Citation

Towe-Goodman NR, Stifter CA, Mills-Koonce WR, Granger DA. Dev. Psychobiol. 2012; 54(7): 685-699.

Affiliation

Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. nissa_tg@unc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/dev.20618

PMID

22127795

PMCID

PMC3291808

Abstract

Drawing on emotional security theory, this study examined linkages between interparental aggression, infant self-regulatory behaviors, and patterns of physiological and behavioral stress responses in a diverse sample of 735 infants residing in predominately low-income, non-metropolitan communities. Latent profile analysis revealed four classes of adrenocortical and behavioral stress-response patterns at 7 months of age, using assessments of behavioral and cortisol reactivity to an emotion eliciting challenge, as well as global ratings of the child's negative affect and basal cortisol levels. The addition of covariates within the latent profile model suggested that children with more violence in the home and children who used less caregiver-oriented regulation strategies were more likely to exhibit a pattern of high cortisol reactivity with moderate signs of distress rather than the average stress response, suggesting possible patterns of adaptation in violent households. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol.

Language: en