Cardiac vagal regulation differentiates among children at risk for behavior problems

Biological Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-153

  Calkins, Susan D ^a   Graziano, Paulo A ^a   Keane, Susan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior problems; Cardiac vagal control; Cardiac vagal tone; Externalizing; Vagal regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VAGUS NERVE;

CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REST; RISK FACTORS; SELF EFFICACY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33845707630     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Achenbach T.M. Integrative Guide for the 1991 CBCL/4-18, YSR & TRF Profiles (1991), University of Vermont Department of Psychiatry, Burlington, VT
2. Achenbach T.M., Howell C.T., Quay H.C., and Connors C.K. National survey of problems and competencies among four-to-sixteen-year-olds: parents' reports for normative and clinical samples. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 56 (1991) (Serial No. 225, Whole No. 3)
3. Beauchaine T. Vagal tone, development, and Gray's motivational theory: toward an integrated model of autonomic nervous system functioning in psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology 13 (2001) 183-214
4. Baumeister R.F., and Vohs K.D. Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Application (2004), The Guilford Press, New York
5. Blair C. Behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation in young children: relations with self-regulation and adaptation to preschool children attending Head Start. Developmental Psychobiology 42 (2003) 301-311
6. Calkins S.D. Origins and outcomes of individual differences in emotional regulation. In: Fox N.A. (Ed). Emotion Regulation: Behavioral and Biological Considerations. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (1994) 53-72 (Nos. 2-3, Serial No. 240)
7. Calkins S.D. Cardiac vagal tone indices of temperamental reactivity and behavioral regulation in young children. Developmental Psychobiology 31 (1997) 125-135
8. Calkins, S.D. Regulatory competence and early disruptive behavior problems: the role of physiological regulation. In: Olson, S., Sameroff, A. (Eds.), Regulatory Processes in the Development of Behavior Problems: Biological, Behavioral, and Social-Ecological Interactions. Cambridge University Press, in press.
9. Calkins S.D., and Dedmon S.E. Physiological and behavioral regulation in two-year-old children with aggressive/destructive behavior problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 28 (2000) 103-118
10. Calkins S.D., Dedmon S., Gill K., Lomax L., and Johnson L. Frustration in infancy: implications for emotion regulation, physiological processes, and temperament. Infancy 3 (2002) 175-198
11. Calkins S.D., and Fox N.A. Self-regulatory processes in early personality development: a multilevel approach to the study of childhood social withdrawal and aggression. Development and Psychopathology 14 (2002) 477-498
12. Calkins S.D., and Johnson M. Toddler regulation of distress to frustrating events: temperamental and maternal correlates. Infant Behavior and Development 21 (1998) 379-395
13. Calkins S.D., and Keane S.P. Cardiac vagal regulation across the preschool period: stability, continuity, and implications for childhood adjustment. Developmental Psychobiology 45 (2004) 101-112
14. Campbell S.B. Behavior Problems in Preschool Children: Clinical and Developmental Issues. second ed. (2002), Guilford Press, New York
15. DeGangi G., DiPietro J., Greenspan S., and Porges S.W. Psychophysiological characteristics of the regulatory disordered infant. Infant Behavior and Development 14 (1991) 37-50
16. Doussard-Roosevelt, Montgomery L., and Porges S. Short-term stability of physiological measures in kindergarten children: respiratory sinus arrhythmia, heart period, and cortisol. Developmental Psychobiology 43 (2003) 230-242
17. Eisenberg N., Fabes R., Guthrie I., Murphy B., Maszk P., Holmgren R., and Suh K. The relations of regulation and emotionality to problem behavior in elementary school. Development and Psychopathology 8 (1996) 141-162
18. Eisenberg N., Fabes R., Murphy B., Maszk P., Smith M., and Karbon M. The role of emotionality and regulation in children's social functioning: a longitudinal study. Child Development 66 (1995) 1360-1384
