Trajectory of heart period to socioaffective threat in shy children

Poole, Kristie L.

doi:10.1002/dev.21774

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“…These findings suggest that a stable low resting HP may underlie susceptibility for continuity of some traits linked to socioemotional vulnerability such as shyness. Relatedly, research on the development of shyness among typically developing samples (i.e., those without a history of maltreatment) has found that shy children and adults tend to have a stable, low resting HP (Garcia-Coll et al, 1984; Kagan et al, 1988, 1987; Marshall & Stevenson-Hinde, 1998) and also exhibit stability in HP to socioaffective threat (Poole & Schmidt, 2018). Our findings extend this work and suggest that the longitudinal autonomic correlates of shyness may be similar among adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment.…”

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Trajectories of Resting Heart Period and Shyness in Adolescent Females Exposed to Child Maltreatment

Poole

MacMillan

2018

Child Maltreat

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Relatively little is known about the psychophysiological processes underlying the development of socioemotional vulnerabilities that are common among adolescents exposed to child maltreatment. Using a prospective, longitudinal design, we investigated whether trajectories of resting heart period (HP; a physiological correlate of stress vulnerability) across three visits (separated by 6 months) was associated with shyness (a type of socioemotional vulnerability) in adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment ( N = 55; Mage = 14.07 years). Adolescents’ resting HP across visits was best characterized by two latent trajectories: a stable high class (25.5%) and a stable low class (74.5%). The stable low HP trajectory was associated with higher shyness at Time 1 (T1), and HP trajectory moderated the association between T1 and Time 3 (T3) shyness. Females in the stable low HP trajectory demonstrated stability of shyness from T1 to T3, whereas T1 and T3 shyness were unrelated for females in the stable high HP trajectory. We also found that shyness at T1 and T3 was associated with greater levels of anxiety at T3. These findings illustrate heterogeneity in the developmental patterns of resting autonomic activity in adolescent females exposed to child maltreatment; such differences may influence the continuity of some traits linked with socioemotional vulnerability such as shyness.

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Trajectories of Resting Heart Period and Shyness in Adolescent Females Exposed to Child Maltreatment

Poole

MacMillan

2018

Child Maltreat

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“…Shyness in middle childhood has also been related to reductions in RSA from baseline to a stranger approach task (Poole & Schmidt, 2021a). Further, shyness in early childhood has been associated with a stable high heart rate in response to viewing videoclips designed to elicit social threat (Poole & Schmidt, 2018).…”

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Childhood shyness: An exemplar of the interface of cognition and emotion in human development.

Schmidt,

Hassan,

Kong

et al. 2024

Child Development at the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition (2nd Ed.).

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S hyness reflects fear and an anxious preoccupation with the self in response to real or anticipated social interaction (Melchior & Cheek, 1990). Inherent in this definition is the idea that the interdependence of cognitive and emotional processes plays a critical role in shyness. However, much of the theoretical and empirical work to date on the study of shyness has focused largely on the independence of cognitive and emotional processes in understanding shyness, with relatively little discussion of how the interdependence of cognition and emotion might advance our understanding of shyness. In this chapter, we argue that examining the interdependence of cognition and emotion may allow for additional understanding of the development and maintenance of shyness.In Figure 9.1, a Venn diagram illustrates how shyness can be positioned within the interdependence of cognition and emotion. In this figure, the gray ring denotes cognitive processes, reflecting slower and more planful and controlled processes, while the black ring denotes emotional processes, reflectingThe writing of this chapter was supported by operating grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health awarded to Louis A. Schmidt; an SSHRC Vanier Graduate Scholarship awarded to Raha Hassan; a Graduate Scholarship from the Chinese Government awarded to Xiaoxue Kong; an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Taigan L. MacGowan; and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Kristie L. Poole. The last four authors contributed equally to the writing of this chapter and are listed alphabetically.

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“…Despite this, we did not find evidence of a correlation between self-reported shyness and observed social engagement. Nevertheless, given the multifaceted nature of shyness, future studies should consider incorporating a variety of measures, including reports from other respondents (parents, teachers, and/or peers), task-based behavioural measures, and physiological measures (e.g., heart period; Poole & Schmidt, 2018).…”

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Shyness, social engagement, and conversational response times in children's dyadic interactions with an unfamiliar peer

Wilson,

Powell,

Hernandez

et al. 2024

Social Development

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To be a desirable social partner and develop healthy relationships with peers, a child must be able to engage with peers across a variety of contexts. Understanding the factors supporting high levels of social engagement with peers is thereby essential, requiring the development of nuanced and ecologically valid indices of social engagement. Building on recent adult work, the current study explores conversational response time as a novel index of children's social engagement with peers in a dyadic context. This study further explores relationship between conversational response time and children's shyness. Fifty‐six 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children interacted with an unfamiliar peer in an unstructured setting and completed a self‐report measure of shyness. Children's behaviour was coded for their conversational RTs and overall social engagement. Faster conversational RTs were significantly related to children's own social engagement and marginally related to their partners' engagement. Moreover, higher shyness in children's partners predicted faster conversational RTs in children themselves. New directions for using conversational RT as an index of children's social engagement and implications for accounts children's social development are discussed.

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Trajectory of heart period to socioaffective threat in shy children

Cited by 10 publications

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Trajectories of Resting Heart Period and Shyness in Adolescent Females Exposed to Child Maltreatment

Trajectories of Resting Heart Period and Shyness in Adolescent Females Exposed to Child Maltreatment

Childhood shyness: An exemplar of the interface of cognition and emotion in human development.

Shyness, social engagement, and conversational response times in children's dyadic interactions with an unfamiliar peer

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