Social Rejection Sensitivity and its Role in Adolescent Emotional Disorder Symptomatology

Minihan, Savannah; Kwok, Cassandra; Schweizer, Susanne

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“…However, meta-analytic evidence provides no support for gender differences in the association between social rejection sensitivity and mental health (i.e., depression symptoms; Gao et al, 2017). Similarly, a previous study in a sample of participants with high ethnic, socioeconomic and gender diversity showed that the impact of these demographic variables did not moderate the impact of social rejection sensitivity on mental health (Minihan et al, 2021). While we included self-identified gender and ethnicity as covariates in all analyses, the lack of representativeness of our sample (i.e., majority White and female) limits the conclusions we can draw about the impact of these demographic variables on mental health trajectories.…”

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Social determinants of mental health during a year of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Belonging is a basic human need, with social isolation signaling a threat to biological fitness. Sensitivity to ostracism varies across individuals and the lifespan, peaking in adolescence. Government-imposed restrictions upon social interactions during COVID-19 may therefore be particularly detrimental to young people and those most sensitive to ostracism. Participants (N = 2367; 89.95% female, 11–100 years) from three countries with differing levels of government restrictions (Australia, UK, and USA) were surveyed thrice at three-month intervals (May 2020 – April 2021). Young people, and those living under the tightest government restrictions, reported the worst mental health, with these inequalities in mental health remaining constant throughout the study period. Further dissection of these results revealed that young people high on social rejection sensitivity reported the most mental health problems at the final assessment. These findings help account for the greater impact of enforced social isolation on young people’s mental health, and open novel avenues for intervention.

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“…However, meta-analytic evidence provides no support for gender differences in the association between social rejection sensitivity and mental health (i.e., depression symptoms; Gao et al, 2017). Similarly, a previous study in a sample of participants with high ethnic, socioeconomic and gender diversity showed that the impact of these demographic variables did not moderate the impact of social rejection sensitivity on mental health (Minihan et al, 2021). Another limitation of the current study was that we did not include a direct measure of physical distancing at each timepoint.…”

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Social Determinants of Mental Health During a Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Orben²,

Songco³

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Belonging is a basic human need, with social isolation signaling a threat to biological fitness. Sensitivity to ostracism varies across individuals and the lifespan, peaking in adolescence. Government-imposed restrictions upon social interactions during COVID-19 may therefore be particularly detrimental to young people and those most sensitive to ostracism. Participants (N = 2367; 89.95% female, 11-100 years) from three countries with differing levels of government restrictions (Australia, UK, and USA) were surveyed trice at three-month intervals (May 2020 – April 2021). Young people, and those living under the tightest government restrictions, reported the worst mental health, with these inequalities in mental health remaining constant throughout the study period. Further dissection of these results revealed that young people high on social rejection sensitivity reported the most mental health problems at the final assessment. These findings help account for the greater impact of enforced social isolation on young people’s mental health, and open novel avenues for intervention.

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Development of a gamified cognitive training app “Social Brain Train” to enhance adolescent mental health: a participatory design study protocol

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Songco²,

Andrews³

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Background: Adolescence is a sensitive period for the onset of mental health disorders. Effective, easy-to-disseminate, scalable prevention and early interventions are urgently needed. Affective control has been proposed as a potential target mechanism. Training affective control has been shown to reduce mental health symptoms and improve emotion regulation. However, uptake and adherence to such training by adolescents has been low. Thus, the current study aims to receive end user (i.e., adolescents) feedback on a prototype of a novel app-based gamified affective control training program, the Social Brain Train. Methods: The proposed study aims to recruit participants aged 13-16 years old (N = 20) to provide user feedback on the Social Brain Train app. The first group of participants (n = 5) will complete an online questionnaire assessing demographics, symptoms of depression and anxiety, social rejection sensitivity and attitudes toward the malleability of cognition and mental health. They will complete two tasks assessing cognitive capacity and interpretation bias. Participants will be then be invited to an online group workshop, where they will be introduced to the app. They will train on the app for three days, and following app usage, participants will complete the aforementioned measures again, as well as provide ratings on app content, and complete a semi-structured interview to obtain in-depth user feedback, which will be used to inform modifications to the app. Following these modifications, a second group of participants (n = 15) will follow the same procedure, except they will train on the app for 14 days. Feedback from both groups of participants will be used to inform the final design. Conclusions: By including young people in the design of the Social Brain Train app, the proposed study will help us to develop a novel mental health intervention that young people find engaging, acceptable, and easy-to-use

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Social Rejection Sensitivity and its Role in Adolescent Emotional Disorder Symptomatology

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Social determinants of mental health during a year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Social determinants of mental health during a year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Social Determinants of Mental Health During a Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Development of a gamified cognitive training app “Social Brain Train” to enhance adolescent mental health: a participatory design study protocol

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