TY - JOUR
T1 - Early adversity and internalizing symptoms in adolescence
T2 - Mediation by individual differences in latent trait cortisol
AU - Stroud, Catherine B.
AU - Chen, Frances R.
AU - Doane, Leah
AU - Granger, Douglas A.
N1 - Funding Information: Stroud Catherine B. a Chen Frances R. b c Doane Leah D. d Granger Douglas A. c e f a Williams College b Georgia State University c University of California at Irvine d Arizona State University e Johns Hopkins University f University of Nebraska , Lincoln The authors gratefully acknowledge the families who participated in this study and the staff of the Williams College Youth Emotion Center. In addition, we thank Andrea Gierens at Biochemisches Labor at the University of Trier for technical assistance with the salivary assays. This research was supported by institutional funds from Williams College (C.B.S., Principal Investigator). Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Catherine B. Stroud, Williams College , Bronfman Science Center , 18 Hoxsey St. , Williamstown, MA 01267 ; E-mail: Catherine.B.Stroud@williams.edu . 21 03 2018 05 2019 31 2 509 524 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 2018 Cambridge University Press Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Research suggests that early adversity places individuals at risk for psychopathology across the life span. Guided by concepts of allostasis and allostatic load, the present study examined whether early adversity contributes to the development of subsequent internalizing symptoms through its association with traitlike individual differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis regulation. Early adolescent girls (n = 113; M age = 12.30 years) provided saliva samples at waking, 30 min postwaking, and bedtime over 3 days (later assayed for cortisol). Objective contextual stress interviews with adolescents and their mothers were used to assess the accumulation of nine types of early adversity within the family environment. Greater early adversity predicted subsequent increases in internalizing symptoms through lower levels of latent trait cortisol. Traitlike individual differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity may be among the mechanisms through which early adversity confers risk for the development of psychopathology.
AB - Research suggests that early adversity places individuals at risk for psychopathology across the life span. Guided by concepts of allostasis and allostatic load, the present study examined whether early adversity contributes to the development of subsequent internalizing symptoms through its association with traitlike individual differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis regulation. Early adolescent girls (n = 113; M age = 12.30 years) provided saliva samples at waking, 30 min postwaking, and bedtime over 3 days (later assayed for cortisol). Objective contextual stress interviews with adolescents and their mothers were used to assess the accumulation of nine types of early adversity within the family environment. Greater early adversity predicted subsequent increases in internalizing symptoms through lower levels of latent trait cortisol. Traitlike individual differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity may be among the mechanisms through which early adversity confers risk for the development of psychopathology.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000044
DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000044
M3 - Article
C2 - 29559024
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 31
SP - 509
EP - 524
JO - Development and psychopathology
JF - Development and psychopathology
IS - 2
ER -