ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2019
Autonomic complexity and emotion (dys-)regulation in early childhood across high- and low-risk contexts.
Article in Development and psychopathology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Adrenocortical and autonomic cross-system regulation in youth: A meta-analysis.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Pooled it
- Flexible autonomic nervous system dynamics underlie attentional engagement in infancy.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Vortioxetine's impact on the autonomic nervous system in depressed children and adolescents: analysis of the heart rate variability.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Autonomic complexity dynamically indexes affect regulation in everyday life.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Second-by-second infant and mother emotion regulation and coregulation processes.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Within-mother variability in vagal functioning and concurrent socioemotional dysregulation.Psychophysiology · 2021Article
- Brief Report: Can a Composite Heart Rate Variability Biomarker Shed New Insights About Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-Aged Children?Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Self-regulation as promotive for academic achievement in young children across risk contexts.Cognitive developmentArticle
- Behavioral and Cognitive Differences in Early Childhood related to Prenatal Marijuana Exposure.Journal of applied developmental psychologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Developing the ability to regulate one's emotions in accordance with contextual demands (i.e., emotion regulation) is a central developmental task of early childhood. These processes are supported by the engagement of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), a physiological hub of a vast network tasked with dynamically integrating real-time experiential inputs with internal motivational and goal states. To date, much of what is known about the ANS and emotion regulation has been based on measures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia, a cardiac indicator of parasympathetic activity. In the present study, we draw from dynamical systems models to introduce two nonlinear indices of cardiac complexity (fractality and sample entropy) as potential indicators of these broader ANS dynamics. Using data from a stratified sample of preschoolers living in high- (i.e., emergency homeless shelter) and low-risk contexts (N = 115), we show that, in conjunction with respiratory sinus arrhythmia, these nonlinear indices may help to clarify important differences in the behavioral manifestations of emotion regulation. In particular, our results suggest that cardiac complexity may be especially useful for discerning active, effortful emotion regulation from less effortful regulation and dysregulation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.