Neighborhood disadvantage, race/ethnicity and neural sensitivity to social threat and reward among adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Experiences within one's social environment shape neural sensitivity to threatening and rewarding social cues. However, in racialized societies like the USA, youth from minoritized racial/ethnic backgrounds can have different experiences and perceptions within neighborhoods that share similar characteristics. The current study examined how neighborhood disadvantage intersects with racial/ethnic background in relation to neural sensitivity to social cues. A racially diverse (59 Hispanic/Latine, 48 White, 37 Black/African American, 15 multi-racial and 6 other) and primarily low to middle socioeconomic status sample of 165 adolescents (88 female; Mage = 12.89) completed a social incentive delay task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. We tested for differen

SUBMITTER: Jorgensen NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949505 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature