Cecile D Ladouceur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3485275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecile D Ladouceur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecile D |
| FAMILY NAME | Ladouceur |
| SIGNATURE | LADOUCEUR C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4816-0997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Role of Interpersonal Characteristics in Early and Developing Therapeutic Alliance Among Periadolescents with Anxiety
Little work has examined associations between interpersonal factors and changes in the therapeutic alliance. We examined the association between baseline youth family and peer interpersonal characteristics and therapeutic alliance throughout treatment in a sample of anxious youths who received cognitive behavioral therapy or client-centered therapy. Youths (N = 135; M = 10.94; SD = 1.46) were in a randomized clinical trial for anxiety disorders. …
Feeling socially connected to others is linked to better emotion regulation in adolescent girls' daily lives
Developing effective emotion regulation ability to manage negative emotion (NE) is critical during adolescence. Social baseline theory posits social connectedness may impact adolescents' everyday emotion regulation. This study examined the relation between social connectedness and NE after a negative social interaction (emotion regulation) and whether contextual factors moderate the association. Adolescent girls (N = 114; M age = 12.26, SD = 0.8)…
School‐related worries in the day‐to‐day lives of early adolescent females
There is currently a mental health epidemic among adolescents, with record high rates of depression, particularly among females. Although many potential causes of this epidemic have been suggested, very little attention has been paid to the school context, despite the fact that academic pressures have increased in recent decades. Intense pressure to excel is thought to play a role in the development of depression, but little is known about how wo…
Targeted Sleep Enhancement Reduces Residual Anxiety Symptoms in Peri-Adolescents Previously Treated for Anxiety Disorders
More time awake after sleep onset is linked to reduced ventral striatum response to rewards in youth with anxiety
BACKGROUND: Poor sleep and anxiety disorders are highly comorbid in youth, and each predicts altered ventral striatum (VS) response to rewards, which may impact mental health risk. Contrasting evidence suggests previously reported negative associations between sleep health and VS response may be stronger or weaker in youth with anxiety, indicating sensitivity to win/loss information or blunted reward processing, respectively. We cross-sectionally…
Affect and mental health across the lifespan during a year of the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in common mental health problems compared to prepandemic levels, especially in young people. Understanding the factors that place young people at risk is critical to guide the response to increased mental health problems. Here we examine whether age-related differences in mental flexibility and frequency of use of emotion regulation strategies partially account for the poorer affect and increase…
Displays of negative facial affect during parent–adolescent conflict and the bidirectional transmission of social anxiety
BACKGROUND: Symptoms of social anxiety rise rapidly during adolescence, particularly for girls. Pervasive displays of parental negative affect may increase adolescents' fear of negative evaluation (FNE), thereby increasing risk for social anxiety symptoms. Adolescent displays of negative affect may also exacerbate parents' social anxiety symptoms (via FNE of their child or their parenting skills), yet little research has tested transactional path…
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the Covid-19 lockdown
The stay-at-home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted U.S. adolescents’ lives in numerous ways during the spring of 2020, including substantial changes to in-person routines and increased reliance on digital media. For adolescent girls, stay-at-home practices may have implications for body image concerns. In this research brief, we examine adolescent girls’ pandemic-related body image concerns and longitudinal associations with depressive sy…
Changes in Affective Network Variability Among Youth Treated for Anxiety Disorders
Peer Connectedness and Pre‐Existing Social Reward Processing Predicts U.S. Adolescent Girls’ Suicidal Ideation During Covid‐19
There is major concern about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent suicidal ideation (SI) and peer relationships. We investigated (1) rates of SI and (2) the extent to which peer connectedness and pre-existing neural activation to social reward predicted SI during the initial stay-at-home orders of the pandemic (April-May 2020) in a longitudinal sample of adolescent girls (N = 93; M age = 15.06; 69% White non-Hispanic). Daily diary an…
Social media use predicts later sleep timing and greater sleep variability
INTRODUCTION: Social media (SM) use has been increasingly recognized as a potential contributor to poor sleep. Few studies have examined SM use and sleep using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), compared different types of media use (SM, television, gaming), or examined whether youth at high and low familial risk for depression are differentially affected by SM use. METHODS: The current study included 76 youth (46% female; Mean age = 11.28 ye…
A review of associations between parental emotion socialization behaviors and the neural substrates of emotional reactivity and regulation in youth
As highlighted by Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad (1998), parents play a critical role in children's socioemotional development, in part, by shaping how children and adolescents process, respond to, and regulate their emotions (i.e., emotional reactivity/regulation). Although evidence for associations between parenting behavior and youth's emotional processing has relied primarily on behavioral measures of emotion, researchers have begun to ex…
Suicidal Ideation Among Anxious Youth
Attention to Peer Feedback Through the Eyes of Adolescents with a History of Anxiety and Healthy Adolescents
Prefrontal Cortical Response to Negative Social Words Links Social Risk to Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
