Intrinsic resting-state connectivity and personal meaning across the transition to fatherhood.

IF 3.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Emotion Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI:10.1037/emo0001574
Anthony G Vaccaro, Philip Newsome, Yael H Waizman, Geoffrey Corner, Darby E Saxbe
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Abstract

New fatherhood is marked by profound psychological and neural transformations. While these changes can be stressful, many fathers also report increased life satisfaction associated with parenthood. Personal meaning-the subjective sense that life has purpose, meaning, and coherence-may reflect positive adaptation to parenthood. This study investigated how personal meaning across the transition to fatherhood is associated with both psychological and neural changes. Among 88 first-time fathers followed from mid-pregnancy into the first year after birth, we found an approximately even split between fathers who reported increases or decreases in personal meaning. Within 35 fathers who also underwent neuroimaging before and after birth, we observed increases in resting-state functional connectivity in the bilateral temporal lobes, right angular gyrus, thalamus, and right lateral occipital cortex, and decreases in regions such as the right frontal pole, left opercular cortex, and anterior cingulate. Increases in insular cortex connectivity predicted greater postnatal personal meaning, even after controlling for both positive and negative parenting-related feelings. These findings suggest that dynamic changes within the insula may support fathers' ability to form a higher order sense of meaning and purpose during this transformative period. Future mixed-methods research may further elucidate how these neural changes contribute to well-being during stressful life transitions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

内在静息状态的连通性和过渡到父亲的个人意义。
新晋父亲的特点是深刻的心理和神经转变。虽然这些变化可能会带来压力,但许多父亲也报告说,与为人父母有关的生活满意度提高了。个人意义——生活有目的、意义和连贯性的主观感觉——可能反映出对为人父母的积极适应。这项研究调查了在转变为父亲的过程中,个人意义是如何与心理和神经变化相关联的。在88位从怀孕中期到出生后第一年的第一次父亲中,我们发现,在报告个人意义增加或减少的父亲中,他们的比例大致相等。在35位同样在出生前后接受神经成像的父亲中,我们观察到双侧颞叶、右角回、丘脑和右侧枕外侧皮层的静息状态功能连接增加,而右额极、左眼皮层和前扣带等区域的功能连接减少。岛叶皮质连通性的增加预示着出生后更大的个人意义,即使在控制了积极和消极的育儿相关感受之后也是如此。这些发现表明,脑岛内的动态变化可能支持父亲在这一转变时期形成更高层次的意义感和目的感的能力。未来的混合方法研究可能会进一步阐明这些神经变化如何在压力生活过渡期间促进健康。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA,版权所有)。
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Emotion
Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
8.40
自引率
7.10%
发文量
325
审稿时长
8 weeks
期刊介绍: Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.
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