Prenatal paternal stress predicts infant parasympathetic functioning above and beyond maternal prenatal stress
| Autor: | Mengyu Gao, Elisabeth Conradt, Sheila E. Crowell, Mindy A. Brown, Dylan Neff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Mothers Fathers 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Stress (linguistics) Humans Medicine Vagal tone Child General Psychology 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Obstetrics Postpartum Period Infant Obstetrics and Gynecology medicine.disease Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia 030227 psychiatry Reproductive Medicine Prenatal stress Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Infant development Female business Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. 40:563-576 |
| ISSN: | 1469-672X 0264-6838 |
| Popis: | Paternal stress is often assessed by maternal report and is posited to influence infant development indirectly by contributing to a mother's stress and experiences during pregnancy. Far less is known about how direct effects of prenatal paternal stress, as described by fathers themselves, are related to an infant's physiological functioning. We assessed fathers' own experiences of stress and examined its direct impact on infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), a biological index of self-regulation, at seven-month postpartum.During the third trimester of pregnancy, the UCLA Life Stress Interview was conducted to assess chronic stress in mothers and fathers (Infants of fathers with high prenatal stress showed lower baseline RSA, possibly reflective of poor infant psychophysiological regulation. The predictive role of paternal stress remained significant after controlling for maternal stress.Our findings provide emerging empirical evidence to support the influence of prenatal paternal stress on infant RSA, highlighting the important role of fathers for child development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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