Sonia Lupien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3458475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Lupien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lupien |
| SIGNATURE | LUPIEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8763-393X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond individual factors
This study explored the simultaneous role of selected individual, parental, and school factors in student's test anxiety. In 2019, both members of 339 Canadian parent-child dyads ( N = 626; 209 girls, 260 mothers, mostly White, child M age = 15.2) from 13 schools completed self-report validated scales at two time points (May/June 2019 and October/November 2019). Results from multilevel mixed-effects models revealed that negative stress mindsets, …
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety
Parents who perceive their social environment as threatening may transmit these anxieties through their parenting, by shaping the skills and beliefs that adolescents adopt to interact with their own environment. This study explores the role of hyper‐parenting and two potential psychological mechanisms (i.e., youth emotion regulation and perfectionism) in the association between parental threat perception and adolescents’ test anxiety. Two styles …
Concurrent and prospective associations between family socioeconomic status, social support and salivary diurnal and hair cortisol in adolescence
BACKGROUND: Exposure to socioeconomic adversity is hypothesized to impact hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and cortisol secretion, but existing evidence is inconsistent. Yet, few studies have investigated this association using a developmental approach that considers potential protective contextual factors. This study examined the role of stability and changes in family socioeconomic status (SES) in the prediction of multiple co…
Biobanque Signature
Objectifs En 2008, le plan stratégique du National Institute of Mental Health , a donné naissance au projet Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), un cadre de travail visant à établir des domaines fonctionnels majeurs de la psyché humaine allant du normal au pathologique afin, notamment, de développer une nouvelle méthode de classification des troubles de santé mentale. Le Consortium Signature a été créé en 2009, avec pour objectif de développer une ba…
Toxoplasma gondii infection in people with schizophrenia is related to higher hair glucocorticoid levels
These results show that people with schizophrenia present high levels of hair glucocorticoid levels only when they are infected with TG. Further studies performed in populations suffering from other mental health disorders are needed to determine if this effect is specific to schizophrenia, or whether it is generalized across mental health disorders
The Association of Childhood Maltreatment, Sex, and Hair Cortisol Concentrations With Trajectories of Depressive and Anxious Symptoms Among Adult Psychiatric Inpatients
OBJECTIVE: Depression and anxiety symptoms are commonly observed among clinical populations, especially among women and maltreated individuals. Few investigations have, however, assessed the existence of distinct symptoms trajectories among clinical populations and how these relate to childhood maltreatment, sex differences, and stress physiology indexed by hair cortisol concentrations (HCCs). The current study a) identified distinct depression a…
Anxiety in the Classroom
Many teens report experiencing anxiety in school, which can negatively impact their well-being. Considering that adolescents tend to adopt the same behaviors as their classmates with whom they spend, on average, 923 h every year, the current exploratory study (1) assessed whether an association exists between a student’s state anxiety score and his/her classmates’ average trait anxiety scores and (2) examined whether this association differed bet…
A Cross-Sectional Study Investigating Canadian and Australian Adolescents’ Perceived Experiences of Covid-19
The coronavirus (COVID-19) disease pandemic has been associated with adverse psychological outcomes. This cross-cultural study ( N = 1326, 71% female) aimed to investigate Canadian and Australian adolescents' subjective experiences of COVID-19, gender differences, and psychological implications. Mixed-methods analyses were used to examine differences in COVID-19 experiences and mental health outcomes between country and gender in a Canadian ( N =…
Le vieillissement du cerveau et le vieillissement de l’esprit
On associe bien souvent le vieillissement du cerveau à une mort lente de l’esprit, menant inexorablement à des troubles de la mémoire et / ou à un déclin général des fonctions cognitives. Cette idée négative du vieillissement du cerveau et de l’esprit puise sa source dans les études scientifiques entreprises au cours des années 1970. Toutefois, vers le milieu des années 1980, un second courant d’études est apparu, qui a clairement démontré que la…
Associations between developmental trajectories of peer victimization, hair cortisol, and depressive symptoms
BACKGROUND: Peer victimization has been associated with long-lasting risks for mental health. Prior research suggests that stress-related systems underlying adaptation to changing environments may be at play. To date, inconsistent findings have been reported for the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and its end product cortisol. This study tested whether peer victimization was associated with hair cortisol concentrations (HCC), and wheth…
Acute and chronic stress among workers in residential treatment centers for youth
Sexual orientation moderates the association between parental overprotection and stress biomarker profiles
Early experiences with parents may be particularly difficult for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals who face stigma that is linked to potentially distinct stress-related biobehavioural profiles. This study examined the association between parental bonding in relation to acute stress (cortisol reactivity) and chronic stress (allostatic load) in LGB and heterosexual individuals. The sample consisted of 87 healthy adults (mean [SD] age = 24…
Assessment of the cortisol awakening response
The cortisol awakening response (CAR), the marked increase in cortisol secretion over the first 30-45 min after morning awakening, has been related to a wide range of psychosocial, physical and mental health parameters, making it a key variable for psychoneuroendocrinological research. The CAR is typically assessed from self-collection of saliva samples within the domestic setting. While this confers ecological validity, it lacks direct researche…
Sex and Gender Roles in Relation to Mental Health and Allostatic Load
OBJECTIVES: Beyond male/female binaries, gender roles represent masculine and feminine traits that we assimilate and enact throughout life span development. Bem proposed that "androgynous" individuals adeptly adapt to different contexts by alternating from a strong repertoire of both masculine and feminine gender roles. By contrast, "undifferentiated" individuals may not adapt as well to social norms because of weak self-endorsed masculinity and …
Étude pilote des effets du programme DéStresse et Progresse chez des élèves de 6e année du primaire intégrés dans une école secondaire
Selon des études précédentes, l’événement que représente la transition du primaire au secondaire suscite une augmentation significative de cortisol (hormone de stress) chez les adolescents. Le programme DéStresse et Progresse est un programme de prévention du stress et de ses troubles associés, issu des travaux réalisés ces dernières années dans le domaine de la biologie du stress. Ce programme, testé et validé auprès d’adolescents en première an…
L’histoire de la science du stress
Pour faire une grande découverte scientifique qui marquera l’histoire, cela prend beaucoup de détermination, de créativité, de persévérance et de chance. L’histoire de la découverte du stress et de ses fondements biologiques est une histoire fascinante qui met au premier plan Dr Hans Selye, grande figure scientifique ayant enseigné à l’Université de Montréal de 1945 à sa mort, en 1982. Dr Selye était un homme curieux, rigoureux et travaillant. Sa…
Sexual Orientation and Disclosure in Relation to Psychiatric Symptoms, Diurnal Cortisol, and Allostatic Load
OBJECTIVES: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals-particularly those who have not disclosed their sexual orientation-are believed to experience increased chronic stress in comparison with heterosexuals. This interdisciplinary study assessed whether psychiatric symptoms (self-rated anxiety, depression, and burnout), stress hormone profiles (diurnal cortisol), and physiological dysregulations (allostatic load [AL]) would differ for a) LGBs v…
Chronic stress, cognitive functioning and mental health
Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition
Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition
The effects of stress and stress hormones on human cognition
Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms and Stress Levels in Healthy Young Men
OBJECTIVE: There is evidence that clinical depression and negative mood are associated with elevated basal cortisol levels. Recently, measuring the cortisol response during the first hour in the morning with strict reference to the time of awakening was established as a reliable marker of individual adrenocortical activity. In studies using this marker, a relationship with self-reported stress levels and psychosomatic symptoms has been found. The…
Étude pilote des effets du programme DéStresse et Progresse chez des élèves de 6e année du primaire intégrés dans une école secondaire
