ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2017
Risky family processes prospectively forecast shorter telomere length mediated through negative emotions.
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- Biological aging in childhood and adolescence following experiences of threat and deprivation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2020Pooled it
- Examining the Biological Impacts of Parent-Child Relationship Dynamics on Preschool-Aged Children who have Experienced Adversity.Developmental psychobiology · 2024Observational
- Examining the influence of adversity, family contexts, and a family-based intervention on parent and child telomere length.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
- Testing three hypotheses about effects of sensitive-insensitive parenting on telomeres.Developmental psychology · 2020Article
- Telomere Length and Psychopathology: Specificity and Direction of Effects Within the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2020Article
- Cold parenting is associated with cellular aging in offspring: A retrospective study.Biological psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study was designed to examine prospective associations of risky family environments with subsequent levels of negative emotions and peripheral blood mononuclear cell telomere length (TL), a marker of cellular aging. A second purpose was to determine whether negative emotions mediate the hypothesized link between risky family processes and diminished telomere length.
methodParticipants were 293 adolescents (age 17 years at the first assessment) and their primary caregivers. Caregivers provided data on risky family processes when the youths were age 17 years, youths reported their negative emotions at age 18 years, and youths' TL was assayed from a blood sample at age 22 years.
resultsThe results revealed that (a) risky family processes forecast heightened negative emotions (β = .316, p < .001) and diminished TL (β = -.199, p = .003) among youths, (b) higher levels of negative emotions forecast shorter TL (β = -.187, p = .012), and (c) negative emotions served as a mediator connecting risky family processes with diminished TL (indirect effect = -0.012, 95% CI [-0.036, -0.002]).
conclusionsThese findings are consistent with the hypothesis that risky family processes presage premature cellular aging through effects on negative emotions, with potential implications for lifelong health. (PsycINFO Database Record
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