Cardiac Vagal Regulation and Early Peer Status

Graziano, Paulo A.; Keane, Susan P.; Calkins, Susan D.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.00996.x

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“…Third-graders nominated by peers as anxious-solitary and excluded exhibited lower RSA during a friend-rejection protocol, compared to anxious-solitary (but not excluded) children (Gazelle and Druhen 2009). Although reduction in RSA (vagal withdrawal) in response to peer provocation and cognitive challenges has been linked with emotion regulation (Hessler and Katz 2007) and social skills in children (Graziano et al 2007), lower RSA during social interaction may reflect emotional arousal that is less compatible with positive social engagement and more compatible with social disengagement or defensiveness (Hastings et al 2008).…”

Section: Physiological Arousal and Regulationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Socially Anxious and Peer-Victimized Preadolescents: “Doubly Primed” for Distress?

Erath

El‐Sheikh

2011

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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We examined independent and interactive associations linking preadolescents' socially anxious feelings and peer victimization experiences with their social behaviors (rated by parents and teachers) and psychophysiological arousal during lab simulations of salient peer stress situations in preadolescence (peer evaluation and peer rebuff). Sixty-three preadolescents and one parent per preadolescent participated. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), skin conductance level (SCL), and heart rate (HR) were assessed during peer stress situations. Preadolescents provided reports of social anxiety; preadolescents and parents reported on peer victimization; and parents and teachers rated prosocial and aggressive behaviors. Peer victimization moderated associations between social anxiety and both physiological arousal and social-behavior problems. As hypothesized, social anxiety was more strongly associated with lower RSA, higher HR, and higher aggressive behavior among preadolescents who experienced higher levels of peer victimization, compared to preadolescents who experienced lower levels of peer victimization.

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Section: Physiological Arousal and Regulationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Socially Anxious and Peer-Victimized Preadolescents: “Doubly Primed” for Distress?

Erath

El‐Sheikh

2011

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…Low vagal tone has also been linked to deficits in emotion regulation skills in healthy pre-school (Calkins, 1997;Cole, Zahn-Waxler, Fox, Usher, & Welsh, 1996;Santucci et al, 2008) and school-age (Eisenberg et al, 1996;Jemerin & Boyce, 1990) children. Similarly, poor vagal regulation of cardiac function has been related to lower peer status (Graziano, Keane, & Calkins, 2007) and increased social withdrawal (Kagan, Reznick, & Snidman, 1988) in young children. Low resting vagal tone also predicts maladjustment in children exposed to domestic adversity (El-Sheikh, 2005;El-Sheikh, Harger, & Whitson, 2001).…”

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Stability of resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone in adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment

Miskovic

Schmidt

Georgiades

et al. 2009

Developmental Psychobiology

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The experience of child maltreatment is a known risk factor for the development of psychopathology. Structural and functional modifications of neural systems implicated in stress and emotion regulation may provide one mechanism linking early adversity with later outcome. The authors examined two well-documented biological markers of stress vulnerability [resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone] in a group of adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment (n = 38; M age = 14.47) and their age-matched non-maltreated (n = 25; M age = 14.00) peers. Maltreated females exhibited greater relative right frontal EEG activity and lower cardiac vagal tone than controls over a 6-month period. In addition, frontal EEG asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone remained stable in the maltreated group across the 6 months, suggesting that the neurobiological correlates of maltreatment may not simply reflect dynamic, short-term changes but more long lasting alterations. The present findings appear to be the first to demonstrate stability of two biologically based stress-vulnerability measures in a maltreated population. Findings are discussed in terms of plasticity within the neural circuits of emotion regulation during the early childhood period and alternative causal models of developmental psychopathology.

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“…Reports utilizing these data have found that, in early childhood, lower levels of emotion regulation at preschool age were associated with lower peer group acceptance in kindergarten (Keane & Calkins, 2004). Also, among kindergarteners, physiological indices of emotion regulation were positively associated with social acceptance; an association that was mediated by peer reports of children's social skills(Graziano, Keane, & Calkins, 2007). Finally, a recent study with this sample found a positive association between emotion regulation at age 7 and friendship quality at age 10 (Blair et al, 2014).…”

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Identifying developmental cascades among differentiated dimensions of social competence and emotion regulation.

Blair¹,

Perry²,

O’Brien³

et al. 2015

Developmental Psychology

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This study utilized data from 356 children, their mothers, teachers, and peers, to examine the longitudinal and dynamic associations among three dimensions of social competence derived from Hinde's (1987) framework of social complexity: social skills, peer group acceptance, and friendship quality. Direct and indirect associations among each discrete dimension of social competence and emotion regulation were also examined. Results suggest that there are important distinctions among the dimensions of social competence as they relate to one another and to emotion regulation. Model comparisons provided evidence of cascade and reciprocal effects among the variables, demonstrating complex associations that are ongoing across middle childhood. Specifically, there were cascading effects from emotion regulation abilities at age 5 to social skills at age 7, which was then associated with age 10 outcomes of more positive friendship quality, greater peer acceptance, and greater emotion regulation.

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Cardiac Vagal Regulation and Early Peer Status

Cited by 79 publications

References 68 publications

Socially Anxious and Peer-Victimized Preadolescents: “Doubly Primed” for Distress?

Socially Anxious and Peer-Victimized Preadolescents: “Doubly Primed” for Distress?

Stability of resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone in adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment

Identifying developmental cascades among differentiated dimensions of social competence and emotion regulation.

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