Research suggests that altered emotion processing may be one important pathway linking social risk factors and depressive symptoms. We examined the extent to which neural response to negatively valenced social information might help to account for the relationship between social risk and depressive symptoms in youth. Forty-nine youth were scanned while identifying the emotional valence of words that connoted social status. They also completed que…
Maternal Affective Expression and Adolescents' Subjective Experience of Positive Affect in Natural Settings
This study investigated the association between maternal affective expression during laboratory-based interaction tasks and adolescents' experience of positive affect (PA) in natural settings. Participants were 80 healthy adolescents and their mothers. Durations of maternal positive (PA) and negative affective (NA) expressions were observed during a conflict resolution task and a positive event planning interaction task. Ecological momentary asse…
L’influence de la puberté sur les circuits neuronaux sous-tendant la régulation des émotions
L’adolescence, avec le début de la puberté, représente une période développementale durant laquelle il existe une plus grande vulnérabilité pour l’émergence de psychopathologies telle que les troubles affectifs. C’est également une importante période de maturation des circuits neuronaux sous-tendant la régulation des émotions, suggérant ainsi la possibilité que certains mécanismes neurodéveloppementaux puissent contribuer à cette vulnérabilité. B…
Fearful faces influence attentional control processes in anxious youth and adults
This study examined the effects of trait anxiety and age on performance of an emotional working memory task designed to investigate attentional control processes in the context of emotion. Participants included children, adolescents, and adults (8-30 years old). They performed the Emotional Face N-Back (EFNBACK) task, a modified n-back working memory task with four emotional distracter types (no picture, neutral, fearful, and happy) and two memor…
Maternal Socialization of Positive Affect
This study examined the relations among maternal socialization of positive affect (PA), adolescent emotion regulation (ER), and adolescent depressive symptoms. Two hundred early adolescents, 11–13 years old, provided self-reports of ER strategies and depressive symptomatology; their mothers provided self-reports of socialization responses to adolescent PA. One hundred and sixty-three mother–adolescent dyads participated in 2 interaction tasks. Ad…
Peer Connectedness and Pre‐Existing Social Reward Processing Predicts U.S. Adolescent Girls’ Suicidal Ideation During Covid‐19
There is major concern about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent suicidal ideation (SI) and peer relationships. We investigated (1) rates of SI and (2) the extent to which peer connectedness and pre-existing neural activation to social reward predicted SI during the initial stay-at-home orders of the pandemic (April-May 2020) in a longitudinal sample of adolescent girls (N = 93; M age = 15.06; 69% White non-Hispanic). Daily diary an…
Prefrontal Cortical Response to Negative Social Words Links Social Risk to Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
Research suggests that altered emotion processing may be one important pathway linking social risk factors and depressive symptoms. We examined the extent to which neural response to negatively valenced social information might help to account for the relationship between social risk and depressive symptoms in youth. Forty-nine youth were scanned while identifying the emotional valence of words that connoted social status. They also completed que…
Maternal Affective Expression and Adolescents' Subjective Experience of Positive Affect in Natural Settings
This study investigated the association between maternal affective expression during laboratory-based interaction tasks and adolescents' experience of positive affect (PA) in natural settings. Participants were 80 healthy adolescents and their mothers. Durations of maternal positive (PA) and negative affective (NA) expressions were observed during a conflict resolution task and a positive event planning interaction task. Ecological momentary asse…
Maternal Socialization of Positive Affect
This study examined the relations among maternal socialization of positive affect (PA), adolescent emotion regulation (ER), and adolescent depressive symptoms. Two hundred early adolescents, 11–13 years old, provided self-reports of ER strategies and depressive symptomatology; their mothers provided self-reports of socialization responses to adolescent PA. One hundred and sixty-three mother–adolescent dyads participated in 2 interaction tasks. Ad…
Fearful faces influence attentional control processes in anxious youth and adults
This study examined the effects of trait anxiety and age on performance of an emotional working memory task designed to investigate attentional control processes in the context of emotion. Participants included children, adolescents, and adults (8-30 years old). They performed the Emotional Face N-Back (EFNBACK) task, a modified n-back working memory task with four emotional distracter types (no picture, neutral, fearful, and happy) and two memor…
L’influence de la puberté sur les circuits neuronaux sous-tendant la régulation des émotions
L’adolescence, avec le début de la puberté, représente une période développementale durant laquelle il existe une plus grande vulnérabilité pour l’émergence de psychopathologies telle que les troubles affectifs. C’est également une importante période de maturation des circuits neuronaux sous-tendant la régulation des émotions, suggérant ainsi la possibilité que certains mécanismes neurodéveloppementaux puissent contribuer à cette vulnérabilité. B…
Maternal Affective Expression and Adolescents' Subjective Experience of Positive Affect in Natural Settings
This study investigated the association between maternal affective expression during laboratory-based interaction tasks and adolescents' experience of positive affect (PA) in natural settings. Participants were 80 healthy adolescents and their mothers. Durations of maternal positive (PA) and negative affective (NA) expressions were observed during a conflict resolution task and a positive event planning interaction task. Ecological momentary asse…
Prefrontal Cortical Response to Negative Social Words Links Social Risk to Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
