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Guy, Jacalyn, Mareva, Silvana, Franckel, Grace and Holmes, Joni 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6821-2793
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CALM Team
(2022)
Dimensions of cognition, behaviour, and mental health in struggling learners: A spotlight on girls.
JCPP Advances, 2 (4).
ISSN 2692-9384
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Abstract
Background: Fewer girls than boys are identified as struggling at school for suspected problems in attention, learning and/or memory. The objectives of this study were to: i) identify dimensions of cognition, behaviour and mental health in a unique transdiagnostic sample of struggling learners; ii) test whether these constructs were equivalent for boys and girls, and; iii) compare their performance across the dimensions. Methods: 805 school-aged children, identified by practitioners as experiencing problems in cognition and learning, completed cognitive assessments, and parents/carers rated their behaviour and mental health problems. Results: Three cognitive [Executive, Speed, Phonological], three behavioural [Cognitive Control, Emotion Regulation, Behaviour Regulation], and two mental health [Internalising, Externalising] dimensions distinguished the sample. Dimensions were structurally comparable between boys and girls, but differences in severity were present: girls had greater impairments on performance-based measures of cognition; boys were rated as having more severe externalising problems. Conclusions: Gender biases to stereotypically male behaviours are prevalent among practitioners, even when the focus is on identifying cognitive and learning difficulties. This underscores the need to include cognitive and female-representative criteria in diagnostic systems to identify girls whose difficulties could go easily undetected.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | behaviour,cognition,learning difficulties,mental health,sex differences,transdiagnostic,psychiatry and mental health,developmental and educational psychology,psychology (miscellaneous),sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2738 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2023 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 00:50 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90534 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/jcv2.12082 |
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