Executive functions, externalizing and internalizing behaviors in girls and adolescents exposed and not exposed to an environment of high social adversity
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Environments of high social adversity such as the “Bronx Zone” in Bogotá (Colombia) have been related to executive deficits and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. The objective of this study was to compare the executive functions (FFEE) and the externalizing and internalizing behaviors among girls and adolescents aged 8 to 15 living in that area, with girls and adolescents of the same ages and socioeconomic strata, through a cross-comparative design. The BANFE 2, BRIEF and CBCL tests were used. The results indicate less strategies to control the impulsivity and more rule breaking behaviors among the participants that inhabited this area, although these presented significantly higher scores in the FFEE: change, monitoring, initiative, planning/organization and visospatial work memory, results that indicate that survival in these types of environments could promote the development of these functions.
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