Cognitive control reduces sensitivity to relational aggression among adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Relational aggression is a type of aggression that aims to hurt others through relationships and includes behaviors such as gossip and ostracism. This type of aggression is very common among adolescent girls, and in its more intense forms has been linked with poor psychosocial outcomes, including depression and suicide. In the present study we investigated whether individual differences in sensitivity to relational aggression among adolescent girls predicted recruitment of neural networks associated with executive function and cognitive control. Neural response was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging during an affect recognition task that included unfamiliar peer faces. A finding of relatively fewer reports of being victimized by relational aggression was associated with i

SUBMITTER: Baird AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2953597 | biostudies-literature | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature