Dalsant Arianna, Truzzi Anna, Setoh Peipei, Esposito Gianluca
Affiliative Behaviour and Physiology Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Trento, Italy.
Early Cognition Lab, Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Behav Brain Res. 2015 Oct 1;292:428-31. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.06.026. Epub 2015 Jul 7.
Mother-child bonding influences the development of cognitive and social skills. In this study we investigate how maternal attachment, developed in early childhood, modulates physiological responses to social stimuli later in life. Our results suggest that the autonomic nervous system's responses to vocal distress are moderated by the quality of participants' maternal bonding. In particular, participants with optimal maternal bonding showed a greater calming response to distressful stimuli whereas participants with non-optimal maternal bonding showed a heightened distress response.
母婴联结会影响认知和社交技能的发展。在本研究中,我们调查了儿童早期形成的母婴依恋如何调节个体成年后对社会刺激的生理反应。我们的研究结果表明,自主神经系统对声音中的痛苦情绪的反应受到参与者母婴联结质量的调节。具体而言,母婴联结良好的参与者对痛苦刺激表现出更大的平静反应,而母婴联结不佳的参与者则表现出更强的痛苦反应。