Publications by authors named "Elizabeth C Aviv"
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- The study investigates the effects of face masks on emotion recognition, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a task that assessed responses to both masked and unmasked faces showing emotions like fear, sadness, and anger.
- Participants included 119 college students, 30 children, and 31 fathers, with some undergoing neuroimaging while performing the task; results showed less accurate emotion recognition for masked faces, particularly sad ones.
- Neural responses indicated greater activation in areas of the brain associated with emotion processing when viewing sad masked faces, and among fathers, this activation correlated with stress and depression; overall findings highlight the impact of mask-wearing on emotional understanding across various age groups.
Background: Inhibitory control, a form of self-regulation, may support sensitive parenting, but has been understudied in new fathers despite their pronounced risk for stress and mental health challenges.
Methods: This study probed the neural correlates of inhibitory control and its associations to first-time fathers' postpartum mental health, focusing on depressive symptoms, state anxiety, and perceived stress. Six months after their child's birth, 38 fathers self-reported on their mood, anxiety, and stress, and performed a Go/No-Go fMRI task while listening to three sets of sounds (infant cry, pink noise, and silence).
Introduction: The present study tests the association between romantic relationship quality and number of children on meaning in life (i.e., sense of purpose, coherence, and significance) and considers interactions between these constructs and gender.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite the important contributions that fathers make to parenting, the neurobiological underpinnings of men's adaptation to parenthood are still not well understood. The current study focuses on prolactin, a hormone that has been extensively linked with reproduction, lactation, and parental behavior in mothers. There is preliminary evidence that prolactin may also reflect the transition to sensitive fatherhood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Childbirth is a seminal experience in parents' lives. However, little research has investigated the link between fathers' birth experiences and their postpartum mental health. We hypothesized that a more subjectively stressful birth will predict greater self-reported depressive symptoms in fathers at six months postpartum.
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