NIH R01 · 2025
Project Summary Decades of research have established the importance of early mother-infant interactions for lifelong adaptive social emotional functioning, with implications for the development of later problem behaviors including sub- stance use disorder. A history of maternal sensitivity to infant distress – that is, responses that are consistently contingent, nurturing, and appropriate – is thought to allow infants to internalize socioemotional competencies for maintaining states of emotional security. This is reflected in the development of secure mother-infant attach- ment and self-regulation behaviors. In turn, mother-infant attachment security is predictive of a constellation of…
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