Physiological Arousal and Juvenile Psychopathy: Is Low Resting Heart Rate Associated with Affective Dimensions?

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• 作者：Nicholas Kavish ; Michael G. Vaughn ; Eunsoo Cho ; Amy Barth…
• 关键词：Low physiological arousal ; Psychopathy ; Juveniles ; Affective traits
• 刊名：Psychiatric Quarterly
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：88
• 期：1
• 页码：103-114
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Psychiatry; Public Health; Sociology, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-6709
• 卷排序：88

文摘

A wealth of past research has examined the relationship between low physiological arousal and violence or antisocial behavior. Relatively little research; however, has examined the relationship between low physiological arousal and psychopathic traits, with even less having been conducted with juveniles. The current study attempts to fill this gap by evaluating juveniles’ physiological arousal using resting heart rate and their levels of psychopathic traits. Results suggest that there is indeed an inverse relationship between resting heart rate and the affective traits of psychopathy (Uncaring, Callousness, and Unemotionality) as well as Thrill or Sensation Seeking in males. No significant relationship was found in females. Implications of the findings as well as study limitations and future directions are discussed.