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Early adversity and internalizing symptoms in adolescence: Mediation by individual differences in latent trait cortisol.

April 16, 2018 by IISBR

Background:

Research suggests that early adversity places individuals at risk for psychopathology across the life span. Guided by concepts of allostasis and allostatic load, the present study examined whether early adversity contributes to the development of subsequent internalizing symptoms through its association with traitlike individual differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis regulation. Early adolescent girls (n = 113; M age = 12.30 years) provided saliva samples at waking, 30 min postwaking, and bedtime over 3 days (later assayed for cortisol). Objective contextual stress interviews with adolescents and their mothers were used to assess the accumulation of nine types of early adversity within the family environment. Greater early adversity predicted subsequent increases in internalizing symptoms through lower levels of latent trait cortisol. Traitlike individual differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity may be among the mechanisms through which early adversity confers risk for the development of psychopathology.

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Tagged With: adversity, allostasis, allostatic load, HPA axis, Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, latient trait cortisol, psychopathology, salivary cortisol

Call for Applications: UC Intercampus Consortium on Health Psychology Seed Grant Funding

December 10, 2016 by IISBR

Types of Awards:

• Cross-campus faculty team awards: 2 – 3 awards, up to $10,000 each.
• Cross-campus trainee team awards: 4 – 5 awards, up to $2,000 each.

Background:
Each UC campus has considerable, nationally-renowned expertise in key research domains related to understanding and cultivating resilience, which refers to withstanding, recovering, and even thriving psychologically and physically in the face of adversity. Such research domains include different types of adversities (early life adversity, life-threatening medical conditions, acute traumatic events, chronic stress), biobehavioral mechanisms, and resources (individual, social, cultural, and behavioral and cognitive skills).

The deadline for the final 2017 cycle is February 17, 2017 at 11:59 PM.

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Tagged With: adversity, Psychology, seed grant funding

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