부산대학교 도서관

Examining pupillary motility as a psychophysiological measure of cognitive-affective processing, the current study aimed to elucidate psychophysiological correlates of early resilience to parental depression risk. Forty-one never-depressed female college students were categorized based on presence or absence of parental depression history. Participants completed an emotional valence identification task, while pupil data were gathered to examine whether correlates consistent with negative potentiated processing and emotion context insensitivity might precede first onsets. Instead, results showed that having formerly depressed parents (higher risk) corresponded with decreased early pupil dilation in response to negative, neutral, and positive words. Results suggest that early resilience to parental depression risk can be expressed by decreased neurocognitive reactivity to lexical information during a valence identification task. Given that participants navigated childhood without depression, this pattern could reflect decreased emotional engagement with this task as an indicator of relative resilience to inherited risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]