High negative reactivity could diminish capacity to attend social cues, leading to misinterpretation and incorrect processing of social information (e.g. Hostile attribution bias; [101]-RRB-, with the risk for psychopathology such as externalizing disorders [102].
Temperament describes constitutionally - based and heritable individual differences in reactivity and regulation.9 Although temperament can be modified, it is considerably stable across the life span.10 - 13 And, because
high negative reactivity represents an extreme case, it has been found to demonstrate significant continuity.14
Not exact matches
The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived
negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to
high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.
Marijuana abusers showed lower scores on positive emotionality and
higher scores on
negative emotionality than controls, consistent, on the one hand, with lower reward sensitivity and motivation and, on the other hand, with increased stress
reactivity and irritability.
We predicted that MP's behavioral effects in marijuana abusers would be attenuated, consistent with preclinical findings (30), and that decreased DA
reactivity in ventral striatum would be associated with
higher scores in
negative emotionality (neuroticism), which mediates genetic risk for marijuana dependence (31), and with addiction severity.
Negative effect of a low - carbohydrate,
high - protein,
high - fat diet on small peripheral artery
reactivity in patients with increased cardiovascular risk.
have posited that
high levels of
negative reactivity to interparental conflict are part of a coercive
High stress
reactivity, however, is not always a
negative trait or one that invariably leads to maladaptive behavioral responses.
With contradictions possibly related to child age, some studies suggest that child
negative emotionality elicits more parental warmth, 10 whereas other studies suggest it has mixed associations with parental warmth.11 However, there is more consistent evidence that
high levels of parental sensitivity / responsivity lead to less child
negative reactivity.8, 12 There is also some evidence that child
negative emotionality predicts more
negative parental control, 7 and a little evidence that
negative parental control predicts more
negative emotionality.13 In terms of more specific aspects of
negative emotionality, child fearfulness predicts more parental warmth and more positive control.14 Similarly, low levels of parental warmth predict increases in fearfulness.12
Specifically,
negative emotional
reactivity has been found to predict both internalizing problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing problems (e.g., aggression, rule - breaking).1 Fearfulness predicts internalizing problems, and self - regulation difficulties predict externalizing problems.1 The large literature on parenting2 generally shows that
high levels of warm and firm parenting are associated with positive child development.4
Chances are
high that impulsive, reactive behavior of one member of the parent — child dyad is responded to by impulsive behavior of the other, leading to a vicious circle of
negative reactivity.
First, Belsky et al. (1996) reported that coparents of the subgroup of boys who had become less behaviorally inhibited at 3 years than expected (from their
reactivity in infancy) showed the
highest level of observed unsupportive coparenting, whereas coparents of boys who had become more inhibited than expected showed the lowest levels of unsupportive behavior (note that in the same sample,
higher levels of
negative parenting of the father also predicted less behavior inhibition in boys; Park et al. 1997).
Our second objective was to analyze whether fine - grained dimensions of
reactivity (fear, anger, discomfort, sadness, activity level, approach,
high intensity pleasure, impulsivity) and self - regulation (attentional shifting, attentional focusing, inhibitory control), as well as the
higher order temperamental factors (
negative affectivity, surgency, and effortful control) represent unique correlates of CU traits and ODD - related problems.
While most approaches involving temperament have focused on the
higher factor of
negative affectivity or on its subdimension of fear (Waller et al., 2016, 2017), while not separating temperamental
reactivity from self - regulation, our analysis considered, probably for the first time in preschool population, the contributions of both fine - grained dimensions and
higher order temperamental factors, for temperamental
reactivity as well as for self - regulation.
Therefore, for this temperamental profile, problems in regulating
high negative emotional
reactivity and a hypervigilent style toward emotional stimuli increase the propensity for serious conduct problems.
Additionally, based on Rothbart's (2007) model of temperament, we analyzed whether fine - grained dimensions of
reactivity (fear, anger, discomfort, sadness, activity level, approach,
high intensity pleasure, impulsivity) and self - regulation (attentional shifting, attentional focusing, inhibitory control), as well as the
higher order temperamental factors of
negative affectivity, surgency and effortful control are associated with CU traits and ODD - related problems.
Regarding ODD and CU in preschoolers, Willoughby et al. [32] reported that CU traits were stable from ages 3 to 5, and distinguished a group of children with ODD+CU that were less fearful, recovered more easily after an upset, and showed less
negative reactivity, lower heart period
reactivity and
higher levels of general arousal than those with ODD only.