The Stony Brook Temperament Study: Early Antecedents and Pathways to Emotional Disorders

Klein, Daniel N.; Finsaas, Megan C.

doi:10.1111/cdep.12242

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“…Participants were drawn from the Stony Brook Temperament study, a longitudinal examination of temperament and psychopathology (Klein and Finsaas, 2017). Three-year-old children and their families ( N = 559) were included if at least one English-speaking biological parent could participate and if the child did not have significant medical or developmental disabilities.…”

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Stressful life events moderate the effect of neural reward responsiveness in childhood on depressive symptoms in adolescence

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BackgroundReward processing deficits have been implicated in the etiology of depression. A blunted reward positivity (RewP), an event-related potential elicited by feedback to monetary gain relative to loss, predicts new onsets and increases in depression symptoms. Etiological models of depression also highlight stressful life events. However, no studies have examined whether stressful life events moderate the effect of the RewP on subsequent depression symptoms. We examined this question during the key developmental transition from childhood to adolescence.MethodsA community sample of 369 children (mean age of 9) completed a self-report measure of depression symptoms. The RewP to winning v. losing was elicited using a monetary reward task. Three years later, we assessed stressful life events occurring in the year prior to the follow-up. Youth depressive symptoms were rated by the children and their parents at baseline and follow-up.ResultsStressful life events moderated the effect of the RewP on depression symptoms at follow-up such that a blunted RewP predicted higher depression symptoms in individuals with higher levels of stressful life events. This effect was also evident when events that were independent of the youth's behavior were examined separately.ConclusionsThese results suggest that the RewP reflects a vulnerability for depression that is activated by stress.

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“…Families with a 3-year-old child living within 20 miles of Stony Brook, NY were recruited using commercial mailing lists for a larger study of risk for emotional disorders; children with significant medical or developmental disorders were excluded, and the child had to live with at least one biological parent [ N = 559; ( 26 )]. An additional 50 families were added in the second wave of assessments when children were 6 years old in order to increase the diversity of the sample.…”

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Offspring of Mothers With Histories of Chronic and Non-chronic Depression: Symptom Trajectories From Ages 6 to 15

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Several studies have reported that individuals with chronic depression have higher rates of depressive disorders, and particularly chronic depression, in their first-degree relatives, compared to those with non-chronic (episodic) major depression. In addition, a few studies have suggested that offspring of parents with chronic depression have elevated rates of depression and other psychopathology. Most of this work uses the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which defines chronicity as persistence for at least 2 years. An alternative is a life-course, approach, which evaluates overall course since first onset. We examined the trajectories of depressive, anxiety, and externalizing symptoms in a community sample of 577 offspring of mothers with histories of chronic depression, non-chronic (or episodic) major depression, and no depression using prospective, multi-informant assessments from age 6 to age 15. Offspring of mothers with a history of depression exhibited higher levels of depression, anxiety, and externalizing symptoms than offspring of mothers who were never depressed. Moreover, the effects of maternal depression on offspring depression, anxiety, and externalizing symptoms were more pronounced for mothers with histories of chronic than non-chronic depression, particularly when the life-course approach to classifying chronicity was used. These data suggest that research that combines chronic and non-chronic depressions includes significant heterogeneity that may hinder understanding of etiology and reduce the likelihood of developing a cumulative and replicable literature. In addition, these findings have significant implications for prevention and treatment.

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“…Data were drawn from the Stony Brook Temperament Study, an ongoing longitudinal study examining early temperament as a precursor to psychiatric and emotional disorders (Klein & Finsaas, 2017). Participants were children and their parents recruited from the community surrounding Stony Brook University via a commercial mailing list.…”

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Social-Experience and Temperamental Predictors of Rejection Sensitivity: A Prospective Study

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2019

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Rejection sensitivity (RS) is the tendency for individuals to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and overreact to interpersonal rejection. Existing theory presumes that early experiences of rejection cause RS, although few studies have assessed this prospectively. Also relatively unstudied are individual differences in temperament that may contribute to RS. In a longitudinal study, we examined whether early social experiences and individual differences in temperament predict RS assessed subsequently. Results showed that positive early social experiences (ages 6 and 9 parents’ relationship quality and age 9 peer support) negatively predicted RS at age 12 and that negative affect (ages 6 and 9) positively predicted age-12 RS. These findings may have important implications for RS-reduction efforts and for understanding the many domain-specific manifestations of RS.

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The Stony Brook Temperament Study: Early Antecedents and Pathways to Emotional Disorders

Cited by 69 publications

References 42 publications

Stressful life events moderate the effect of neural reward responsiveness in childhood on depressive symptoms in adolescence

Stressful life events moderate the effect of neural reward responsiveness in childhood on depressive symptoms in adolescence

Offspring of Mothers With Histories of Chronic and Non-chronic Depression: Symptom Trajectories From Ages 6 to 15

Social-Experience and Temperamental Predictors of Rejection Sensitivity: A Prospective Study

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