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Work memory and inhibition in abused children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M.C. Jimenez Martinez
M.C. Jimenez Martinez*
Affiliation:
Universidad pedagógica y tecnológica de Colombia, Grupo Desarrollo Humano Cognición y Educación Escuela de Psicologia, Tunja, Colombia

Abstract

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Introduction

It has been shown that children with a history of abuse tend to have a deficit in both their academic and cognitive abilities. Mesa-Gresa, P., & Moya-Albiol, L. (2011) [1]. This study aimed to identify the relationship between abuse (psychological, neglect, custody and abandonment) and the performance of executive functions of memory of verbal work and inhibition.

Method

The Executive Function battery (Gonzalez, M., & Ostrosky, F., 2012) [2] was applied to 38 preschoolers 4–5 year olds who have experience abuse and to 36 preschoolers who have not. Data was analysed using the test t for independent samples and the Chi-cuadrado from Pearson.

Results

Inhibition was affected in children with psychological abuse and negligence. It means that children presented difficulty in controlling their behaviour. Children victim of abandonment showed lower performance of executive functions of memory of verbal work. Such function allows them to carry on daily activities efficiently. Conversely, children without previous history of abuse showed higher performance in both tests especially in inhibition.

Conclusion

Findings suggest that child abuse in preschoolers can influence the performance in their executive functions without difference in gender.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

Keywords

Executive functionsChild abusePreschoolersInhibitionMemory of verbal work
Type
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Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S688
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017

References

Mesa-Gresa, P., Moya-Albiol, L.Neurobiología del maltrato infantil: el “ciclo de la violencia”. Revista de Neurología 2011;52(8):48950310.33588/rn.5208.2009256CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gonzalez, M., Ostrosky, F.Estructura de las Funciones Ejecutivas en la Edad Preescolar. Acta Investigación Psicológica 2012;2(1)50952010.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2012.1.187CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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