Research suggests that altered emotion processing may be one important pathway linking social risk factors and depressive symptoms. We examined the extent to which neural response to negatively valenced social information might help to account for the relationship between social risk and depressive symptoms in youth. Forty-nine youth were scanned while identifying the emotional valence of words that connoted social status. They also completed que…
Suicidal Ideation Among Anxious Youth
Attention to Peer Feedback Through the Eyes of Adolescents with a History of Anxiety and Healthy Adolescents
Social media use predicts later sleep timing and greater sleep variability
INTRODUCTION: Social media (SM) use has been increasingly recognized as a potential contributor to poor sleep. Few studies have examined SM use and sleep using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), compared different types of media use (SM, television, gaming), or examined whether youth at high and low familial risk for depression are differentially affected by SM use. METHODS: The current study included 76 youth (46% female; Mean age = 11.28 ye…
A review of associations between parental emotion socialization behaviors and the neural substrates of emotional reactivity and regulation in youth
As highlighted by Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad (1998), parents play a critical role in children's socioemotional development, in part, by shaping how children and adolescents process, respond to, and regulate their emotions (i.e., emotional reactivity/regulation). Although evidence for associations between parenting behavior and youth's emotional processing has relied primarily on behavioral measures of emotion, researchers have begun to ex…
Changes in Affective Network Variability Among Youth Treated for Anxiety Disorders
Peer Connectedness and Pre‐Existing Social Reward Processing Predicts U.S. Adolescent Girls’ Suicidal Ideation During Covid‐19
There is major concern about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent suicidal ideation (SI) and peer relationships. We investigated (1) rates of SI and (2) the extent to which peer connectedness and pre-existing neural activation to social reward predicted SI during the initial stay-at-home orders of the pandemic (April-May 2020) in a longitudinal sample of adolescent girls (N = 93; M age = 15.06; 69% White non-Hispanic). Daily diary an…
Displays of negative facial affect during parent–adolescent conflict and the bidirectional transmission of social anxiety
BACKGROUND: Symptoms of social anxiety rise rapidly during adolescence, particularly for girls. Pervasive displays of parental negative affect may increase adolescents' fear of negative evaluation (FNE), thereby increasing risk for social anxiety symptoms. Adolescent displays of negative affect may also exacerbate parents' social anxiety symptoms (via FNE of their child or their parenting skills), yet little research has tested transactional path…
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the Covid-19 lockdown
The stay-at-home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted U.S. adolescents’ lives in numerous ways during the spring of 2020, including substantial changes to in-person routines and increased reliance on digital media. For adolescent girls, stay-at-home practices may have implications for body image concerns. In this research brief, we examine adolescent girls’ pandemic-related body image concerns and longitudinal associations with depressive sy…
More time awake after sleep onset is linked to reduced ventral striatum response to rewards in youth with anxiety
BACKGROUND: Poor sleep and anxiety disorders are highly comorbid in youth, and each predicts altered ventral striatum (VS) response to rewards, which may impact mental health risk. Contrasting evidence suggests previously reported negative associations between sleep health and VS response may be stronger or weaker in youth with anxiety, indicating sensitivity to win/loss information or blunted reward processing, respectively. We cross-sectionally…
Affect and mental health across the lifespan during a year of the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in common mental health problems compared to prepandemic levels, especially in young people. Understanding the factors that place young people at risk is critical to guide the response to increased mental health problems. Here we examine whether age-related differences in mental flexibility and frequency of use of emotion regulation strategies partially account for the poorer affect and increase…
The Role of Interpersonal Characteristics in Early and Developing Therapeutic Alliance Among Periadolescents with Anxiety
Little work has examined associations between interpersonal factors and changes in the therapeutic alliance. We examined the association between baseline youth family and peer interpersonal characteristics and therapeutic alliance throughout treatment in a sample of anxious youths who received cognitive behavioral therapy or client-centered therapy. Youths (N = 135; M = 10.94; SD = 1.46) were in a randomized clinical trial for anxiety disorders. …
Feeling socially connected to others is linked to better emotion regulation in adolescent girls' daily lives
Developing effective emotion regulation ability to manage negative emotion (NE) is critical during adolescence. Social baseline theory posits social connectedness may impact adolescents' everyday emotion regulation. This study examined the relation between social connectedness and NE after a negative social interaction (emotion regulation) and whether contextual factors moderate the association. Adolescent girls (N = 114; M age = 12.26, SD = 0.8)…
School‐related worries in the day‐to‐day lives of early adolescent females
There is currently a mental health epidemic among adolescents, with record high rates of depression, particularly among females. Although many potential causes of this epidemic have been suggested, very little attention has been paid to the school context, despite the fact that academic pressures have increased in recent decades. Intense pressure to excel is thought to play a role in the development of depression, but little is known about how wo…
Targeted Sleep Enhancement Reduces Residual Anxiety Symptoms in Peri-Adolescents Previously Treated for Anxiety Disorders
Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Anxiety (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Medicine (6 works)