Cumulative Risk, Maternal Responsiveness, and Allostatic Load among Young Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Evans, Gary W.; Kim, Pilyoung; Ting, Albert H.; Tesher, Harris B.; Shannis, Dana
Titel	Cumulative Risk, Maternal Responsiveness, and Allostatic Load among Young Adolescents
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 43 (2007) 2, S.341-351 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Early Adolescents; Mental Computation; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Responsibility; Mothers; At Risk Persons; Stress Variables; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Middle School Students; Family Environment; Poverty; Physiology; Human Body; Responses; Physical Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kopfrechnen; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Risikogruppe; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Familienmilieu; Armut; Physiologie; Menschlicher Körper; Natürliche Umwelt
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of cumulative risk exposure in concert with maternal responsiveness on physiological indicators of chronic stress in children and youth. Middle-school children exposed to greater accumulated psychosocial (e.g., family turmoil, poverty) and physical (e.g., crowding, substandard housing) risk factors manifested higher levels of allostatic load, a physiological marker of cumulative wear and tear on the body caused by the mobilization of multiple, physiological response systems. This effect was longitudinal, residualizing allostatic load 3-4 years earlier when the youth were in elementary school. This effect, however, occurred only among adolescents with mothers low in responsiveness. Cumulative risk was also associated with dynamic cardiovascular processes in response to an acute stressor (mental arithmetic). Higher risk was associated with muted reactivity and slower, less efficient recovery in blood pressure. These dynamic cardiovascular effects occurred irrespective of maternal responsiveness. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10