Infants Show Physiological Responses Specific to Parental Hugs
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2020-04
- 資源種別
- journal article
- 権利情報
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- https://www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/
- https://www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- DOI
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- 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100996
- 公開者
- Elsevier BV
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説明
Caregivers hug their infants to express affection and joy. However, it remains unknown how infants react to being hugged. Here we examined heart rate responses in first-year infants during a hug, hold, and tight hug from parents. Infants older than four months showed an increased R-R interval (RRI) during a hug, indicating reduced heart rates and pronounced parasympathetic activity. Few head movements predicted a higher RRI increase in infants during a parental hug compared with that during a hold and tight hug. Infants did not show an increased RRI during a hug from a female stranger. Infants younger than four months did not show RRI increase during parental hug but exhibited a decreased RRI correlated with contact pressure. Parents showed an increased RRI during hugging their infants. These results suggest the parent-infant hug underlies the parent-infant bonding and psychophysiological development of infants.
収録刊行物
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- iScience
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iScience 23 (4), 100996-, 2020-04
Elsevier BV
