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  1. Article ; Online: Maternal contingent responses to distress facilitate infant soothing but not in mothers with depression or infants high in negative affect.

    de Barbaro, Kaya / Khante, Priyanka / Maier, Meeka / Goodman, Sherryl

    Developmental psychology

    2023  Volume 60, Issue 2, Page(s) 294–305

    Abstract: Depression in mothers is consistently associated with reduced caregiving sensitivity and greater infant negative affect expression. The current article examined the real-time behavioral mechanisms underlying these associations using Granger causality ... ...

    Abstract Depression in mothers is consistently associated with reduced caregiving sensitivity and greater infant negative affect expression. The current article examined the real-time behavioral mechanisms underlying these associations using Granger causality time series analyses in a sample of mothers (
    MeSH term(s) Infant ; Humans ; Female ; Male ; Maternal Behavior/physiology ; Mother-Child Relations ; Depression ; Mothers
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2066223-3
    ISSN 1939-0599 ; 0012-1649
    ISSN (online) 1939-0599
    ISSN 0012-1649
    DOI 10.1037/dev0001607
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  2. Article ; Online: Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers' positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?

    Maier, Meeka S / Goodman, Sherryl H / McElwee, Penny D

    Infant behavior & development

    2022  Volume 70, Page(s) 101798

    Abstract: How mothers respond to infants' distress has implications for infants' development of self-regulation and social competence. In a sample of 35 mothers and their 4- to 8-month-old infants, we induced infant distress using an arm restraint task and ... ...

    Abstract How mothers respond to infants' distress has implications for infants' development of self-regulation and social competence. In a sample of 35 mothers and their 4- to 8-month-old infants, we induced infant distress using an arm restraint task and compared infants' observed affect and physiological responses under two conditions, when mothers were instructed to respond with: 1) positive affect and 2) negative affect. Based on theoretical and empirical support, we empirically evaluated two opposing hypotheses. Based on the Mutual Regulation Model and work on affect matching, we predicted that when mothers respond with negative affect versus positive affect, distressed infants' duration of negative affect would be smaller, negative affect would be less intense, and respiratory sinus arrythmia (RSA) withdrawal would be lower. Based on social referencing theory and research, we expected that when mothers respond with positive affect versus negative affect, distressed infants' duration of negative affect would be smaller, negative affect would be less intense, and RSA withdrawal would be lower. We found that when mothers responded to their distressed infants with negative affect versus positive affect, infants spent significantly more time in negative affect, their intensity of expressed negative affect was greater, and their RSA withdrawal was greater, suggesting that mothers' display of mild positive affect when infants are distressed may be helpful for infants. The current findings add to accumulating evidence that mothers' positive relative to negative affective response to their infants' distress can produce observable differences in infants' duration and intensity of negative affect, as well as their physiology. Findings have the potential to inform future research that investigates how mothers can most effectively reduce their infants' distress and intervention that targets the moment-to-moment behaviors in mother-infant reciprocal interactions.
    MeSH term(s) Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Mothers/psychology ; Emotions ; Mother-Child Relations/psychology ; Infant Behavior/psychology ; Affect
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 224510-3
    ISSN 1934-8800 ; 1879-0453 ; 0163-6383
    ISSN (online) 1934-8800 ; 1879-0453
    ISSN 0163-6383
    DOI 10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101798
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  3. Article: Patterns of Positivity: Positive Affect Trajectories Among Infants of Mothers with a History of Depression.

    Davis, Molly / Goodman, Sherryl H / Lavner, Justin A / Maier, Meeka / Stowe, Zachary N / Newport, D Jeffrey / Knight, Bettina

    Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies

    2019  Volume 24, Issue 6, Page(s) 911–932

    Abstract: This study examined positive affect (PA) trajectories over the first year of life among infants of mothers with a history of depression ( ...

    Abstract This study examined positive affect (PA) trajectories over the first year of life among infants of mothers with a history of depression (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-10-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2020049-3
    ISSN 1532-7078 ; 1525-0008
    ISSN (online) 1532-7078
    ISSN 1525-0008
    DOI 10.1111/infa.12314
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