Vulnerability factors in children at risk: anomalies in attentional functioning and social behavior

Childhood Precursors of Affective vs. Social Deficits in Adolescents at Risk for Schizophrenia

“…It has been suggested that social deficits in schizophrenia may be a result of attention and informationprocessing dysfunction (Liberman et al 1986;Bellack et al 1989;Comblatt et al 1990Comblatt et al , 1992. In a cross-sectional study of children at risk for schizophrenia (Nuechterlein et al 1990), significant relationships between these two domains of variables were not found. However, in longitudinal analyses examining the two independent samples of the NYHRP, Comblatt et al (1990 reported that childhood attentional dysfunction predicted adolescent and adult social isolation in subjects at risk for schizophrenia.…”

Dimensions of the Construct of Resilience and Adaptation among Inner-City Youth

“…Similarly, the outcome component of the construct of resilience has also included a number of variables. Researchers have used cognitive competence (Garmezy, 1987;Lösel, Bliesener, & Köferl, 1989), cognitive outcome (Baldwin et al, 1990), academic achievement (Garmezy, 1987), school-based competence (Masten et al, 1988(Masten et al, , 1990, self-esteem, social resources, and self-efficacy (Lösel et al, 1989), education, vocation, marriage, and life satisfaction (Werner, 1989), and absence of mental disorders (Conrad & Hammen, 1993;Rutter, 1979;Tiêt et al, 1998;Werner & Smith, 1982), schizophrenia (Garmezy & Devine, 1984;Nuechterlein, Phipps-Yonas, Driscoll, & Garmezy, 1990), delinquency (Werner, 1989), and behavioral disturbances (Earls, Beardslee, & Garrison, 1987;Fergusson & Lynskey, 1996).…”