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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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“Research confirms that adolescents experience increased physiological responses to stressors (Stroud et al. 2009), increased prefrontal brain activation during social evaluation (Somerville 2013), and increased difficulty implementing cognitive control skills in the context of emotionally evocative events (Cohen et al. 2016, Somerville et al. 2011).”
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“the changes in physiological responses to stressors observed by Stroud et al (2009) during the pubertal transition “were not mirrored by differences in affective responses to the stressors””
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“a number of studies have hinted to the provocative possibility that ANS-associated somatic signs may not be as strongly linked to emotional expression (e.g., Quas et al, 2000; Stroud et al, 2009) or to optimizing risky decision-making (e.g., Crone & van der Molen, 2007) during development as in adulthood.”
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“the changes in physiological responses to stressors observed by Stroud et al (2009) during the pubertal transition “were not mirrored by differences in affective responses to the stressors” (p.62).”
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“and are prone to intensified emotional and stress responses to peer evaluation (15–18).”
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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.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Development and Psychopathology
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2009-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 47-68
- ISSN
- 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-2198
- PMC
- PMC2700625
- 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
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- 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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