ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2018
Young Children's Physiological Reactivity during Memory Recall: Associations with Posttraumatic Stress and Parent Physiological Synchrony.
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- Stress reactivity during short trauma narratives in adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
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- Associations between children's trauma-related sequelae and skin conductance captured through mobile technology.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Article
- Developmental trauma: Conceptual framework, associated risks and comorbidities, and evaluation and treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Adversity is Linked with Decreased Parent-Child Behavioral and Neural Synchrony.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- Individual differences in parent and child average RSA and parent psychological distress influence parent-child RSA synchrony.Biological psychology · 2021Article
- Firm parenting and youth adjustment: Stress reactivity and dyadic synchrony of respiratory sinus arrhythmia.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Children's history of suicidal ideation and synchrony of facial displays of affect during mother-child interactions.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2021Article
- A Longitudinal Examination of Heart-Rate and Heart Rate Variability as Risk Markers for Child Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in an Acute Injury Sample.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Maternal major depression and synchrony of facial affect during mother-child interactions.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Autonomic reactivity is implicated in stress response and social engagement - both key components of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - but few studies have examined autonomic reactivity in pediatric samples, and no known studies have examined physiological synchrony among children with PTSD and caregivers. In a sample of 247 young children (94 girls, 153 boys), most (85%) of whom had exposure to trauma and 40% who met criteria for PTSD, we examined children's patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) at baseline and in response to a memory recall task, as well as correspondence between parents' and children's RSA. Children with PTSD demonstrated significantly higher reactivity than other groups during their recollection of a traumatic memory, but not during other memory tasks. Regarding synchrony, caregivers' and children's RSA were more significantly and positively correlated during the trauma recall task among children who had had exposure to a potentially traumatic event but did not meet PTSD criteria, suggesting physiological synchrony may be protective in contexts of trauma. Overall, findings demonstrate physiological reactivity differences among young children with PTSD. While more work is needed to understand the meaning of parent-child physiological synchrony, these data suggest that children's psychopathology is associated with physiological synchrony processes among young children with exposure to trauma.
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