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2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

Community Violence Exposure and Coping: Preliminary Associations with Internalizing Symptoms and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis Reactivity

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Biological/Neuroscience

  • Bria Gresham
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  • Bonny Donzella
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Megan Gunnar
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Abstract

Given deleterious impacts of community violence exposure (CVE), we examined whether CVE predicted internalizing symptoms and cortisol reactivity, as well as how coping moderates these relationships. We found that higher reports of both CVE and emotional coping were significantly related to internalizing and emotional coping predicted a lower cortisol response.

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