Lesley Rose Ninsiima, Luke Nyakarahuka, Steven Kisaka, Collins Gk Atuheire, Lawrence Mugisha, Terence Odoch, Javier Sánchez Romano, Jörn Klein, Siobhan M Mor, Clovice Kankya
Knowledge, perceptions, and exposure to bats in communities living around bat roosts in Bundibugyo district, Uganda: implications for viral haemorrhagic fever prevention and control
BMC infectious diseases
developmental delays cognitive flexibility early elementary school potentially increase vulnerability subsequent externalizing internalizing psychopathology first goal current study identify latent subgroups children characterized different developmental trajectories cognitive flexibility throughout kindergarten first grade using data early childhood longitudinal study kindergarten class 20102011 dataset second goal examine whether identified longitudinal developmental trajectories cognitive flexibility could associated internalizing externalizing behaviors second grade accounting background child age gender spanishspeaking family family income mothers education covariates analytic sample consisted 15827 kindergarteners 5120 male 4850 white 135 blackafrican american 243 hispaniclatino 760 asian 61 approximately 562 years old sd 448 months studys outset children lived households medium family income approximately 5000055000 using growth mixture modeling approach analyses identified normative 9105 504 male delayed 895 594 male cognitive flexibility groups demonstrated delayed developers higher levels externalizing internalizing behaviors second grade even adjusting background covariates findings conjunction research cognitive flexibility training suggest caregivers may lower risk externalizing internalizing behaviors delayed developers correcting inflexible thinking encouraging alternative solutions providing emotional support children face challenging problems psycinfo database record c 2023 apa rights reserved