title: Responses to conflict and cooperation in adolescents with anxiety and mood disorders.
abstract: This study examined patterns of behavioral and emotional responses to conflict and cooperation in adolescents with anxiety/mood disorders and healthy peers. We compared performance on and emotional responses to the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game, an economic exchange task involving conflict and cooperation, between adolescents with anxiety/depressive disorders (A/D) (N=21) and healthy comparisons (n = 29). Participants were deceived to believe their co-player (a pre-programmed computer algorithm) was another study participant. A/D adolescents differed significantly from comparisons in patterns of play and emotional response to the game. Specifically, A/D participants responded more cooperatively to cooperative overtures from their co-players; A/D girls also reported more anger toward co-players than did comparison girls. Our findings indicate that A/D adolescents, particularly females, respond distinctively to stressful social interchanges. These findings offer a first step toward elucidating the mechanisms underlying social impairment in youth with internalizing disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 5010, Atlanta, GA 30302-5010, USA. emcclure@gsu.edu
authors.forename: Erin B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: McClure
authors.forename: Jessica M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Parrish
authors.forename: Eric E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Easter
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Thorne
authors.forename: James K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Rilling
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Pine
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000786:Anger; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011930:Reaction Time; D012919:Social Behavior