Author(s):
Pinto, Tiago Miguel ; Figueiredo, Bárbara
Date: 2024
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/91171
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): capacidad regulatoria del infante; capacité régulatoire du nourrisson; Coparentage positif et négatif; crianza compartida positiva y negativa; fetal heart rate variability; fetale Herzfrequenzvariabilität; infant regulatory capacity; marcador determinante de la susceptibilidad endofenotípica prenatal; marqueur de sensibilité endophénotypique prénatale; neurobiological plasticity; neurobiologische Plastizität; plasticidad neurobiológica; plasticité neurobiologique; positive and negative coparenting; positive und negative Co-Elternschaft; prenatal endophenotypic susceptibility marker; pränataler endophänotypischer Anfälligkeitsmarker
Description
Lower fetal heart rate variability (FHRV) may be a prenatal endophenotypic susceptibility marker and increase the impact of both positive and negative coparenting on infant regulatory capacity. This study analyzed the moderator role of FHRV in the association between positive and negative coparenting and infant regulatory capacity at 3 months. The sample comprised 86 first-born infants and their mothers and fathers recruited at a public Health Service in Northern Portugal. FHRV was recorded during routine cardiotocography examination at the third trimester of gestation. Mothers and fathers reported on coparenting and infant regulatory capacity at 2 weeks and 3 months postpartum. FHRV moderated the association between mother's and father's negative coparenting at 2 weeks postpartum and infant regulatory capacity at three months. Infants with low FHRV presented higher regulatory capacity when mothers or fathers reported less negative coparenting, while lower regulatory capacity when mothers or fathers reported more negative coparenting, than infants with high FHRV. Findings suggested lower FHRV as a prenatal endophenotypic susceptibility marker that increases the impact of negative coparenting on infant regulatory capacity.
