Abstract

CORONEL, Claudia Paola. Problemas emocionales y de comportamiento en niños con discapacidad intelectual. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.2, pp.351-362. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-9998.2018.0002.11.

Studying behavioral problems in children is complex, especially if they have an intellectual disability. The aetiology of such problems is diverse: context, genetics, family and interaction, and some of these factors can be themselves a cause of psychopathology or increase its risk. The aims were: to identify emotional and behavioural problems in 6-to-11-year-old children with intellectual disability from different socioeconomic levels (SEL) from Tucumán, Argentina; to analyse internalizing and externalizing behaviour in children with intellectual disability; and to analyse whether there were differences in emotional and behavioural problems depending on the children’s SEL. The findings of this study can be related to greater emotional and behavioural problems in children who have a moderate intellectual disability associated with attention, shyness and social problems. In addition, greater emotional problems were found in children with intellectual disability of low socioeconomic levels from Tucumán.

Keywords : emotional problems; behavioural problems; children; intelectual disability.

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