3-172 - The Biololgical Bases of Children's Self-Regulation: Correlates, Moderators and Individual Differences

Session Type: Paper Session

Integrative Statement

This group of papers focuses on various physiological and genetic factors related to self-regulation in children. In the first paper, the effects of hot and cool executive function on changes in RSA to a social challenge was examined. Findings suggest that the two types of EF have differential effects on the regulation of physiological arousal. The second paper reports on a study of the dopamine gene, DRD4 and its interaction with parenting process to affect child self-regulation. The results support a differential susceptibility for the long allelles of DRD4 in both parents and children. The next two papers address low SES and its impact on processes underlying self-regulation. In the third paper ERP components were used as markers of conflict and error processing and the results indicate that SES has an effect on neural processing indicative on executive control. The final paper addresses neural indices of selective attention using ERPs and its effect on nonverbal IQ in low income children. Greater selective attention was associated with higher nonverbal IQ, particularly at the highest levels of IQ. Whether used as an indicator of risk for dysregulation or as a measure of self-regulation processes, the addition of electrophysiological and genetic measures to research on children's self-regulation enhances our understanding of this important developmental process.

Sub Unit

• Biological Processes

Chair

• Cynthia A Stifter, Pennsylvania State University

Individual Presentations

• Importance of executive function skills for regulating physiological arousal: Piecewise latent growth curve modeling - Presenting Author: Jenna Elizabeth Finch, Stanford University; Jelena Obradovic, Stanford University

• Parent and Child Dopamine D4 Receptor Genotypes Moderate Transactions between Parenting Processes and Child Self-Regulation - Presenting Author: Junhan Cho, Univ of Georgia; Steven M. Kogan, University of Georgia; Gene H Brody, University of Georgia

• Impact of SES on electrophysiological correlates of conflict and error processing in young children - Alicia Abundis-Gutiérrez, University of Granada, Spain; J. Paul Pozuelos, University of Granada, Spain; Lina M. Cómbita, University of Granada, Spain; Presenting Author: M. Rosario Rueda, Universidad de Granada

• Individual differences in neural indices of selective attention in children from lower socioeconomic status families - Presenting Author: Elif Isbell, University of Oregon; Amanda Hampton Wray, Michigan State Univ; Helen Neville, University of Oregon