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Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study
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Little work has been conducted that examines the effects of positive environmental experiences on brain development to date. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate the effects of positive (warm and supportive) maternal behavior on structural brain development during adolescence, using longitudinal structural MRI. Participants were 188 (92 female) adolescents, who were part of a longitudinal adolescent development study that involved mother-adolescent interactions and MRI scans at approximately 12 years old, and follow-up MRI scans approximately 4 years later. FreeSurfer software was used to estimate the volume of limbic-striatal regions (amygdala, hippocampus, caudate, putamen, pallidum, and nucleus accumbens) and the thickness of prefrontal regions (anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortices) across both time points. Higher frequency of positive maternal behavior during the interactions predicted attenuated volumetric growth in the right amygdala, and accelerated cortical thinning in the right anterior cingulate (males only) and left and right orbitofrontal cortices, between baseline and follow up. These results have implications for understanding the biological mediators of risk and protective factors for mental disorders that have onset during adolescence.
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In a longitudinal community sample of adolescents, observed positive maternal behavior during a conflictual interaction predicted structural brain development from early to mid-adolescence, including reduced right amygdala growth and greater left/right OFC thinning. Effects were partly sex-specific for right ACC thinning in males and were not explained by aggressive maternal behavior.
Key findings
- Higher positive maternal behavior predicted reduced growth of the right amygdala (β = −0.284, p = 0.014) and greater thinning of the left and right OFC (β = −0.262, p = 0.024; β = −0.258, p = 0.022).
- Positive maternal behavior × sex predicted right ACC change (β = −0.311, p = 0.045); follow-up analyses showed greater right ACC thinning in males (β = −0.525, p = 0.007) but no association in females (β = 0.042, p = 0.789).
- Aggressive maternal behavior predicted increased growth of the right putamen (β = 0.306, p = 0.012); positive maternal behavior effects were not better explained by aggressive maternal behavior.
- Positive parenting was not associated with the structure of the majority of regions at baseline or follow-up (reported as Supplementary data).
Methods
- Participants were a community sample of 188 adolescents (92 females) from metropolitan Melbourne, Australia; 163 completed baseline mother–adolescent interaction tasks, and 102 had acceptable baseline and follow-up MRI data (mean follow-up = 3.78 years, SD = 0.20; baseline MRI age = 12.62, SD = 0.44; follow-up MRI age = 16.42, SD = 0.50).
- Mother–adolescent dyads completed videotaped event-planning and problem-solving interactions coded with the LIFE system; positive maternal behavior was taken from the problem-solving interaction and aggressive maternal behavior from the event-planning interaction. MRI was processed with FreeSurfer longitudinal stream for subcortical volumes (amygdala, hippocampus, caudate, nucleus accumbens, putamen, pallidum) and cortical thickness (ACC, OFC).
- Hierarchical linear regressions predicted residualized ROI change scores, with covariates age, SES, IQ, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and aggressive maternal behavior; positive maternal behavior and sex were entered next, followed by their interaction. Missing data were handled with FIML in Mplus.
Limitations
- Stated: only two imaging time points limited modeling to linear patterns of brain development, so non-linear effects and effects extending into late adolescence or adulthood could not be assessed.
- Stated: only one observed measure of positive parenting was used; fathers were not included; temperament-based sampling may restrict generalizability; no correction for multiple comparisons was applied; some FreeSurfer structures (particularly amygdala and nucleus accumbens) have relatively low reliability; multisite scanner/sequence bias was possible though post-acquisition procedures and an inter-scanner reliability assessment were used.
- Evident from the text: the observational longitudinal design cannot establish causal effects, and the MRI sample was 102 with complete-case analyses also run in 77 participants, which may limit power and generalizability alongside the temperament oversampling.
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“Briefly, we found the caudate, thalamus and putamen to decline in volume over time.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Results
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“Higher rate of positive maternal behavior was associated with reduced growth of the right amygdala from early- to mid-adolescence”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Results
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“left and right OFC (β = −0.262, p = 0.024; β = −0.258, p = 0.022, respectively)”
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“Aggressive maternal behavior was associated with change in only one ROI, the right putamen; specifically, it predicted increased growth of this structure over time (β = 0.306, p = 0.012).”
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“Although we found no evidence for significant development of the amygdala from early- to mid-adolescence in this sample (Dennison et al., 2013)”
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“We found that higher frequency of positive maternal behavior was associated with reduced growth of the right amygdala, and accelerated thinning of the left and right OFC and right ACC (males only) from early to midadolescence.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Discussion
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“Males had thicker whole brain corrected OFC's than females.”
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“but showed no association with thinning for females (β = 0.042, p = 0.789, respectively).”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Results
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“The pallidum and hippocampus increased in volume over time.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Results
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“We found that higher frequency of positive maternal behavior was associated with reduced growth of the right amygdala, and accelerated thinning of the left and right OFC and right ACC (males only) from early to midadolescence.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Discussion
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“Whole brain corrected thickness was greater in the left compared to the right ACC.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Results
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“We found that higher frequency of positive maternal behavior was associated with reduced growth of the right amygdala, and accelerated thinning of the left and right OFC and right ACC (males only) from early to midadolescence.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Discussion
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“While we found that positive parenting was associated with development in a number of regions, it was not associated with the structure of the majority of these regions at baseline or follow-up (see Supplementary data).”
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“While amygdala volume did not change over time, there was a main effect of hemisphere such that the left amygdala was larger than the right.”
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“There was significant thinning in the OFC over time, with greater thinning in the left compared to the right hemisphere.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Results
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“There was significant thinning in the ACC over time, with greater in the right compared to the left hemisphere.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Results
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“While the left nucleus accumbens increased in size, the right accumbens decreased in size over the follow-up period.”
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“A wealth of animal studies indicates that environmental enhancement has effects on brain development across the lifespan (Halperin and Healey, 2011).”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Introduction
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“Adverse childhood environments represent an important risk factor for the development of psychopathology later in life (Heim and Nemeroff, 2001, Moran et al., 2004)”
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“Our previous work has shown that decreased levels of psychopathology are associated with attenuated growth of the amygdala, and accelerated growth of the hippocampus, during adolescence (Whittle et al., 2013).”
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“there is accumulating evidence that neurobiological changes (particularly with regard to brain structure) may mediate this relationship (Tupler and De Bellis, 2006).”
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“there is some evidence from animal studies that environmental enrichment has an effect on amygdala development (Okuda et al., 2009).”
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“These results suggest that positive and aggressive maternal behavior do not exist on a continuum of positive to negative, but rather may reflect two different aspects of parenting behaviors that have distinct effects on children's brain development.”
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“We found that the frequency of positive maternal behavior during early adolescence was associated with structural development of regions implicated in reward processes, emotional reactivity and regulation, with some sex differences also being observed.”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Discussion
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“There is also evidence that the interaction between prefrontal structures and the amygdala is critical to emotion regulation”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Discussion
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“given that positive maternal behaviors are thought to shape the development of their children's ability to regulate emotion and behaviors (Yap et al., 2010)”
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“although the use of observed (as opposed to self-report) measures of maternal behavior is a strength of the study”
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“post-acquisition procedures were adopted to minimize, as much as possible, any scanner/sequence effects on the acquired images.”
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“specifically prefrontal down-regulation of amygdala activity has been associated with the attenuation of negative affect during emotion regulation (Banks et al., 2007).”
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“we did not assess other (or more specific) aspects of positive parenting (such as warmth, responsivity, and support) that may be important protective factors for other deleterious outcomes.”
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“The amygdala is thought to be primarily involved in detection of, and reactivity to, emotionally salient stimuli (Habel et al., 2005).”
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“we were unable to include fathers in analyses, due to the low number of participating fathers in the study.”
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“others have found normative increases in the volume of this structure over the adolescent years (e.g., Ostby et al., 2009).”
