Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands.
Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands.
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2022 Apr;54:101099. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101099. Epub 2022 Mar 15.
Social feedback from parents has a profound impact on the development of a child's self-concept. Yet, little is known about adolescents' affective and neural responses to parental social feedback, such as criticism or praise. Adolescents (n = 63) received standardized social feedback supposedly provided by their mother or father in the form of appraisals about their personality (e.g., 'respectful', 'lazy') during fMRI scanning. After each feedback word, adolescents reported their mood. Additionally, adolescents had rated whether feedback words matched their self-views on an earlier occasion. In line with preregistered hypotheses, negative parental feedback worsened adolescents' mood, which was exacerbated when feedback did not match adolescents' self-views. Negative feedback was associated with increased activity in the neural 'saliency network', including anterior insula, anterior cingulate cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Positive feedback improved mood and increased activity in brain regions supporting social cognition, including temporoparietal junction, posterior superior temporal sulcus, and precuneus. A more positive general self-view and perceived parental warmth were associated with elevated mood, independent of feedback valence, but did not impact neural responses. Taken together, these results enhance our understanding of adolescents' neural circuitry involved in the processing of parental praise and criticism, and the impact of parental feedback on well-being.
父母的社会反馈对儿童自我概念的发展有深远的影响。然而，人们对青少年对父母社会反馈（如批评或表扬）的情感和神经反应知之甚少。在 fMRI 扫描期间，青少年（n=63）收到了来自母亲或父亲的标准化社会反馈，形式是对他们的个性（例如“尊重”、“懒惰”）的评价。在每个反馈词之后，青少年报告了他们的情绪。此外，青少年在之前的某个时候已经对反馈词是否符合他们的自我观点进行了评价。根据预先注册的假设，负面的父母反馈会恶化青少年的情绪，而当反馈与青少年的自我观点不匹配时，情况会更加严重。负面反馈与神经“突显网络”的活动增加有关，包括前脑岛、前扣带皮层和背内侧前额叶皮层。积极的反馈会改善情绪，并增加支持社会认知的大脑区域的活动，包括颞顶联合区、后上颞回和楔前叶。更积极的一般自我观点和感知到的父母温暖与情绪升高有关，与反馈的积极或消极无关，但不会影响神经反应。总的来说，这些结果增强了我们对青少年处理父母表扬和批评的神经回路以及父母反馈对幸福感的影响的理解。
