Adolescent effects on mothers’ bedtime cortisol: Cognitive interference as a mediating mechanism

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• Alternative Title:
  Stress Health
• Personal Author:
  Lippold, Melissa A. ; Molenaar, Peter ; Chandler, Kelly D. ; Lee, Soomi ; Almeida, David M.
• Description:
  Prior studies have shown that parent and adolescent cortisol are associated across days and that this covariation may be adolescent-driven. This study extends this literature by (a) testing whether parents' cognitive interference (i.e., distracting and ruminative thoughts potentially due to worry) mediates the linkages between adolescent and next-day parent cortisol and (b) whether these linkages were moderated by parent gender or warmth. Daily diary data, including bedtime cortisol, were collected on two samples of employees and their adolescent-aged children (N = 318 dyads, M|  = 13.18 years, 74% mothers). We tested mediation with autoregressive cross-lagged models. Moderated mediation by parent gender was found in our bedtime cortisol models. Higher adolescent bedtime cortisol levels were associated with higher next-day levels of mothers' cognitive interference. In turn, higher levels of mothers' cognitive interference were linked to higher mothers' same-day bedtime cortisol levels. These linkages were not significant for fathers. Cognitive interference did not mediate the associations between child and parent area under the curve or cortisol awakening response. No moderation was evident for parental warmth. Results suggest that mothers' cognitions play a key role in the transmission of elevated bedtime cortisol levels from adolescents to their mothers.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Aged Article Child Child Effects Cognition Cognitive Interference Cortisol Cortisol Synchrony Daily Diary Study Fathers Female Humans Hydrocortisone Male Mothers Parent-Child Relations Parenting Parents

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• Source:
  Stress Health. 38(3):509-521
• Pubmed ID:
  34766438
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9255278
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U01HD051256/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; U01HD051276/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; U01 HD051217/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051256/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01OH008788/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01HD051217/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; Alfred P Sloan Foundation/ ; R03 HD 087611/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; U01HD059773/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 OH008788/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; William T. Grant Foundation/ ; U01AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; AF/ACF HHSUnited States/ ; R03 HD087611/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01HD051218/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; U01 HD059773/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051276/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051218/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; AF/ACF HHSUnited States/ ; U01HD059773/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01OH008788/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3464e8a175a234103eb1dbbb0e987d401ad1d05938681bc1ff6b62c1984e14ad
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118837/cdc_118837_DS1.pdf
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