Maternal Overreactive Sympathetic Nervous System Responses to Repeated Infant Crying Predicts Risk for Impulsive Harsh Discipline of Infants

Child Maltreatment

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 252-263

  Joosen, Katharina J ^a   Mesman, Judi ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^a   van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

harsh discipline; infant crying; physiological reactivity; polyvagal theory

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CRYING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HARSH DISCIPLINE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT CRYING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYVAGAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK;

HARSH DISCIPLINE; INFANT CRYING; PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIVITY; POLYVAGAL THEORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CRYING; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARENTING; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84886572197     PISSN: 10775595     EISSN: 15526119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077559513494762     Document Type: Article

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