Social Facilitation of Emotion Regulation in Adolescence
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Social regulation, Cognitive regulation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Emotion Regulation. Basic parameters: 13 years — 25 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
The goal of this project is to test whether regulating emotions with help from a friend is more effective and long-lasting in adolescents than regulating alone, and to characterize age-related differences in the neural mechanisms supporting social versus cognitive emotion regulation. Participants will complete a psychology experiment while undergoing fMRI scanning.
Detailed description
Participants will complete a novel paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine whether adolescents (N = 50) and adults (N = 50) are more effective at down-regulating negative affect when a friend provides them with reinterpretations of negative stimuli (i.e. social reappraisal), as compared to when they reinterpret stimuli alone (i.e., cognitive reappraisal). Specifically, participants will look at pictures of upsetting events while undergoing fMRI scanning. For some pictures, they will be instructed to just look at the image. For other pictures, they will be told to listen to their friend's voice as their friend helps them to regulate their emotions. For other pictures, they will be told to regulate their emotions on their own. The primary comparison of interest is how participants regulate emotion on their own versus when their friend helps them.
Interventions
- Behavioral Social regulation
Participants will regulate emotion with the help of a friend - Behavioral Cognitive regulation
Participants will regulate emotion on their own
Primary outcome measures
- Negative affect [Time frame: 1 day]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Adolescent participants must be 13-15 year of age
- Adult participants must be 20-25 years of age
- Proficient in English
Exclusion criteria
- Auditory, visual or cognitive impairment
- Any health conditions that are contraindicated for MRI
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Crossover
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Basic science
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of California, Los Angeles — Los Angeles
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06458920 · 21-000929 · R21HD108751