Children's behavioral inhibition and anxiety disorder symptom severity: The role of individual differences in respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Viana, Andres G.; Palmer, Cara A.; Zvolensky, Michael J.; Alfano, Candice A.; Dixon, Laura; Raines, Elizabeth M.

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2017.03.012

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“…& Bell, 2015), and anxiety (El-Sheikh, Arsiwalla, Hinnant, & Erath, 2011;Schmitz, Krämer, Tuschen-Caffier, Heinrichs, & Blechert, 2011;Viana et al, 2017), although associations with anxiety are not consistent (e.g., Alkozei, Creswell, Cooper, & Allen, 2015;Greaves-Lord et al, 2010) and sometimes occur only in combination with a second risk factor (El-Sheikh et al, 2011;El-Sheikh, Harger, & Whitson, 2001;McLaughlin, Rith-Najarian, Dirks, & Sheridan, 2015).…”

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Autonomy‐restrictive socialization of anger: Associations with school‐aged children’s physiology, trait anxiety, state distress, and relationship closeness

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Autonomy‐restrictive socialization of anger: Associations with school‐aged children’s physiology, trait anxiety, state distress, and relationship closeness

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“…For example, children high in physiological arousal are capable of both flourishing in protective environments and suffering negative behavioral outcomes under hardship ( Boyce and Ellis, 2005 ). One such biological phenotypic marker is low resting RSA, which indicates sympathetic nervous system dominance at rest, resulting in increased vigilance and limited physiological flexibility to meet environmental demands ( Thayer and Lane, 2000 ; Hinnant and El-Sheikh, 2009 ; Viana et al, 2017 ). This in turn may predispose individuals to more negative behavioral outcomes under adversity ( Boyce and Ellis, 2005 ).…”

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“…RSA was computed in milliseconds as the difference between the maximum and the minimum interbeat intervals during respiration, and higher values indicate greater PNS activity ( Gruber et al, 2009 ). Peak-valley method has been widely used ( El-Sheikh et al, 2001 ; El-Sheikh and Whitson, 2006 ; Hinnant and El-Sheikh, 2009 ; Gordis et al, 2010 ; El-Sheikh and Hinnant, 2011 ; Viana et al, 2017 ) and is comparable with other methods of assessing RSA, such as spectral analysis ( Grossman et al, 1990 ).…”

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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Activity Predicts Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in Non-referred Boys

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Atypical respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), a biomarker of emotion dysregulation, is associated with both externalizing and internalizing behaviors. In addition, social adversity and gender may moderate this association. In this study, we investigated if RSA (both resting RSA and RSA reactivity in an emotion regulation task) predicts externalizing and/or internalizing behaviors and the extent to which social adversity moderates this relationship. Two hundred and fifty-three children (at Time 1, mean age = 9.05, SD = 0.60, 48% boys) and their caregivers from the community participated in this study. Resting RSA and RSA reactivity were assessed, and caregivers reported children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors at both Time 1 and Time 2 (1 year later). We found that lower resting RSA (but not RSA reactivity) at Time 1 was associated with increased externalizing and internalizing behaviors at Time 2 in boys, even after controlling for the effects of Time 1 behavioral problems and Time 2 age. Moreover, there was a significant interaction effect between Time 1 resting RSA and social adversity such that lower resting RSA predicted higher externalizing and internalizing behaviors in boys only under conditions of high social adversity. Follow-up analyses revealed that these predictive effects were stronger for externalizing behavior than for internalizing behavior. No significant effects were found for girls. Our findings provide further evidence that low resting RSA may be a transdiagnostic biomarker of emotion dysregulation and a predisposing risk factor for both types of behavior problems, in particular for boys who grow up in adverse environments. We conclude that biosocial interaction effects and gender differences should be considered when examining the etiological mechanisms of child psychopathology.

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“…Mothers were randomized to either (a) the “positive training” condition, in which they underwent a computer‐based interpretation bias training that provided feedback to correct the mother's negative interpretation biases; or (b) a “neutral training” condition through which mothers received no feedback on their interpretation biases. Subsequently, an experimenter conducted a baseline RSA assessment with the child, during which the child was asked to sit still for five minutes with their eyes open, consistent with past work (El‐Sheikh, Erath, & Bagley, 2013; Viana et al., 2017, 2019). After completing the baseline RSA assessment, children were instructed to prepare for an anxiety‐provoking speech task (i.e., a speech about the child's family in front of a recording video camera) by spending five minutes discussing with their mother how they would approach the task (e.g., what to say, how to present the information).…”

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Interpretation biases and depressive symptoms among anxiety‐disordered children: The role of individual differences in respiratory sinus arrhythmia

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Individual differences in interpretation biases—the tendency to interpret ambiguous stimuli as threatening—partially explain the presence of comorbid depressive symptoms among anxious youth. Increasing efforts have examined physiological processes that influence the association between interpretation biases and depressive symptoms in this population, and potential gender differences in this relationship. This study examined the moderating role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) suppression (i.e., decrease from baseline)—an index of parasympathetic nervous system reactivity—in the association between interpretation biases and depressive symptoms in clinically anxious youth. One‐hundred‐and‐five clinically anxious children (Mage = 10.09 years, SD = 1.22; 56.7% female; 61.9% racial/ethnic minority) completed measures of self‐reported and behaviorally indexed interpretation biases, reported anxiety/depression symptom severity, and participated in a speech task. RSA suppression during the task moderated the association between interpretation biases and depressive symptom severity in the total sample. Separate exploratory moderation analyses were conducted among girls and boys. Among girls, RSA suppression moderated the association between behaviorally indexed interpretation biases and depressive symptoms, and marginally moderated (p = .067) the association between self‐reported interpretation biases and depressive symptoms. Among boys, RSA suppression was not a significant moderator. These findings may help identify clinically anxious youth most at‐risk for comorbid depressive symptoms.

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Children's behavioral inhibition and anxiety disorder symptom severity: The role of individual differences in respiratory sinus arrhythmia

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References 63 publications

Autonomy‐restrictive socialization of anger: Associations with school‐aged children’s physiology, trait anxiety, state distress, and relationship closeness

Autonomy‐restrictive socialization of anger: Associations with school‐aged children’s physiology, trait anxiety, state distress, and relationship closeness

Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Activity Predicts Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in Non-referred Boys

Interpretation biases and depressive symptoms among anxiety‐disordered children: The role of individual differences in respiratory sinus arrhythmia

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