Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity.

ABSTRACT: The motivation to socially connect with peers increases during adolescence in parallel with changes in neurodevelopment. These changes in social motivation create opportunities for experiences that can impact risk for psychopathology, but the specific motivational presentations that confer greater psychopathology risk are not fully understood. To address this issue, we used a latent profile analysis to identify the multidimensional presentations of self-reported social goals in a sample of 220 girls (9-15 years old, M = 11.81, SD = 1.81) that was enriched for internalizing symptoms, and tested the association between social goal profiles and psychopathology. Associations between social goals and brain network connectivity were also examined in a subsample of 138 youth. Preregistered analys

SUBMITTER: Pelletier-Baldelli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949572 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature