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Children's physiological reactivity in emotion contexts and prosocial behavior

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Coulombe, Brianne R., Rudd, Kristen L., Yates, Tuppett M.·2019·Brain and Behavior
DOI 10.1002/brb3.1380PMC PMC6790335
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INTRODUCTION: Building on prior evidence that prosocial behavior is related to the regulation of personal distress in difficult situations, and given that physiological regulation is a central contributor to effective emotion regulation, this investigation evaluated whether and how children's autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity during emotion challenges influenced later expressions of prosocial behavior. METHODS: The current study utilized a diverse sample of school-aged children (N = 169; 47.9% female; 47.3% Latinx) to evaluate relations between children's parasympathetic (i.e., respiratory sinus arrhythmia; RSA) and sympathetic (i.e., pre-ejection period; PEP) reactivity in response to each of three film-elicited emotion challenges (i.e., sadness, happiness, and fear) at age 7 and both observed and parent-reported prosocial behavior one year later. RESULTS: Children's parasympathetic reactivity to a film eliciting sadness evidenced a nonlinear relation with later prosocial sharing such that children who evidenced either RSA withdrawal or augmentation in response to the sad emotion challenge engaged in higher levels of prosocial behavior than children who evidenced relatively low or absent reactivity. Parasympathetic reactivity to films eliciting happiness or fear was not significantly related to later prosocial behavior. Likewise, children's sympathetic reactivity in response to the emotion challenges did not significantly predict later prosocial behavior. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide preliminary support for a nonlinear association between children's parasympathetic emotion reactivity and later prosocial behavior, and suggest that children's ANS regulation in sad emotion contexts may be particularly important for understanding prosocial development.

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Authors
Coulombe, B. R., Rudd, K. L., & Yates, T. M.
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University of California, Riverside (US)
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Coulombe, Brianne R.
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Brain and Behavior
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Wiley
Published
2019-09-15
Volume
9
Issue
10
Pages
e01380-e01380
ISSN
  • 2157-9032 (ISSN-L)
  • 2162-3279
DOI
10.1002/brb3.1380
PMC
PMC6790335
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W2973715643
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Funders
National Science Foundation (DLS-0951775)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
Keywords
children, autonomic reactivity, prosocial behavior, emotion regulation, parasympathetic reactivity, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, pre-ejection period, sadness, sharing, nonlinear effects, prosocial development
MeSH terms
Sadness, Emotional Regulation, Autonomic Nervous System, Child, Child Behavior, Emotions, Fear, Female, Happiness, Homeostasis, Humans, Male, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Social Behavior, Sympathetic Nervous System, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia

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