@article{ref1,
title="An event-based analysis of maternal physiological reactivity following aversive child behaviors",
journal="Psychophysiology",
year="2022",
author="Gatzke-Kopp, Lisa and Zhang, Xutong and Creavey, Kristine L. and Skowron, Elizabeth A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Research investigating the association between parents' physiological reactivity and their ability to self-regulate in parenting contexts typically examines the average physiological response across the duration of a dyadic task, conflating reactivity across a multitude of parent and child behaviors. The present study utilized a moving-window analytical technique to generate a continuous, second × second time series of mothers' high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) to conduct an event-based analysis of maternal reactivity in the 10 s following an aversive child event. Analyses examined whether maternal reactivity related to parenting behaviors similarly among maltreating (n = 48) and non-maltreating (n = 29) mother-preschooler dyads. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that maternal behavior was not associated with average HF-HRV reactivity, but mothers who demonstrated an increase in HF-HRV immediately following a negative child event were more likely to engage in behaviors to return the dyad to a positive state. <br><br>FINDINGS were specific to incidents of negative child behavior, and results were not moderated by maltreatment status. These results highlight the value of using an event-based design to isolate reactivity in response to targeted events to understand how physiological reactivity supports parenting.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0048-5772",
doi="10.1111/psyp.14093",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14093"
}