Dyadic concordance in mother and preschooler resting cardiovascular function varies by risk status
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This study examined concordance in heart rate (HR) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in a sample of 104 child‐maltreating (CM) and nonCM mother–preschooler dyads (208 individuals). In a laboratory setting, mother and child cardiac physiology was simultaneously monitored via ECG in a 5‐min resting period. Mothers ranged in age from 20 to 49 years; children ranged in age from 3 to 5 years. Significant within‐dyad (WD) and between‐dyad (BD) associations were observed for mother HR and both child HR and RSA, and the associations were moderated by CM status. Only CM dyads exhibited BD associations: Higher average maternal HR was associated with higher child HR and lower child RSA. By contrast, when the time interval was divided into 30 s epochs, nonCM dyads exhibited positive WD (dynamic) associations in mother and child HR, and both CM and nonCM dyads showed negative WD associations in mother HR and child RSA. Further, mothers' mean HR levels moderated the extent of epoch‐by‐epoch WD concordance observed in mother and child, such that elevated average maternal HR was associated with lower levels of WD (dynamic) concordance. No BD or WD concordance in maternal and child RSA was observed. The findings suggest that measures of intraindividual variation provide useful, alternate perspectives in the study of dyadic processes in at‐risk families. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 56: 142–152, 2014.
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Previous research has established that social interaction leads to interpersonal alignment of heart rate, pupil diameter, breathing rate, and skin conductance.
“Previous research has already established that social interaction leads to the interpersonal alignment of the physiological measures tested here—namely, heart rate [4, 44, 51, 86, 87, 88], pupil diameter [16, 17, 89], breathing rate [11, 90, 91], and skin conductance [8, 92, 93, 94].”
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The Results (page not provided) report positive concurrent heart-rate associations between mothers and preschoolers during a five-minute resting condition. This supports the heart-rate alignment portion, which is the part of the sentence this citation is attached to. The Methods describe the pair resting quietly while watching a video, so the study does not establish that social interaction caused the alignment; it does not address the other measures cited to different sources. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredPrevious studies have reported IPS in both familiar and unfamiliar pairs of participants.
“While previous studies have reported IPS in both familiar [4, 24, 43, 44] and unfamiliar [45, 46, 47] pairs of participants”
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- Authors
- Creaven, A., Skowron, E. A., Hughes, B. M., Howard, S., & Loken, E.
- Affiliations
- National University of Ireland (IE)
- University of Oregon (US)
- University of Limerick (IE)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Creaven, Ann‐Marie
- Venue
- Developmental Psychobiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-09-11
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 142-152
- ISSN
- 0012-1630 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-2302
- PMC
- PMC3963270
- OpenAlex
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- 2.49
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- Research Repository UCD (University College Dublin) (cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- National University of Ireland
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH079328, MH079328)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- mother-child dyads, child abuse, heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, within-person variability, preschool children, maternal heart rate, high-risk families
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child Abuse, Child, Preschool, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mother-Child Relations, Parenting, Respiratory Rate
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