cited references to examine the patterns of co-citation among the documents. The resulting network consisted of 1,759 documents connected to each other by 5,011 links. Within the network, five major clusters were identified. The analysis of the content of the three major clusters—namely, “Behavioral synchrony,” “Towards bio-behavioral synchrony,” and “Neural attunement”—suggests an interest in studying attunement in social interactions at multiple levels of analysis, from behavioral to neural, by passing through the level of physiological coordination. Furthermore, although initial studies on synchrony focused mostly on parent-child interactions, new hyperscanning paradigms are allowing researchers to explore the role of biobehavioral synchrony in all social processes in a real-time and ecological fashion. Future potential pathways of research were also discussed.

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“…The data from this study is part of a larger parent-child fNIRS dataset which comprises two chapters: (1) co-viewing task and (2) play activity. For the co-viewing chapter where dyads watched animation shows together, studies investigating the link between psychological variables (e.g., parenting stress, attachment, gender differences) and parent-child brain activity have been published [53][54][55][56]. For the play chapter, a behavioural study has been published on the association between parenting stress, past bonding experiences and parentchild emotional availability [23], while a technical paper has been published to determine optimal methodical strategies and parameters when computing inter-brain synchrony in interactional paradigms [48].…”

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“…To compute synchrony between the signals of each channel for each parentchild dyad, a cross-correlations approach with a maximum 2-second lag was used on the physynch Python package [54,67,68]. Based on the findings of [69], which compared the reliability of computational approaches, cross-correlations was demonstrated to be the most reliable metric amongst other commonly used synchrony metrics such as Wavelet Transform Coherence [70]).…”

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Parent-Child Dyads with Greater Parenting Stress Exhibit Enhanced Inter-Brain Synchrony During Shared Play

Azhari

Bizzego

Esposito

2022

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Parent-child dyads who are mutually attuned to each other during social interactions display interpersonal synchrony that can be observed overtly, in the form of joint behaviours, and biologically, such as through the temporal coordination of brain signals called inter-brain synchrony. Joint play provides ample opportunities for parent-child dyads to engage in matching interactions which not just facilitate the formation of bonds but also alleviate parenting stress in caregivers. Despite the beneficial effects of play on parents and the parent-child relationship, no study has investigated the dyadic neural mechanism by which this occurs. The present functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study aimed to examine the association between parenting stress and inter-brain synchrony in the prefrontal cortex of 31 mother-child and 29 father-child dyads while they engaged in shared play for 10 minutes. Shared play was miro-analytically coded into joint (i.e., in-phase matching of dyadic behaviours) and non-joint (i.e., no matching of dyadic behaviours) segments. Inter-brain synchrony was computed using cross-correlations over 15 s, 20 s, 25 s, 30 s and 35 s fixed-length windows of joint and non-joint play segments. Analyses of Covariance revealed that dyads with more parenting stress exhibited greater inter-brain synchrony in the frontal left cluster of the prefrontal cortex, but only for the 35 s fixed-length window. This finding suggests that continuous and positive instances of joint play may disproportionately benefit dyads who reported greater parenting stress, entraining underlying brain activation patterns involved in social cognition. Mother-child dyads also showed greater inter-brain synchrony than father-child dyads, alluding to possible gender differences in the effect of play on dyads. Findings present evidence of a potential dyadic neural pathway by which play benefits the parent-child relationship.

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“…Thus far, the relationships between ASD, child sleep, and caregiver sleep have not yet been extensively explored. Although tangential, several studies have examined caregiverchild synchrony or attunement, which involves analyzing the patterns of commonality in behavioural and physiological signals between caregiver and child (39)(40)(41). In their papers, the authors reported that synchronicity between caregiver and child have significant relationships to caregivers' attachment anxiety (40), as well as parenting stress (41), where reduced reduced synchrony between mother and child was correlated with increased parenting stress.…”

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Habilitation of sleep problems among mothers and their children with autism spectrum disorder: Insights from multi-level exploratory dyadic analyses

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Gabrieli

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Few habilitation strategies for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) consider their sleep-related problems. Together with the fact that caregivers of children with ASD also face issues with sleep, there may be yet-to-be uncovered relationships between caregiver-child sleep patterns and sleep quality, offering a key opportunity for clinicians to consider the needs of both child and caregiver in terms of sleep. 29 dyads of mothers and their children with ASD were recruited for this cohort study and both subjective (self-report questionnaires and sleep diaries) and objective (cortisol samples and actigraphy) measures of sleep were collected to investigate significant predictors of sleep quality. Comparative, correlational, and hierarchical analyses were conducted. Findings indicated that both mother and child experience sleep deprivation in terms of shorter sleep duration and poor sleep quality in terms of longer sleep onset latencies and a higher frequency of wake bouts. Exploratory hierarchical analyses also found that child-related sleep difficulties such as sleep disordered breathing and night waking significantly predict mothers’ sleep quality, which may point to the bi-directional influence of mother-child sleep. Based on these findings, it is recommended that clinicians adopt a family systems perspective and consider the sleep environment of the household, particularly that of the caregiver and child, when designing interventions for sleep-related problems in ASD. Finally, there is a need for additional support to promote good quality sleep among caregivers of children with ASD to bolster out-of-clinic care.

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Probing the association between maternal anxious attachment style and mother-child brain-to-brain coupling during passive co-viewing of visual stimuli

Cited by 19 publications

References 44 publications

Interpersonal Synchrony in the Context of Caregiver-Child Interactions: A Document Co-citation Analysis

Interpersonal Synchrony in the Context of Caregiver-Child Interactions: A Document Co-citation Analysis

Parent-Child Dyads with Greater Parenting Stress Exhibit Enhanced Inter-Brain Synchrony During Shared Play

Habilitation of sleep problems among mothers and their children with autism spectrum disorder: Insights from multi-level exploratory dyadic analyses

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