Pregnant women's autonomic responses to an infant cry predict young infants' behavioral avoidance during the still-face paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Research suggests that women's autonomic nervous system responses to infant cries capture processes that affect their parenting behaviors. The aim of this study was to build on prior work by testing whether pregnant women's autonomic responses to an unfamiliar infant crying also predict their infants' emerging regulation abilities. Participants included 97 women in their third trimester of pregnancy, located in the United States. Most participants identified as White/non-Hispanic (48%) or Hispanic (30%), their mean age was approximately 30 years, and the modal family income was $40,000-$79,999. Pregnant women's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and skin conductance levels (SCL)-which are thought to capture emotional engagement and behavioral inhibition, respectively-were measured while th

SUBMITTER: Speck B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10840894 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature