Family-Based Care Buffers the Stress Sensitizing Effect of Early Deprivation on Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adolescence

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    • Availability:
      Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      14
    • Sponsoring Agency:
      National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (DHHS/NIH)
    • Contract Number:
      R01MH091363
    • Subject Terms:
      Stress Variables; Executive Function; Foster Care; Child Development; Young Children; Adolescents; Predictor Variables; At Risk Persons; Resilience (Psychology); Institutionalized Persons
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/cdev.13863
    • ISSN:
      0009-3920
      1467-8624
    • Abstract:
      We examined whether family care following early-life deprivation buffered the association between stressful life events (SLEs) and executive functioning (EF) in adolescence. In early childhood, 136 institutionally reared children were randomly assigned to foster care or care-as-usual; 72 never-institutionalized children served as a comparison group. At age 16 years, adolescents (n = 143; 54% female; 67.1% Romanian) self-reported recent SLEs, completed a battery of memory and EF tasks, and completed a go/nogo task in which mediofrontal theta power (MFTP) was measured using electroencephalogram. More independent SLEs predicted lower EF and more dependent SLEs predicted lower MFTP, but only among adolescents with prolonged early deprivation. Findings provide preliminary evidence that family care following early deprivation may facilitate resilience against stress during adolescence on EF.
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    • Publication Date:
      2022
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1359856