volumes as well as between stress and behavioral problems – associations confirmed by this study, although effect sizes were modest. In the current study, the authors found that in young people who reported their parents were warm and supportive, these associations were weaker or absent.
Positive relationships with caregivers may act as “resilience factors,” according to the authors, that protect against the many deleterious developmental outcomes associated with childhood stress. Importantly, this buffering effect was not found for caregiver-reported positive parenting – only for youth-reported positive parenting.
Youth are active agents and may be better informants of their own experience of stress and being cared for than caregivers, the authors argue. According the authors, the findings support evidence from interventions designed to increase positive and supportive parenting, which are associated with positive outcomes for youth.
Reference :
- Positive parenting moderates associations between childhood stress and corticolimbic structure – (https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/6/pgad145/7192947)
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