Dyadic coping, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and depressive symptoms among parents of preschool children

A Switzer, W Caldwell, C Da Estrela, ET Barker… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a biomarker of cardiac vagal tone that has been
linked to social functioning. Recent studies suggest that RSA moderates the impact of …

Maternal depression and the heart of parenting: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and affective dynamics during parent–adolescent interactions.

AM Connell, A Hughes-Scalise… - Journal of Family …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Maternal depression is associated with problematic parenting and the development of
emotional and behavior problems in children and adolescents. While emotional regulatory …

Respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the relation between parent-adolescent relationship quality and adolescents' social adjustment

J Van der Graaff, W Meeus, M de Wied… - Journal of Abnormal …, 2016 - Springer
This 2-wave longitudinal study aimed (1) to investigate whether high resting RSA predicted
adolescents' lower externalizing behavior and higher empathic concern, and (2) to address …

Physiological linkage and affective dynamics in dyadic interactions between adolescents and their mothers

HN McKillop, AM Connell - Developmental Psychobiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined physiological linkage (specifically, linkage in respiratory sinus
arrhythmia; RSA) between parents and youth (aged 11–17) across conflict and fun activity …

Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the within‐person relations of parental emotional expressivity and children's prosocial behaviors

R Zhang, Z Wang - Developmental Psychobiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parental supportive emotional expressivity could contribute to children's prosocial
behaviors, and such an effect may differ for children with different levels of resting respiratory …

Dynamic changes in parent affect and adolescent cardiac vagal regulation: a real-time analysis.

L Cui, AS Morris, AW Harrist, RE Larzelere… - Journal of Family …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
The current study explored the role of parents' negative and positive affect in adolescent
respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity during a parent–adolescent conflict discussion …

Respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity moderates within-person associations of daily capitalization with positive affect and relationship quality

JP Gouin, WC Caldwell, SL MacNeil… - Journal of Social and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) has been conceptualized as a biomarker of a
neurophysiological system supporting social behaviors. Capitalization, the interpersonal …

Examining biological vulnerability in environmental context: Parenting moderates effects of low resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia on adolescent depressive …

AH Mezulis, SI Crystal, JJ Ahles… - Developmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Polyvagal theory suggests that parasympathetic regulation of cardiac function, indexed by
resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), may be a marker of emotion regulatory capacity …

Biological sensitivity to context as a dyadic construct: An investigation of child–parent RSA synchrony among low-SES youth

A Oshri, S Liu, CM Suveg, MOB Caughy… - Development and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Parenting behaviors are significantly linked to youths' behavioral adjustment, an association
that is moderated by youths' and parents' self-regulation. The biological sensitivity to context …

Individual differences in vagal regulation moderate associations between daily affect and daily couple interactions

LM Diamond, AM Hicks… - Personality and Social …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research suggests that cardiac vagal regulation (indexed by respiratory sinus
arrhythmia, or RSA) provides a physiological substrate for affect regulation, which …