ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Familial Sympathetic Nervous System Reactivity Transmission: Parental Emotion Regulation Matters

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Developmental Psychology

  • Caitlin Tytler
    Cleveland State University
  • Cheyene Horner
    Cleveland State University
  • Ilya Yaroslavsky
    Cleveland State University

Abstract

This study tested whether parental reliance on ineffective emotion regulation (maladaptive ER) strategies moderates familial transmission of Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) reactivity to distress. As hypothesized, maladaptive ER repertoires potentiated the transmission of SNS hyperarousal between parents and offspring. Clinical implications will be discussed.

Psychopathology