Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults

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Authors

CERMAKOVA Pavla CHLAPECKA Adam ANDRÝSKOVÁ Lenka BRÁZDIL Milan MAREČKOVÁ Klára

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/17/8/703/6463579?login=true
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab135
Keywords trait anxiety; cognition; epidemiology; birth cohort
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Description In 54 participants (41% women) from the Czech arm of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood, a national birth cohort with prospectively collected data from their birth until young adulthood, we aimed to study the association between early-life socioeconomic deprivation (ELSD), cognitive ability in adolescence, trait anxiety and resting state functional connectivity of the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) in young adulthood. We found that ELSD was associated with lower cognitive ability in adolescence (at age 13) as well as higher trait anxiety in young adulthood (at age 23/24). Higher cognitive ability in adolescence predicted lower trait anxiety in young adulthood. Resting state functional connectivity between the right LPFC and a cluster of voxels including left precentral gyrus, left postcentral gyrus and superior frontal gyrus mediated the relationship between lower cognitive ability in adolescence and higher trait anxiety in young adulthood. These findings indicate that lower cognitive ability and higher trait anxiety may be both consequences of socioeconomic deprivation in early life. The recruitment of the right LPFC may be the underlying mechanism, through which higher cognitive ability may ameliorate trait anxiety.
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