Top

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Gepubliceerd in:

01-01-2011

Child Effortful Control as a Mediator of Parenting Practices on Externalizing Behavior: Evidence for a Sex-Differentiated Pathway across the Transition from Preschool to School

Auteurs: Hyein Chang, Sheryl L. Olson, Arnold J. Sameroff, Holly R. Sexton

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 1/2011

Abstract

An explanatory model for children’s development of disruptive behavior across the transition from preschool to school was tested. It was hypothesized that child effortful control would mediate the effects of parenting on children’s externalizing behavior and that child sex would moderate these relations. Participants were 241 children (123 boys) and their parents and teachers. Three dimensions of parenting, warm responsiveness, induction, and corporal punishment, were assessed via maternal report when children were 3 years old. Child effortful control at age 3 was measured using laboratory tasks and a mother-report questionnaire. Mothers and teachers contributed ratings of child externalizing behavior at age 6. Results showed that the hypothesized model fit the data well and that the pattern of associations between constructs differed for boys and girls. For boys, parental warm responsiveness and corporal punishment had significant indirect effects on children’s externalizing behavior three years later, mediated by child effortful control. Such relations were not observed for girls. These findings support a sex-differentiated pathway to externalizing behavior across the transition from preschool to school.

vorige artikel Psychopathic Traits of Dutch Adolescents in Residential Care: Identifying Subgroups

volgende artikel Family Routine Moderates the Relation Between Child Impulsivity and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms

Additional models were estimated to examine if results differed by method and informant. As 38 children did not have teacher-report of externalizing behavior at age 6, the model with mother-report of externalizing behavior only was compared with the model with both mother- and teacher-report. Despite slight differences in the coefficients, the pattern of results was the same for both models. Next, the models with the latent construct of EC assessed differently were compared (mother-report only vs. lab assessment only). The association between EC and externalizing behavior was weaker for lab EC (β = −0.14, p < 0.10) than mother-report EC (β = −0.79, p < 0.001). The pattern of relationship between parenting and EC also differed. Warm responsiveness predicted mother-report EC (β = 0.48, p < 0.001) whereas corporal punishment predicted lab EC (β = −0.24, p < 0.05). The findings imply that different measures of EC may be associated with different predictors and outcomes. However, because the manifest variables were generally good indicators of the specified latent construct fsall factor loadings > 0.40), the multi-method, multi-informant model was retained with a focus on common variance across measures.

Achenbach, T. M. (1992). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist/2-3 and 1992 Profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.

Achenbach, T. M. (2001). The manual for the ASEBA school-age forms & profiles. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.

Ahadi, S. A., Rothbart, M. K., & Ye, R. M. (1993). Child temperament in the US and China: Similarities and differences. European Journal of Personality, 7, 359–378.CrossRef

Arbuckle, J. L. (1996). Full information estimation in the presence of incomplete data. In G. A. Marcoulides & R. E. Schumacker (Eds.), Advanced structural equation modeling (pp. 243–277). Mahwah: Erlbaum.

Bandura, A., & Walters, R. H. (1959). Adolescent aggression. NY: Ronald.

Bollen, K. A. (1987). Total, direct, and indirect effects in structural equation models. Sociological Methodology, 17, 37–69.CrossRef

Bollen, K. A. (1989). Structural equations with latent variables. Oxford: Wiley.

Broidy, L. M., Nagin, D. S., Tremblay, R. E., Bates, J. E., Brame, B., Dodge, K. A., et al. (2003). Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: A six-site, cross-national study. Developmental Psychology, 39, 222–245.CrossRefPubMed

Campbell, S. B. (2002). Behavior problems in preschool children: Clinical and developmental issues (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.

