Resting vagal tone and vagal response to stress: Associations with anxiety, aggression, and perceived anxiety control among youths

This study tested the associations of both resting vagal tone and vagal response to stress with anxiety control beliefs, anxiety, and aggression among 80 youths (aged 11–17 years). Measures included physiological assessments of emotion regulation along with youth self‐report of anxiety control belie...

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Published in:Psychophysiology 2014-08, Vol.51 (8), p.718-727
Main Authors: Scott, Brandon G., Weems, Carl F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Aggression
Aggression - physiology
Aggressiveness
Anxiety
Anxiety - physiopathology
Child
Child psychology
Emotion regulation
Emotions
Emotions - physiology
Female
Galvanic Skin Response - physiology
Heart Rate - physiology
Heart rate variability
Humans
Male
Perceived control
Physiology
Respiratory Rate - physiology
Stress
Stress, Psychological - physiopathology
Vagal tone
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Summary:This study tested the associations of both resting vagal tone and vagal response to stress with anxiety control beliefs, anxiety, and aggression among 80 youths (aged 11–17 years). Measures included physiological assessments of emotion regulation along with youth self‐report of anxiety control beliefs, anxiety, and aggression and caregiver reports of their child's anxiety and aggression. Resting vagal tone was positively related to anxiety control beliefs, but negatively associated with anxiety. Conversely, higher levels of anxiety and aggression were associated with increased vagal tone during a cognitive stress task. Findings suggest associations between physiological and self‐report of emotion regulation (anxiety control beliefs) and that anxiety and aggression may have specific and nonspecific relations with physiological indices of emotion regulation.
ISSN:0048-5772
1469-8986
1540-5958
DOI:10.1111/psyp.12218