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Depression impacts the physiological responsiveness of mother-daughter dyads during social interaction: Amole et al.

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Amole, Marlissa C., Cyranowski, Jill M., Wright, Aidan G. C., Swartz, Holly A.·2017·Depression and Anxiety

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BACKGROUND: Maternal depression is associated with increased risk of psychiatric illness in offspring. While risk may relate to depressed mothers' difficulties regulating emotions in the context of interacting with offspring, physiological indicators of emotion regulation have rarely been examined during mother-child interactions-and never among mother-adolescent dyads in which both mother and adolescent have histories of major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS: We examined changes in high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), an indicator of parasympathetic (vagal) function that has been related to depression, stress, social engagement, and emotion regulation, in 46 mother-daughter dyads (23 in which both mother and daughter had an MDD history and 23 never-depressed controls). Hierarchical linear models evaluated changes in HF-HRV while mother-daughter dyads engaged in discussions about shared pleasant events and relationship conflicts. RESULTS: While control dyads displayed positive slopes (increases) in HF-HRV during both discussions, MDD dyads displayed minimal change in HF-HRV across discussions. Among controls, HF-HRV slopes were positively correlated between mothers and daughters during the pleasant events' discussion. In contrast, HF-HRV slopes were negatively correlated between MDD mothers and daughters during both discussions. CONCLUSIONS: Vagal responses observed in control mother-daughter dyads suggest a pattern of physiological synchrony and reciprocal positive social engagement, which may play a role in adolescent development of secure social attachments and healthy emotion regulation. In contrast, MDD mothers and daughters displayed diminished and discordant patterns of vagal responsiveness. More research is needed to understand the development and consequences of these patterns of parasympathetic responses among depressed mother-daughter dyads.

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  • In mother-daughter pairs, dyads' physiologic responses during a positive interaction were negatively correlated for dyads in which both mother and daughter had histories of depression and positively correlated for dyads without histories of depression.

    “Another study of motherdaughter pairs showed that dyads' physiologic responses during a positive interaction were negatively correlated for dyads in which both mother and daughter had histories of depression and positively correlated for dyads without histories of depression (Amole et al., 2017).”

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Authors
Amole, M. C., Cyranowski, J. M., Wright, A. G. C., & Swartz, H. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • Chatham University (US)
Corresponding author
Cyranowski, Jill M.
Venue
Depression and Anxiety
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2017-01-06
Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
118-126
ISSN
1091-4269 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2570112200
Cited by
50
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4
FWCI
2.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Depression and Anxiety (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH 083647, L30 MH101760)
  • University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Keywords
maternal depression, major depressive disorder, mother-daughter dyads, high-frequency heart rate variability, parasympathetic function, emotion regulation, physiological synchrony, social engagement, relationship conflict, adolescent development, intergenerational transmission of depression
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Middle Aged, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Nuclear Family, Social Behavior, Adolescent Development

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