Analysis of day - to - day trajectories of
affective experience showed a decrease in anxiety and increase in calmness.
Not exact matches
But as experimental studies
show, it's possible to disable or blunt culture's heuristic influence: when people's cultural identities are affirmed, they don't
experience the threatening
affective response, or are less influenced by it, as they consider information that challenges beliefs that pre-dominate in their group; when they can't discern a consistent connection between the cultural identity of advocates and positions on some risk issue, they can't simply adopt the position of the advocate whom they perceive as having values most like theirs.»
In humans, both the HPA system and the autonomic nervous system
show developmental changes in infancy, with the HPA axis becoming organized between 2 and 6 months of age and the autonomic nervous system demonstrating relative stability by 6 to 12 months of age.63 The HPA axis in particular has been
shown to be highly responsive to child - caregiver interactions, with sensitive caregiving programming the HPA axis to become an effective physiological regulator of stress and insensitive caregiving promoting hyperreactive or hyporeactive HPA systems.17 Several animal models as well as human studies also support the connection between caregiver
experiences in early postnatal life and alterations of autonomic nervous system balance.63 - 65 Furthermore, children who have a history of sensitive caregiving are more likely to demonstrate optimal
affective and behavioral strategies for coping with stress.66, 67 Therefore, children with histories of supportive, sensitive caregiving in early development may be better able to self - regulate their physiological,
affective, and behavioral responses to environmental stressors and, consequently, less likely to manifest disturbed HPA and autonomic reactivity that put them at risk for stress - related illnesses such as asthma.
An assessment would be considered incomplete that had been concluded without understanding family strengths, what previous challenges had been
experienced and how past problems had been dealt with, and without a reasonably full understanding of how family members relate at an emotional level (that is,
affective responding — how distress is
shown, comfort is provided and how they have fun together — and also the level of
affective involvement between its members — from close to distant).
Stress regulation in children is important for understanding the development and prevention of psychiatric disorders.1 Environmental factors that operate at key points in development may shape
affective and behavioral regulation and hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis function in children, much as environmental factors have been
shown to shape HPA regulation in rodents and nonhuman primates.2 Early
experiences in rodents exert lifelong organizing effects on stress responsivity.
As already
shown by the research on sensorial deprivation in early infancy, these
experiences are fundamental for physical growth, neurological development and for the construction of healthy
affective relationships (Robertson and Bowlby, 1952; Harlow and Zimmermann, 1958; Montagu, 1971; Blackwell, 2000; Kim et al., 2003).
Two cross-sectional studies
showed that adolescents with a depressed parent suffered from psychosocial maladjustment [38] and
experienced a significantly higher rate of
affective disorder than adolescents of nonaffective psychiatric control parents [39].
Furthermore, individuals with SUDs and comorbid psychopathology
show even greater deficits in emotion regulation [71], and substance use risk is greater among those who
experience distress and related psychiatric
affective disorders [28].