Selon des études précédentes, l’événement que représente la transition du primaire au secondaire suscite une augmentation significative de cortisol (hormone de stress) chez les adolescents. Le programme DéStresse et Progresse est un programme de prévention du stress et de ses troubles associés, issu des travaux réalisés ces dernières années dans le domaine de la biologie du stress. Ce programme, testé et validé auprès d’adolescents en première an…
Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms and Stress Levels in Healthy Young Men
OBJECTIVE: There is evidence that clinical depression and negative mood are associated with elevated basal cortisol levels. Recently, measuring the cortisol response during the first hour in the morning with strict reference to the time of awakening was established as a reliable marker of individual adrenocortical activity. In studies using this marker, a relationship with self-reported stress levels and psychosomatic symptoms has been found. The…
The effects of stress and stress hormones on human cognition
Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition
Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition
Chronic stress, cognitive functioning and mental health
Sexual Orientation and Disclosure in Relation to Psychiatric Symptoms, Diurnal Cortisol, and Allostatic Load
OBJECTIVES: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals-particularly those who have not disclosed their sexual orientation-are believed to experience increased chronic stress in comparison with heterosexuals. This interdisciplinary study assessed whether psychiatric symptoms (self-rated anxiety, depression, and burnout), stress hormone profiles (diurnal cortisol), and physiological dysregulations (allostatic load [AL]) would differ for a) LGBs v…
L’histoire de la science du stress
Pour faire une grande découverte scientifique qui marquera l’histoire, cela prend beaucoup de détermination, de créativité, de persévérance et de chance. L’histoire de la découverte du stress et de ses fondements biologiques est une histoire fascinante qui met au premier plan Dr Hans Selye, grande figure scientifique ayant enseigné à l’Université de Montréal de 1945 à sa mort, en 1982. Dr Selye était un homme curieux, rigoureux et travaillant. Sa…
Assessment of the cortisol awakening response
The cortisol awakening response (CAR), the marked increase in cortisol secretion over the first 30-45 min after morning awakening, has been related to a wide range of psychosocial, physical and mental health parameters, making it a key variable for psychoneuroendocrinological research. The CAR is typically assessed from self-collection of saliva samples within the domestic setting. While this confers ecological validity, it lacks direct researche…
Sex and Gender Roles in Relation to Mental Health and Allostatic Load
OBJECTIVES: Beyond male/female binaries, gender roles represent masculine and feminine traits that we assimilate and enact throughout life span development. Bem proposed that "androgynous" individuals adeptly adapt to different contexts by alternating from a strong repertoire of both masculine and feminine gender roles. By contrast, "undifferentiated" individuals may not adapt as well to social norms because of weak self-endorsed masculinity and …
Étude pilote des effets du programme DéStresse et Progresse chez des élèves de 6e année du primaire intégrés dans une école secondaire
Selon des études précédentes, l’événement que représente la transition du primaire au secondaire suscite une augmentation significative de cortisol (hormone de stress) chez les adolescents. Le programme DéStresse et Progresse est un programme de prévention du stress et de ses troubles associés, issu des travaux réalisés ces dernières années dans le domaine de la biologie du stress. Ce programme, testé et validé auprès d’adolescents en première an…
Sexual orientation moderates the association between parental overprotection and stress biomarker profiles
Early experiences with parents may be particularly difficult for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals who face stigma that is linked to potentially distinct stress-related biobehavioural profiles. This study examined the association between parental bonding in relation to acute stress (cortisol reactivity) and chronic stress (allostatic load) in LGB and heterosexual individuals. The sample consisted of 87 healthy adults (mean [SD] age = 24…
Acute and chronic stress among workers in residential treatment centers for youth
Le vieillissement du cerveau et le vieillissement de l’esprit
On associe bien souvent le vieillissement du cerveau à une mort lente de l’esprit, menant inexorablement à des troubles de la mémoire et / ou à un déclin général des fonctions cognitives. Cette idée négative du vieillissement du cerveau et de l’esprit puise sa source dans les études scientifiques entreprises au cours des années 1970. Toutefois, vers le milieu des années 1980, un second courant d’études est apparu, qui a clairement démontré que la…
Associations between developmental trajectories of peer victimization, hair cortisol, and depressive symptoms
