TY - JOUR
T1 - Social information processing skills in children with histories of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure
AU - McGee, Christie L.
AU - Bjorkquist, Olivia A.
AU - Price, Joseph M.
AU - Mattson, Sarah N.
AU - Riley, Edward P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The authors thank Drs. Mary O’Connor and Lyn Laboriel for their assistance with recruitment, the members of the Center for Behavioral Teratology, and the families who graciously participate in our studies. Supported by NIAAA grants F31 AA016047, T32 AA013525, and R01 AA010417.
PY - 2009/8
Y1 - 2009/8
N2 - Based on caregiver report, children with prenatal alcohol exposure have difficulty with social functioning, but little is known about their social cognition. The current study assessed the social information processing patterns of school-age children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure using a paradigm based on Crick and Dodge's reformulated six-stage model. Fifty-two children (aged 7-11) with and without heavy prenatal alcohol exposure were tested using a structured interview measure of social information processing involving 18 videotaped vignettes of children in group entry and provocation situations. Alcohol-exposed children displayed maladaptive processing patterns on the goal, response generation, and response evaluation steps in group entry situations, and encoding, attribution, response evaluation, and enactment steps during provocation situations. Children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure also had difficulty on the Test of Problem Solving, and performance correlated with social information processing measures. Such difficulties may lead to problems in social functioning and warrant early intervention.
AB - Based on caregiver report, children with prenatal alcohol exposure have difficulty with social functioning, but little is known about their social cognition. The current study assessed the social information processing patterns of school-age children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure using a paradigm based on Crick and Dodge's reformulated six-stage model. Fifty-two children (aged 7-11) with and without heavy prenatal alcohol exposure were tested using a structured interview measure of social information processing involving 18 videotaped vignettes of children in group entry and provocation situations. Alcohol-exposed children displayed maladaptive processing patterns on the goal, response generation, and response evaluation steps in group entry situations, and encoding, attribution, response evaluation, and enactment steps during provocation situations. Children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure also had difficulty on the Test of Problem Solving, and performance correlated with social information processing measures. Such difficulties may lead to problems in social functioning and warrant early intervention.
KW - Fetal alcohol syndrome
KW - Prenatal alcohol exposure
KW - Social functioning
KW - Social information processing
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U2 - 10.1007/s10802-009-9313-5
DO - 10.1007/s10802-009-9313-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 19283465
AN - SCOPUS:68249150809
SN - 0091-0627
VL - 37
SP - 817
EP - 830
JO - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
IS - 6
ER -
