ABSTRACT
This research analyses the emotional and behavioural problems, as well as the problems in the executive functions, of children in residential care under protective measures, between 8 and 12 years of age. We analyse the relationship between the problems with their executive functions and their emotional and behavioural problems, as well as the predictive value of the executive functions for the said emotional and behavioural problems. The instruments used were as follows: five digits test (FDT), behavioural assessment of the dysexecutive syndrome in children (BADS-C) and the system of evaluation for children and adolescents (SENA). The results indicate that the children have difficulties in their executive functions, with such problems as in attention control and regulation, impulsiveness, mental rigidity, behavioural organisation and planning and resolving problems. They also have internalising and externalising problems, as well as difficulties in controlling their emotional reactions and understanding the emotions of others. It becomes evident that the difficulties in their executive functions are related to and predict their emotional and behavioural problems. The research demonstrates the need to intervene in the problems detected through the design of therapeutic programmes and interventions in the residential context.
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Emotions , Executive Function , Problem Behavior , Adolescent , Child , Humans , Residential FacilitiesABSTRACT
El presente trabajo estudia si el hecho de tener antecedentes por violencia de género depende de diferentes dimensiones cognitivas y sociales. Participaron 102 agresores condenados por violencia de género reincidentes (n = 57) y no reincidentes (n = 45) quienes fueron evaluados con la "Escala de atribución de responsabilidad y minimización", el "Inventario de pensamientos distorsionados sobre la mujer y la violencia", el "Inventario de sexismo ambivalente", la "Escala de autoestima de Rosenberg" y el "Cuestionario de apoyo social funcional". Los resultados indican que los agresores con antecedentes presentan pensamientos distorsionados sobre la mujer, aunque manifiestan en menor medida actitudes sexistas hostiles. Asimismo, se encontró que a mayor número de pensamientos distorsionados sobre la mujer, menor empleo de estrategias de justificación del daño basadas en la defensa propia, menor número de actitudes sexistas y menor autoestima mayor probabilidad de que el agresor sea reincidente. El estudio de los factores que predicen el riesgo de reincidencia permitirá favorecer la eficacia de los programas de intervención específicos de violencia de género
The investigation studies whether having a history of intimate partner violence depends on different cognitive and social dimensions. 102 aggressors, both recidivist (n = 57) and non-recidivist (n = 45), convicted of intimate partner violence participated in our study. The subjects were evaluated with the Attribution of Responsibility and Minimization Scale, the Inventory of Distorted Thoughts on Women and Violence, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the Functional Social Support Questionnaire. The main conclusions indicate that aggressors with a criminal record present distorted thoughts about women, although they show lower levels of hostile sexist attitudes. In addition, we found that the higher number of distorted thoughts about women, the fewer strategies to justify the inflicted pain based on self-defense, the lower number of sexist attitudes, and the lower self-esteem, the higher the probability to repeat an offence for gender aggressors. The study of the factors that predict the risk of recidivism will increase the effectiveness of specific interventions in intimate partner violence programs
