Cardiac vagal regulation across the preschool period: Stability, continuity, and implications for childhood adjustment

Calkins, Susan D.; Keane, Susan P.

doi:10.1002/dev.20020

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“…29 weeks), as opposed to preschool (Morales et al., 2015) and school‐aged children (Eisenberg et al., 1995; Hinnant & El‐Sheikh, 2013) in previous studies. Baseline vagal tone has been shown to be moderately stable from preschool or middle childhood onwards (Calkins & Keane, 2004; El‐Sheikh, 2005) but less so in the first years of life (Bornstein & Suess, 2000), which might also have an impact in the results.…”

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Sex differences in the associations between vagal reactivity and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms

Vidal‐Ribas

Pickles

Tibu³

et al. 2017

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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BackgroundVagal reactivity to stress in children has been associated with future psychiatric outcomes. However, results have been mixed possibly because these effects are in opposite direction in boys and girls. These sex differences are relevant in the context of development of psychopathology, whereby the rates of psychiatric disorders differ by sex. In this study, we aimed to examine the association between vagal reactivity, assessed as a reduction in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in response to a challenge, and the development of future oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms in boys and girls. In addition, we examine the specific associations with ODD symptom dimensions, named irritability and headstrong. We hypothesized that increased vagal reactivity was associated with increased ODD symptoms in girls and a reduction in ODD symptoms in boys.MethodsParticipants were members of the Wirral Child Health and Development Study, a prospective epidemiological longitudinal study of 1,233 first‐time mothers recruited at 20 weeks’ gestation. RSA during four nonstressful and one stressful (still‐face) procedures was assessed when children were aged 29 weeks in a sample stratified by adversity (n = 270). Maternal reports of ODD symptoms were collected when children were 2.5 years old (n = 253), 3.5 years old (n = 826), and 5 years old (n = 770). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to test our hypotheses.ResultsThere was a significant sex difference in the prediction of ODD symptoms due to the opposite directionality in which increasing vagal reactivity was associated with an increase in ODD symptoms in girls and a reduction of ODD symptoms in boys. This Sex by Vagal reactivity interaction was common for both ODD dimensions, with no sex by dimension‐specific associations.ConclusionsPhysiological reactivity to a stressful situation predicts differently ODD symptoms in boys and girls very early in life, with no difference across irritability and headstrong components. Findings are discussed in the context of the several mechanisms involved on the later development of distinct psychiatric disorders in boys and girls.

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Sex differences in the associations between vagal reactivity and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms

Vidal‐Ribas

Pickles

Tibu³

et al. 2017

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Dysregulation of RSA in infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children has also been linked to greater incidence of behavior problems (Calkins & Dedmon, 2000;Calkins & Keane, 2004) and aggression (Porges et al, 1996). RSA continues to be an important factor in emotional health throughout the lifespan.…”

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The effects of maternal respiratory sinus arrhythmia and behavioral engagement on mother‐child physiological coregulation

Skoranski

Lunkenheimer

Lucas‐Thompson

2017

Developmental Psychobiology

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THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL RESPIRATORY SINUS ARRHYTHMIA AND BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT ON MOTHER-CHILD PHYSIOLOGICAL COREGULATIONParent-child coregulation, observed as the active organization and coordination of parents' and children's behavioral and physiological states, is an important precursor for children's developing self-regulation, but we know little about how individual parent factors shape parent-child coregulation. We examined whether differences in maternal physiology and behavioral engagement were associated with coregulation of mothers' and their 3-year-old children's physiological states over time. We examined coregulation in real time by modeling maternal and child respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) for 47 families across 18 minutes of dyadic interaction using multilevel coupled autoregressive models fitted in Mplus. Maternal basal RSA, maternal teaching, and maternal behavioral disengagement were each entered as between-subjects predictors to determine the extent to which mother-child coregulation was strengthened or weakened by maternal factors. Whereas greater maternal teaching during the mother-child interaction was associated with stronger coregulation in mother and child RSA over time, maternal disengagement was related to weaker coregulation: specifically, there were moredivergent parent and child RSA at higher levels of maternal disengagement. Coregulation in mother-child RSA was also weakened when mothers' basal RSA was higher. Findings contribute to the emerging knowledge base on real-time patterns of parent-child coregulation and iii suggest a role for parent-child physiological coregulation as a mechanism by which parent factors support or hinder children's developing self-regulation.

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“…The most promising implication is that if the program is effective among adults (average age was 41), it would likely be more effective among children whose neural development is in a state of greater plasticity. Indeed, children with greater attention skills are better able to regulate themselves emotionally and behaviorally (Calkins & Keane, 2004).…”

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The Importance of Neuropsychological Deficits Relating to Self-Control and Temperament to the Prevention of Serious Antisocial Behavior

DeLisi

Vaughn

2011

IJCYFS

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Abstract:The current article is a targeted review of two biosocial constructs, neuropsychological deficits relating to self-control and temperament, which as demonstrated by prior researchers are importantly related to antisocial behavior, importantly related to other constructs that influence antisocial behavior, such as aggression, and importantly related to prevention efforts. We explicate what is known about neuropsychological deficits relating to self-control and temperament specifically vis-à-vis prevention and early intervention programs that seek to preclude the development of costly antisocial careers.Keywords: temperament, self-control, prevention, neuropsychological deficits, conduct problemsThe basic logic of prevention studies is to target populations that present with an assortment of risk factors for antisocial behavior and provide educational, medical, and psychological services and other treatment modalities that will theoretically mute the likelihood that the risk factors will manifest in problem behavior. From an array of disciplinary and even ideological perspectives, prevention is hailed as a humanistic, costeffective, and demonstrably effective way to prevent antisocial conduct and related social problems (

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Cardiac vagal regulation across the preschool period: Stability, continuity, and implications for childhood adjustment

Cited by 307 publications

References 42 publications

Sex differences in the associations between vagal reactivity and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms

Sex differences in the associations between vagal reactivity and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms

The effects of maternal respiratory sinus arrhythmia and behavioral engagement on mother‐child physiological coregulation

The Importance of Neuropsychological Deficits Relating to Self-Control and Temperament to the Prevention of Serious Antisocial Behavior

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