Diverse factors in impulse control and emotion regulation: The examples of ADHD and adolescent girls' internalizing disorders
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University of California, Department of Psychology, United States
A plethora of terms and constructs, such as inhibitory control, impulsivity, dysregulated temperament, emotion regulation, stress reactivity, make for difficulties in communicating across disciplines, laboratories, and paradigms in developmental cognitive neuroscience, particularly related to emotional and social behavior. I argue that a developmental psychopathology perspective—in which normal and atypical development are considered alongside each other and in which multilevel contextual influences are given full consideration—is optimal for resolving terminologic and conceptual confusion. I present examples from our own longitudinal research, in which girls with ADHD reveal greater multifinality across adolescence than do boys with this condition, given their enhanced risk for eating pathology, self-harm, and sexual problems as well as academic failure and social problems. Key predictors of adolescent and socio-emotional functioning in this population include childhood measures of executive function and cognitive control. More generally, early adolescence is a key developmental period of risk for females in terms of internalizing conditions; particularly provocative is the translation of protective factors for girls during early childhood (verbal skills, compliance, empathy) into risk factors for internalizing pathology during the transition to puberty. Key themes from the other presentations of this session on Emotional and Social Behavior are also discussed.
Conference:
Conference on Neurocognitive Development, Berkeley, CA, United States, 12 Jul - 14 Jul, 2009.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Emotional and social behavior
Citation:
Hinshaw
SP
(2009). Diverse factors in impulse control and emotion regulation: The examples of ADHD and adolescent girls' internalizing disorders.
Conference Abstract:
Conference on Neurocognitive Development.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.10.033
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Received:
07 Jul 2009;
Published Online:
07 Jul 2009.
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Correspondence:
Stephen P Hinshaw, University of California, Department of Psychology, Berkeley, United States, hinshaw@berkeley.edu