Adolescents' affective and neural responses to parental praise and criticism

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Social feedback from parents has a profound impact on the development of a child's self-concept. Yet, little is known about adolescents' affective and neural responses to parental social feedback, such as criticism or praise. Adolescents (n = 63) received standardized social feedback supposedly provided by their mother or father in the form of appraisals about their personality (e.g., 'respectful', 'lazy') during fMRI scanning. After each feedback word, adolescents reported their mood. Additionally, adolescents had rated whether feedback words matched their self-views on an earlier occasion. In line with preregistered hypotheses, negative parental feedback worsened adolescents' mood, which was exacerbated when feedback did not match adolescents' self-views. Negative feedback was associated with increased activity in the neural 'saliency network', including anterior insula, anterior cingulate cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Positive feedback improved mood and increased activity in brain regions supporting social cognition, including temporoparietal junction, posterior superior temporal sulcus, and precuneus. A more positive general self-view and perceived parental warmth were associated with elevated mood, independent of feedback valence, but did not impact neural responses. Taken together, these results enhance our understanding of adolescents' neural circuitry involved in the processing of parental praise and criticism, and the impact of parental feedback on well-being.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/QEBRK5
Related Identifier IsCitedBy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101099
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Creator van Houtum, Lisanne (ORCID: 0000-0002-2368-093X); Will, Geert-Jan ORCID logo; Wever, Mirjam ORCID logo; Janssen, Loes ORCID logo; van Schie, Charlotte ORCID logo; Tollenaar, Marieke ORCID logo; Elzinga, Bernet ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Lisanne van Houtum; Marieke Tollenaar; Bernet Elzinga; Data Steward Behavioural Sciences
Publication Year 2025
Rights CC-BY-4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Lisanne van Houtum (Leiden University); Marieke Tollenaar (Leiden University); Bernet Elzinga (Leiden University); Data Steward Behavioural Sciences (Leiden University)
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