Skin Conductance Level Reactivity Moderates the Association Between Parental Psychological Control and Relational Aggression in Emerging Adulthood

Wagner, Caitlin; Abaied, Jamie L.

doi:10.1007/s10964-016-0422-5

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“…The results of the current study are similar to those of previous studies indicating that child development is conditional upon the interaction between the environment and children's physiological characteristics. Past research has supported this premise for numerous environmental characteristics and child outcomes, and across various child developmental periods: infancy (Feldman, 2007;Feldman & Eidelman, 2007), toddlerhood (Eisenberg et al, 2012), childhood (El-Sheikh, Harger, & Whitson, 2001;Obradović et al, 2010), adolescence (Rousseau et al, 2014), and emerging adulthood (Wagner & Abaied, 2016). Nevertheless, empirical research on the moderating role of child physiological activity for positive socialization processes is rare (Pluess & Belsky, 2013).…”

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The association between mothers’ and daughters’ positive affect is moderated by child cardiac vagal regulation

Rousseau

Kritzman

Frenkel

et al. 2019

Developmental Psychobiology

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Introduction Extensive research has supported the importance of children's positive affect in fostering prosperous psychosocial adjustment. Children's positive affect is believed to be significantly shaped by their environment in general and their caregivers’ positive affect in particular. The current study investigates the role of child cardiac vagal regulation, a psychophysiological marker for social engagement, in shaping the association between maternal positive affect and child positive affect. Methods Mothers and daughters (ndyads = 28) participated in two experimental conditions. In the non‐interactive condition, they separately drew a picture without interacting. In the cooperative condition, they drew a picture together. We measured child respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), a widely used indicator of cardiac vagal regulation, during both conditions. We also coded maternal and child positive affect during the cooperative condition. Results Maternal positive affect was related to child positive affect, but only for children with medium‐to‐high tonic levels of RSA and RSA increases from non‐interaction to interaction. Discussion Results suggest that child RSA plays a significant role in positive emotion socialization, by making children more susceptible to the emotional cues of their caregivers. Hence, child RSA should be taken into account in preventive and therapeutic efforts regarding child positive affect socialization.

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The association between mothers’ and daughters’ positive affect is moderated by child cardiac vagal regulation

Rousseau

Kritzman

Frenkel

et al. 2019

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…In support of this theory, heightened SCR to peer stress positively predicts reactive but not proactive aggression among children (Hubbard et al, ) and young adults (Murray‐Close et al, ; Wagner & Abaied, ). In terms of PNS functioning, low resting RSA positively predicts reactive but not proactive aggression in children (Xu et al, ).…”

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“…In terms of PNS functioning, low resting RSA positively predicts reactive but not proactive aggression in children (Xu et al, ). In contrast, low resting heart rate in Chinese youth (Raine, Fung, Portnoy, Choy, & Spring, ), as well as blunted SCR to peer stress in young adults (Murray‐Close et al, ; Wagner & Abaied, ), have been linked with proactive but not reactive aggression. Furthermore, young adults who exhibit RSA withdrawal concordant with low SCR are at highest risk for self‐reported proactive aggression (Murray‐Close et al, ).…”

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The simultaneous assessment of and relations between children's sympathetic and parasympathetic psychophysiology and their reactive and proactive aggression

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Hubbard

Morrow

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Aggressive Behavior

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The goal of the current study was to examine the link between children's psychophysiology and aggression when both constructs were assessed simultaneously in scenarios designed to provide the opportunity to aggress for either a reactive reason or a proactive reason. Both sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity (skin conductance) and parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) activity (respiratory sinus arrhythmia or RSA), as well as their interaction, were included as physiological measures. Participants were 35 5th-grade children who were placed in two virtual-peer scenarios; one scenario provided the opportunity to aggress in response to peer provocation (i.e., reactive aggression) and the other scenario provided the opportunity to aggress for instrumental gain (i.e., proactive aggression). Both skin conductance and RSA were assessed at the time that children were given the opportunity to aggress; this simultaneous assessment of psychophysiology and aggression allowed for an examination of in-the-moment relations between the two constructs. For the reactive scenario, RSA moderated the in-the-moment relation between skin conductance and aggression such that the association was positive at low RSA but negative at high RSA. For the proactive scenario, skin conductance negatively predicted aggression in-the-moment, and RSA positively predicted aggression in-the-moment, but their interaction was not a significant predictor of aggression. Theoretical implications for reactive and proactive aggression and underlying physiological processes are discussed.

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“…Studies showed that lower (Gregson, Tu, & Erath, 2014;Hinnant, Erath, Tu, & El-Sheikh, 2016;McQuade & Breaux, 2017;Waters, Boyce, Eskenazi, & Alkon, 2016) as well as higher (Cummings, El-Sheikh, Kouros, & Keller, 2007;Hinnant et al, 2016) SNS reactivity functions as a vulnerability factor for developing ASB in the context of higher social risk. Interaction effects were found between SNS reactivity and familial (El-Sheikh, 2005a;Wagner & Abaied, 2016) as well as peer (Gregson et al, 2014;Hinnant et al, 2016; Murray-Close, 2011) related social risk factors. For example, Hinnant et al (2016) found that the association between affiliation with deviant peers and ASB is stronger among adolescents with higher as well as lower SNS reactivity.…”

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Biosocial studies of antisocial behavior: A systematic review of interactions between peri/prenatal complications, psychophysiological parameters, and social risk factors

Hazebroek

Wermink

Domburgh

et al. 2019

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Skin Conductance Level Reactivity Moderates the Association Between Parental Psychological Control and Relational Aggression in Emerging Adulthood

Cited by 29 publications

References 105 publications

The association between mothers’ and daughters’ positive affect is moderated by child cardiac vagal regulation

The association between mothers’ and daughters’ positive affect is moderated by child cardiac vagal regulation

The simultaneous assessment of and relations between children's sympathetic and parasympathetic psychophysiology and their reactive and proactive aggression

Biosocial studies of antisocial behavior: A systematic review of interactions between peri/prenatal complications, psychophysiological parameters, and social risk factors

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