Differential associations of threat and deprivation with emotion regulation and cognitive control in adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Research on childhood adversity has traditionally focused on single types of adversity, which is limited because of high co-occurrence, or on the total number of adverse experiences, which assumes that diverse experiences influence development similarly. Identifying dimensions of environmental experience that are common to multiple types of adversity may be a more effective strategy. We examined the unique associations of two such dimensions (threat and cognitive deprivation) with automatic emotion regulation and cognitive control using a multivariate approach that simultaneously examined both dimensions of adversity. Data were drawn from a community sample of adolescents (N = 287) with variability in exposure to violence, an indicator of threat, and poverty, which is associated with cogni

SUBMITTER: Lambert HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5243929 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature