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Exclusion expected? Cardiac slowing upon peer exclusion links preschool parent representations to school‐age peer relationships

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Bornemann,  Boris
Department Social Neuroscience, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Vrticka,  Pascal
Department Social Neuroscience, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom;

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White, L. O., Bornemann, B., Crowley, M. J., Sticca, F., Vrticka, P., Stadelmann, S., et al. (2021). Exclusion expected? Cardiac slowing upon peer exclusion links preschool parent representations to school‐age peer relationships. Child Development, 92(4), 1274-1290. doi:10.1111/cdev.13494.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-0EC1-F
Abstract
Attachment theory proposes that children's representations of interactions with caregivers guide information-processing about others, bridging interpersonal domains. In a longitudinal study (N = 165), preschoolers (Mage = 5.19 years) completed the MacArthur Story Stem Battery to assess parent representations. At school-age (Mage = 8.42 years), children played a virtual ballgame with peers who eventually excluded them to track event-related cardiac slowing, a physiological correlate of rejection, especially when unexpected. At both ages, parents and teachers reported on peer and emotional problems. During exclusion versus inclusion-related events, cardiac slowing was associated with greater positive parent representations and fewer emerging peer problems. Cardiac slowing served as a mediator between positive parent representations and peer problems, supporting a potential psychophysiological mechanism underlying the generalization of attachment-related representations to peer relationships.