Physiological measurement of emotion from infancy to preschool: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emotion regulation, the ability to regulate emotional responses to environmental stimuli, develops in the first years of life and plays an important role in the development of personality, social competence, and behavior. Substantial literature suggests a relationship between emotion regulation and cardiac physiology; specifically, heart rate changes in response to positive or negative emotion-eliciting stimuli.

Method

This systematic review and meta-analysis provide an in-depth examination of research that has measured physiological responding during emotional-evoking tasks in children from birth to 4 years of age.

Results

The review had three main findings. First, meta-regressions resulted in an age-related decrease in baseline and task-related heart ra

SUBMITTER: Sacrey LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7882167 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature