Infant Temperament and Cardiac Vagal Tone: Assessments at Twelve Weeks of Age

Huffman, Lynne C.; Bryan, Yvonne E.; Carmen, Rebecca del; Pedersen, Frank A.; Doussard-Roosevelt, Jane A.; Porges, Stephen W.

doi:10.2307/1132194

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“…RSA was calculated for every 15-second epoch during the two minute baseline and was then averaged across epochs. Brief epochs such as these are typical and have been validated for short duration tasks such as this one (Huffman et al 1998). High baseline RSA scores indicate high resting vagal tone.…”

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Links Between Remembered Childhood Emotion Socialization and Adult Adjustment

Leerkes

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Journal of Family Issues

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The purpose of this paper was to examine whether recollections of mothers’ emotion socialization practices during childhood are linked to adult emotional well-being as indexed by depression, trait anger, and cardiac vagal tone, and whether these effects vary for African American and European American women. Participants included 251 women (128 European American; 123 African American) who ranged in age from 18 to 44 years (M = 25 years). Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses indicated strong measurement and factor invariance across African American and European American participants. Remembered non-supportive emotion socialization was linked with elevated depressive symptoms for European American women, but not African American women and with elevated trait anger for both groups. Remembered supportive emotion socialization was linked with higher resting vagal tone for both groups. The results provide some support for the view that non-supportive emotion socialization may be more detrimental for European Americans than African Americans.

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Links Between Remembered Childhood Emotion Socialization and Adult Adjustment

Leerkes

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Journal of Family Issues

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“…A band-pass filter then extracts the variance of HP within the frequency band of spontaneous respiration in young children: 0.24 -1.04 Hz. Although lower frequency bands may be studied, research with young children has consistently examined this band and identified associations with child functioning (Huffman et al, 1998;Porges et al, 1996;Stifter & Fox, 1990). The estimate of RSA was derived by calculating the natural log of this variance and is reported in units of ln(ms) 2 .…”

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Cardiac Vagal Regulation and Early Peer Status

Graziano¹,

Keane²,

Calkins³

2007

Child Development

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A sample of 341 5 (1/2) -year-old children participating in an ongoing longitudinal study was the focus of a study on the relation between cardiac vagal regulation and peer status. To assess cardiac vagal regulation, resting measures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and RSA change (suppression) to 3 cognitively and emotionally challenging tasks were derived. Results indicated that vagal regulation was positively associated with peer status. In addition, mediational analyses revealed that the relation between vagal regulation and peer status was mediated through better social skills for girls and better social skills and fewer behavior problems for boys. These findings are discussed in terms of the role of vagal regulation in the facilitation of children's positive social behavior.

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“…Infants with high basal RSA exhibited less negative affect, and infants with greater RSA withdrawal to stress were rated by their mothers as more easily soothed (Huffman et al, 1998). Similarly, higher basal RSA was related to greater emotional reactivity to both positive and negative events (Fox, 1989), and greater RSA withdrawal was linked with greater social approach in infants (Stifter & Corey, 2001).…”

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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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Infant Temperament and Cardiac Vagal Tone: Assessments at Twelve Weeks of Age

Cited by 62 publications

References 31 publications

Links Between Remembered Childhood Emotion Socialization and Adult Adjustment

Links Between Remembered Childhood Emotion Socialization and Adult Adjustment

Cardiac Vagal Regulation and Early Peer Status

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

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