Acute stress impairs children's sustained attention with increased vulnerability for children of mothers reporting higher parenting stress

Despite evidence that acute stress impairs attention in adults, there has been minimal research in children. Here, the effects of acute stress on Go/No‐go performance were examined in young children ( M age = 5.41 years). Given the critical role of the parent–child relationship to children's self‐regulatory development, the extent to which parenting stress predicts children's cognitive vulnerability to acute stress and autonomic reactivity was...