scholarly journals The role of bicultural adaptation, familism, and family conflict in Mexican American adolescents’ cortisol reactivity

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1571-1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Gonzales ◽  
Megan Johnson ◽  
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff ◽  
Jenn-Yun Tein ◽  
Brenda Eskenazi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Cortisol Reactivity ◽  
Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Mexican American Adolescents

AbstractScarce research has examined stress responsivity among Latino youths, and no studies have focused on the role of acculturation in shaping cortisol stress response in this population. This study assessed Mexican American adolescents’ Mexican and Anglo cultural orientations and examined prospective associations between their patterns of bicultural orientation and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal cortisol reactivity to an adapted Trier Social Stress Test. The sample included 264 youths from a longitudinal birth cohort study who completed the Trier Social Stress Test and provided saliva samples at age 14. The youths completed assessments of cultural orientation at age 12, and family conflict and familism at age 14. Analyses testing the interactive effects of Anglo and Mexican orientation showed significant associations with cortisol responsivity, including the reactivity slope, peak levels, and recovery, but these associations were not mediated by family conflict nor familism values. Findings revealed that bicultural youth (high on both Anglo and Mexican orientations) showed an expected pattern of high cortisol responsivity, which may be adaptive in the context of a strong acute stressor, whereas individuals endorsing only high levels of Anglo orientation had a blunted cortisol response. Findings are discussed in relation to research on biculturalism and the trade-offs and potential recalibration of a contextually responsive hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis for acculturating adolescents.

scholarly journals A Modified Trier Social Stress Test for Vulnerable Mexican American Adolescents

10.3791/55393 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan M. Johnson ◽  
Julianna Deardorff ◽  
Kimberly Parra ◽  
Abbey Alkon ◽  
Brenda Eskenazi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Stress ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Mexican American Adolescents

scholarly journals Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariola Zapater-Fajarí ◽  
Isabel Crespo-Sanmiguel ◽  
Matias M. Pulopulos ◽  
Vanesa Hidalgo ◽  
Alicia Salvador
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Active Coping ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Passive Coping ◽  
Cortisol Reactivity ◽  
Mediating Role

Resilience, the ability to overcome adversity and face stressful demands and experiences, has been strongly associated with successful aging, a low risk of diseases and high mental and physical functioning. This relationship could be based on adaptive coping behaviors, but more research is needed to gain knowledge about the strategies employed to confront social stress. Thus, we aimed to investigate the role of the use of active or passive coping strategies by resilient people in dealing with stressful situations. For this purpose, we measured resilience, coping strategies, and perceived stress in 66 healthy older adults (31 men and 35 women) between 56 and 75 years old who were exposed to stress (Trier Social Stress Test, TSST) or a control situation. The stress response was analyzed at endocrine (cortisol) and psychological (anxiety) levels. In the stress condition, moderated mediation analysis showed a conditional indirect effect of resilience on cortisol reactivity through active coping. However, passive coping strategies did not mediate the resilience-cortisol relationship. In addition, neither active nor passive coping mediated the relationship between resilience and the anxiety response. These results suggest that resilience is associated with active coping strategies, which in turn could explain, at least in part, individual differences in the cortisol response to a psychosocial laboratory stressor. These factors may prevent the development of stress-related pathologies associated with aging and facilitate healthy and satisfactory aging.

The role of bicultural adaptation in Mexican American adolescents’ cortisol reactivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. S1-S2
Author(s):  
Megan Johnson ◽  
Nancy Gonzales ◽  
Elizabeth Shirtcliff ◽  
Jenn-Yun Tein ◽  
Brenda Eskenazi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Cortisol Reactivity ◽  
Mexican American Adolescents

scholarly journals Cortisol Response to Psychosocial Stress in Chinese Early Puberty Girls: Possible Role of Depressive Symptoms

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Sun ◽  
Fang Deng ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Fang-Biao Tao
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Salivary Cortisol ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Pubertal Timing ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Cortisol Concentration ◽  
Early Puberty ◽  
Cortisol Reactivity

