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ERIC Number: EJ1461462
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
EISSN: EISSN-1467-8624
Available Date: 2024-11-08
Needing to Shout to Be Heard? Caregiver Under-Responsivity and Disconnection between Vocal Signaling and Autonomic Arousal in Infants from Chaotic Households
S. V. Wass1; C. S. Smith2; F. U. Mirza1; E. M. G. Greenwood1; L. Goupil3
Child Development, v96 n2 p527-545 2025
Children raised in chaotic households show affect dysregulation during later childhood. To understand why, we took day-long home recordings using microphones and autonomic monitors from 74 12-month-old infant-caregiver dyads (40% male, 60% white, data collected between 2018 and 2021). Caregivers in low-Confusion Hubbub And Order Scale (chaos) households responded to negative affect infant vocalizations by changing their own arousal and vocalizing in response; but high-chaos caregivers did not, whereas infants in low-chaos households consistently produced clusters of negative vocalizations around peaks in their own arousal, high-chaos infants did not. Their negative vocalizations were less tied to their own underlying arousal. Our data indicate that, in chaotic households, both communicating and responding are atypical: infants are not expressing their levels of arousal, and caregivers are under-responsive to their infants' behavioral signals.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Psychology, University of East London, Stratford, UK; 2Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK; 3LPNC, Université Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, Grenoble, France