期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
卷 116, 期 -, 页码 45-52出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.02.010
关键词
Maternal responsivity; Social economic status; Autonomic nervous system; Adversity; Rest
资金
- National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) ARRA [445211-33252-01, HD058091]
- National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) [ES009605]
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) [R826709011, RD83171001]
Adversity, such as living in poor socioeconomic conditions during early childhood, can become embedded in children's physiology and deleteriously affect their health later in life. On the other hand, maternal responsivity may have adaptive effects on physiology during early childhood development. The current study tested both the additive and interactive effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal responsivity measured at 1 year of age on resting autonomic nervous system (ANS) function and trajectory during the first 5 years of life. Participants came from a birth cohort comprised of Mexican-origin families living in California. Children's resting ANS functioning (respiratory sinus arrhythmia; RSA; pre-ejection period; PEP; and heart rate; HR) was collected at 1, 3.5, and 5 years of age (N = 336) and modeled across time using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Consistent with hypotheses, results showed that low SES predicted flatter trajectories of resting HR and PEP over early childhood (i.e., patterns of consistently higher heart rate; shorter PEP), whereas children who experienced positive maternal responsivity had steeper trajectories in RSA and PEP over time (i.e., increasing parasympathetic activation; decreasing sympathetic activation). The interaction between SES and maternal responsivity significantly predicted RSA intercept at age 5, such that among children living in low SES environments, high maternal responsivity mitigated the negative effect of poverty and predicted higher resting RSA at 5 years of age. Results are consistent with the early life programming theory that suggests that environmental influences become biologically embedded in the physiology of children living in socially disadvantaged contexts, and identify increased maternal responsivity as a developmental mechanism that could offset the deleterious effects of low SES. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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