caa a22 4500 606238948 CHVBK 20210128101300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10862-015-9480-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10862-015-9480-3 Dyadic Attunement and Physiological Synchrony During Mother-Child Interactions: An Exploratory Study in Children With and Without Externalizing Behavior Problems [Elektronische Daten] [Steven Woltering, Victoria Lishak, Brittney Elliott, Leonardo Ferraro, Isabela Granic] We investigated whether synchrony at a physiological level (i.e., real-time correspondence of biological indices between two individuals) related to observed levels of dyadic attunement (i.e., levels of connectedness, joint attention, and reciprocity), and whether these measures could distinguish between mother-child dyads with and without clinical levels of externalizing behavioral problems. Eighty-three clinical and 35 nonclinical dyads (7-12years-old) discussed a contentious topic preceded and followed by a positive topic while their heart rates were recorded. Changes in dyadic attunement from the last discussion relative to the first were taken as an index of how well dyads ‘repaired' their relationship. Results showed that clinical dyads had lower levels of dyadic attunement across all discussions compared to nonclinical dyads. Evidence that physiological synchrony could distinguish clinical from nonclinical dyads, however, was merely suggestive. Physiological synchrony was sensitive to the emotional context of the discussions as more dyads demonstrated physiological synchrony in the last compared to the first discussion. Moreover, dyads who demonstrated physiological synchrony also showed higher levels of repair. The outcomes of this study suggest that physiological synchrony between mothers and their children is sensitive to emotional context during interactions, and particularly during periods of repair when dyads more actively reconnect with each other after a negative interaction. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Dyadic attunement nationallicence Physiological synchrony nationallicence Children nationallicence Psychopathology nationallicence Conduct disorder nationallicence Externalizing nationallicence Internalizing nationallicence Heart rate nationallicence Woltering Steven Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, 718B Harrington Office Building, 77843-4225, College Station, USA aut Lishak Victoria Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada aut Elliott Brittney Psychology, McMasters University, Hamilton, Canada aut Ferraro Leonardo Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada aut Granic Isabela Developmental Psychopathology Department, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2015-12-01), 624-633 0882-2689 37:4<624 2015 37 10862 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9480-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9480-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Woltering Steven Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, 718B Harrington Office Building, 77843-4225, College Station, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lishak Victoria Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elliott Brittney Psychology, McMasters University, Hamilton, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ferraro Leonardo Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Granic Isabela Developmental Psychopathology Department, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2015-12-01), 624-633 0882-2689 37:4<624 2015 37 10862