Much ado about norming: The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function

Roth, Robert M.; Erdődi, László A.; McCulloch, Laura J.; Isquith, Peter Κ.

doi:10.1080/09297049.2014.897318

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“…Specifically, we utilized the 28-item Behavioral Regulation Index (BRI) comprised of three subscales that measured inhibition (e.g., “blurts things out”), emotional control (e.g., “has outbursts for no reason”), and task shifting abilities (e.g., “tries the same approach to a problem over and over even when it does not work”). The reliability and validity of the BRIEF has been well-established across a wide variety of age ranges, geographic regions, demographic characteristics, and both internalizing and externalizing psychopathology (for reviews see Isquith et al 2013, 2014; Roth et al 2015) and the BRIEF BRI subscale demonstrated good reliability in this study (α = .87).…”

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confidence: 54%

Childhood Maltreatment Exposure and Disruptions in Emotion Regulation: A Transdiagnostic Pathway to Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology

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Child maltreatment is a robust risk factor for internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in children and adolescents. We examined the role of disruptions in emotion regulation processes as a developmental mechanism linking child maltreatment to the onset of multiple forms of psychopathology in adolescents. Specifically, we examined whether child maltreatment was associated with emotional reactivity and maladaptive cognitive and behavioral responses to distress, including rumination and impulsive behaviors, in two separate samples. We additionally investigated whether each of these components of emotion regulation were associated with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology and mediated the association between child maltreatment and psychopathology. Study 1 included a sample of 167 adolescents recruited based on exposure to physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Study 2 included a sample of 439 adolescents in a community-based cohort study followed prospectively for 5 years. In both samples, child maltreatment was associated with higher levels of internalizing psychopathology, elevated emotional reactivity, and greater habitual engagement in rumination and impulsive responses to distress. In Study 2, emotional reactivity and maladaptive responses to distress mediated the association between child maltreatment and both internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. These findings provide converging evidence for the role of emotion regulation deficits as a transdiagnostic developmental pathway linking child maltreatment with multiple forms of psychopathology.

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confidence: 54%

Childhood Maltreatment Exposure and Disruptions in Emotion Regulation: A Transdiagnostic Pathway to Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology

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“…No effect of ethnicity on BRIEF scores was observed in a study that included a small subsample of Aboriginal Canadians , and there is evidence that BRIEF parent report scores are unrelated to geographic location in TD children (Roth, Erdodi, McCulloch, & Isquith, 2015). Nonetheless, the lack of Aboriginal TD and nonAboriginal FASD control groups precludes the determination of whether ethnic background and/or environmental factors impact on executive functions in Aboriginals with FASD (e.g., cohort effects, sociocultural differences).…”

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confidence: 90%

Parent rating of executive function in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A review of the literature and new data on Aboriginal Canadian children

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Casey

et al. 2016

Child Neuropsychology

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Aboriginal children in Canada are at high risk of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) but there is little research on the cognitive impact of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in this population. This paper reviews the literature on parent report of executive functioning in children with FASD that used the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF). New data on the BRIEF is then reported in a sample of 52 Aboriginal Canadian children with FASD for whom a primary caregiver completed the BRIEF. The children also completed a battery of neuropsychological tests. The results reveal mean scores in the impaired range for all three BRIEF index scores and seven of the eight scales, with the greatest difficulties found on the Working Memory, Inhibit and Shift scales. The majority of the children were reported as impaired on the index scores and scales, with Working Memory being most commonly impaired scale. On the performance-based tests, Trails B and Letter Fluency are most often reported as impaired, though the prevalence of impairment is greater for parent ratings than test performance. No gender difference is noted for the parent report, but the boys had slightly slower intellectual functioning and were more perseverative than the girls on testing. The presence of psychiatric comorbidity is unrelated to either BRIEF or test scores. These findings are generally consistent with prior studies indicating that parents observe considerable executive dysfunction in children with FASD, and that children with FASD may have more difficulty with executive functions in everyday life than is detected by laboratory-based tests alone.

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“…Concerns about the geographic location of normative samples have previously been raised in relation to the child version of the BRIEF [61]; however, subsequent examination of results across studies shows no variation in scores based on geographic location [62]. Currently no Australian norms exist for this measure, but if they were to become available, a comparison across countries could be done.…”

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confidence: 98%