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Trajectories of internalizing symptoms across childhood: The roles of biological self-regulation and maternal psychopathology

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Shanahan, Lilly, Calkins, Susan D., Keane, Susan P., Kelleher, Rachael, Suffness, Rebecca·2014·Development and Psychopathology

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Whether internalizing symptoms increase or remain at similar levels throughout childhood is currently not well understood. Moreover, the association between vagal regulation of cardiac activity and internalizing symptoms across childhood needs to be clarified. We used a multilevel conceptual framework to examine how children's vagal regulation of cardiac activity and mothers' internalizing symptoms were jointly associated with children's developmental trajectories of internalizing symptoms from ages 4 to 10 years old. Data came from 384 children who participated in an ongoing longitudinal study. Children and their mothers came to the research laboratory at ages 4, 5, 7, and 10. Mothers reported their children's and their own internalizing symptoms. Children's vagal regulation of cardiac activity was assessed during quiet baseline tasks and during challenge tasks. Multilevel models revealed that child internalizing symptoms increased from ages 4 to 10 years old, but only in females, and especially between ages 7 and 10. More vagal withdrawal in response to challenge was associated with more internalizing symptoms, particularly with more somatic symptoms. Associations between children's physiological regulation and internalizing symptoms differed by children's age, sex, and presence of maternal internalizing symptoms. Understanding associations between vagal regulation of cardiac activity and internalizing symptoms during childhood calls for fine-grained developmental analyses that take into account the heterogeneity of internalizing symptoms, as well as developmental phase, context, and gender.

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Authors
Shanahan, L., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., Kelleher, R., & Suffness, R.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
Corresponding author
Shanahan, Lilly
Venue
Development and Psychopathology
Published
2014-11
Volume
26
Issue
4pt2
Pages
1353-1368
ISSN
  • 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-2198
OpenAlex
W2116464128
Cited by
52
References
102
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH55625, MH 55584, 58144, R01MH058144, R03MH055625, 55584, MH58144, 55625, R29MH055584)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD078346)
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 › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
internalizing problems, childhood, vagal regulation, cardiac activity, self-regulation, maternal psychopathology, developmental trajectories, somatic symptoms, sex differences, vagal withdrawal
MeSH terms
Adult, Age Factors, Anxiety, Behavioral Symptoms, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Depression, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mothers, Sex Factors, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia

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