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Katrinli S, Smith AK, Drury SS, Covault J, Ford JD, Singh V, Reese B, Johnson A, Scranton V, Fall P, Briggs-Gowan M, Grasso DJ. Cumulative stress, PTSD, and emotion dysregulation during pregnancy and epigenetic age acceleration in Hispanic mothers and their newborn infants. Epigenetics 2023; 18:2231722. [PMID: 37433036 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2023.2231722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Pregnancy can exacerbate or prompt the onset of stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is associated with heightened stress responsivity and emotional dysregulation, as well as increased risk of chronic disorders and mortality. Further, maternal PTSD is associated with gestational epigenetic age acceleration in newborns, implicating the prenatal period as a developmental time period for the transmission of effects across generations. Here, we evaluated the associations between PTSD symptoms, maternal epigenetic age acceleration, and infant gestational epigenetic age acceleration in 89 maternal-neonatal dyads. Trauma-related experiences and PTSD symptoms in mothers were assessed during the third trimester of pregnancy. The MethylationEPIC array was used to generate DNA methylation data from maternal and neonatal saliva samples collected within 24 h of infant birth. Maternal epigenetic age acceleration was calculated using Horvath's multi-tissue clock, PhenoAge and GrimAge. Gestational epigenetic age was estimated using the Haftorn clock. Maternal cumulative past-year stress (GrimAge: p = 3.23e-04, PhenoAge: p = 9.92e-03), PTSD symptoms (GrimAge: p = 0.019), and difficulties in emotion regulation (GrimAge: p = 0.028) were associated with accelerated epigenetic age in mothers. Maternal PTSD symptoms were associated with lower gestational epigenetic age acceleration in neonates (p = 0.032). Overall, our results suggest that maternal cumulative past-year stress exposure and trauma-related symptoms may increase the risk for age-related problems in mothers and developmental problems in their newborns.
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- Seyma Katrinli
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
- Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Computational Biology Core, University of Connecticut, School of Medicine, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Center for Genome Innovation, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Clinical Research Center Core Laboratory, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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Islamiah N, Breinholst S, Walczak MA, Esbjørn BH. The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review. INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/icd.2397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Nur Islamiah
- Department of Family and Consumer Sciences IPB University Bogor Indonesia
- Department of Psychology University of Copenhagen København K Denmark
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- Department of Psychology University of Copenhagen København K Denmark
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- Department of Psychology University of Copenhagen København K Denmark
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Spinelli M, Aureli T, Coppola G, Ponzetti S, Lionetti F, Scialpi V, Fasolo M. Verbal - prosodic association when narrating early caregiving experiences during the adult attachment interview: differences between secure and dismissing individuals. Attach Hum Dev 2020; 24:93-114. [PMID: 33346702 DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2020.1860348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Previous studies reported an inconsistency between verbal extracts and emotional physiological activation in dismissing individuals when narrating their early caregiving experience at the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). This study aimed to explore this discrepancy by analyzing the degree of concordance between verbal content and prosodic characteristics, index of physiological activation, when dismissing and secure individuals discuss negative childhood memories during the AAI. Results showed that secure participants presented a high coherence between verbal content and emotional activation, as expressed by prosody, revealing a reprocess of negative experiences that is the core feature of the development of secure working models. In contrast, dismissing participants' prosodic characteristics were discrepant with the verbal content. These individuals downplayed the nature and impact of negative experiences and emotions, but used a prosody that revealed a high emotional arousal. The difference between the two groups was more evident for participants who had experienced more rejecting parents.
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- Maria Spinelli
- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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Pathways to social-emotional functioning in the preschool period: The role of child temperament and maternal anxiety in boys and girls. Dev Psychopathol 2020; 32:961-974. [PMID: 31345275 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579419000853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Individual differences in social-emotional functioning emerge early and have long-term implications for developmental adaptation and competency. Research is needed that specifies multiple early risk factors and outcomes simultaneously to demonstrate specificity. Using multigroup longitudinal path analysis in a sample of typically developing children (N = 541), we examined child temperament dimensions (surgency, negative affectivity, and regulation/effortful control) and maternal anxiety in infancy and age 2 as predictors of child externalizing, internalizing, dysregulation, and competence behaviors at age 3. Four primary patterns emerged. First, there was stability in temperament dimensions and maternal anxiety from infancy to age 3. Second, negative affectivity was implicated in internalizing problems and surgency in externalizing problems. Third, effortful control at age 2 was a potent mediator of maternal anxiety in infancy on age 3 outcomes. Fourth, there was suggestive evidence for transactional effects between maternal anxiety and child effortful control. Most pathways operated similarly for boys and girls, with some differences, particularly for surgency. These findings expand our understanding of the roles of specific temperamental domains and postnatal maternal anxiety in a range of social-emotional outcomes in the preschool period, and have implications for efforts to enhance the development of young children's social-emotional functioning and reduce risk for later psychopathology.
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Carbonell Blanco OA, García Rodríguez LE, Bermúdez-Jaimes ME. Estrategias de regulación emocional materna con bebés en situaciones de estrés: el uso del canto materno. UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA 2019. [DOI: 10.11144/javeriana.upsy18-5.erem] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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El propósito de este estudio fue caracterizar las estrategias regulatorias empleadas por madres en la interacción con sus bebés durante el primer año de vida en las situaciones de estrés que ocurrían en el contexto natural (hogar) de cuidado diario. Así mismo, determinar si el canto materno cumplía una función regulatoria de los estados fisiológicos y emocionales del bebé. Se utilizó un diseño de investigación no experimental de tipo transversal, con una muestra no probabilística por conveniencia de 32 díadas madre-bebé, que pertenecían a estratos socioeconómicos bajos. Los hallazgos de este estudio permitieron establecer dos patrones de cuidado materno: Patrón Regulatorio Contingente y Patrón Regulatorio Poco/No Contingente. También, se pudo identificar que el canto materno cumple, entre otras, una función regulatoria en situaciones de estrés en las rutinas de cuidado cotidiano.
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Behrendt HF, Scharke W, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Konrad K, Firk C. Like mother, like child? Maternal determinants of children's early social-emotional development. Infant Ment Health J 2019; 40:234-247. [DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hannah F. Behrendt
- Child Neuropsychology Section; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Germany
- Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience; Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Boston Massachusetts
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- Child Neuropsychology Section; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Germany
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- Child Neuropsychology Section; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Germany
- JARA-Brain Institute II, ; Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging; RWTH Aachen & Research Center Juelich; Germany
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- Child Neuropsychology Section; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Germany
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