ArticleHormones and behavior2014
Beyond physiological hypoarousal: the role of life stress and callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated adolescent males.
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- Psychosocial functioning and the cortisol awakening response: Meta-analysis, P-curve analysis, and evaluation of the evidential value in existing studies.Biological psychology · 2017Pooled it
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- Interpersonal trauma and its relation to childhood psychopathic traits: what does ADHD and ODD add to the equation?BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Heterogeneity in the dynamic arousal and modulation of fear in young foster children.Children and youth services review · 2020Article
- Minimally-invasive methods for examining biological changes in response to chronic stress: A scoping review.International journal of nursing studies · 2020Article
- The Role of the Lateral Hypothalamus in Violent Intraspecific Aggression-The Glucocorticoid Deficit Hypothesis.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2018Review
- Association Between Neighborhood Violence and Biological Stress in Children.JAMA pediatrics · 2017Article
- Child maltreatment, callous-unemotional traits, and defensive responding in high-risk children: An investigation of emotion-modulated startle response.Development and psychopathology · 2015Article
- The association between affective psychopathic traits, time incarcerated, and cortisol response to psychosocial stress.Hormones and behavior · 2015Article
- Interpersonal Callousness from Childhood to Adolescence: Developmental Trajectories and Early Risk Factors.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
The development of antisocial behavior in youth has been examined with neurobiological theories that suggest that adolescents who are less responsive to their environments are less likely to develop empathy in the absence of extant physiological arousal. However, little attention is paid to these individuals' social context. Individuals with adverse early experiences can also exhibit attenuated physiological arousal. The current investigation examines whether psychopathic symptoms or life stress exposure is associated with cortisol and its diurnal rhythm within 50 incarcerated adolescent boys (14-18years old). Ten saliva cortisol samples were collected 1-2weeks after admission to a maximum-security juvenile facility. Hierarchical Linear Modeling distinguished waking cortisol levels, the awakening response (CAR) and the diurnal rhythm. Multiple interviews and self-report measures of CU traits and stressor exposure were collected. Boys with higher levels of CU traits or greater life stress exposure had flat diurnal rhythms and a steeper awakening response in analyses with lifetime stress exposure specifically. Nonetheless, boys who were elevated on both CU traits and prior stress exposure had steeper diurnal rhythms. These results extend neurobiological theories of cortisol and illustrate that boys with the combination of severe stress with CU traits have a unique physiological profile.
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