Campbell, S. B., Shaw, D. S., & Gilliom, M. (2000). Early externalizing behavior problems: Toddlers and preschoolers at risk for later maladjustment. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 467–488.CrossRefPubMed

Card, N., Stucky, B., Sawalani, G., & Little, T. (2008). Direct and indirect aggression during childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review of gender differences, intercorrelations, and relations to maladjustment. Child Development, 79, 1185–1229.CrossRefPubMed

Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., Morgan, J., Rutter, M., Taylor, A., Arseneault, L., et al. (2004). Maternal expressed emotion predicts children’s antisocial behavior: Using MZ-twin differences to identify environmental effects on behavioral adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 40, 149–161.CrossRefPubMed

Combs-Ronto, L. A., Olson, S. L., Lunkenheimer, E. S., & Sameroff, A. J. (2009). Interactions between maternal parenting and children’s early disruptive behavior: Bidirectional Associations across the transition from preschool to school entry. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 1151–1153.CrossRefPubMed

Connell, A., Bullock, B., Dishion, T. J., Shaw, D., Wilson, M., & Gardner, F. (2008). Family intervention effects on co-occuring behavior and emotional problems in early childhood: A latent transition analysis approach. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 1211–1225.CrossRefPubMed

Crick, N. R., & Zahn-Waxler, C. (2003). The development of psychopathology in females and males: Current progress and future challenges. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 719–742.CrossRefPubMed

Cunningham, J. N., Kliewer, W., & Garner, P. W. (2009). Emotion socialization, child emotion understanding and regulation, and adjustment in urban African American families: Differential associations across child gender. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 261–283.CrossRefPubMed

Deater-Deckard, K., & Dodge, K. A. (1997). Externalizing behavior problems and discipline revisited: Nonlinear effects and variation by culture, context, and gender. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 161–175.CrossRef

Denham, S. A., Workman, E., Cole, P. M., Weissbrod, C., Kendziora, K. T., & Zahn-Waxler, C. (2000). Prediction of externalizing behavior problems from early to middle childhood: The role of parental socialization and emotion expression. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 23–45.CrossRefPubMed

Dix, T. (1991). The affective organization of parenting: Adaptive and maladaptive processes. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 3–25.CrossRefPubMed

Dodge, K. A., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E. (1994). Socialization mediators of the relation between socioeconomic status and child conduct problems. Child Development: Special Issue: Children and Poverty, 65, 649–665.

Eisenberg, N., Gershoff, E. T., Fabes, R. A., Shepard, S. A., Cumberland, A. J., Losoya, S. H., et al. (2001). Mothers’ emotional expressivity and children’s behavior problems and social competence: Mediation through children’s regulation. Developmental Psychology, 37, 475–490.CrossRefPubMed

Eisenberg, N., Sadovsky, A., Spinrad, T. L., Fabes, R. A., Losoya, S. H., Valiente, C., et al. (2005). The relations of problem behavior status to children’s negative emotionality, effortful control, and impulsivity: Concurrent relations and prediction of change. Developmental Psychology, 41, 193–211.CrossRefPubMed

Enders, C. K., & Bandalos, D. L. (2001). The relative performance of full information maximum likelihood estimation for missing data in structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 8, 430–457.CrossRef

Gardner, F., Shaw, D. S., Dishion, T. J., Burton, J., & Supplee, L. (2007). Randomized prevention trial for early conduct problems: Effects on proactive parenting and links to toddler disruptive behavior. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 398–406.CrossRefPubMed

Gershoff, E. T. (2002). Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 539–579.CrossRefPubMed

Hill, A. L., Degnan, K. A., Calkins, S. D., & Keane, S. P. (2006). Profiles of externalizing behavior problems for boys and girls across preschool: The roles of emotion regulation and inattention. Developmental Psychology, 42, 913–928.CrossRefPubMed

Hinshaw, S. P. (2002). Process, mechanism, and explanation related to externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 431–445.CrossRefPubMed

Hoffman, M. L. (2000). Empathy and moral development: Implications for caring and justice. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hollingshead, A. A. (1975). Four-factor index of social status, Unpublished manuscript. New Haven: Yale University.

