Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex

Miller, Kelly; Margolin, Gayla; Shapiro, Lauren Spies; Timmons, Adela C.

doi:10.1111/jora.12250

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“…Importantly, feelings of peer connectedness and perceived peer acceptance during adolescence are associated with a number of positive outcomes, including less internalizing symptoms and physiological experiences of stress (McGraw et al, 2008;Miller et al, 2017; Murray-Close, 2012), lower substance use (Diego, Field, & Sanders, 2003), and better academic performance (Diego et al, 2003). Adolescence is also a time of increased risk for psychopathology and the onset of many psychiatric disorders (Lee et al, 2014), which can be exacerbated by impaired social interactions and isolation (Fett et al, 2015;Meyer-Lindenberg & Tost, 2012).…”

Section: Early Adolescent Peer Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sleepy and Secluded: Sleep Disturbances are Associated with Connectedness in Early Adolescent Social Networks

Palmer¹,

Powell²,

Deutchman³

et al. 2020

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Studies in adults suggest that sleep disturbances predict poorer socioemotional skills and impaired social interactions. However, little is known regarding how sleep problems are associated with social processes during adolescence, a period when both sleep neurobiology and social relationships are undergoing dramatic developmental changes. The current study examined associations among sleep disturbances and peer connectedness among a sample of middle-school students (N = 213, 11-15 years old, 57% female) using a social network approach. Findings suggested that youth with greater sleep disturbances reported having fewer friends, fewer peers rated them as friends, and were less likely to have reciprocated friendships, even after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and mental health symptoms.

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Section: Early Adolescent Peer Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sleepy and Secluded: Sleep Disturbances are Associated with Connectedness in Early Adolescent Social Networks

Palmer¹,

Powell²,

Deutchman³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…CRH then triggers the pituitary glands to release adrenocorticotropic hormone, which in turn triggers the adrenal glands to release cortisol (Frodl & O'Keane, 2013;Kemeny, 2003). As the end product of the HPA axis, cortisol directly reflects the stress level in both actual and perceived stress (Allen, Kennedy, Cryan, Dinan, & Clarke, 2014;Dedovic, Duchesne, Andrews, Engert, & Pruessner, 2009;Dickerson & Kemeny, 2004;Foley & Kirschbaum, 2010;Miller, Margolin, Shapiro, & Timmons, 2017).…”

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An inactive control of the ‘Trier Social Stress Test’ for Youth 10–17 years: Neuroendocrine, cardiac, and subjective responses

Phillip

Doretto

et al. 2019

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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The Trier Social Stress Test for children (TSST-C) adapted from TSST is one of the most commonly used laboratory paradigms for investigating the effects of stress on cognitive, affective and physiological responses in children and adolescents. Considering that laboratory procedures generate a significant amount of stress to children and adolescents, even in the absence of a stress paradigm, it is important to validate TSST-C against an inactive control condition in which the stress components were absent. Using a randomized design, we tested an inactive control condition, which replaced the TSST-C with a benign video clip (nature scenes viewed while standing), thus removing the stress associated components of the TSST-C. Eighty-eight youth between the ages of 10 and 17 years were randomly assigned to complete the TSST-C or the Inactive Control (IC). Subjective anxiety rating, salivary cortisol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate were collected at eight time points. Subjects in the Inactive Control condition showed no significant changes in blood pressure and heart rate, and decreased anxiety rating and salivary cortisol level throughout the study. Subjects in the stress condition (TSST-C) showed increased anxiety ratings, salivary cortisol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate immediately following TSST-C stress induction. Our findings validated that the TSST-C induced a systemic stress response, and that the Inactive Control can be a promising standardized

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“…The current investigation focused on mediated relationships between stressful life events and secure relationship quality via inhibitory control. Fruitful extensions for future research may include testing the role of inhibitory conrol in the stress-buffering hypothesis, which posits that attachment relationships have the ability to dampen the negative effects of stress on well-being (e.g., Hanson and Chen, 2010 ; Miller et al, 2016 ) and considering internal working models of attachment as an additional possible mediator in this association between stress and secure relationship quality (e.g., Collins and Feeney, 2004 ).…”

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Inhibitory Control Mediates the Association between Perceived Stress and Secure Relationship Quality

Herd

Maciejewski

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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Past research has demonstrated negative associations between exposure to stressors and quality of interpersonal relationships among children and adolescents. Nevertheless, underlying mechanisms of this association remain unclear. Chronic stress has been shown to disrupt prefrontal functioning in the brain, including inhibitory control abilities, and evidence is accumulating that inhibitory control may play an important role in secure interpersonal relationship quality, including peer problems and social competence. In this prospective longitudinal study, we examine whether changes in inhibitory control, measured at both behavioral and neural levels, mediate the association between stress and changes in secure relationship quality with parents and peers. The sample included 167 adolescents (53% males) who were first recruited at age 13 or 14 years and assessed annually three times. Adolescents’ inhibitory control was measured by their behavioral performance and brain activities, and adolescents self-reported perceived stress levels and relationship quality with mothers, fathers, and peers. Results suggest that behavioral inhibitory control mediates the association between perceived stress and adolescent’s secure relationship quality with their mothers and fathers, but not their peers. In contrast, given that stress was not significantly correlated with neural inhibitory control, we did not further test the mediation path. Our results highlight the role of inhibitory control as a process through which stressful life experiences are related to impaired secure relationship quality between adolescents and their mothers and fathers.

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Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex

Cited by 19 publications

References 84 publications

Sleepy and Secluded: Sleep Disturbances are Associated with Connectedness in Early Adolescent Social Networks

Sleepy and Secluded: Sleep Disturbances are Associated with Connectedness in Early Adolescent Social Networks

An inactive control of the ‘Trier Social Stress Test’ for Youth 10–17 years: Neuroendocrine, cardiac, and subjective responses

Inhibitory Control Mediates the Association between Perceived Stress and Secure Relationship Quality

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