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1-078 - Stress Physiology in Early Childhood: Interactions with Context and Neurodevelopmental Implications in Understudied Populations
Thu, March 21, 12:30 to 2:00pm, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 328Session Type: Paper Symposium
Integrative Statement
This symposium will present novel approaches to studying stress physiology during infancy and early childhood that consider the role of prenatal and early life contexts and examine implications for socioemotional development and regulation. Presentations will explore these processes in diverse, typically understudied populations, expanding upon extant research predominantly focused on Caucasian or low-risk samples. The first paper examines for whom prenatal stress gets under the skin by impacting infants’ autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning, in a diverse sample of low-income mothers. Findings suggest that greater prenatal stress predicts greater ANS reactivity and weaker regulation for children receiving low-quality parenting, but infants who receive high-quality parenting are buffered from those prenatal programming associations. The second paper examines whether preschoolers’ hair cortisol serves as a marker of differential susceptibility to variations in family wealth in rural Pakistan. It provides sex-specific evidence that children with low cortisol may be more sensitive to positive environmental effects on cognition and behavior. The third paper examines early childhood profiles of longitudinal ANS reactivity trajectories in a sample of low-income Latino families, and shows that profiles confer differential susceptibility to the effects of early life fathers’ support on behavioral problems at age 7. The fourth paper identifies 4 multisystem profiles of preschoolers with distinct patterns of sympathetic and parasympathetic ANS functioning and demonstrates that profiles differ with respect to self-regulation outcomes: executive functioning, emotion regulation, and behavioral regulation. Discussion will be focused on how multi-context, multi-system approaches can enrich understanding of complex developmental processes across sociodemographic strata.
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Chairs
Selin Zeytinoglu, University of Maryland, College Park
Nicole R. Bush, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Individual Presentations
High-Quality Parenting Buffers Prenatal Stress Effects on Infant Autonomic Nervous System Function in Low-Income Families - Non-Presenting Author: Karen Jones-Mason, University of California, San Francisco; Department of Psychiatry, Center for Health and Community; Non-Presenting Author: Michael Coccia, University of California, San Francisco; Department of Psychiatry, Center for Health and Community; Non-Presenting Author: Abbey Alkon, University of California, San Francisco; Non-Presenting Author: Barbara Laraira, University of California, Berkeley; Non-Presenting Author: Nancy Adler, University of California, San Francisco; Non-Presenting Author: Elissa S. Epel, University of California, San Francisco; Presenting Author: Nicole R. Bush, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Biological Sensitivity to Context in Pakistani Preschoolers: Interactive Effects of Hair Cortisol and Family Wealth - Presenting Author: Emma Louise Armstrong-Carter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Non-Presenting Author: Jenna E. Finch, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Non-Presenting Author: Muneera Rasheed, Aga Khan University; Non-Presenting Author: Aisha Yousafzai, Harvard University; Non-Presenting Author: Jelena Obradovic, Stanford University
Latino Children’s Physiologic Reactivity Moderates the Relation Between Early Father Support and Later Behavior Problems - Non-Presenting Author: Danielle Roubinov, University of California, San Francisco; Presenting Author: Abbey Alkon, University of California, San Francisco; Non-Presenting Author: Katherine Kogut, University of California, Berkeley; Non-Presenting Author: Brenda Eskenazi, University of California - Berkeley
Relations Between Profiles of Autonomic Nervous System Functioning and Self-Regulation in Early Childhood - Presenting Author: Selin Zeytinoglu, University of Maryland, College Park; Non-Presenting Author: Susan Calkins, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Non-Presenting Author: Esther Leerkes, University of North Carolina at Greensboro