Daily Reports of Stress, Mood, and Physical Health in Middle Childhood

Burkhart, Margaret L.; Mallers, Melanie H.; Bono, Katherine E.

doi:10.1007/s10826-017-0665-0

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“…Daily hassles are day-to-day routine challenges that all youth experience [50], and although they may be relatively minor or routine, studies have shown they tend to have more proximal effects on well-being than many major life events [51]. According to Almeida [52], daily hassles exert their influence through separate and immediate direct effects on emotional and physical functioning.…”

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Long-term mental health in unaccompanied refugee minors: pre- and post-flight predictors

Jensen

Skar

Andersson

et al. 2019

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Unaccompanied refugee minors are a particularly vulnerable group. The aim of this study is to increase our knowledge about possible pathways to wellbeing and integration for unaccompanied refugee minors as they strive to establish new lives in a host county. The present study followed a group of youth who fled to Norway without their caregivers at three time points; 6 months (n=95; M age=13.8, 80% boys), 2 years (n=78; M age = 16.5, 83% boys), and 5 years (n=47; M age 20.0, 83% boys) after arrival. Linear mixed effects models were used to assess whether age, gender, and trauma exposure prior to arrival were associated with levels and changes in symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS), depression, anxiety, and externalizing symptoms over time. Regression analyses were conducted to examine whether daily hassles, perceived social support, and new trauma experiences predict PTS, internalization, externalization, and somatization. The mean levels of depression had decreased significantly at five years but mean levels of anxiety, PTS and externalizing symptoms did not. Females and severely trauma-exposed had higher levels of symptoms. Higher age was associated with less change in symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress over time. Five years after arrival, many still experienced clinical levels of mental health problems, and level of daily hassles was an important predictor. Support may be needed not only at arrival to handle mental health problems in general and post-traumatic stress in particular, but also after resettlement. Help to manage daily hassles may be especially important to ensure wellbeing and integration.

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Long-term mental health in unaccompanied refugee minors: pre- and post-flight predictors

Jensen

Skar

Andersson

et al. 2019

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

104

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“…As noted above, stress, although a common experience in adolescence [15], is a determinant of physical and mental health [7], especially in young people [6]. Therefore, the importance of this study is highlighted, given the gaps in the literature regarding the analysis of stress in healthy adolescents.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Stress is a common and frequent experience for most adolescents worldwide [1–4], and it is becoming a public health problem affecting adults and children alike [5]. Although stress is not necessarily associated with negative aspects, high or continuous levels of stress or scarce coping resources can make it a trigger for physical and mental health problems [6] that affect the quality of life [7, 8]. In this sense, stress appears to be associated with the onset of emotional problems and mental disorders, such as depression [8, 9], anxiety [10] and posttraumatic stress disorder [11].…”

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Perceived stress and reference ranges of hair cortisol in healthy adolescents

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Background Chronic stress during adolescence has usually been evaluated through subjective measures, leaving aside objective measures such as hair cortisol concentrations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to provide reference ranges for hair cortisol concentrations by sex and age and to study the relationship between subjective and objective measures of stress and temporal stability. Methods The participants were 170 adolescents aged between 12 and 14 years ( mean = 12.78 years; standard deviation = 0.71 years; 52.40% girls) who completed the Perceived Stress Scale 4 and had their hair sampled. Results The results revealed hair cortisol concentrations ranging from 0.07 pg/mg to 9.54 pg/mg. Subjective and objective measures of stress were not related, nor was there intraindividual stability of the hair cortisol concentrations. Girls had higher hair cortisol concentrations, and there were no age differences. Conclusions This research provides cortisol reference values for adolescents that will allow the early detection of chronic stress. Such detection methods make it possible to prevent problems arising from stress because we can act more quickly and the treatments will be more effective. The study suggests that there is no relationship between perceived and objective stress; while perceived stress remained stable, the levels of hair cortisol were increased at 6 months. Despite the interesting findings of the study, there are some limitations: the sample was not obtained through probabilistic sampling, the age range was narrow, and some demographic, anthropomorphic and clinical factors are missing, which make the generalization of results difficult.

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“…However, little is known regarding how environmental settings may influence positive emotional well‐being among parent–child dyads. In fact, few studies have examined the role of positive social interactions in the daily lives of youth as the majority of research has focused on stressful events (Burkhart et al, 2017; Flook, 2011), even though there is a need to better understand how families sustain positive emotions during everyday life, particularly within the context of family and among school‐aged children (Bai et al, 2016, p. 88). Research shows that more positive mood in youth's daily lives predicts more positive and fewer negative interpersonal events with parents and friends (Flook, 2011); therefore, it is important to better understand how both environmental setting and social context (parent versus child) may influence affective state.…”

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“…Daughters were selected because they tend to spend more dyadic time with mothers (Lam et al, 2012) and girls tend to report experiencing more types of daily stressors than boys (Burkhart et al, 2017). Emotionally, middle-childhood youth experience many stressors, and daily diary research has shown on days that youth report greater stress and negative mood and they also have higher reports of physical health symptoms (Burkhart et al, 2017). Given that there are few studies that have examined the role of positive social interactions in the daily lives of youth (Flook, 2011) and the beneficial impact of reduced negative emotions and stress on youth and adults' health (Almeida, 2005;Walker et al, 2001), it is important to examine how a walk in nature might improve the affective state of both parents and children, and how mothers and daughters influence each other's emotions during the walk.…”

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