Disinhibited social behavior among internationally adopted children
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Postinstitutionalized children frequently demonstrate persistent socioemotional difficulties. For example, some postinstitutionalized children display an unusual lack of social reserve with unfamiliar adults. This behavior, which has been referred to as indiscriminate friendliness, disinhibited attachment behavior, and disinhibited social behavior, was examined by comparing children internationally adopted from institutional care to children internationally adopted from foster care and children raised by their biological families. Etiological factors and behavioral correlates were also investigated. Both groups of adopted children displayed more disinhibited social behavior than the nonadopted children. Of the etiological factors examined, only the length of time in institutional care was related to disinhibited social behavior. Disinhibited social behavior was not significantly correlated with general cognitive ability, attachment-related behaviors, or basic emotion abilities. However, this behavior was negatively associated with inhibitory control abilities even after controlling for the length of time in institutional care. These results suggest that disinhibited social behavior might reflect underlying deficits in inhibitory control.
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From Adolescent cognitive control and mediofrontal theta oscillations are disrupted by neglect: Associations with transdiagnostic risk for psychopathology in a randomized controlled trial (2020) · cites this paper as Bruce et al., 2009
In humans, prior work demonstrates that neglect leads to deficits in behavioral outputs of cognitive control.
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Studies have demonstrated modest to moderate convergence between measures of inhibitory control and indiscriminate behavior.
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- Authors
- Bruce, J., Tarullo, A. R., & Gunnar, M. R.
- Affiliations
- Oregon Social Learning Center (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bruce, Jacqueline
- Venue
- Development and Psychopathology
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2009-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 157-171
- ISSN
- 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-2198
- PMC
- PMC2629385
- OpenAlex
- W2106651618
- Cited by
- 214
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 37.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH046690, R01MH059848, MH059848, P30MH046690)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (P20DA017592, DA017592)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- internationally adopted children, institutional care, foster care, inhibitory control, attachment, emotion regulation
- MeSH terms
- Adoption, Adult, Child, Developmental Disabilities, Child, Institutionalized, China, Cultural Deprivation, Europe, Female, Foster Home Care, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Korea, Middle Aged, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Social Behavior Disorders, United States, Incidence, Reactive Attachment Disorder
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