Individual differences in parasympathetic functioning across social stressor tasks: Relations with child and parent anxiety.

ABSTRACT: Children with elevated behavioural inhibition (BI) show context-inappropriate fear and dysregulated RSA across stressor tasks. However, few studies have examined dynamic RSA within tasks and relations to parent and child anxiety. Using piecewise growth modelling and multimethod baseline data from an intervention study of 151 3.5-5-year-old children and their parents, we examined relations between child social anxiety (SA), parent anxiety and their interaction in predicting children's RSA across social stressor tasks (e.g. learning about unfamiliar peers, Trier Social Stress). Within the sample, 49.63% of children were reported to be White, non-Hispanic/Latine (n = 67), 22% multiracial (n = 31), 14.81% Asian/Pacific Islander (n = 20) and 12.59% Black/African-American (<

SUBMITTER: Bui HNT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12463174 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature