Depression impacts the physiological responsiveness of mother-daughter dyads during social interaction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal depression is associated with increased risk of psychiatric illness in offspring. While risk may relate to depressed mothers' difficulties regulating emotions in the context of interacting with offspring, physiological indicators of emotion regulation have rarely been examined during mother-child interactions-and never among mother-adolescent dyads in which both mother and adolescent have histories of major depressive disorder (MDD).

Methods

We examined changes in high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), an indicator of parasympathetic (vagal) function that has been related to depression, stress, social engagement, and emotion regulation, in 46 mother-daughter dyads (23 in which both mother and daughter had an MDD history and 23 never-depressed con

SUBMITTER: Amole MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5798861 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature