Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHD
ObjectiveTo investigate the relation between cardiac vagal activity (CVA), a measure of autonomic nervous system (ANS) flexibility, and self-reported emotion regulation (ER) difficulties in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and controls.MethodsThe sample comprised 11–1...
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| author | Elisabet Kvadsheim Ole Bernt Fasmer Berge Osnes Julian Koenig Julian Koenig Steinunn Adolfsdottir Steinunn Adolfsdottir Heike Eichele Kerstin Jessica Plessen Kerstin Jessica Plessen Lin Sørensen |
| author_facet | Elisabet Kvadsheim Ole Bernt Fasmer Berge Osnes Julian Koenig Julian Koenig Steinunn Adolfsdottir Steinunn Adolfsdottir Heike Eichele Kerstin Jessica Plessen Kerstin Jessica Plessen Lin Sørensen |
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| description | ObjectiveTo investigate the relation between cardiac vagal activity (CVA), a measure of autonomic nervous system (ANS) flexibility, and self-reported emotion regulation (ER) difficulties in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and controls.MethodsThe sample comprised 11–17-year-old adolescents with ADHD (n=34) and controls (n = 33). Multiple linear regression analyses investigated the relation between CVA, as indexed by high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), and ER difficulties as assessed by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). Supplemental analyses were performed in ADHD and control groups separately. Analyses assessed effects of body mass index (BMI), physical activity levels, and HF peak as a surrogate of respiration on CVA.ResultsLower CVA was associated with ER difficulties, and specifically with limited access to effective ER strategies. When investigating the relation between CVA and ER in the ADHD and control groups separately, there was a tendency of lower CVA predicting limited access to effective ER strategies in the ADHD group, and not in the control group.ConclusionThe results suggest that lower CVA, i.e., reduced ANS flexibility, in adolescents with ADHD and controls is associated with self-reported ER difficulties, and specifically with limited access to effective ER strategies. There was a tendency for lower CVA to predict limited ER strategies only in the adolescents with ADHD and not controls. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef475a9bf7fd48e6b6a9a45f960ee72b2022-12-21T20:37:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402020-04-011110.3389/fpsyt.2020.00244412644Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHDElisabet Kvadsheim0Ole Bernt Fasmer1Berge Osnes2Julian Koenig3Julian Koenig4Steinunn Adolfsdottir5Steinunn Adolfsdottir6Heike Eichele7Kerstin Jessica Plessen8Kerstin Jessica Plessen9Lin Sørensen10Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayDepartment of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwaySection for Experimental Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, GermanyUniversity Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayDepartment of Visual Impairments, Statped West - National Service for Special Needs Education, Bergen, NorwayDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayChild and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Capital Region Psychiatry, Copenhagen, DenmarkDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkDepartment of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayObjectiveTo investigate the relation between cardiac vagal activity (CVA), a measure of autonomic nervous system (ANS) flexibility, and self-reported emotion regulation (ER) difficulties in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and controls.MethodsThe sample comprised 11–17-year-old adolescents with ADHD (n=34) and controls (n = 33). Multiple linear regression analyses investigated the relation between CVA, as indexed by high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), and ER difficulties as assessed by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). Supplemental analyses were performed in ADHD and control groups separately. Analyses assessed effects of body mass index (BMI), physical activity levels, and HF peak as a surrogate of respiration on CVA.ResultsLower CVA was associated with ER difficulties, and specifically with limited access to effective ER strategies. When investigating the relation between CVA and ER in the ADHD and control groups separately, there was a tendency of lower CVA predicting limited access to effective ER strategies in the ADHD group, and not in the control group.ConclusionThe results suggest that lower CVA, i.e., reduced ANS flexibility, in adolescents with ADHD and controls is associated with self-reported ER difficulties, and specifically with limited access to effective ER strategies. There was a tendency for lower CVA to predict limited ER strategies only in the adolescents with ADHD and not controls.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00244/fullattention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderheart rate variabilitycardiac vagal activityemotion regulationautonomic nervous systemdifficulties in emotion regulation scale |
| spellingShingle | Elisabet Kvadsheim Ole Bernt Fasmer Berge Osnes Julian Koenig Julian Koenig Steinunn Adolfsdottir Steinunn Adolfsdottir Heike Eichele Kerstin Jessica Plessen Kerstin Jessica Plessen Lin Sørensen Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHD Frontiers in Psychiatry attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder heart rate variability cardiac vagal activity emotion regulation autonomic nervous system difficulties in emotion regulation scale |
| title | Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHD |
| title_full | Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHD |
| title_fullStr | Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHD |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHD |
| title_short | Lower Cardiac Vagal Activity Predicts Self-Reported Difficulties With Emotion Regulation in Adolescents With ADHD |
| title_sort | lower cardiac vagal activity predicts self reported difficulties with emotion regulation in adolescents with adhd |
| topic | attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder heart rate variability cardiac vagal activity emotion regulation autonomic nervous system difficulties in emotion regulation scale |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00244/full |
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