emotional disturbance

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Nevertheless, the age of 6 is too young for a valid assessment of possible effects of institutional deprivation on emotionaldisturbance and disruptive behavior.
It did not because the overlap (or co-occurrence) with deprivation-specific patterns applied to emotionaldisturbance at all ages, regardless of later offset or onset.
The final possibility was that low scholastic attainment might constitute the key risk factor for emotionaldisturbance, possibly mediated by low self-esteem.
When these assumptions are intact, their violation causes considerable emotionaldisturbance because that shakes the foundation on which one's life plans have been based.
Rather, it was in the subgroup of children without deprivation-specific problems that later onset emotionaldisturbance was a more typical feature.
Nevertheless, there was substantial variation on the composite index of family difficulties, and this was unrelated to the onset of emotionaldisturbance.
Therefore, we conclude that, on balance, the findings suggest that the possibility that impaired emotional understanding predisposing to new emotionaldisturbance, has only limited suggestive support.
The categorical findings therefore provide no support for the hypothesis that the late-onset emotionaldisturbance was a consequence of either educational failure or from low self-esteem.
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