Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Archival ReportCorporal Punishment Is Uniquely Associated With a Greater Neural Response to Errors and Blunted Neural Response to Rewards in Adolescence
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Participants and Procedure
This study is part of a multisite longitudinal study examining the impact of computerized adaptive attentional bias modification training on the ERN. Here, we focused on the ERN and RewP at baseline and on self-report questionnaires at the 2-year follow-up visit. Participants between the ages of 11 and 14 years, who were recruited from Tallahassee, FL area, completed a baseline visit and a follow-up visit 2 years later. Families were recruited using a registration list, word of mouth, and
Results
The means and standard deviations for all study variables are presented in Table 1 along with the results of independent-samples t tests. Bivariate correlations among all study variables are presented in Table 2. Of note, youth who did versus those who did not experience corporal punishment did not differ in age or sex; however, youth who reported experiencing corporal punishment did report more severe anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms.
Within the corporal punishment group, corporal
Discussion
Although research suggests that harsh parenting and corporal punishment have adverse effects on a child’s psychological well-being, few studies have examined the effect of harsh parenting and corporal punishment on neural activity linked to psychopathology. To address this gap, we examined how experiencing corporal punishment was related to youths’ neural responses to errors and rewards, measures that have been robustly related to anxiety and depression, respectively. We further examined
Acknowledgments and Disclosures
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant Nos. 5T32 MH093311-09 [to KB]), F32 MH125504 [to CJB]), and R01MH106477 [to GH]). GMS was supported by grant from the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (Grant No. OPR21101) and by Contract No. 21-10317 from the Office of the California Surgeon General and California Department of Health Care Services, which supports the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network.
These organizations had no role in designing
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