The relations between Residential Instability, Disrupted Adult Romantic Relationships and Inhibitory Control
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2022-07-04
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Romantic adult relationships are shown to enhance overall health and quality of life. Evidence has suggested that early life events such as residential instability, may disrupt children’s stress systems and impair their development in forming intimate social relationships. Research showed that early life stress can have a negative impact on inhibitory control which may prompt more negative social interactions. The current study examined whether i) there is a positive link between residential instability and disrupted adult romantic relations, and ii) whether inhibitory control mediates this link. Disrupted adult romantic relationships were operationalised with coercion. The study included n=98 males and n=99 females which on average moved 4.94 times. A regression analysis was conducted with N=197 participants, based on self-report questionnaires and observational measures. Residential instability correlated positively to disruption in romantic adult relationships and to inhibitory control. However, no mediating effect of inhibitory control was found. Implications for further research include controlling for other life events, using more state dependent experimental measurements for inhibitory control and the role of attentional control.
Keywords: early life events, residential instability, inhibitory control, romantic adult relationships , social development.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen