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Citation

McCoy DC, Roy AL, Raver CC. Dev. Sci. 2015; 19(1): 164-174.

Affiliation

Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/desc.12287

PMID

25702532

Abstract

Emerging research suggests that early exposure to environmental adversity has important implications for the development of brain regions associated with emotion regulation, yet little is known about how such adversity translates into observable differences in children's emotion-related behavior. The present study examines the relationship between geocoded neighborhood crime and urban pre-adolescents' emotional attention, appraisal, and response.

RESULTS indicate that living in a high-crime neighborhood is associated with greater selective attention toward negatively valenced emotional stimuli on a dot probe task, less biased appraisal of fear on a facial identification task, and lower rates of teacher-reported internalizing behaviors in the classroom. These findings suggest that children facing particularly high levels of environmental threat may develop different regulatory processes (e.g. greater use of emotional suppression) than their peers from low-crime neighborhoods in order to manage the unique stressors and social demands of their communities.


Language: en

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