Authors:	Brand, Sebastian Lang, Katharina Bellinghausen, Christina Witthöft, Michael Jungmann, Stefanie M.
Title:	Interoceptive accuracy in children aged 8 to 13 and their parents : implications for mental health
Online publication date:	16-May-2024
Year of first publication:	2024
Language:	english
Abstract:	Objective: Interoceptive accuracy, meaning accurately detecting and discriminating internal bodily signals, has been proposed as a factor of high relevance to mental health. Nevertheless, studies focusing on the assessment of interoceptive accuracy in children are scarce. Method: The present study addresses this gap by using questionnaire-based measures of interoceptive accuracy as well as behavioural measures such as a heartbeat counting task and a novel cardiovascular signal detection task. These instruments were used to assess interoceptive accuracy in a sample of children aged 8–13 years (N = 37) and their parents (N = 29), aiming to investigate its connection with dimensions of psychopathology, including internalizing, externalizing, and somatoform symptomatology. Following recent suggestions, standard frequentist analyses were complemented by results from Bayesian approaches. Results: The findings provide evidence for a negative relationship between children’s self-reported interoceptive accuracy and internalizing symptomatology reported by their parents (β = –.527). However, no evidence was found to support relationships between experimentally assessed cardiac interoceptive accuracy and psychopathological symptoms. Conclusion: These results emphasize the importance of adopting more comprehensive measures for assessing interoceptive accuracy in research involving children. The paper addresses limitations arising from the limited sample size and potential type I error.
DDC:	150 Psychologie 150 Psychology
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-10372
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	Cogent Psychology 11 1
Pages or article number:	2348043
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publisher place:	London
Issue date:	2024
ISSN:	2331-1908
Publisher DOI:	10.1080/23311908.2024.2348043
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen