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Minds under Siege: Cognitive Signatures of Poverty and Trauma in Refugee and Non-Refugee Adolescents
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Direct linkChen, Alexandra; Panter-Brick, Catherine; Hadfield, Kristin; Dajani, Rana; Hamoudi, Amar; Sheridan, Margaret – Child Development, 2019
The impacts of war and displacement on executive function (EF)--what we might call the cognitive signatures of "minds under siege"--are little known. We surveyed a gender-balanced sample of 12- to 18-year-old Syrian refugees (n = 240) and Jordanian non-refugees (n = 210) living in Jordan. We examined the relative contributions of…
Descriptors: Trauma, Adolescents, Refugees, Poverty
Crook, Stephen R.; Evans, Gary W. – Child Development, 2014
The pervasive income-achievement gap has been attributed in part to deficiencies in executive functioning (EF). The development of EF is related to children's planning ability, an aspect of development that has received little attention. Longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study of early child…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Income, Executive Function, Children
