Mindful parenting predicts mothers' and infants' hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity during a dyadic stressor.
Developmental Psychology November 28, 2016 Heidemarie K Laurent, Larissa G Duncan, April Lightcap et al.
Mindfulness in the parenting relationship has been proposed to help both parents and children better regulate stress, though this has not yet been shown at the physiological level. In this study, we tested relations between maternal mindfulness in parenting and both mothers' and their infants' hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity during a dyadic stressor 3 months later....
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000258 (opens in new tab)
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Mindfulness
Pituitary-adrenal system
Hypothalamo-hypophyseal system
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