Key result
The positive link between sensitive parenting during toddlerhood and children's later executive functions was evident only among children with low baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
Population
137 children and their mothers followed from the age of 3 months to 5 years
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
From age 3 months to 5 years
Authors
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May guide RSA-stratified parenting research; leaves open causal testing before any practice implications.
Cohort (n=137)
Children's baseline parasympathetic functioning (measured via respiratory sinus arrhythmia) moderates the relationship between early sensitive parenting and the development of executive functions.
Gueron‐Sela et al. (2016) reported a cohort. Maternal sensitive parenting behaviors and child respiratory sinus arrhythmia was evaluated on Children's executive functions (EF) at the age of 5 years. The positive link between sensitive parenting during toddlerhood and children's later executive functions was evident only among children with low baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
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