Adolescent non-suicidal self-injury during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study of biological predictors of maladaptive emotion regulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescence is thought to stem from interactions between vulnerability in developing biological systems and experience of stressors. The current study assesses whether multiple levels of the stress system's response to threat could prospectively predict NSSI engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic, a shared, time-locked stressor.

Methods

Participants were 64 female adolescents (ages 12-16) from community and clinical settings who were oversampled for NSSI histories. Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents completed a protocol that measured hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to a social stressor (via salivary cortisol), amygdala volume, amygdala emotion-evoked activation, and frontolimbic resting-state f

SUBMITTER: Carosella KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9922437 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature