Neurodevelopmental correlates of proneness to guilt and shame in adolescence and early adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Investigating how brain development during adolescence and early adulthood underlies guilt- and shame-proneness may be important for understanding risk processes for mental disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the neurodevelopmental correlates of interpersonal guilt- and shame-proneness in healthy adolescents and young adults using structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI). Sixty participants (age range: 15-25) completed sMRI and self-report measures of interpersonal guilt- and shame-proneness. Independent of interpersonal guilt, higher levels of shame-proneness were associated with thinner posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) thickness and smaller amygdala volume. Higher levels of shame-proneness were also associated with attenuated age-related reductions in thickness of lat

SUBMITTER: Whittle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6990094 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature