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Effects of stress on 6-to-7-year-old children's emotional memory differs by gender

  • Understanding effects of emotional valence and stress on children’s memory is important for educational and legal contexts. This study disentangles the effects of emotional content of to-be-remembered information (i.e., items differing in emotional valence and arousal), stress exposure, and associated cortisol secretion on children’s memory. We also examine whether girls’ memory is more affected by stress induction. 143 6-to-7-year-old children were randomly allocated to the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (n = 103) or a control condition (n = 40). 25 minutes after stressor onset, children incidentally encoded 75 objects varying in emotional valence (crossed with arousal) together with neutral scene backgrounds. We found that response-bias corrected memory was worse for low arousing negative items than neutral and positive items, with the latter two categories not being different from each other. Whilst boys’ memory was largely unaffected by stress, girls in the stress condition showed worse memory for negative items, especially the low arousing ones, than girls in the control condition. Girls, compared to boys, reported higher subjective stress increases following stress exposure, and had higher cortisol stress responses. Whilst a higher cortisol stress response was associated with better emotional memory in girls in the stress condition, boys’ memory was not associated with their cortisol secretion. Taken together, our study suggests that 6-to-7-year-old children, more so girls, show memory suppression for negative information. Girls’ memory for negative information, compared to boys, is also more strongly modulated by stress experience and the associated cortisol response.

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Verfasserangaben:Laurel RaffingtonORCiDGND, Johannes FalckORCiD, Christine HeimORCiDGND, Mara MatherORCiD, Yee Lee ShingORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-581092
Pubmed-Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32707294
Dokumentart:Preprint
Sprache:Englisch
Jahr der Fertigstellung:2020
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2020
Veröffentlichende Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Datum der Freischaltung:25.03.2024
Seitenzahl:41
Bemerkung:
Preprint, später in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 199.2020, art. 104924
Institute:Medizin
Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie
DDC-Klassifikation:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht