TY - JOUR
PY - 2023//
TI - Executive functions in non-suicidal self-injury comorbid first-episode and drug-naïve depression among adolescents
JO - Psychiatry research
A1 - Wang, Yanni
A1 - Zhou, Yue
A1 - Li, Guohua
A1 - Qin, Peiwu
A1 - Wang, Jiesi
A1 - Qi, Ling
A1 - Li, Linling
A1 - Wang, Yang
A1 - Wang, Jianhong
A1 - Li, Junchang
A1 - Liang, Zhen
A1 - Zhou, Yongjie
SP - e115476
EP - e115476
VL - 328
IS -
N2 - Executive functions(EFs) may be associated with the emergence of non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI) due to their role as behavior controllers. EFs includes three core cognitive processes: inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility(i.e. the ability to selectively alter cognitive strategies to generate appropriate behavior in the changing environment). This study aimed to systematically explore the three core EFs in depressed adolescents with NSSI. The data was obtained from the baseline data of the Chinese adolescent depression Cohort. The adolescents underwent cognitive assessments to yield domain-specific scores in EFs using the Digit Span Backward test(DSB), the Stroop Color-word interference test- color-word condition(Stroop-CW), and the Wisconsin Card Sorting tests(WCST). The significant differences in WCST scores were found between the NSSI group and the non-NSSI group. NSSI frequency was moderately positively correlated with total errors and negatively correlated with the number of categories completed. The number of categories completed in the "≥200″ NSSI frequency group was significantly lower than that in the "≤10″ NSSI group. The current findings suggested that depressed adolescents who had engaged in NSSI have poorer cognitive flexibility performance compared to adolescents without NSSI. As the frequency of NSSI increased, cognitive flexibility might become worse. These results provide evidence of a connection between executive dysfunctions and NSSI in depressed adolescents. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 0165-1781
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115476
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