The Effect of Placement Instability on Adopted Children's Inhibitory Control Abilities and Oppositional Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Lewis, Erin E.; Dozier, Mary; Ackerman, John; Sepulveda-Kozakowski, Sandra
Titel	The Effect of Placement Instability on Adopted Children's Inhibitory Control Abilities and Oppositional Behavior
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 43 (2007) 6, S.1415-1427 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Check Lists; Intelligence; Placement; Child Welfare; Inhibition; Child Behavior; Adoption; Emotional Development; Foster Care; Young Children; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Kindeswohl; Hemmung; Gefühlsbildung; Pflegehilfe; Frühe Kindheit; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	This study assessed relations among placement instability, inhibitory control, and caregiver-rated child behavior. The sample included 33 adopted children who had experienced placement instability, 42 adopted children who had experienced 1 stable placement, and 27 children never placed in foster care. Five- and 6-year-old children completed the day-night task, which requires children to inhibit a prepotent response, and a control task that presents similar memory demands but does not require inhibition (C. L. Gerstadt, Y. J. Hong, & A. Diamond, 1994). Adopted children who had experienced placement instability performed worse on the inhibition task than did both other groups of children, when the authors controlled for age, verbal intelligence (as measured with the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence--Revised; D. Wechsler, 1989; or the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Third Edition; L. M. Dunn & L. M. Dunn, 1997), and control task performance (p[less than]0.01). Children who had experienced placement instability were also rated on the Child Behavior Checklist as more oppositional than other children (p[less than]0.01; T. M. Achenbach & L. A. Rescorla, 2000). Inhibitory control did not mediate the association between placement instability and oppositional behavior (p[greater than]0.05). These results suggest that placement instability may adversely affect the social-emotional development of adopted children. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10