A prenatal programming perspective on the intergenerational transmission of maternal adverse childhood experiences to offspring health problems.

DS Roubinov, LJ Luecken, SG Curci… - American …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Decades of research indicate that individuals exposed to childhood adversity are at risk for
poor physical and mental health across their life span. More recently, intergenerational …

Family social support buffers the intergenerational association of maternal adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers' externalizing behavior.

V Hatch, H Swerbenski, SAO Gray - American journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite previous work demonstrating that an accumulation of maternal adverse childhood
experiences (ACEs) is associated with negative health outcomes across generations, few …

Vagal flexibility moderates the links between observed sensitive caregiving in infancy and externalizing behavior problems in middle childhood

N Shakiba, SF Lynch, CB Propper… - Research on Child and …, 2023 - Springer
This study explored how patterns of physiological stress reactivity underpin individual
differences in sensitivity to early rearing experiences and childhood risk for …

Early experiences of insensitive caregiving and children's self-regulation: Vagal tone as a differential susceptibility factor

MA Skibo, ML Sturge-Apple, JH Suor - Development and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
A considerable body of research has linked parenting to the development of children's self-
regulation. However, few studies have considered different domains of self-regulation, the …

Chinese college students' parental attachment, peer attachment, and prosocial behaviors: The moderating role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Y Zhang, X Yang, D Liu, Z Wang - Biological Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to examine whether the links between Chinese college students'
parental attachment, peer attachment, and prosocial behaviors were moderated by a …

Interactive effects of childhood maltreatment and tonic respiratory sinus arrhythmia on young adults' depressive symptoms

H Zhang, Y Luo, T Davis, L Zhang - Psychophysiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of the current study was to investigate the moderating effect of tonic respiratory
sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in the relation between childhood maltreatment and depression …

Quantifying the dynamic nature of vagal responsivity in infancy: Methodological innovations and theoretical implications

JA Somers, SG Curci… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
According to polyvagal theory, rapid modulation of the vagal brake develops early in infancy
and supports social interactions. Despite being viewed as a dynamic system, researchers …

Infant vagal tone and maternal depressive symptoms: A bottom-up perspective

JA Somers, SG Curci, LJ Luecken - Journal of Clinical Child & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Children vary in their susceptibility to environmental exposures such as maternal
depression, but little is known about how children shape those same environments. When …

Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners' social hierarchies for emerging school engagement

E Armstrong‐Carter, NR Bush… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This longitudinal study investigated how kindergartners' position in the classroom social
hierarchy and cortisol response relate to their change in school engagement across the first …

Infant biological sensitivity to father engagement in low‐income Mexican American families

LJ Luecken, J Somers… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a sizeable literature documenting meaningful contributions of father involvement to
child health and development, researchers have paid little attention to biological …