Adverse Life Events and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Adolescence: The Role of Non-Verbal Cognitive Ability and Negative Cognitive Errors

Autor/inn/en	Flouri, Eirini; Panourgia, Constantina
Titel	Adverse Life Events and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Adolescence: The Role of Non-Verbal Cognitive Ability and Negative Cognitive Errors
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39 (2011) 5, S.695-709 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-011-9514-6
Schlagwörter	Educational Needs; Disadvantaged; Hyperactivity; Psychiatry; Adolescents; Family Structure; Foreign Countries; Cognitive Ability; Attachment Behavior; Emotional Disturbances; Nonverbal Ability; Error Patterns; Correlation; Stress Variables; Secondary School Students; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Questionnaires; Ethnicity; Behavior Problems; United Kingdom (England); Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Hyperaktivität; Psychiatrie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Ausland; Denkfähigkeit; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Gefühlsstörung; Fehlertyp; Korrelation; Sekundarschüler; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Fragebogen; Ethnizität
Abstract	The aim of this study was to test whether negative cognitive errors (overgeneralizing, catastrophizing, selective abstraction, and personalizing) mediate the moderator effect of non-verbal cognitive ability on the association between adverse life events (life stress) and emotional and behavioral problems in adolescence. The sample consisted of 430 children (aged 11-15 years) from three state secondary schools in disadvantaged areas in one county in the South East of England. Total difficulties (i.e., emotional symptoms, peer problems, hyperactivity, and conduct problems) were assessed with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Adjustment was made for gender, age, ethnicity, special educational needs, exclusion history, family structure, and family socio-economic disadvantage. Adverse life events were measured with Tiet et al.'s ("Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 37," 1191-1200, 1998) Adverse Life Events Scale. Non-verbal cognitive ability was measured with Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Plus. Non-verbal cognitive ability moderated the effect of adverse life events both on total difficulties and on emotional symptoms. Overgeneralizing mediated the moderator effect of non-verbal cognitive ability on the association between adverse life events and total difficulties. Adverse life events were related to a tendency to overgeneralize which was associated with emotional and behavioral problems, but particularly among those adolescents with lower non-verbal cognitive ability. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10