Relational victimization prospectively predicts increases in error-related brain activity and social anxiety in children and adolescents across two years.

ABSTRACT: Recent research has focused on identifying neural markers associated with risk for anxiety, including the error-related negativity (ERN). An elevated ERN amplitude has been observed in anxious individuals from middle childhood onward and has been shown to predict risk for future increases in anxiety development. The ERN is sensitive to environmental influences during development, including interpersonal stressors. Of note, one particular type of interpersonal stressor, relational victimization, has been related to increases in anxiety in adolescents. We tested whether relational victimization predicts increases in the ERN and social anxiety symptoms across two years in a sample of 152 child and adolescent females (ages 8 - 15). Results indicated that children and adolescents' baseline ERN

SUBMITTER: Cole SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10199180 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature