TY - JOUR
T1 - On Inhibition/Disinhibition in Developmental Psychopathology
T2 - Views from Cognitive and Personality Psychology and a Working Inhibition Taxonomy
AU - Nigg, Joel T.
PY - 2000/3
Y1 - 2000/3
N2 - Disinhibition is a common focus in psychopathology research. However, use of inhibition models often is piecemeal, lacking an overarching taxonomy of inhibitory processes. The author organizes key concepts and models pertaining to different kinds of inhibitory control from the cognitive and temperament/personality literatures. Within the rubrics of executive inhibitory processes, motivational inhibitory processes, and automatic attentional inhibition processes, 8 kinds of inhibition are distinguished. Three basic temperament traits may address key executive and motivational inhibitory processes. Future developmental psychopathology research should be based on a systematic conceptual taxonomy of the kinds of inhibitory function relevant to a given disorder. Such an approach can clarify which inhibition distinctions are correct and which inhibition deficits go with which disorders.
AB - Disinhibition is a common focus in psychopathology research. However, use of inhibition models often is piecemeal, lacking an overarching taxonomy of inhibitory processes. The author organizes key concepts and models pertaining to different kinds of inhibitory control from the cognitive and temperament/personality literatures. Within the rubrics of executive inhibitory processes, motivational inhibitory processes, and automatic attentional inhibition processes, 8 kinds of inhibition are distinguished. Three basic temperament traits may address key executive and motivational inhibitory processes. Future developmental psychopathology research should be based on a systematic conceptual taxonomy of the kinds of inhibitory function relevant to a given disorder. Such an approach can clarify which inhibition distinctions are correct and which inhibition deficits go with which disorders.
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U2 - 10.1037/0033-2909.126.2.220
DO - 10.1037/0033-2909.126.2.220
M3 - Article
C2 - 10748641
AN - SCOPUS:0034149885
SN - 0033-2909
VL - 126
SP - 220
EP - 246
JO - Psychological Bulletin
JF - Psychological Bulletin
IS - 2
ER -