Neural responses for evaluating self and mother traits in adolescence depend on mother-adolescent relationships.

ABSTRACT: An important task in adolescence is to achieve autonomy while preserving a positive relationship with parents. Previous fMRI studies showed largely overlapping activation in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) for evaluating self and close-other traits but separable activation for self and non-close other. Possibly, more similar mPFC activation reflects closeness or warmth in relationships. We investigated neural indicators of the mother-adolescent relationship in adolescents between 11 and 21 years (N = 143). Mother-adolescent relationship was measured using (i) mothers' and adolescents' trait evaluations about each other, (ii) observations of warmth, negativity and emotional support in mother-adolescent conversation and (iii) similarity in adolescents' neural activation for evaluating self v

SUBMITTER: Van der Cruijsen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6570819 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature