Childhood maltreatment and executive functions in adolescents.

Autor: Mothes L; Psychology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Ipiranga Avenue, 6681, Building 11, Room 902. Partenon, Porto Alegre/RS, CEP, 90619-900, Brazil., Kristensen CH; Psychology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Ipiranga Avenue, 6681, Building 11, Room 902. Partenon, Porto Alegre/RS, CEP, 90619-900, Brazil., Grassi-Oliveira R; Psychology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Ipiranga Avenue, 6681, Building 11, Room 902. Partenon, Porto Alegre/RS, CEP, 90619-900, Brazil., Fonseca RP; Psychology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Ipiranga Avenue, 6681, Building 11, Room 902. Partenon, Porto Alegre/RS, CEP, 90619-900, Brazil., de Lima Argimon II; Psychology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Ipiranga Avenue, 6681, Building 11, Room 902. Partenon, Porto Alegre/RS, CEP, 90619-900, Brazil., Irigaray TQ; Psychology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Ipiranga Avenue, 6681, Building 11, Room 902. Partenon, Porto Alegre/RS, CEP, 90619-900, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child and adolescent mental health [Child Adolesc Ment Health] 2015 Feb; Vol. 20 (1), pp. 56-62. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Jun 06.
DOI: 10.1111/camh.12068
Abstrakt: Background: The aim of this study was to investigate differences in executive functions between adolescents exposed to different forms of single- and multitype childhood maltreatment.
Method: The sample was composed of 83 adolescents, divided into three groups: single-type maltreatment (n = 24), multitype maltreatment (n = 19), and no history of maltreatment (n = 40), matched for education and sex.
Results: The results showed that teenagers who suffered a single type of childhood maltreatment performed worse than the other two groups on tasks of cognitive flexibility and visual processing speed. Individuals who suffered multitype maltreatment had worse initiation and lower verbal processing speed than the other two groups.
Conclusions: Childhood maltreatment may have a significant impact on executive functioning in adolescence.
(© 2014 The Authors. Child and Adolescent Mental Health published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
Externí odkaz: