Parenting behaviors of mothers with posttraumatic stress: The roles of cortisol reactivity and negative emotion.

ABSTRACT: Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with negative family outcomes, including parenting challenges, little is known about the biological and emotional processes that might underlie this association. The present project addressed this gap by examining associations between maternal PTSD and parenting behaviors in a lab setting. We expected that PTSD would be associated with more ineffective parenting behaviors and that negative emotion and cortisol reactivity would mediate this relation. A total of 78 mothers and their toddler-aged children completed a task designed to elicit parental responses to typical instances of child misbehavior. Salivary cortisol was collected from mothers prior and subsequent to the lab paradigm and mothers provided ratings of their experience

SUBMITTER: Franz MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578576 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature