Self-reported childhood family adversity is linked to an attenuated gain of trust during adolescence.

ABSTRACT: A longstanding proposal in developmental research is that childhood family experiences provide a template that shapes a capacity for trust-based social relationships. We leveraged longitudinal data from a cohort of healthy adolescents (n = 570, aged 14-25), which included decision-making and psychometric data, to characterise normative developmental trajectories of trust behaviour and inter-individual differences therein. Extending on previous cross-sectional findings from the same cohort, we show that a task-based measure of trust increases longitudinally from adolescence into young adulthood. Computational modelling suggests this is due to a decrease in social risk aversion. Self-reported family adversity attenuates this developmental gain in trust behaviour, and within our computational

SUBMITTER: Reiter AMF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10616102 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature