Emotion Dysregulation Links Interoceptive Accuracy and Vagal Activity to Psychopathology in Male but not Female Adolescents
Maximilian Schmaußer, Hanna Schwinde, Ines M. Mürner-Lavanchy, Corinna Reichl, Michael Kaess, Julian Koenig
The paper shows that in male adolescents, lower cardiac vagal regulation links to greater emotion dysregulation and psychopathology, mediated by interoceptive accuracy, while this pathway is absent in females.
bioRxiv · Sep 21, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience