Emotional Awareness and Body Signals in Teens After Childhood Hardship
Official title: Emotional Granularity and Interoceptive Accuracy: Affective Skills Linking Dimensions of Childhood Adversity with Adolescent Stress Vulnerability
Funded at California State Univ-Dominguez Hills · NIH-11382852 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This grant studies how sensing body states and differentiating feelings relate to stress and mental health in youth who faced adversity.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | California State Univ-Dominguez Hills NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Carson, United States) |
| Project start | August 20, 2024 |
| Project end | June 30, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $183,750 |
| NIH project number | 5R16GM154604-03 |
| Project ID | NIH-11382852 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Youth aged roughly 11–20 who have experienced childhood adversity and are under active follow-up.
✕Less likely to help
Youth without significant adversity or with stable environments may see limited direct benefit.
What this research studies
The project looks at how early adversity shapes two emotional skills—how accurately teens notice bodily signals and how clearly they label their emotions. Researchers will test teens and track how stress affects interoception and emotional granularity, aiming to link these skills to mental health vulnerability. By focusing on deprivation and threat as separate influences, the study seeks to identify when and for whom stress is most likely to contribute to mental health problems. The team plans to use neurobehavioral assessments and daily-life stress reports to understand these processes in real-world settings.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: Findings could guide personalized supports to help at-risk youth regulate emotions and respond to stress more effectively.
How similar studies have gone: Prior work supports similar links between stress processing and mental health in youth, but this project adds dimensional analysis of deprivation vs threat.
Where this research is happening
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California State Univ-Dominguez Hills
Carson, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Weissman, David G — California State Univ-Dominguez Hills
- Study coordinator: Weissman, David G
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.