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Memory, Maternal Representations, and Internalizing Symptomatology among Abused, Neglected, and Nonmaltreated Children
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Valentino, Kristin; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Toth, Sheree L. – Child Development, 2008
A depth-of-processing incidental recall task for maternal-referent stimuli was utilized to assess basic memory processes and the affective valence of maternal representations among abused (N = 63), neglected (N = 33), and nonmaltreated (N = 128) school-aged children (ages 8-13.5 years old). Self-reported and observer-rated indices of internalizing…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Prevention, Memory
Cognitive Brain Event-Related Potentials and Emotion Processing in Maltreated Children.
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Pollak, Seth D.; Cicchetti, Dante; Klorman, Rafael; Brumaghim, Joan T. – Child Development, 1997
Recorded cognitive event-related potentials from maltreated and nonmaltreated children during presentations of happy, angry, or neutral facial expressions. Found that for nonmaltreated children, the average amplitude of P300 was comparable for responses to happy and neutral expressions. Maltreated children displayed larger P300 amplitude to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Abuse, Children, Comparative Analysis
Organizational Perspective on Cognitive Control Functioning and Cognitive-Affective Balance in Maltreated Children.
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Rieder, Carolyn; Cicchetti, Dante – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Examined the relation between a history of maltreatment and cognitive control functioning in two groups of preschool and early school-age maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Maltreated children showed developmentally impaired cognitive control functioning on a number of tasks. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Aggression, Child Abuse
Affect, Cognition, and the Emergence of Self-Knowledge in the Toddler Offspring of Depressed Mothers.
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Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Toth, Sheree L.; Spagnola, Mary – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Compared visual self-recognition in toddlers of depressed (DM) and nondepressed mothers (NDM). Found that DM toddlers showing self-recognition were more likely than NDM toddlers to display nonpositive affect. DM toddlers not showing self-recognition and who shifted affect in the postrouge condition were less securely attached to mothers with less…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis