Attention to social threat predicts diurnal cortisol dynamics during the high school transition.

Adolescence is a developmental period marked by significant social shifts accompanied by concurrent changes across biological, cognitive, and emotional domains. Within adolescence, the high school transition is a pivotal time for youth that is ripe with opportunities yet has the potential to disrupt functioning. An increasingly sophisticated understanding of health and developmental biology indicates that the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis plays an important role in transducing social experiences into physiological changes that have long-term impacts on health and wellbeing.

Dimensions of early life adversity and cognitive processing of emotion in youth.

Background: Early life adversity (ELA) is a leading risk factor for psychopathology. The Dimensional Model of Adversity and Psychopathology (DMAP) elucidates processes altered by ELA and central to this association. Specifically, DMAP posits early experiences of deprivation alter cognitive and emotional processes in ways distinct from early experiences of threat.

Osteocalcin: A novel biomarker of adolescent psychopathology.

Osteocalcin is a bone-derived hormone implicated in the acute stress response and recently linked to adult depression. Yet it is unclear whether osteocalcin is a biomarker of other forms of psychopathology and whether osteocalcin-psychopathology associations emerge during developmentally sensitive periods earlier in life. Thus, in the current pilot study we examined salivary osteocalcin and psychiatric symptoms and disorders among 48 early adolescents during a period of stress.

Communication modality matters: Co-rumination via in-person versus digital modalities has different prospective associations with depression and friendship quality.

Introduction: Co-rumination is an interpersonal emotion regulation strategy in which negative feelings and problems are discussed perseveratively with another person. Although co-rumination is salient in adolescence, research to date has focused on co-rumination occurring in person and has not kept pace with the surge in digital communication that begins in adolescence. This study examined the degree, associations among, and consequences (i.

Patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence.

In children and adults, individual differences in patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; i.e., interactions between resting RSA and RSA reactivity to stress) have emerged as a central predictor of internalizing symptoms.