Psychosocial deprivation, executive functions, and the emergence of socio-emotional behavior problems

McDermott, Jennifer Martin, Troller-Renfree, Sonya, Vanderwert, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2280-8401, Nelson, Charles A., Zeanah, Charles H. and Fox, Nathan A. 2013. Psychosocial deprivation, executive functions, and the emergence of socio-emotional behavior problems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 , 167. 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00167

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Abstract

Early psychosocial deprivation can negatively impact the development of executive functions (EFs). Here we explore the impact of early psychosocial deprivation on behavioral and physiological measures (i.e., event-related potentials; ERPs) of two facets of EF, inhibitory control and response monitoring, and their associations with internalizing and externalizing outcomes in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP; Zeanah et al., 2003). This project focuses on two groups of children placed in institutions shortly after birth and then randomly assigned in infancy to either a foster care intervention or to remain in their current institutional setting. A group of community controls was recruited for comparison. The current study assesses these children at 8-years of age examining the effects of early adversity, the potential effects of the intervention on EF and the role of EF skills in socio-emotional outcomes. Results reveal exposure to early psychosocial deprivation was associated with impaired inhibitory control on a flanker task. Children in the foster care intervention exhibited better response monitoring compared to children who remained in the institution on the error-related positivity (Pe). Moreover, among children in the foster care intervention those who exhibited larger error-related negativity (ERN) responses had lower levels of socio-emotional behavior problems. Overall, these data identify specific aspects of EF that contribute to adaptive and maladaptive socio-emotional outcomes among children experiencing early psychosocial deprivation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	Frontiers Research Foundation
ISSN:	1662-5161
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance:	16 April 2013
Last Modified:	11 May 2023 06:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/80362

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