Parent and Child Influences on Adrenocortical Synchrony During Middle Childhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9686005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah R Black (0000-0002-8090-1217, Department of Psychological Sciences Kent State University Kent Ohio USA, corresponding author), Lauren Aaron (0000-0002-1939-0497, Department of Psychological Sciences Kent State University Kent Ohio USA), Rachel M Kaplan (0000-0003-0038-9231, Department of Psychology University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg Mississippi USA), Kaetlyn Conner Gottschalk (Department of Psychological Sciences Kent State University Kent Ohio USA), Hannah Duttweiler (0000-0003-4557-8140, Department of Psychological Sciences Kent State University Kent Ohio USA) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | e70099-e70099 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychobiology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1630 • E-ISSN: 1098-2302 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/dev.70099 |
| PMID | 41172041 |
| OpenAlex | W4415748751 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 97 |
Parent–child synchrony, or coordination of behavioral, affective, and physiological responding during dyadic interactions, is associated with numerous positive child outcomes. Research considering how parental psychopathology influences synchrony, however, has failed to assess cooccurring parenting behaviors and styles that may influence synchrony. The current study assessed how parental history of depressive disorders, parenting styles and behaviors, and child behaviors during a dyadic interaction influence parent–child adrenocortical synchrony (PCAS). Participants included 40 parent–child dyads with children aged between 8 and 13 years ( M age = 10 years), with about half (47%) of parents meeting criteria for lifetime depressive disorders. Parent and child cortisol levels were measured before, during, and after children completed a challenging task with parents observing nearby. Dyads completed questionnaire measures of parenting styles, and video recordings were coded to assess parent and child behaviors during the task. Using multilevel regression analyses, we found that both parent‐ and child‐reported greater parental firmness were associated with negative PCAS. Furthermore, fewer child help‐seeking behaviors during the challenging task were associated with negative PCAS. Parental history of depressive disorders, however, did not influence PCAS. These results suggest that parent and child behaviors may influence the direction and magnitude of PCAS during middle childhood over and above parental psychopathology
Child psychopathology · Child rearing · Depressive symptoms · El Niño · Multilevel model · Parenting styles · Psychopathology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Stress Responses and Cortisol
Depression and cortisol responses to psychological stress
Risk for psychopathology in the children of depressed mothers
Coregulation, Dysregulation, Self-Regulation
Methodological Issues in the Direct Observation of Parent–Child Interaction
Why Synchrony Matters during Mother-Child Interactions
Parent–infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing; physiological precursors, developmental outcomes, and risk conditions
Salivary cortisol in psychoneuroendocrine research
Parent–Infant Synchrony
Detection of Influential Observation in Linear Regression
Maternal depression and parenting behavior
Effects of paternal depression on fathers' parenting behaviors
A self-administered rating scale for pubertal development
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
On the Nature and Consequences of Early Loss
Parental emotion socialization
Bio-behavioral Synchrony
Coregulation between parents and elementary school-aged children in response to challenge and in association with child outcomes
Effects of male postpartum depression on father–infant interaction
Longitudinal association between emotion‐related parenting behavior and child aggression
Interaction of Biological Stress Recovery and Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression in Adolescence
Food Insecurity and Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment
Symptoms and synchrony
Mother–infant affect synchrony as an antecedent of the emergence of self-control
Taking stress response out of the box
Associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing problems of children and adolescents
Reflective functioning, physiological reactivity, and overcontrol in mothers
Perceived parenting style and adolescent adjustment
Reflective functioning in parents of school-aged children
Parenting and coregulation
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| Highly cited | No |