Neural markers of emotion regulation difficulties moderate effects of COVID-19 stressors on adolescent depression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stressful events, such as those imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, are associated with depression risk, raising questions about processes that make some people more susceptible to the effects of stress on mental health than others. Emotion regulation may be a key process, but methods for objectively measuring emotion regulation abilities in youth are limited. We leveraged event-related potential (ERP) measures and a longitudinal study of adolescents oversampled for depression and depression risk to examine emotion regulation difficulties as prospective predictors of depressive symptoms in response to pandemic-related stress.

Methods

Before the pandemic, adolescents with (n = 28) and without (n = 34) clinical depression (N = 62 total) completed an explicit emotion r

SUBMITTER: Gupta RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9246973 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature