Decreased amygdala-sensorimotor connectivity mediates the association between prenatal stress and broad autism phenotype in young adults: Project Ice Storm
Stress. 2024 Jan;27(1):2293698. doi: 10.1080/10253890.2023.2293698. Epub 2023 Dec 22.ABSTRACTStudies show that prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) is related to risk for child autism, and to atypical amygdala functional connectivity in the autistic child. Yet, it remains unclear whether amygdala functional connectivity mediates the association between PNMS and autistic traits, particularly in young adult offspring. We recruited women who were pregnant during, or within 3 months of, the 1998 Quebec ice storm crisis, and assessed three aspects of PNMS: objective hardship (events experienced during the ice storm), subjective dist...
Source: Stress - December 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Xinyuan Li Muhammad Naveed Iqbal Qureshi David P Laplante Guillaume Elgbeili Vincent Paquin Sherri Lee Jones Suzanne King Pedro Rosa-Neto Source Type: research
Stress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat
Stress. 2023 Nov;26(1):2283435. doi: 10.1080/10253890.2023.2283435. Epub 2023 Nov 27.ABSTRACTThere is some evidence that performance-related pay (PRP) leads to higher levels of stress as it incentivizes employees to work harder for longer. However, PRP in the workplace also typically involves performance monitoring, which may introduce an additional source of stress via social-evaluative threat (SET). The current study examined the effect of PRP on stress while varying the level of performance monitoring/SET. Using an incentivized mixed design experiment, 206 participants completed a simulated work task after being randoml...
Source: Stress - November 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Nicole Andelic Julia Allan Keith A Bender Daniel Powell Ioannis Theodossiou Source Type: research
