Assessing lifetime stress exposure using the Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN): An overview and initial validation

GM Slavich, GS Shields - Psychosomatic medicine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective Numerous theories have proposed that acute and chronic stressors may exert a
cumulative effect on life-span health by causing biological “wear and tear,” or allostatic load …

Levels of emotional awareness: theory and measurement of a socio-emotional skill

RD Lane, R Smith - Journal of Intelligence, 2021 - mdpi.com
Emotional awareness is the ability to conceptualize and describe one's own emotions and
those of others. Over thirty years ago, a cognitive-developmental theory of emotional …

Effects of pre-and postnatal maternal stress on infant temperament and autonomic nervous system reactivity and regulation in a diverse, low-income population

NR Bush, K Jones-Mason, M Coccia… - Development and …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We examined the prospective associations of objective and subjective measures of stress
during pregnancy with infant stress reactivity and regulation, an early-life predictor of …

Early life maltreatment and resting-state heart rate variability: A systematic review and meta-analysis

C Sigrist, I Mürner-Lavanchy, SKV Peschel… - … & biobehavioral reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent focus on the consequences of early life adversity (ELA) in neurobiological research
led to a variety of findings suggesting alterations in several physiological systems, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical methods for mediation analysis in the era of high-throughput genomics: current successes and future challenges

P Zeng, Z Shao, X Zhou - Computational and structural biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mediation analysis investigates the intermediate mechanism through which an exposure
exerts its influence on the outcome of interest. Mediation analysis is becoming increasingly …

The biological embedding of early-life socioeconomic status and family adversity in children's genome-wide DNA methylation

NR Bush, RD Edgar, M Park, JL MacIsaac… - …, 2018 - Future Medicine
Aim: To examine variation in child DNA methylation to assess its potential as a pathway for
effects of childhood social adversity on health across the life course. Materials & methods: In …

Family socioeconomic status, cortisol, and physical health in early childhood: the role of advantageous neighborhood characteristics

DS Roubinov, MJ Hagan, WT Boyce… - Psychosomatic …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective Children from families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) evidence greater
physiological dysregulation and poorer health. Despite recognition of environmental …

Early life adversity has long-term effects on sociality and interaction style in female baboons

SK Patterson, SC Strum, JB Silk - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social bonds enhance fitness in many group-living animals, generating interest in the
processes that create individual variation in sociality. Previous work on female baboons …

Emotion, social relationships, and physical health: Concepts, methods, and evidence for an integrative perspective

TW Smith, K Weihs - Psychosomatic Medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Emotional characteristics and processes are robust predictors of the development and
course of major medical illnesses and premature mortality, as are a variety of indicators of …

Exposure to traumatic events in childhood predicts cortisol production among high risk pregnant women

DA Swales, SA Stout-Oswald, LM Glynn… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Childhood exposure to traumatic events has a profound and disruptive impact on mental
and physical health, including stress physiology. In the current study, we evaluate 90 …