Kagan, J., Snidman, N., McManis, M., Woodward, S., & Hardway, C. (2002). One measure, one meaning: Multiple measures, clearer meaning. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 463–475.CrossRefPubMed

Keenan, K., & Shaw, D. S. (1997). Developmental and social influences on youg girls’ early problem behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 95–113.CrossRefPubMed

Keenan, K., & Shaw, D. S. (2003). Starting at the beginning: Identifying etiological factors for antisocial behavior in the first years of life. In B. B. Lahey, T. E. Moffitt, & A. Caspi (Eds.), The causes of conduct disorder and serious delinquency (pp. 153–181). New York: Guilford.

Keenan, K., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2004). Are oppositional defiant and conduct disorder symptoms normative behavior in preschoolers? A comparison of referred and nonreferred children. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 356–358.CrossRefPubMed

Kerr, D. C. R., Lunkenheimer, E. S., & Olson, S. (2007). Assessment of child problem behaviors by multiple informants: A longitudinal study from preschool to school entry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 967–975.CrossRefPubMed

Kline, R. B. (2005). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (2nd ed.). New York: Guildford.

Kochanska, G., & Knaack, A. (2003). Effortful control as a personality characteristic of young children: Antecedents, correlates, and consequences. Journal of Personality, 71, 1087–1112.CrossRefPubMed

Kochanska, G., Murray, K., & Coy, K. (1997). Inhibitory control as a contributor to conscience in childhood: From toddler to early school age. Child Development, 68, 263–277.CrossRefPubMed

Kochanska, G., Murray, K. T., & Harlan, E. T. (2000). Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development. Developmental Psychology, 36, 220–232.CrossRefPubMed

Kochanska, G., Murray, K. T., Jacques, T. Y., Koenig, A. L., & Vandegeest, K. (1996). Inhibitory control in young children and its role in emerging internalization. Child Development, 67, 490–507.CrossRefPubMed

Larzelere, R. E., & Kuhn, B. R. (2005). Comparing child outcomes of physical punishment and alternative disciplinary tactics: A meta-analysis. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 8, 1–37.CrossRefPubMed

Lengua, L. J., Honorado, E., & Bush, N. R. (2007). Contextual risk and parenting as predictors of effortful control and social competence in preschool children. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 28, 40–55.CrossRef

McDonald, R. P., & Ho, M. H. R. (2002). Principles and practice in reporting structural equation analyses. Psychological Methods, 7, 64–82.CrossRefPubMed

McKee, L. G., Colletti, C. J. M., Rakow, A., Jones, D. J., & Forehand, R. L. (2008). Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are associations specific or diffuse? Aggression and Violent Behavior, 13, 201–215.CrossRefPubMed

Mulvaney, M. K., & Mebert, C. J. (2007). Parental corporal punishment predicts behavior problems in early childhood. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 389–397.CrossRefPubMed

Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (2007). Mplus User’s Guide. (5^th Ed.) Los Angeles, CA; Muthén & Muthén.

NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2004). Trajectories of physical aggression from toddlerhood to middle childhood: Predictors, correlates, and outcomes. Monographs for the Society for Research in Child Development, 69 (No. 4, Serial No. 278).

Olson, S. L., & Sameroff, A. J. (1997). Social risk and self-regulation problems in early childhood. National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda: MD.

Olson, S. L., & Lunkenheimer, E. S. (2009). Expanding concepts of self-regulation to social relationships: Transactional processes in the development of early behavioral adjustment. In A. J. Sameroff (Ed.), Transactional Processes in Development: How Children and Contexts Shape Each Other (pp. 55–76). Washington: APA.

Olson, S. L., Sameroff, A. J., Kerr, D. C. R., Lopez, N. L., & Wellman, H. M. (2005). Developmental foundations of externalizing problems in young children: The role of effortful control. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 25–45.CrossRefPubMed

Olson, S. L., Sameroff, A. J., Lunkenheimer, E. S., & Kerr, D. C. R. (2009). Self-regulatory processes in early behavioral adjustment: The preschool to school transition. In S. L. Olson & A. J. Sameroff (Eds.), Regulatory Processes in the Development of Behavior Problems: Biological, Behavioral, and Social-Ecological Interactions (pp. 144–185). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2000). Developing mechanisms of self-regulation. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 427–441.CrossRef

Power, T. G. (2004). Stress and coping in childhood: The parents’ role. Parenting: Science and Practice, 4, 271–317.

Power, T. G., Kobayashi-Winata, H., & Kelley, M. L. (1992). Childrearing patterns in Japan and the United States: A cluster analytic study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 15, 185–205.

Rothbart, M. K. (1989). Temperament and development. In G. A. Kohnstamm, J. E. Bates, & M. K. Rothbart (Eds.), Temperament in childhood (pp. 187–247). NY: Wiley.

Rothbart, M. K., & Bates, J. E. (2006). Temperament. In W. Damon., R. Lerner, and N. Eisenberg (Eds.), Social, emotional, and personality development: Vol. 3. Handbook of child psychology (6th ed., pp. 66–166). New York: Wiley.

Sameroff, A. J. (Ed.). (2009). The Transactional Model of Development: How Children and Contexts Shape Each Other. Washington: American Psychological Association.

Scaramella, L. V., & Leve, L. D. (2004). Clarifying parent-child reciprocities during early childhood: The early childhood coercion model. Clinical child and Family Psychology Review, 7, 89–107.CrossRefPubMed

Spinrad, T., Stifter, C., Donelan-McCall, N., & Turner, L. (2004). Mothers' regulation strategies in response to toddlers' affect: Links to later emotion self-regulation. Social Development, 13, 40–55.CrossRef

Valiente, C., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Cumberland, A., Losoya, S. H., Reiser, M., et al. (2006). Relations among mothers’ expressivity, children’s effortful control and their problem behaviors: A four-year longitudinal study. Journal of Emotion, 6, 459–472.CrossRef

Zahn-Waxler, C., Crick, N. R., Shirtcliff, E. A., & Woods, K. E. (2006). The origins and development of psychopathology in females and males. In D. Cicchetti & D. J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology, Vol 1: Theory and method (2nd ed., pp. 76–138). Hoboken: Wiley.

Zhou, Q., Eisenberg, N., Wang, Y., & Reiser, M. (2004). Chinese children’s effortful control and dispositional anger/frustration: Relations to parenting styles and children’s social functioning. Developmental Psychology, 40, 352–366.CrossRefPubMed

Titel: Child Effortful Control as a Mediator of Parenting Practices on Externalizing Behavior: Evidence for a Sex-Differentiated Pathway across the Transition from Preschool to School
Auteurs: Hyein Chang
Sheryl L. Olson
Arnold J. Sameroff
Holly R. Sexton
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2011
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 1/2011
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-010-9437-7

Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Welkom bij Erasmus MC & Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Registreer

Login

Child Effortful Control as a Mediator of Parenting Practices on Externalizing Behavior: Evidence for a Sex-Differentiated Pathway across the Transition from Preschool to School

Abstract

Andere artikelen Uitgave 1/2011

Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces in Young Children of Mothers with Chronic or Recurrent Depression

Executive Functioning Characteristics Associated with ADHD Comorbidity in Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Loneliness, Depressive Symptomatology, and Suicide Ideation in Adolescence: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

Ad Hoc Reviewers Acknowledgement List for 12/11/09 Through 12/22/10

Family Routine Moderates the Relation Between Child Impulsivity and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms

The Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene (DRD4) Moderates Family Environmental Effects on ADHD

Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Welkom bij Erasmus MC & Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Registreer

Login

Deel dit onderdeel of sectie (kopieer de link)

Abstract

Log in om toegang te krijgen

Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces in Young Children of Mothers with Chronic or Recurrent Depression

Executive Functioning Characteristics Associated with ADHD Comorbidity in Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Loneliness, Depressive Symptomatology, and Suicide Ideation in Adolescence: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

Ad Hoc Reviewers Acknowledgement List for 12/11/09 Through 12/22/10

Family Routine Moderates the Relation Between Child Impulsivity and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms

The Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene (DRD4) Moderates Family Environmental Effects on ADHD