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Future research needs to consider the role of fathers or male caregivers in the emotional development of physically maltreated children.
This may lead to secondary prevention of the psychiatric chronicity and comorbidity commonly seen in maltreated children.
It may be that maltreated girls tend toward inhibiting emotion and, as a result, are less likely to engage in such externally directed dysregulated behaviors.
It is argued that maltreated children's association of affective stimuli with traumatic experiences and memories selectively alters the meaning of emotions for these children.
However, maltreated children's resulting hypervigilance for aggressive stimuli may have deleterious effects on their information processing in nonthreatening conditions.
Recall and recognition measures revealed no differences between maltreated and nonmaltreated children's semantic memory functioning for neutral stimuli.
Thus, it is important to assess the role of dissociation in maltreated children's memory for nontrauma-related stimuli.
This variable identifies those subjects who were maltreated only during the elementary school age period, between ages 6 and 11 years.
