Parent ratings of executive functioning in children adopted from psychosocially depriving institutions
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Background: Previous studies have found that post‐institutionalized (PI) children are particularly susceptible to attention problems and perform poorly on executive functioning (EF) lab tasks. Methods: Parent ratings of EF were examined in 288 school‐age and 130 preschool‐age children adopted from psychosocially depriving Russian institutions that provided adequate physical resources but not one‐on‐one interactions with a consistent set of responsive caregivers. Results: Results revealed a step‐like association between age at adoption and EF deficits; school‐age children adopted after 18 months of age had greater EF difficulties than younger‐adopted children and the never‐institutionalized normative sample. The onset of adolescence was associated with a greater increase in EF deficits for children adopted after 18 months than for younger‐adopted children. Preschool‐age children were not found to have greater EF difficulties than the normative sample. Conclusions: These findings suggest that prolonged early psychosocial deprivation may increase children’s risk of EF deficits and that the developmental stresses of adolescence may be particularly challenging for older‐adopted PI children.
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School-aged children adopted primarily from these psychosocially depriving institutions at older ages had higher levels of parent-reported executive function difficulties than those adopted at younger ages and the normative sample.
“School-aged children adopted primarily from these psychosocially depriving institutions at older ages had higher levels of parent-reported executive function difficulties than those adopted at younger ages and the normative sample (Merz & McCall, 2011).”
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- Authors
- Merz, E. C., & McCall, R. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-10-18
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 537-546
- ISSN
- 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7610
- PMC
- PMC3079047
- OpenAlex
- W2120884009
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 19.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD039017, R01HD050212, HD39017, HD050212)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- executive function, institutional deprivation, adoption, age at adoption, adolescence, parent ratings, attention deficits, child development
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adoption, Age Factors, Child, Child, Institutionalized, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Parents, Psychosocial Deprivation, Time Factors, Executive Function
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