Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Reactivity Moderate Maternal Contributions to Emotional Adjustment in Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Abaied, Jamie L.; Stanger, Sarah B.; Wagner, Caitlin; Sanders, Wesley; Dyer, W. Justin; Padilla-Walker, Laura
Titel	Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Reactivity Moderate Maternal Contributions to Emotional Adjustment in Adolescence
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 9, S.1661-1673 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000507
Schlagwörter	Physiology; Psychophysiology; Mothers; Emotional Adjustment; Adolescents; Depression (Psychology); Parent Influence; Emotional Development; Inhibition; Measures (Individuals); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Physiologie; Psychophysiologie; Mother; Mutter; Emotionale Anpassung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Gefühlsbildung; Hemmung; Messdaten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	A burgeoning literature supports the role of autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning as an index of physiologic sensitivity to the environment, but extant research is limited in its focus on single branches of the ANS, childhood samples, and solely negative environmental factors. This study seeks to address these limitations by exploring whether reactivity in the parasympathetic (PNS) and sympathetic (SNS) nervous systems jointly moderate the prospective contributions of both positive (maternal involvement) and negative (maternal psychological control) aspects of the family environment to developmentally relevant outcomes in adolescence (depressive symptoms and emotion regulation). At Wave 1, adolescents (n = 352, 52% female, M age = 15.27, SD = 1.04; 65% White) and their parents completed a problem-solving discussion task, during which adolescent ANS activation was continuously monitored, and reports of maternal involvement, maternal psychological control, adolescent depressive symptoms, and adolescent emotion regulation were obtained. Adolescent depressive symptoms and emotion regulation were assessed again 1 year later (Wave 2). Results indicated that PNS and SNS reactivity jointly moderated the prospective contributions of maternal involvement and maternal psychological control to depressive symptoms and emotion regulation. Specifically, adolescents who exhibited reciprocal SNS activation appeared to be most sensitive to both positive and negative parenting environments. Adolescents exhibiting coinhibition or coactivation profiles of autonomic reactivity were comparatively unreactive to parenting. This study corroborates the notion that consideration of multiple physiological systems is critical to our understanding of biological processes in the development of emotional functioning in adolescence. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01