Citation

Sullivan MW, Bennett DS, Carpenter K, Lewis M. Child Maltreat. 2008; 13(3): 301-306.

Affiliation

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-UMDNJ, 97 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077559507313725

PMID

18299632

Abstract

Young neglected children may be at risk for emotion knowledge deficits. Children with histories of neglect or with no maltreatment were initially seen at age 4 and again 1 year later to assess their emotion knowledge. Higher IQ was associated with better emotion knowledge, but neglected children had consistently poorer emotion knowledge over time compared to non-neglected children after controlling for IQ. Because both neglected status and IQ may contribute to deficits in emotional knowledge, both should be assessed when evaluating these children to appropriately design and pace emotion knowledge interventions.

Language: en