The development of depressogenic self-schemas: Associations with children's regional grey matter volume in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive theories of depression contend that biased cognitive information processing plays a causal role in the development of depression. Extensive research shows that deeper processing of negative and/or shallower processing of positive self-descriptors (i.e., negative and positive self-schemas) predicts current and future depression in adults and children. However, the neural correlates of the development of self-referent encoding are poorly understood. We examined children's self-referential processing using the self-referent encoding task (SRET) collected from 74 children at ages 6, 9, and 12; around age 10, these children also contributed structural magnetic resonance imaging data. From age 6 to age 12, both positive and negative self-referential processing showed mean-level growth,

SUBMITTER: Liu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920949 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature