Exploring Domain-Specific Resilience: The Mediating Role of Executive Functioning in the Association between Adversity and Physiological, Psychological, and Academic Functioning

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Cognitive

Ranjani Nadarajan
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Ranjani Nadarajan
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Guillaume Elgbeili
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Ian Gotlib
Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Kieran O'Donnell
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Kieran O'Donnell
Yale Child Study Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine
Jennie Noll
Department of Psychology and Mount Hope Family Center, University of Rochester
Irina Pokhvisneva
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Michael Meaney
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Michael Meaney
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

Abstract

We used structural equation modeling to examine whether executive functioning (EF) mediates the association between early life adversity and physiological, psychological, or academic outcomes in two different samples. We found that EF-dependent mediation pathways varied by outcomes, sample, and sex/gender.

Childhood Adversity

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Exploring Domain-Specific Resilience: The Mediating Role of Executive Functioning in the Association between Adversity and Physiological, Psychological, and Academic Functioning

Abstract

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