Effects of Adolescent Sociocognitive Development on the Cortisol Response to Social Evaluation

Autor/inn/en	van den Bos, Esther; van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C. K.; Westenberg, P. Michiel
Titel	Effects of Adolescent Sociocognitive Development on the Cortisol Response to Social Evaluation
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 52 (2016) 7, S.1151-1163 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000133
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Social Development; Cognitive Development; Longitudinal Studies; Regression (Statistics); Puberty; Adolescent Development; Theory of Mind; Social Cognition; Public Speaking; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Elementary School Students; Secondary School Students; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Intelligence Tests; Netherlands; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Soziale Entwicklung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Pubertät; Soziale Kognition; Vortrag; Angst; Sekundarschüler; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Korrelation; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Niederlande
Abstract	Adolescents become increasingly sensitive to social evaluation. Some previous studies have related this change to pubertal development. The present longitudinal study examined the role of sociocognitive development. We investigated whether or not the transition to recursive thinking, the ability to think about (others') thoughts, would be associated with changes in the magnitude and timing of the cortisol response to social evaluation. Salivary cortisol was obtained during the Leiden Public Speaking Task. The task was administered twice with a 2-year interval to 221 participants, aged 9-17 years at Time 1. The area under the curve was computed to assess the magnitude of the overall cortisol response. Two difference scores, reflecting speech anticipation and speech delivery, were computed to assess the timing of the cortisol response. Recursive thinking was measured with a cartoon description task. Regression analyses with clustered bootstrap controlling for pubertal development, age, and general cognitive functioning showed that the transition to recursive thinking predicted an increase in the cortisol response to speech anticipation, but was unrelated to the magnitude of the overall cortisol response. This is in line with the view that increasing sensitivity to social evaluation in adolescence is mainly due to the effects of pubertal hormones on affective regions of the brain. Sociocognitive development affected the timing rather than the magnitude of the cortisol response. The results suggest that recursive thinking enables earlier realization of social-evaluative threat. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01