Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study
Synchrony refers to the coordinated interplay of behavioural and physiological signals that reflect the bi-directional attunement of one partner to the other’s psychophysiological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral state. In mother-child relationships, a synchronous pattern of interaction indicat...
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| author | Leck, W. Q. Azhari, Atiqah Gabrieli, Giulio Bizzego, Andrea Rigo, Paola Setoh, Peipei Bornstein, Marc H. Esposito, Gianluca |
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| author_facet | School of Social Sciences Leck, W. Q. Azhari, Atiqah Gabrieli, Giulio Bizzego, Andrea Rigo, Paola Setoh, Peipei Bornstein, Marc H. Esposito, Gianluca |
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| description | Synchrony refers to the coordinated interplay of behavioural and physiological signals that reflect the bi-directional attunement of one partner to the other’s psychophysiological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral state. In mother-child relationships, a synchronous pattern of interaction indicates parental sensitivity. Parenting stress has been shown to undermine mother-child behavioural synchrony. However, it has yet to be discerned whether parenting stress affects brain-to-brain synchrony during everyday joint activities. Here, we show that greater parenting stress is associated with less brain-to-brain synchrony in the medial left cluster of the prefrontal cortex when mother and child engage in a typical dyadic task of watching animation videos together. This brain region overlaps with the inferior frontal gyrus, the frontal eye field, and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which are implicated in inference of mental states and social cognition. Our result demonstrates the adverse effect of parenting stress on mother-child attunement that is evident at a brain-to-brain level. Mother-child brain-to-brain asynchrony may underlie the robust association between parenting stress and poor dyadic co-regulation. We anticipate our study to form the foundation for future investigations into mechanisms by which parenting stress impairs the mother-child relationship. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1004292021-01-18T04:50:18Z Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study Leck, W. Q. Azhari, Atiqah Gabrieli, Giulio Bizzego, Andrea Rigo, Paola Setoh, Peipei Bornstein, Marc H. Esposito, Gianluca School of Social Sciences Cooperation Human Behaviour Social sciences::Psychology Synchrony refers to the coordinated interplay of behavioural and physiological signals that reflect the bi-directional attunement of one partner to the other’s psychophysiological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral state. In mother-child relationships, a synchronous pattern of interaction indicates parental sensitivity. Parenting stress has been shown to undermine mother-child behavioural synchrony. However, it has yet to be discerned whether parenting stress affects brain-to-brain synchrony during everyday joint activities. Here, we show that greater parenting stress is associated with less brain-to-brain synchrony in the medial left cluster of the prefrontal cortex when mother and child engage in a typical dyadic task of watching animation videos together. This brain region overlaps with the inferior frontal gyrus, the frontal eye field, and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which are implicated in inference of mental states and social cognition. Our result demonstrates the adverse effect of parenting stress on mother-child attunement that is evident at a brain-to-brain level. Mother-child brain-to-brain asynchrony may underlie the robust association between parenting stress and poor dyadic co-regulation. We anticipate our study to form the foundation for future investigations into mechanisms by which parenting stress impairs the mother-child relationship. Published version 2019-09-17T07:57:29Z 2019-12-06T20:22:26Z 2019-09-17T07:57:29Z 2019-12-06T20:22:26Z 2019 Journal Article Azhari, A., Leck, W. Q., Gabrieli, G., Bizzego, A., Rigo, P., Setoh, P., . . . Esposito, G. (2019). Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 11407-. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-47810-4 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100429 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49949 10.1038/s41598-019-47810-4 en M4081597 (G.E.) RG55/18 (NS) 2018-T1-001-172 (G.E.) Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/CTR0YX © 2019 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 9 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Cooperation Human Behaviour Social sciences::Psychology Leck, W. Q. Azhari, Atiqah Gabrieli, Giulio Bizzego, Andrea Rigo, Paola Setoh, Peipei Bornstein, Marc H. Esposito, Gianluca Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study |
| title | Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study |
| title_full | Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study |
| title_fullStr | Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study |
| title_short | Parenting stress undermines mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony : a hyperscanning study |
| title_sort | parenting stress undermines mother child brain to brain synchrony a hyperscanning study |
| topic | Cooperation Human Behaviour Social sciences::Psychology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100429 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49949 |
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