BACKGROUND: Peer victimization has been associated with long-lasting risks for mental health. Prior research suggests that stress-related systems underlying adaptation to changing environments may be at play. To date, inconsistent findings have been reported for the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and its end product cortisol. This study tested whether peer victimization was associated with hair cortisol concentrations (HCC), and wheth…
The Association of Childhood Maltreatment, Sex, and Hair Cortisol Concentrations With Trajectories of Depressive and Anxious Symptoms Among Adult Psychiatric Inpatients
OBJECTIVE: Depression and anxiety symptoms are commonly observed among clinical populations, especially among women and maltreated individuals. Few investigations have, however, assessed the existence of distinct symptoms trajectories among clinical populations and how these relate to childhood maltreatment, sex differences, and stress physiology indexed by hair cortisol concentrations (HCCs). The current study a) identified distinct depression a…
Anxiety in the Classroom
Many teens report experiencing anxiety in school, which can negatively impact their well-being. Considering that adolescents tend to adopt the same behaviors as their classmates with whom they spend, on average, 923 h every year, the current exploratory study (1) assessed whether an association exists between a student’s state anxiety score and his/her classmates’ average trait anxiety scores and (2) examined whether this association differed bet…
A Cross-Sectional Study Investigating Canadian and Australian Adolescents’ Perceived Experiences of Covid-19
The coronavirus (COVID-19) disease pandemic has been associated with adverse psychological outcomes. This cross-cultural study ( N = 1326, 71% female) aimed to investigate Canadian and Australian adolescents' subjective experiences of COVID-19, gender differences, and psychological implications. Mixed-methods analyses were used to examine differences in COVID-19 experiences and mental health outcomes between country and gender in a Canadian ( N =…
Concurrent and prospective associations between family socioeconomic status, social support and salivary diurnal and hair cortisol in adolescence
BACKGROUND: Exposure to socioeconomic adversity is hypothesized to impact hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and cortisol secretion, but existing evidence is inconsistent. Yet, few studies have investigated this association using a developmental approach that considers potential protective contextual factors. This study examined the role of stability and changes in family socioeconomic status (SES) in the prediction of multiple co…
Biobanque Signature
Objectifs En 2008, le plan stratégique du National Institute of Mental Health , a donné naissance au projet Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), un cadre de travail visant à établir des domaines fonctionnels majeurs de la psyché humaine allant du normal au pathologique afin, notamment, de développer une nouvelle méthode de classification des troubles de santé mentale. Le Consortium Signature a été créé en 2009, avec pour objectif de développer une ba…
Toxoplasma gondii infection in people with schizophrenia is related to higher hair glucocorticoid levels
These results show that people with schizophrenia present high levels of hair glucocorticoid levels only when they are infected with TG. Further studies performed in populations suffering from other mental health disorders are needed to determine if this effect is specific to schizophrenia, or whether it is generalized across mental health disorders
Beyond individual factors
This study explored the simultaneous role of selected individual, parental, and school factors in student's test anxiety. In 2019, both members of 339 Canadian parent-child dyads ( N = 626; 209 girls, 260 mothers, mostly White, child M age = 15.2) from 13 schools completed self-report validated scales at two time points (May/June 2019 and October/November 2019). Results from multilevel mixed-effects models revealed that negative stress mindsets, …
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety
Parents who perceive their social environment as threatening may transmit these anxieties through their parenting, by shaping the skills and beliefs that adolescents adopt to interact with their own environment. This study explores the role of hyper‐parenting and two potential psychological mechanisms (i.e., youth emotion regulation and perfectionism) in the association between parental threat perception and adolescents’ test anxiety. Two styles …
Psychology (17 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Stress Responses and Cortisol (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Anxiety (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Chronic stress (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)