Objective. The present study aimed at investigating unique patterns of salivary cortisol reactivity and recovery in response to a social stressor among girls with early puberty and exploring possible role of depressive symptom in this association.Design. Case-control study.Patients. Fifty-six girls with early puberty and age- and body mass index- (BMI-) matched normal puberty controls(n=56)were selected.Measurements. Salivary cortisol was measured in response to the Groningen Social Stress Test for Children.Results. Girls with early puberty had higher cortisol concentration at the end of the GSST (C3), cortisol concentration 20 min after the end of the GSST (C4), and AUC increment (AUCi) compared to non-early puberty girls. Depressive symptoms correlated with blunted HPA reactivity among girls with early puberty.Conclusion. This study demonstrated the disturbance effect of objectively examined early pubertal timing on HPA axis responses. It also suggested that stress reactivity might be blunted for individuals with depressive symptoms.

scholarly journals Developmental changes in hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal activity over the transition to adolescence: Normative changes and associations with puberty

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan R. Gunnar ◽  
Sandi Wewerka ◽  
Kristin Frenn ◽  
Jeffrey D. Long ◽  
Christopher Griggs
Keyword(s):  
Social Stress ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Pubertal Development ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Cortisol Reactivity ◽  
Sympathetic Modulation ◽  
Pituitary Adrenal Axis ◽  
Depressed Symptoms ◽  
Child Depressive Symptoms

AbstractHome baseline and laboratory stressor (Trier Social Stress Test for Children) measures of salivary cortisol were obtained from 82 participants (40 girls) aged 9, 11, 13, and 15 years. Measures of pubertal development, self-reported stress, parent reports of child depressive symptoms and fearful temperament, and cardiac measures of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity were also obtained. Significant increases in the home cortisol baselines were found with age and pubertal development. Cortisol stress reactivity differed by age group with 11-year-olds and 13-year-old boys showing blunted reactivity and 9-year-olds, 13-year-old girls, and 15-year-olds showing significant cortisol reactions. Cortisol reactivity correlated marginally with sexual maturation. Measures of sympathetic activity revealed increased sympathetic modulation with age. Higher sympathetic tone was associated with more fearful temperament, whereas greater cortisol reactivity was associated with more anxious and depressed symptoms for girls. The importance of these findings for the hypothesis that puberty-associated increases in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity heightens the risk of psychopathology is discussed.

Genetic moderation of cortisol secretion in Holocaust survivors

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayala Fridman ◽  
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn ◽  
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz ◽  
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Stress ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Cortisol Secretion ◽  
Cortisol Reactivity ◽  
Diurnal Cortisol ◽  
Deletion Variant ◽  
Cortisol Levels

In the current study we tested whether ADRA2B moderates stress regulation of Holocaust survivors as indexed by their diurnal cortisol secretion and cortisol reactivity to a stressor. Salivary cortisol levels of 54 female Holocaust survivors and participants in the comparison group were assessed during a routine day and in response to a stress-evoking procedure (an adapted version of the Trier Social Stress Test [TSST]). ADRA2B did not moderate differences between Holocaust survivors and participants in the comparison group in terms of cortisol reactivity to the TSST. Holocaust survivors with the wildtype ADRA2B, however, displayed higher diurnal cortisol levels than did participants in the comparison group with the same genotype, whereas no difference was found between these groups in carriers of the deletion variant, previously associated with more reexperiencing of traumatic events. Carriers of the deletion variant might have been driven in the long run to resolve their vividly remembered experiences, and therefore currently show less stress dysregulation as evident from their cortisol levels.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Perceived Control and Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test in Healthy Young Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Liu ◽  
Jianhui Wu ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Xiaofang Sun ◽  
Qing Guan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Hpa Axis ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Control Level ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal

Psychological factors can modulate the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis activity toward stressors. Animal studies demonstrated that uncontrollability was one critical factor associated with HPA axis stress response, but the results in human studies were inconsistent. The current study adopted a standardized laboratory stress induction procedure, the Trier Social Stress Test (the TSST), as the stressor to regulate the objective controllability level, and young adult participants were asked to rate their subjectively perceived control level toward the stressor and measured their cortisol stress responses (N=54; 19 females and 35 males) to address this concern. Results showed that participants’ perceived control on the TSST was related to the cortisol stress response. In other words, under the stress of a certain objective controllability level, the lower the subjectively perceived control level, the greater the HPA axis response. This finding suggested that, in addition to objective controllability, subjectively perceived control is a psychological factor that regulates activation of the HPA axis in young adults.

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