@article{ref1,
title="The mediating role of heart rate on the social adversity-antisocial behavior relationship",
journal="Journal of research in crime and delinquency",
year="2015",
author="Choy, Olivia and Raine, Adrian and Portnoy, Jill and Rudo-Hutt, Anna and Gao, Yu and Soyfer, Liana",
volume="52",
number="3",
pages="303-341",
abstract="OBJECTIVES:Tests the hypothesis that the social adversity-antisocial behavior relationship is partly mediated by a biological mechanism, low heart rate.<br><br>METHOD:18 indicators of social adversity and heart rate measured at rest and in anticipation of a speech stressor were assessed alongside nine measures of antisocial behavior including delinquency (Youth Self-Report [YSR] and Child Behavior Checklist [CBCL]), conduct disorder (Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Questionnaire), and child psychopathy (Antisocial Process Screening Device [APSD]) in a community sample of 388 children aged 11 to 12 years. PROCESS was used to test mediation models.<br><br>RESULTS:Low heart rate was a partial mediator of the adversity-antisocial behavior relationship, explaining 20.35 percent and 15.40 percent of the effect of social adversity on delinquency and overall antisocial behavior, respectively.<br><br>CONCLUSIONS:Findings are, to the authors' knowledge, one of the first to establish any biological risk factor as a mediator of the social adversity-antisocial behavior relationship and suggest that social processes alter autonomic functioning in a way to predispose to antisocial behavior. While not definitive, results give rise to a social neurocriminology theory that argues that the social environment influences biological risk factors in a way to predispose to antisocial and criminal behavior.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4278",
doi="10.1177/0022427814565905",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022427814565905"
}