Positive and negative affect and adolescent adjustment: moderation effects of prefrontal functioning

Alexis Brieant; Christopher J. Holmes; Dominique Maciejewski; Jacob Lee; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Brooks King-Casas; Jungmeen Kim-Spoon

doi:10.1111/jora.12339

Positive and negative affect and adolescent adjustment: moderation effects of prefrontal functioning

Alexis Brieant, Christopher J. Holmes, Dominique Maciejewski, Jacob Lee, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Brooks King-Casas, Jungmeen Kim-Spoon

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Abstract

We examined whether cognitive control moderates the effects of emotion on adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptomatology in a longitudinal study of 138 adolescents. Self-reported positive affect (PA) and negative affect and behavioral and neural indicators of cognitive control, indexed by performance and prefrontal hemodynamic response during a cognitive interference task, were collected at Time 1. Self-reported internalizing and externalizing symptomatology were collected at Time 1 and Time 2 (1year later). Results indicated that higher PA predicted decreases in externalizing symptomatology, but only for adolescents with poor neural cognitive control. No moderation effects were found for behavioral cognitive control. Findings imply the beneficial effects of PA on the development of externalizing problems among adolescents with poor prefrontal functioning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	40-55
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Research on Adolescence
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12339
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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