| Title: |
Electrophysiological correlates of inhibitory control in children: Relations with prenatal maternal risk factors and child psychopathology. |
| Authors: |
Xu, Xiaoye; Buzzell, George A.; Bowers, Maureen E.; Shuffrey, Lauren C.; Leach, Stephanie C.; McSweeney, Marco; Yoder, Lydia; Fifer, William P.; Myers, Michael M.; Elliott, Amy J.; Fox, Nathan A.; Morales, Santiago |
| Source: |
Development & Psychopathology; May2025, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p976-989, 14p |
| Subject Terms: |
CHILD psychopathology; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; RESPONSE inhibition; SCHOOL children; MATERNAL health; EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology); THETA rhythm |
| Abstract: |
Inhibitory control plays an important role in children's cognitive and socioemotional development, including their psychopathology. It has been established that contextual factors such as socioeconomic status (SES) and parents' psychopathology are associated with children's inhibitory control. However, the relations between the neural correlates of inhibitory control and contextual factors have been rarely examined in longitudinal studies. In the present study, we used both event-related potential (ERP) components and time-frequency measures of inhibitory control to evaluate the neural pathways between contextual factors, including prenatal SES and maternal psychopathology, and children's behavioral and emotional problems in a large sample of children (N = 560; 51.75% females; M age = 7.13 years; Rangeage = 4–11 years). Results showed that theta power, which was positively predicted by prenatal SES and was negatively related to children's externalizing problems, mediated the longitudinal and negative relation between them. ERP amplitudes and latencies did not mediate the longitudinal association between prenatal risk factors (i.e., prenatal SES and maternal psychopathology) and children's internalizing and externalizing problems. Our findings increase our understanding of the neural pathways linking early risk factors to children's psychopathology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Complementary Index |