Emotional trade-offs of neural sensitivity to social threat and reward in adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Contemporary affective neuroscience perspectives consider possible trade-offs of neural attunement to social cues for adolescent development. Integrating these perspectives with interpersonal theories emphasizing robust belonging needs during adolescence, this study examined whether exposure to naturally occurring interpersonal stressors was differentially associated with loneliness and depression contingent on adolescent girls' neural sensitivity to cues indicating social threat (non-belonging) vs. reward (belonging). Eighty-six adolescent girls (Mage = 16.31, SD = .84; 66.3% White) completed a social feedback task during an fMRI scan and reported on their loneliness and depression. Elevated interpersonal stress exposure was associated with more depression in girls who showed dampened but

SUBMITTER: Rudolph KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12398387 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature