Peer victimization predicts heightened inflammatory reactivity to social stress in cognitively vulnerable adolescents
Giletta M, Slavich GM, Rudolph KD, et al. J Child Psychol Psychiatr. Published online Oct 2017. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12804
Peer victimisation is an important social stressor than can confer long-term risk for poor mental and physical health. This study of 157 adolescent girls found that those with greater experience of peer victimization experienced an increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL1, IL6) during a laboratory-based social stressor than controls. The authors postulate that their findings reveal a biological pathway by which peer victimization may interact with cognitive vulnerability to influence health in adolescence.
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