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“Specifically, Shaw et al. (2006), using a cohort-sequential design, found that adolescents with superior intellectual abilities exhibited greater cortical thinning in a number of cortical areas, including the OFC, into adulthood.”
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“as MRI scans were acquired multisite, with different imaging sequences acquired at each site”
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“we cannot comment on whether positive parenting has non-linear effects on brain development, or whether the effects may extend into late adolescence and adulthood.”
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“our previous finding that low levels of psychopathology were associated with attenuated amygdala development from early to midadolescence (Whittle et al., 2013)”
§ Positive parenting predicts the development of adolescent brain structure: A longitudinal study > Discussion
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“Finally, in other work with the current sample, we have found that greater thinning in the ACC was associated with higher temperamental effortful control (Vijayakumar et al., in press-b).”
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“there is a possibility of scanner/sequence bias affecting volumetric and thickness estimates.”
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“Our findings may have implications for understanding the mechanisms underlying the relationship between positive parenting and reduced risk for a range of negative outcomes.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Positive parenting has been found to be associated with increased positive adolescent outcomes, and resilience against negative adolescent outcomes.
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“given our temperamental sampling strategy, our results may have restricted generalizability.”
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“sample sizes of approximately 80 and above are suggested to be adequately powered to detect small to medium effect sizes in these structures (Morey et al., 2010).”
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“it is very unlikely that the measure of positive maternal behavior interacted with scanner or sequence type in any way that might bias the reported results.”
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“we did not control for multiple comparisons”
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Little work has examined the effects of positive parenting on brain structure in children and adolescents.
“Despite this evidence, to date, little work has been conducted that examines the effects of positive parenting on brain structure in children and adolescents.”
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None of the existing research has assessed longitudinal measures of brain development.
“Second, to our knowledge, none of the existing research has assessed longitudinal measures of brain development.”
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The longitudinal associations between positive parenting and adolescent brain structure reflect causal effects of positive parenting rather than unmeasured confounding.
“we have found, for the first time, longitudinal effects of positive parenting on structural development of the brain during adolescence.”
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No other human study to date has reported an effect of positive parenting on amygdala structure.
“Although no other human study to date has reported an effect of positive parenting on amygdala structure”
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Abnormalities in the structure and function of the amygdala, OFC, and ACC have been found in both adolescent and adult depression.
“Abnormalities in the structure and function of all of the regions associated with positive parenting in the current study (i.e., amygdala, OFC, ACC) have been found in both adolescent and adult depression.”
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Reliability for some FreeSurfer delineated structures (particularly the amygdala and nucleus accumbens) is relatively low.
“it has been suggested that reliability for some FreeSurfer delineated structures (particularly the amygdala and nucleus accumbens) is relatively low”
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Positive parenting has been found to be associated with increased positive adolescent outcomes, and resilience against negative adolescent outcomes.
“Given that positive parenting has been found to be associated with increased positive adolescent outcomes, and resilience against negative adolescent outcomes”
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“Specifically, more positive relationships between mothers and early adolescents have been associated with decreased volumetric growth of the amygdala”
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“The quality of maternal relationships in early adolescence has also been associated with changes in the trajectory of brain maturation.”
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- Whittle, S., Simmons, J. G., Dennison, M., Vijayakumar, N., Schwartz, O., Yap, M. B. H., Sheeber, L., & Allen, N. B.
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- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Oregon Research Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Allen, Nicholas B.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-04
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 7-17
- ISSN
- 1878-9293 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6990097
- OpenAlex
- W1972771337
- Cited by
- 279
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 51 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 12.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Deakin Research Online (Deakin University) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Colonial Foundation
- National Health and Medical Research Council (350241)
- Australian Research Council (DP0878136)
- University of Melbourne
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Keywords
- positive parenting, maternal behavior, adolescent brain development, structural brain development, amygdala volume, cortical thinning, anterior cingulate cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, mother-adolescent interaction, protective factors
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Amygdala, Brain, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Gyrus Cinguli, Hippocampus, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Maternal Behavior, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Reward, Sex Characteristics, Parenting, Prefrontal Cortex, Adolescent Development
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