19. El-Sheik M. Stability of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in children and young adolescents. Developmental Psychobiology 46 (2005) 307-317
20. Fox N.A. Psychophysiological correlates of emotional reactivity during the first year of life. Developmental Psychology 25 (1989) 364-372
21. Fox N.A. Dynamic cerebral processes underlying emotion regulation. In: Fox N.A. (Ed). Emotion Regulation: Behavioral and Biological Considerations. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (1994) 152-166 (Nos. 2-3, Serial No. 240)
22. Fox N., and Calkins S.D. The development of self-control of emotion: intrinsic and extrinsic influences. Motivation and Emotion 23 (2003) 7-26
23. Gilliom M., and Shaw D.S. Codevelopment of externalizing and internalizing problems in early childhood. Development and Psychopathology 16 (2004) 313-333
24. Goldsmith H.H., and Rothbart M.K. The Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (LAB-TAB) (1993), University of Wisconsin
25. Hinshaw S.P., Lahey B.B., and Hart E. Issues of taxonomy and comorbidity in the development of conduct disorder. Development and Psychopathology 5 (1993) 31-49
26. Hoffheimer J.A., Wood B.R., Porges S.W., Pearson E., and Lawson E. Respiratory sinus arrhthymia and social interaction patterns in preterm newborns. Infant Behavior and Development 18 (1995) 233-245
27. Hollingshead A.B. Four Factor Index of Social Status (1975), Yale University
28. Huffman L.C., Bryan Y., del Carmen R., Pederson F., Doussard-Roosevelt J., and Porges S. Infant temperament and cardiac vagal tone: assessments at twelve weeks of age. Child Development 69 (1998) 624-635
29. Keenan K. Emotion dysregulation as a risk factor for child psychopathology. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 7 (2000) 418-434
30. Keenan K., and Shaw D.S. Exploring the etiology of antisocial behavior in the first years of life. In: Lahey B.B., Moffitt T.E., and Caspi A. (Eds). Causes of Conduct Disorder and Juvenile Delinquency (2003), The Guilford Press, New York 153-181
31. Keiley M.K., Lofthouse N., Bates J.E., Dodge K.A., and Pettit G.S. Differential risks of covarying and pure components in mother and teacher reports of externalizing and internalizing behavior across ages 5 to 14. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 31 (2003) 267-283
32. Kochanska G., Murray K., and Coy K.C. Inhibitory control as a contributor to conscience in childhood: from toddler to early school age. Child Development 68 (1997) 264-277
33. Kopp C. Antecedents of self-regulation: a developmental perspective. Developmental Psychology 18 (1982) 199-214
34. Lahey B., Hart E., Pliska S., Applegate B., and McBurnett R. Neurophysiological correlates of conduct disorder: a rationale and review of research. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 22 (1993) 141-153
35. Lilienfeld S.O. Comorbidity between and within childhood externalizing and internalizing disorders: reflections and directions. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 31 (2003) 285-291
36. Mezzacappa E., Tremblay R., Kindlon D., Saul J., Arseneault L., Seguin J., Pihl R., and Earls F. Anxiety, antisocial behavior, and heart rate regulation in adolescent males. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 38 (1997) 457-469
37. Moffitt T.E. Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: a developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review 100 4 (1993) 674-701
38. NICHD SECC. Trajectories of physical aggression from toddlerhood to middle childhood. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 69 (2004) 278
39. Nigg J.T., and Huang-Pollock C.L. An early-onset model of the role of executive functions and intelligence in conduct disorder/delinquency. In: Lahey B.B., Moffit T.E., and Caspi A. (Eds). Causes of Conduct Disorder and Juvenile Delinquency (2003), Guilford Press, New York 227-253
40. Olweus D. Stability of aggressive reactive patterns in males: a review. Psychological Bulletin 86 (1979) 852-875
41. Pine D., Wasserman G., Miller L., Coplan J., Bagiella E., Kovelenku P., Myers M., and Sloan R. Heart period variability and psychopathology in urban boys at risk for delinquency. Psychophysiology 35 (1998) 521-529
42. Porges, S.W., 1985. Method and apparatus for evaluating rhythmic oscillations in aperiodic physiological response systems. United States patent no. 4520944.
