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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Parasympathetic Nervous System Functioning Moderates the Associations between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Emotion Understanding Difficulties in Late Childhood.

Sarah F Lynch, Samantha Perlstein, Cora Ordway, Callie Jones, Hanna Lembcke, Rebecca Waller, Nicholas J Wagner

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sarah F LynchDevelopmental Sciences, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Samantha PerlsteinClinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Cora OrdwayDevelopmental Sciences, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Callie JonesClinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2514-7984
Hanna LembckeDepartment of General Psychology, University of Hagen, 58097 Hagen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3088-7928
Rebecca WallerClinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Nicholas J WagnerDevelopmental Sciences, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Boston University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · USFernUniversität in Hagen · DE

Funding

Risky Parenting and Temperament Pathways To Callous-Unemotional Traits In Early ChildhoodR01MH125904 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Nicholas J Wagner, Rebecca Waller · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
Examining Neurophysiological Predictors of Treatment Response to a Multi-Component Early Intervention for Socially Inhibited PreschoolersR03MH123762 · NIMH · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI WAGNER, NICHOLAS J · 2021 to 2022
$176k
NIMH NIH HHS R01MH125904NIMH NIH HHS R03MH123762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCallous-unemotional (CU) traits are characterized by low empathy, guilt, and prosociality, putting children at risk for lifespan antisocial behavior. Elevated CU traits have been linked separately to difficulties with emotion understanding (i.e., identifying emotional states of others) and disrupted parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) functioning. However, no study has investigated how PNS functioning and emotion understanding are jointly related to CU traits.

methodWe explored associations between CU traits, emotion understanding, and PNS functioning (indexed via respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) among children aged 7-10 years old (

resultsHigher CU traits were related to lower emotion understanding (

conclusionsThe link between poorer emotion understanding, fear understanding in particular, and CU traits was attenuated for children who demonstrated patterns of PNS functioning consistent with attentional engagement while viewing the emotion stimuli.

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callous unemotional traitsemotion understandingparasympathetic nervous systemphysiological regulation

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