Dissociative symptoms in school-aged adopted children who experienced maternal separation and disruptive caregiving in infancy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1453950" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1453950</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dissociative symptoms in school-aged adopted children who experienced maternal separation and disruptive caregiving in infancy
Original language description
Amounting findings on maternal separation and early disturbed caregiving suggest that this type of early experience negatively influences socioemotional development and may be associated with behavioral and mental health problems in later life. Concerning previously published studies, we have assessed if maternal separation and disrupted caregiving before adoption in infancy could be related to heightened levels of dissociative symptoms and behavioral problems in middle childhood. We involved 30 children (sample S1) who had experienced maternal separation after birth and short-term institutional or foster care prior to adoption before 16.7 months of age. Based on the parents' reports, they had not experienced any other significant adversities by the time of evaluation. These children were compared to a control group of children who have lived with their biological mothers in complete families (sample S2; N = 25). Although the findings are correlational and not causal, they indicate that specific adverse experiences, maternal separation after birth, and relatively short disruptive caregiving prior to successful adoption in infancy could be associated with significantly heightened levels of dissociative symptoms and behavioral problems in school-aged children. Our data also contribute to the literature on child socioemotional development and the etiology of dissociative disorders.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30215 - Psychiatry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Psychiatry
ISSN
1664-0640
e-ISSN
1664-0640
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
April
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1453950
UT code for WoS article
001479243300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105004177197