43. Porges S.W. Vagal tone: An autonomic mediator of affect. In: Garber J., and Dodge K.A. (Eds). The Development of Emotional Regulation and Dysregulation (1991), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 111-128
44. Porges S.W. Physiological regulation in high-risk infants: a model for assessment and potential intervention. Development and Psychopathology 8 (1996) 43-58
45. Porges S.W. The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a social nervous system. International Journal of Psychophysiology 42 (2001) 123-146
46. Porges S.W. The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic contributions to social behavior. Physiology and Behavior (2003) 503-513
47. Porges S.W., and Byrne E.A. Research methods for measurement of heart rate and respiration. Biological Psychology 34 (1992) 93-130
48. Porges S.W., Doussard-Roosevelt J., and Maita A.K. Vagal tone and the physiological regulation of emotion. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 59 (1994) 167-186 (Nos. 2-3, Serial No. 240)
49. Porges S.W., Doussard-Roosevelt J., Portales L., and Greenspan S.I. Infant regulation of the vagal "Brake" predicts child behavior problems: a psychobiological model of social behavior. Developmental Psychobiology 29 (1996) 697-712
50. Raine A. Autonomic nervous system activity and violence. In: Stoff D.M., and Cairns R.B. (Eds). Aggression and Violence (1996), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 145-168
51. Raine A., and Jones F. Attention, autonomic arousal, and personality in behaviorally disordered children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 15 (1987) 583-599
52. Raine A., Venables P., and Mednick S. Low resting heart rate at age three years predisposes to aggression at age 11 years: evidence from the Mauritius Child Health Project. Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36 (1997) 1457-1464
53. Raine A., Venable P., and Williams M. Relationship between CNS and ANS measures of arousal at age 15 and criminality at age 24. Archives of General Psychiatry 47 (1990) 1003-1007
54. Richards J.E. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia predicts heart rate and visual responses during visual attention in 14- and 20-week-old infants. Psychophysiology 22 (1985) 101-109
55. Richards J.E. Infant visual sustained attention and respiratory sinus arrhythmia. Child Development 58 (1987) 488-496
56. Richards J.E., and Cameron D. Infant heart rate variability and behavioral developmental status. Infant Behavior and Development 12 (1989) 45-58
57. Shaw D.S., Keenan K., Vondra J., Delliquadri E., and Giovanelli J. Antecedents of preschool children's internalizing problems: a longitudinal study of low-income families. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36 (1997) 1760-1767
58. Smith C., Calkins S., Keane S.P., Anastopoulos A., and Shelton T. Predicting stability and change in toddler behavior problems: contributions of maternal behavior and child sex. Developmental Psychology 40 (2004) 29-42
59. Stifter C.A., and Fox N.A. Infant reactivity: physiological correlates of newborn and 5-month temperament. Developmental Psychology 26 (1990) 582-588
60. Suess P.E., Porges S.W., and Plude D.J. Cardiac vagal tone and sustained attention in school-age children. Psychophysiology 31 (1994) 17-22
61. Thompson R.A. Emotion regulation: a theme in search of a definition. In: Fox N.A. (Ed). Emotion Regulation: Behavioral and Biological Considerations. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (1994) 25-52 (Nos. 2-3, Serial No. 240)
62. Van Hulle C.A., Corley R., Zahn-Waxler C., Kagan J., and Hewitt J.K. Early childhood heart rate does not predict externalizing behavior problems at age 7 years. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 39 (2000) 1238-1244
63. Wilson B., and Gottman J. Attention-the shuttle between emotion and cognition: risk, resiliency, and physiological bases. In: Hetherington E., and Blechman E. (Eds). Stress, Coping and Resiliency in Children and Families (1996), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ
64. Zahn-Waxler C., Cole P., Welsh J., and Fox N. Psychophysiological correlates of empathy and prosocial behaviors in preschool children with behavior problems. Development and Psychopathology 7 (1995) 27-48