ArticleChild development2019
Minds Under Siege: Cognitive Signatures of Poverty and Trauma in Refugee and Non-Refugee Adolescents.
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- Migrant students' self-reported executive function skills in relation to mental health, postmigration stress, and positive appraisals of self and the social context.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
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- Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems among Children and Adolescents in Jordan: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Evaluation of a tablet-based assessment tool for measuring cognition among children 4-6 years of age in Ghana.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Social Determinants of Health and ADHD Symptoms in Preschool-Age Children.Journal of attention disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
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 poverty, trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress, and insecurity to variance in inhibitory control and working memory. We observed associations between poverty and WM, suggesting that, even in populations exposed to substantial violence and fear, poverty is a specific pathway to WM deficit. We did not, however, find associations between EFs and exposures to trauma. Careful distinction between childhood adversities may illuminate which neurocognitive pathways matter for measures of cognitive function.
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