Individual differences in the quality of early experiences with primary caregivers have been reliably implicated in the development of socioemotional adjustment and, more recently, physical health. However, few studies have examined the development of such associations with physical health into the adult years. To that end, the current study used prospective, longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,306, 52% male, 77% White/non-Hispanic) to investigate whether associations between direct observations of maternal sensitivity in the first 3 years of life and repeated assessments of two commonly used, objective indicators of physical health (i.e., body mass and mean arterial blood pressure) remained stable or diminished in magnitude over time. Associations between early maternal sensitivity and lower body mass remained relatively stable from age 54 months to 26 years and were robust to the modeling of autoregressive and second-order stability processes as well as the inclusion of potential demographic confounders. In contrast, although associations between early caregiving and lower mean arterial pressure remained relatively stable from Grade 4 to age 15 years (the oldest age for which mean arterial pressure was assessed thus far), these associations were not robust to the inclusion of covariates and the modeling of second-order stability processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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早期母亲敏感性和身体健康标志：从童年到成年的持久或短暂的关联？


与主要照顾者的早期经历质量的个体差异已可靠地与社会情绪调整的发展以及最近的身体健康有关。然而，很少有研究探讨这种与成年后身体健康的关联的发展。为此，本研究使用了国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所的早期儿童保育和青少年发展研究的前瞻性纵向数据（N = 1,306，52% 男性，77% 白人/非西班牙裔）来调查是否生命头3年直接观察母亲的敏感性与重复评估两个常用的、客观的身体健康指标（即体重和平均动脉血压）之间的关联随着时间的推移保持稳定或减弱。从 54 个月到 26 岁，早期母亲敏感性与较低体重之间的关联保持相对稳定，并且对于自回归和二阶稳定过程以及潜在人口统计学混杂因素的建模来说是稳健的。相比之下，尽管从 4 级到 15 岁（迄今为止评估平均动脉压的最大年龄），早期护理与较低平均动脉压之间的关联保持相对稳定，但这些关联对于包含协变量和二阶稳定性过程的建模。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。