ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2018
Sympathetic Under-Arousal and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Wearable Solutions Using Physiological Signals for Stress Monitoring on Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Systematic Literature Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
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- Developmental Impacts of Early Sensory Patterns on School-Age Adaptive, Maladaptive, and Participation Outcomes in Autistic and Non-autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder.Developmental psychobiology · 2024Article
- Wearables measuring electrodermal activity to assess perceived stress in care: a scoping review.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2023Review
- Parasympathetic withdrawal indexes risk for emotion dysregulation in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Parasympathetic functioning and sleep problems in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Electrodermal Activity Moderates Sleep-Behavior Associations in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Higher-order dimensions of psychopathology in a neurodevelopmental transdiagnostic sample.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2021Article
- Parental Socialization of Emotion and Psychophysiological Arousal Patterns in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown in Malaysia: An Examination of the Psychological Well-Being of Parent-Child Dyads and Child Behavior in Families With Children on the Autism Spectrum.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Atypical Emotional Electrodermal Activity in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020Article
- Physiological arousal and observed behaviour in parent-child interactions involving young children with Down syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2020Article
- Autism and Reactions to Provocation in a Social and Non-social Context.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, parenting, and externalizing behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020Article
- Sympathetic-Parasympathetic Interaction and Externalizing Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2019Article
- A Cross-Sectional Examination of the Internalization of Emotion Co-regulatory Support in Children with ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
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Abstract
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly exhibit co-occurring externalizing behavior problems, which can impede learning opportunities and contribute significantly to caregiver stress. Substantial theory and research has linked under-arousal of the sympathetic nervous system to increased externalizing problems in children without ASD, but under-arousal has not been considered as an explanatory mechanism for individual differences among children with ASD. We tested the notion that lower electrodermal activity (EDA) would predict more externalizing problems in children with ASD, and considered the degree to which parent co-regulatory support could buffer this risk. Forty children with ASD between the ages of 4 and 11 years and their primary caregivers participated in a laboratory visit that included various play, compliance, and problem-solving regulatory tasks. EDA was measured through wireless wrist sensors, parental scaffolding was observed during a dyadic problem-solving task, and parents rated their children's externalizing behavior problems. As predicted, low EDA during the compliance-oriented tasks directly predicted higher child externalizing problems. Parental scaffolding moderated the link between under-arousal during the problem-solving regulatory tasks and externalizing problems such that the relation was observed in the context of low, but not high, support. Implications for relevant theories (e.g., fearlessness theory, stimulation-seeking theory) are discussed, and the potential for psychophysiological patterns to inform intervention with these children is considered.
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