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Stress response and the adolescent transition: Performance versus peer rejection stressors

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Little is known about normative variation in stress response over the adolescent transition. This study examined neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to performance and peer rejection stressors over the adolescent transition in a normative sample. Participants were 82 healthy children (ages 7–12 years, n = 39, 22 females) and adolescents (ages 13–17, n = 43, 20 females) recruited through community postings. Following a habituation session, participants completed a performance (public speaking, mental arithmetic, mirror tracing) or peer rejection (exclusion challenges) stress session. Salivary cortisol, salivary alpha amylase (sAA), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP), and heart rate were measured throughout. Adolescents showed significantly greater cortisol, sAA, SBP, and DBP stress response relative to children. Developmental differences were most pronounced in the performance stress session for cortisol and DBP and in the peer rejection session for sAA and SBP. Heightened physiological stress responses in typical adolescents may facilitate adaptation to new challenges of adolescence and adulthood. In high-risk adolescents, this normative shift may tip the balance toward stress response dysregulation associated with depression and other psychopathology. Specificity of physiological response by stressor type highlights the importance of a multisystem approach to the psychobiology of stress and may also have implications for understanding trajectories to psychopathology.

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Authors
Stroud, L. R., Foster, E., Papandonatos, G. D., Handwerger, K., Granger, D. A., Kivlighan, K. T., & Niaura, R.
Affiliations
  • Brown University (US)
  • Tufts University (US)
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author
Stroud, Laura R.
Venue
Development and Psychopathology
Published
2009-01
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
47-68
ISSN
  • 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-2198
OpenAlex
W2124408454
Cited by
610
References
106
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 42 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 44 · 2016: 39 · 2015: 42 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 43 · 2012: 35
FWCI
12.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (K23MH65443, K23MH065443)
  • National Cancer Institute (P50 CA84719, P50CA084719)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Keywords
adolescent transition, stress response, peer rejection, salivary cortisol, salivary amylase, blood pressure, heart rate, neuroendocrine stress response, cardiovascular stress response, developmental differences, stress response dysregulation, depression risk
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Affect, Blood Pressure, Child, Psychology, Child, Emotions, Ethnicity, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Male, Mathematics, Peer Group, Puberty, Speech, Stress, Physiological, Stress, Psychological, Racial Groups

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