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Do cognitive distortions explain the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and emotional and behavioural problems in secondary school children?

Research has shown that children exposed to life adversity are at higher risk of negative developmental outcomes than those enduring lower stress levels. Life adversity can lead, among other things, to emotional and behavioural problems. Several factors have been studied to explain this relationship...

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Autores principales: Panourgia, Constantina, Comoretto, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28198138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smi.2743
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description Research has shown that children exposed to life adversity are at higher risk of negative developmental outcomes than those enduring lower stress levels. Life adversity can lead, among other things, to emotional and behavioural problems. Several factors have been studied to explain this relationship, with several investigators underlining the role of thought structures such as cognitive distortions, which refer to negatively biased information‐processing of external events. This can help explain why some individuals characterised by adverse personal life stories interpret ambiguous events in a negatively biased way. This study was aimed at assessing the mediating role of cognitive distortions in the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and two dimensions of psychopathology, namely, emotional and behavioural problems in 247 secondary school children attending three state secondary schools in one county in the South East of England. An increase in life adversity was associated with an increase in cognitive distortions, which was in turn related to a higher number of symptoms reflecting behavioural issues. In terms of practical applications, an effort to protect children from further exposure to adverse life events could represent a step forward to prevent the development of future behavioural problems in at‐risk children.
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spelling pubmed-57633912018-01-17 Do cognitive distortions explain the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and emotional and behavioural problems in secondary school children? Panourgia, Constantina Comoretto, Amanda Stress Health Research Articles Research has shown that children exposed to life adversity are at higher risk of negative developmental outcomes than those enduring lower stress levels. Life adversity can lead, among other things, to emotional and behavioural problems. Several factors have been studied to explain this relationship, with several investigators underlining the role of thought structures such as cognitive distortions, which refer to negatively biased information‐processing of external events. This can help explain why some individuals characterised by adverse personal life stories interpret ambiguous events in a negatively biased way. This study was aimed at assessing the mediating role of cognitive distortions in the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and two dimensions of psychopathology, namely, emotional and behavioural problems in 247 secondary school children attending three state secondary schools in one county in the South East of England. An increase in life adversity was associated with an increase in cognitive distortions, which was in turn related to a higher number of symptoms reflecting behavioural issues. In terms of practical applications, an effort to protect children from further exposure to adverse life events could represent a step forward to prevent the development of future behavioural problems in at‐risk children. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-02-15 2017-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5763391/ /pubmed/28198138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smi.2743 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Stress and Health published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Do cognitive distortions explain the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and emotional and behavioural problems in secondary school children?
title_sort do cognitive distortions explain the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and emotional and behavioural problems in secondary school children?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763391/
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