Early exposure to parent-perpetrated intimate partner violence predicts hypervigilant error monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Early exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) places children at risk for ongoing emotional difficulties, including problems with self-regulation and high levels of internalizing symptoms. However, the impact of IPV exposure on children's error monitoring remains unknown. The present study utilized electroencephalography (EEG) to examine the impact of exposure to IPV in infancy on error monitoring in middle childhood. Results indicated that parents' perpetration of IPV against their romantic partners when children were under 24 months of age predicted hypervigilant error monitoring in children at age 8 (N = 30, 16 female), as indexed by error-related neural activity (ERN and Pe difference amplitudes), above and beyond the effects of general adversity exposure and parental responsivenes

SUBMITTER: Palmwood EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8857045 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature