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Project

Understanding socio-affective development in prematurely born preschool children by assessing multimodal biobehavioral socio-communicative attunement among child-mother dyads

With this project we want to understand the socio-affective development of prematurely born children. The present proposal aims to extend the Resilience study by investigating the development of socio-communicative skills in prematurely born 4-year-old children and their mothers, using state-of the-art innovative techniques pinpointing both the individual socio-communicative sensitivity and the quality of the biobehavioral dyadic interaction. Given the availability of the extensive longitudinal data at different time points from birth onwards about the preterm infants’ development, parental psychological functioning, and parent-infant bonding, this will allow us to model developmental trajectories by integrating the current socio-communicative and dual biobehavioral attunement data with the very early stress and attachment measures obtained in NICU and follow-up.
Date:1 Oct 2020 →  30 Sep 2021
Keywords:dyadic biobehavioral attunement, premature birth, socio-affective development
Disciplines:Biological psychiatry, Social and emotional development, Neonatology