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- Title
Associations Between First-Time Expectant Women's Representations of Attachment and Their Physiological Reactivity to Infant Cry.
- Authors
Ablow, Jennifer C.; Marks, Amy K.; Shirley Feldman, S.; Huffman, Lynne C.
- Abstract
Associations among 53 primiparous women's Adult Attachment Interview classifications (secure-autonomous vs. insecure-dismissing) and physiological and self-reported responses to infant crying were explored. Heart rate, skin conductance levels, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia ( RSA) were recorded continuously. In response to the cry, secure-autonomous women demonstrated RSA declines, consistent with approach-oriented responses. Insecure-dismissing women displayed RSA and electrodermal increases, consistent with behavioral inhibition. Furthermore, insecure-dismissing women rated the cries as more aversive than secure-autonomous women. Nine months postpartum, secure-autonomous women, who prenatally manifested an approach-oriented response to the unfamiliar cry stimulus, were observed as more sensitive when responding to their own distressed infant, whereas women classified prenatally as insecure-dismissing were observed as less sensitive with their own infants.
- Subjects
CRYING in infants; MOTHER-infant relationship; SELF-report inventories; SINUS arrhythmia; GALVANIC skin response; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Child Development, 2013, Vol 84, Issue 4, p1373
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12135