TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - High resting heart rate protects against childhood risk factors in predicting adult psychopathy
JO  - Journal of criminal psychology
A1  - Farrington, David P.
A1  - Bergstrøm, Henriette
SP  - 141
EP  - 156
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
N2  - PURPOSE Previous research has indicated that low resting heart rate (RHR), measured at age 18, predicts later psychopathy, and that high RHR acts as a protective factor in nullifying the influence of several psychosocial risk factors in predicting later antisocial and criminal outcomes. This paper aims to investigate high RHR as a protective factor against age 8-10 psychosocial risk factors in predicting psychopathy factors at age 48 (measured by the PCL:SV). <br><br>DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Data collected in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development are analyzed. This is a prospective longitudinal study of 411 London males from age 8 to age 61. <br><br>FINDINGS This paper first reports the age 8-10 psychosocial risk factors that predict the interpersonal/affective Factor 1 and the lifestyle/antisocial Factor 2. Then interaction effects with high RHR are studied. The results indicate that high RHR acts as a protective factor against a convicted father and a depressed mother in predicting both psychopathy factors. It also protected against harsh discipline, large family size, low verbal IQ, high hyperactivity, poor parental supervision and a high delinquency-rate school in predicting one of these psychopathy factors, and against a convicted mother in a sensitivity analysis. <br><br>ORIGINALITY/VALUE This is the first ever longitudinal study showing that high RHR acts as a protective factor in the prediction of psychopathy. The replicated results with different antisocial outcomes show that more research is warranted on the protective effects of high RHR.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2009-3829
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCP-01-2021-0003
ID  - ref1
ER  -