Peer Victimization Is Associated With Neural Response to Social Exclusion

McIver, Theresa A.; Bosma, Rachael L.; Sandre, Aislinn; Goegan, Sarah; Klassen, Janell A.; Chiarella, Julian; Booij, Linda; Craig, Wendy

doi:10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.64.1.0135

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“…In the context of receiving negative feedback in the lab, peer-rejected youth, compared to their non-rejected counterparts, show heightened neural activity in regions implicated in emotional reactivity (i.e., the amygdala; Lee et al, 2014). Examining neural responses to social exclusion, three studies revealed that youth exposed to chronic peer victimization (McIver et al, 2018;Rudolph, Miernicki, et al, 2016) and rejection (Will et al, 2016) show heightened activation in brain regions involved in emotion processing (e.g., amygdala, dorsolateral anterior cingulate cortex [dACC], inferior fusiform gyrus) relative to non-victimized/ rejected youth.…”

Section: Peer Victimizationmentioning

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How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization

Rudolph

Skymba

Modi

et al. 2020

Developmental Psychobiology

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Developmental science perspectives consider how exposure to early adversity undermines the normative development of self-regulatory processes in ways that compromise both short-and long-term health (Boyce & Ellis, 2005; O'Connor, 2003; Rudolph, Lansford, et al., 2016). Exposure to peer victimization (acts of physical, verbal, and psychological aggression) represents a particularly pernicious form of adversity. Not only is peer victimization common (Kochenderfer-Ladd & Wardrop, 2001), it forecasts a wide range of mental and physical health difficulties across the lifespan (McDougall & Vaillancourt, 2015). Given these pervasive and enduring effects, it is critical to understand processes through which victimization compromises development. Moreover, in line with differential susceptibility models of development (Boyce & Ellis, 2005; Ellis et al., 2011), it is important to determine which

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Section: Peer Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization

Rudolph

Skymba

Modi

et al. 2020

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…These social cognitive‐affective brain processes can be acutely brought on and investigated through a range of EEG and fMRI paradigms. Of the 26 included studies these, consisted of the widely used Cyberball (Davis et al., 2019 ; McIver et al., 2019 , 2018 ; Will, Crone et al., 2016 ; Will, van Lier et al., 2016 ), Virtual School paradigm (Jarcho et al., 2019 ), Social Judgment task (Eckstrand et al., 2019 ), Peer evaluation task (Fowler et al., 2021 ; Jarcho et al., 2019 ; Telzer et al., 2020 ), Chatroom Interaction task (Oppenheimer et al., 2020 ), and the Island Gateway task (Rappaport et al., 2019 ; see Table 1 ). These paradigms involve a combination of the following manipulations: (1) making judgements on whether the research participant likes or dislikes peers, (2) receiving feedback about whether they are liked or disliked by others, and (3) being included or excluded in some form of social interaction with others.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The studies examining neural responses to social exclusion have also found heightened activity in brain regions involved in emotion processing, including the amygdala, dorsolateral ACC, inferior fusiform gyrus, in peer‐victimised individuals compared to their non‐peer‐victimised peers (McIver et al., 2019 , 2018 ; Rudolph et al., 2016 ; Will, Crone et al., 2016 ). McIver et al.…”

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The association between peer‐victimisation and structural and functional brain outcomes: A systematic review

Simoni

Barker

et al. 2022

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Background: Peer adversity and aggression are common experiences in childhood and adolescence which lead to poor mental health outcomes. To date, there has been no review conducted on the neurobiological changes associated with relational peer-victimisation, bullying and cyberbullying.Methods: This systematic review assessed structural and functional brain changes associated with peer-victimisation, bullying, and cyberbullying from 1 January 2000 to April 2021. A systematic search of Psychoinfo, Pubmed, and Scopus was performed independently by two reviewers using predefined criteria. Twenty-six studies met the selection criteria and were considered for review. Results:The data collected shows altered brain activation of regions implicated in processing reward, social pain, and affect; and heightened sensitivity and more widespread activation of brain regions during acute social exclusion, most notably in the amygdala, left parahippocampal gyrus, and fusiform gyrus, associated with victimisation exposure. In addition, victimised youths also demonstrated greater risk-taking behaviours following acute social exclusion showing greater ventral striatum-inferior frontal gyrus coupling, activation in the bilateral amygdala, orbital frontal cortex (OFC), medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), temporoparietal junction (TPJ), medial posterior parietal cortex (MPPC) and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), suggesting greater social monitoring, seeking of inclusion, and more effortful cognitive control. The studies included participants from a very broad developmental age range, mostly using cross-sectional measure of peervictimisation exposure, at varying developmental stages.Conclusions: This review highlights the need for more neuroimaging studies in cyberbullying, as well as longitudinal studies across more diverse samples for investigating gender, age, and developmental interactions with peer-victimising. This also brings to attention the importance of addressing bullying victimisation particularly in adolescence, given the evidence for social stress in heightening developmentally sensitive processes which are associated with depression, anxiety, and externalising symptoms.

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“…Sometimes participants are made aware that they are playing against the computer and asked to imagine playing against their best friends (Mazzone et al, 2017). In other studies, participants were led to believe they were playing against other participants situated in another room (Lansu et al, 2017;McIver et al, 2018;Rudolph et al, 2016;Ruggieri et al, 2013;Telzer et al, 2018). VR versions of the Cyberball task also exist which, so far, have mainly been applied in non-bullied and non-clinical samples (e.g., Kassner et al, 2012;Kothgassner et al, 2021;Kothgassner et al, 2017;Kothgassner et al, 2014).…”

Section: Manipulating Interpersonal Functioning Using Experimental Designsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…neural (e.g., McIver et al, 2018;Oppenheimer et al, 2020) physiological (e.g., Mazzone et al, 2017), behavioural (e.g., Telzer et al, 2018), and emotional (e.g., Lansu et al, 2017) reactivity to social exclusion. Most relevant here is that both tasks involve a rejection situation that is considered similar to a bullying situation and offer systematic assessment of victims' responses to such an interpersonal stressor.…”

Section: Manipulating Interpersonal Functioning Using Experimental Designsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bullying Victimisation through an Interpersonal Lens: Focussing on Social Interactions and Risk for Depression

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In comparison to persons without bullying experiences, victims of bullying have been suggested to have more maladaptive interpersonal characteristics and more interpersonal conflicts.However, these findings are mostly based on retrospective questionnaire-based studies, whereas victims' interpersonal attributes have barely been systematically studied. As a consequence, little is known about causal or predictive relations between victimisation and interpersonal functioning. To fill this gap, in this commentary, we call for studying the interpersonal characteristics of victims of bullying using (1) performance-based measures of interpersonal functioning, (2) experimental designs focusing on the manipulation of interpersonal processes, and (3) intensive-repeated measures of interpersonal functioning in naturalistic settings. We argue that applying those methods can help to better understand victims' interpersonal problems and may also help understand the role of victims' interpersonal characteristics in explaining their risk for mental health problems.

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Peer Victimization Is Associated With Neural Response to Social Exclusion

Cited by 20 publications

References 57 publications

How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization

How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization

The association between peer‐victimisation and structural and functional brain outcomes: A systematic review

Bullying Victimisation through an Interpersonal Lens: Focussing on Social Interactions and Risk for Depression

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