During pregnancy, a woman's emotions can have longstanding implications for both her own and her child's health. Within-person emotional concordance refers to the simultaneous measurement of emotional responses across multiple levels of analysis. This method may provide insight into how pregnant women experience emotions in response to stress. We enrolled 162 pregnant women and assessed concordance through autonomic physiology (electrodermal activity [EDA], respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]), and coded behavior (Prosocial, Flight, Displacement) during the Trier Social Stress Test-Speech. We used multilevel models to examine behavioral-physiological concordance and whether self-reported emotion dysregulation moderated these effects. Participants exhibited EDA-Prosocial concordance, suggesting that prosocial behavior may be a marker of stress. Emotion dysregulation did not moderate concordance. These findings provide novel information about behavioral coping to stress in pregnancy. Given the importance of observed behavior in the maintenance and treatment of psychopathology, these findings may provide a launchpad for future perinatal intervention research.

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行为和生理压力反应：怀孕期间的人际一致性

在怀孕期间，女性的情绪会对她自己和孩子的健康产生长期影响。人内情绪一致性是指同时测量跨多个分析级别的情绪反应。这种方法可以深入了解孕妇如何在压力下体验情绪。我们招募了 162 名孕妇，并在特里尔社会压力测试演讲期间通过自主生理学（皮肤电活动 [EDA]、呼吸性窦性心律失常 [RSA]）和编码行为（亲社会、逃跑、位移）评估一致性。我们使用多级模型来检查行为生理一致性以及自我报告的情绪失调是否会减轻这些影响。参与者表现出 EDA-亲社会一致性，表明亲社会行为可能是压力的标志。情绪失调没有中度一致性。这些发现提供了有关应对妊娠期压力的行为的新信息。鉴于观察到的行为在精神病理学的维持和治疗中的重要性，这些发现可能为未来的围产期干预研究提供一个启动平台。