Exploring Longitudinal Associations Among Error-Related Negativity, Perception of Interpersonal Events, and Internalizing Symptoms in Female Adolescents

Children’s Self-Efficacy as a Buffer of Temperamental Inhibition and Impulsivity in the Prediction of Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors

The interactive role of physiological reactivity and victimization responses on internalizing symptoms in early childhood.

The present short-term longitudinal study examined the associations between preschoolers' coping responses to their personal experience of peer victimization and later internalizing symptoms. This study prospectively tested autonomic nervous system reactivity (i.e., respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity, RSA-R; and skin conductance level reactivity, SCL-R) as moderators of these associations. This secondary data analysis assessed a relatively well-resourced sample of 83 preschoolers (M = 45.59 months old, SD = 3.80, 47.0% female) over the course of approximately 1 year: first during the spring of participants' preschool (Time 1) and again during the spring of the subsequent pre-kindergarten year (Time 2). Hypotheses were guided by polyvagal theory, which highlights the importance of interactive effects of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in the stress response. Results demonstrated that approach coping was associated with decreases in later internalizing symptoms. In addition, avoidance coping was associated with decreases in internalizing symptoms for participants exhibiting SCL-R inhibition. RSA-R did not moderate associations between coping and later internalizing symptoms. These findings provide preliminary support for the hypothesis that the adaptive alignment between coping behaviors and physiological reactivity may serve as a protective factor in buffering against psychological distress.

Beyond Cause or Consequence: Intolerance of Uncertainty and Internalizing Symptoms in a Reciprocal Developmental Process During Adolescence.

Distinct Associations of Threat and Deprivation With Changes in Affective Control during Adolescence: A Longitudinal Population‐Based Study

ABSTRACT Childhood adversity has been linked to disruptions in the development of emotion regulation, yet few longitudinal studies have examined whether distinct dimensions of adversity are differentially associated with changes in affective inhibitory control across adolescence. This study examined whether threat and deprivation experiences differentially predicted changes in affective inhibitory control across early to middle adolescence. Participants were 902 adolescents (51.5% girls) from the UEVO study, assessed at ages 12–14 years at Time 1 (T1) and 15–16 years at Time 2 (T2). Affective inhibitory control was measured using an online emotional go/no‐go task. Adolescents showed fewer false alarms to angry no‐go stimuli at T2 than at T1, indicating improvement in affective inhibitory control over time. Latent change score modeling further supported this pattern, showing that adolescents with poorer baseline performance demonstrated greater improvement over time (β = −0.66, p < 0.001). In the primary model, higher levels of threat predicted less improvement in affective inhibitory control (β = 0.09, p = 0.013), whereas deprivation was not significantly associated with change (β = −0.05, p = 0.073). Neither threat nor deprivation predicted change in false alarms to neutral faces. In sensitivity analyses adjusting for gender, age, socioeconomic status (SES), and caregiver risk, threat remained a significant predictor of less improvement (β = 0.12, p = 0.004), whereas deprivation emerged as a small predictor of greater improvement (β = −0.06, p = 0.042). Post‐hoc multigroup analyses provided no evidence that the associations between adversity and change differed by gender. These findings suggest that threat and deprivation show partly distinct associations with affective inhibitory control, with threat‐related adversity emerging as the more consistent predictor of reduced improvement across early to middle adolescence.

Developmental Changes in the Relationships Between Depressive Symptoms and Bullying Victimization From Early to Middle Adolescence: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis.

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and adolescent brain responses to peer feedback: Testing relationships with negative and positive affect assessed outside of the lab.

Lower socioeconomic status (SES) is a risk factor for psychopathology. Youth living in low SES neighborhoods experience a myriad of stressors, particularly social stressors (e.g., discrimination), which may be particularly stressful for adolescents sensitive to peer feedback (i.e., blunted sensitivity to acceptance from peers). This study thus aimed to test whether neighborhood SES moderates the relationship between brain responses to peer feedback and affect outside of the lab, measured through ecological momentary assessment (EMA). To measure neural response to acceptance (relative to rejection), 13-18-year-old adolescents (N = 172) completed an event-related potential (ERP) task during which they received accepting or rejecting feedback from peers. They also rated their positive and negative affect via EMA for a week. Neighborhood SES moderated the relationship between brain responses to peer acceptance and negative affect. Specifically, for adolescents living in low SES neighborhoods, blunted brain response to acceptance was related to elevated negative affect. Prevention and intervention efforts (e.g., neighborhood/community interventions) may benefit from focusing on increasing hedonic responses to social feedback.