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Self-reported childhood family adversity is linked to an attenuated gain of trust during adolescence

Reiter, Andrea MF; Hula, Andreas; Vanes, Lucy; Hauser, Tobias U; Kokorikou, Danae; Goodyer, Ian M; NSPN, Consortium; ... Dolan, Ray; + view all (2023) Self-reported childhood family adversity is linked to an attenuated gain of trust during adolescence. Nature Communications , 14 , Article 6920. 10.1038/s41467-023-41531-z. Green open access

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Abstract

A longstanding proposal in developmental research is that childhood family experiences provide a template that shapes a capacity for trust-based social relationships. We leveraged longitudinal data from a cohort of healthy adolescents (n = 570, aged 14–25), which included decision-making and psychometric data, to characterise normative developmental trajectories of trust behaviour and inter-individual differences therein. Extending on previous cross-sectional findings from the same cohort, we show that a task-based measure of trust increases longitudinally from adolescence into young adulthood. Computational modelling suggests this is due to a decrease in social risk aversion. Self-reported family adversity attenuates this developmental gain in trust behaviour, and within our computational model, this relates to a higher ‘irritability’ parameter in those reporting greater adversity. Unconditional trust at measurement time point T1 predicts the longitudinal trajectory of self-reported peer relation quality, particularly so for those with higher family adversity, consistent with trust acting as a resilience factor.

Type: Article
Title: Self-reported childhood family adversity is linked to an attenuated gain of trust during adolescence
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41531-z
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41531-z
Language: English
Additional information: © 2024 Springer Nature Limited. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Decision, Human behaviour, Social behaviour
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176434
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