Population
41 young children
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Vagal tone associations with child temperament may inform developmental assessments; hypothesis-generating and requires longitudinal validation before clinical use.
Baseline vagal tone and its suppression are associated with temperamental reactivity and behavioral regulation in young children, suggesting an adaptive value of physiological regulation in social development.
Susan D. Calkins (1997) studied this question.
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