What's parenting got to do with it: emotional autonomy and brain and behavioral responses to emotional conflict in children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Healthy parenting may be protective against the development of emotional psychopathology, particularly for children reared in stressful environments. Little is known, however, about the brain and behavioral mechanisms underlying this association, particularly during childhood and adolescence, when emotional disorders frequently emerge. Here, we demonstrate that psychological control, a parenting strategy known to limit socioemotional development in children, is associated with altered brain and behavioral responses to emotional conflict in 27 at-risk (urban, lower income) youth, ages 9-16. In particular, youth reporting higher parental psychological control demonstrated lower activity in the left anterior insula, a brain area involved in emotion conflict processing, and submitted faster bu

SUBMITTER: Marusak HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6636326 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature