PMID- 36282741 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221027 LR - 20230126 IS - 1098-2302 (Electronic) IS - 0012-1630 (Linking) VI - 64 IP - 7 DP - 2022 Nov TI - Autonomic nervous system activity moderates associations between temperament and externalizing behaviors in early childhood. PG - e22323 LID - 10.1002/dev.22323 [doi] AB - Temperamental risk, such as surgency, negative affect, and poor effortful control, has been posited as a predictor of externalizing symptom development. However, autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity underlying processes of reactivity and regulation may moderate associations between early temperament and later externalizing behaviors during early childhood. The aim of the present study was to examine how interactions between resting sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) activity at age 5 may moderate associations between temperamental risk at age 3 and externalizing behavior at age 6 (n = 87). Results demonstrate different interactions between resting ANS activity and temperamental risk to predict externalizing behaviors. For children with lower SNS activation at rest, surgency was positively associated with externalizing behaviors. Negative affect was positively associated with externalizing behaviors except when there were either high levels of SNS and PNS activity or low levels of SNS and PNS activity. Effortful control was not associated with externalizing behaviors, though SNS and PNS activity interacted to predict externalizing behaviors after accounting for effortful control. Taken together, the results highlight the importance to examine multisystem resting physiological activity as a moderator of associations between temperamental risk and the development of externalizing behaviors. CI - (c) 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Zhou, Anna M AU - Zhou AM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3407-625X AD - Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. FAU - Morales, Santiago AU - Morales S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9850-042X AD - Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. FAU - Youatt, Elizabeth A AU - Youatt EA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2787-7940 AD - Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. FAU - Buss, Kristin A AU - Buss KA AD - Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - United States TA - Dev Psychobiol JT - Developmental psychobiology JID - 0164074 SB - IM MH - Child MH - Humans MH - Child, Preschool MH - *Temperament/physiology MH - Autonomic Nervous System MH - *Child Behavior Disorders MH - Parasympathetic Nervous System OTO - NOTNLM OT - autonomic nervous system OT - externalizing behaviors OT - pre-ejection period OT - respiratory sinus arrhythmia OT - temperament EDAT- 2022/10/26 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/28 06:00 CRDT- 2022/10/25 13:12 PHST- 2022/06/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/10/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/25 13:12 [entrez] PHST- 2022/10/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/28 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/dev.22323 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dev Psychobiol. 2022 Nov;64(7):e22323. doi: 10.1002/dev.22323.