Individual differences in adolescents' sympathetic and parasympathetic functioning moderate associations between family environment and psychosocial adjustment

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 918-931

  Diamond, Lisa M ^a   Fagundes, Christopher P ^a,b   Cribbet, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Autonomic reactivity; Psychosocial adjustment; RSA; SCL

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84871881298     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026901     Document Type: Article

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