Social connection and mental health in girls: A prospective longitudinal study across adolescence

女孩的社会联系和心理健康：一项跨青春期的前瞻性纵向研究

• 批准号: 10329144
• 负责人: Jennifer Hope Pfeifer
• 金额: $ 72.83万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10329144
• 关键词: 17 year old; 19 year old; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Affect; Affective; Age; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Behavioral; Biologic Development; Biological; Biological Markers; Brain; Buffers; Cellular Phone; Chronic; Clinical; Communities; Data; Data Sources; Development; Diagnosis; Diagnostic; Disease; Early Intervention; Enrollment; Epidemiology; Exclusion; Female Adolescents; Friends; Friendships; Future; Goals; Hormonal Change; Individual; Individual Differences; Intervention; Interview; Investigation; Knowledge; Laboratories; Life; Literature; Loneliness; Longevity; Longitudinal Studies; Longitudinal prospective study; Male Adolescents; Measures; Mediating; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; National Institute of Mental Health; Nature; Patient Self-Report; Persons; Phase; Phase Transition; Prevention; Prevention approach; Process; Puberty; Public Health; Questionnaires; Recurrence; Reporting; Research; Risk; Role; Sampling; Self-Injurious Behavior; Series; Severities; Social Change; Social Development; Social Processes; Social support; Structure; Symptoms; Technology; Testing; Text; Time; Translating; Victimization; Visit; biomarker identification; biopsychosocial; bullying; child depression; cognitive development; cohort; design; digital; early adolescence; experience; gender disparity; girls; improved; indexing; innovation; interest; lens; neurodevelopment; neuroimaging; novel strategies; peer; programs; psychosocial; psychosocial development; relating to nervous system; response; sensor technology; smartphone Application; social; social communication; social exclusion; social inclusion; social media; social relationships; tool

ABSTRACT Internalizing problems are common, harmful, and increasing amongst adolescent girls -- creating a public health imperative to identify behavioral and biological mechanisms and/or indicators of risk. Social connection, exclusion, and loneliness are well known to affect emergence and recurrence of internalizing symptoms and disorders in adolescent girls, and recent efforts have begun to focus on the specific role of close friendships in these processes. While the quality of close friendships often buffers against risks for mental disorders, in adolescent girls some supportive features of close friendships may also increase risk for depression, anxiety, and self-harm. One important new context in which to consider these processes is the use of digital technology, especially social media, as adolescents extensively use these methods to connect with friends and peers. It is therefore essential to understand how the dynamics of daily online and offline experiences of social connection, social exclusion, and loneliness impact adolescent girls’ mental health. In addition, it is also clear that pubertal development strongly impacts risk trajectories in adolescent girls, likely via concomitant neural and social changes. Neural responses to social exclusion are widely understood to differ in adolescents with depression, anxiety, and self-harm; yet we know very little about how positive aspects of social connection might buffer these individual differences. The Transitions in Adolescent Girls (TAG) study, launched in 2015 (R01 MH107418), was designed to conduct a comprehensive multilevel investigation of the connections between biological and social changes during early-to-mid adolescence, in order to reveal the ways in which these interconnected changes relate to risk for the emergence of a range of mental health problems associated with pubertal development in girls. We enrolled a community sample of N=174 girls (ages 10.0-13.0 years) into a longitudinal study, with 3 waves of data collected every 18 months, including 2 laboratory visits at each wave. The first phase of the TAG study was designed to address the question of whether puberty influences mental health via its impact on neural, self, and social cognitive development). We propose to collect additional waves of data at two more 18-month intervals, bringing the cohort to 16-19 years of age. Critically, we will incorporate an expanded multilevel emphasis on social connection, including both established questionnaires and neuroimaging tasks as well as innovative new methods that leverage mid-to- late adolescents’ use of smartphones. This has the added benefit of extending the project to examine the impact of early-to-mid adolescent biological and psychosocial changes on mid-to-late adolescent social connection and mental health -- a key phase of life for both of these processes. We hypothesize that social connection during mid-to-late adolescence is not only predictive of concurrent and near-future mental health, but is also part of a cascading series of developmental and risk processes that are at least in part driven by earlier biological and psychosocial changes.

抽象的 在青春期女孩中，内化问题是常见的、有害的，而且还在不断增加——这导致了 公共卫生必须确定行为和生物机制和/或社会风险指标。 众所周知，联系、排斥和孤独会影响内化的出现和复发。 青春期女孩的症状和疾病，最近的努力已开始关注 在这些过程中，亲密友谊的质量往往可以缓冲风险。 对于青春期女孩来说，亲密友谊的一些支持性特征也可能会增加精神障碍的风险 抑郁、焦虑和自残是考虑这些过程的一个重要的新背景。 数字技术，尤其是社交媒体，因为青少年主要使用这些方法来联系 因此，了解日常线上和线下的动态非常重要。 社会联系、社会排斥和孤独的经历会影响青春期女孩的心理健康。 此外，很明显，青春期发育对青春期女孩的风险轨迹有强烈影响，可能通过 人们普遍认为，伴随的神经和社会变化对社会排斥的神经反应是不同的。 患有抑郁、焦虑和自残的青少年；但我们对其积极方面知之甚少； 青少年女孩的转变（TAG）研究中，社会联系可能会缓冲这些个体差异。 于 2015 年推出（R01 MH107418），旨在对 青春期早期到中期的生物变化和社会变化之间的联系，以揭示 这些相互关联的变化与一系列心理健康问题的出现风险相关的方式 与女孩青春期发育相关的问题 我们招募了 N=174 名女孩（年龄）的社区样本。 10.0-13.0年）进行纵向研究，每18个月收集3波数据，其中2波 TAG 研究的第一阶段旨在解决以下问题： 青春期是否通过对神经、自我和社会认知发展的影响来影响心理健康）。 建议以另外两次 18 个月的间隔收集更多数据，使队列达到 16-19 岁 至关重要的是，我们将扩大对社会联系的多层次重视，包括两者。 建立了问卷和神经影像任务以及利用中到的创新新方法 青少年晚期对智能手机的使用还有一个额外的好处，那就是扩大该项目以检查 青少年早期到中期的生物和社会变化对青少年中晚期社会的影响 联系和心理健康——这两个过程的生命的关键阶段。 青春期中后期的联系不仅可以预测当前和近期的心理健康状况， 但也是一系列级联发展和风险流程的一部分，这些流程至少部分是由 早期的生物和心理社会变化。

项目成果

Multimethod assessment of pubertal timing and associations with internalizing psychopathology in early adolescent girls.

对青春期早期女孩的青春期时机及其与内化精神病理学的关联的多方法评估。

• 发表时间: 2022-01
• 作者: Barendse, Marjolein E A;Byrne, Michelle L;Flournoy, John C;McNeilly, Elizabeth A;Guazzelli Williamson, Victoria;Barrett, Ann;Chavez, Samantha J;Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A;Allen, Nicholas B;Pfeifer, Jennifer H
• 通讯作者: Pfeifer, Jennifer H

Adolescent Social Communication Through Smartphones: Linguistic Features of Internalizing Symptoms and Daily Mood.

通过智能手机进行的青少年社交交流：内化症状和日常情绪的语言特征。

• 发表时间: 2023-11
• 作者: McNeilly, Elizabeth A;Mills, Kathryn L;Kahn, Lauren E;Crowley, Ryann;Pfeifer, Jennifer H;Allen, Nicholas B
• 通讯作者: Allen, Nicholas B