Differential Susceptibility to Parenting in Middle Childhood: Do Impulsivity, Effortful Control and Negative Emotionality Indicate Susceptibility or Vulnerability?

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meike Slagt ◽  
Judith Semon Dubas ◽  
Marcel A. G. van Aken
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Negative Emotionality

A longitudinal genetically informed analysis of parental negativity and children’s negative emotionality in middle childhood.

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 2403-2416
Author(s):  
Dana Vertsberger ◽  
Kimberly J. Saudino ◽  
Reut Avinun ◽  
Lior Abramson ◽  
Ariel Knafo-Noam
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Negative Emotionality

Effortful control moderates the relation between negative emotionality and socially appropriate behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 105119
Author(s):  
Beverly J. Wilson ◽  
Hayley A. Dauterman ◽  
Karin S. Frey ◽  
Tara M. Rutter ◽  
Julianne Myers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Appropriate Behavior

Distinguishing homicide, violent sexual, and violent juvenile offending

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Baglivio ◽  
Kevin T. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Juvenile Offender ◽  
Violent Offenders ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Violent Offender ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine temperament differences, notably effortful control and negative emotionality, and correlates that distinguish between homicide, violent sexual and other violent juvenile offenders. Exploring heterogeneity among violent offenders is relevant to intervention strategies and policy implications. Design/methodology/approach Demographic measures, temperament constructs and individual risk factor indicators were assessed across 30,303 violent juvenile offenders (including 397 homicide offenders) in Florida to assess their ability to distinguish among violent juvenile offender subgroups. Findings Analyses demonstrated temperament constructs distinguish among classifications of violent juvenile offenders with effortful control differentiating homicide and violent sexual offenders from other violent offenders, and negative emotionality distinguishing violent sexual from other violent offenders, with youth having greater negative emotionality and less effortful control being non-sexual violent offenders. Homicide offenders were more likely to be older, male and had histories of gang membership and weapon/firearm offending than other violent offenders, and evidenced greater negative emotionality than violent sexual offenders. Originality/value The differences across violent youthful offender subtypes suggest heterogeneity among violent offenders with distinct correlates more predictive of some subtypes than others. Additionally, the temperament constructs of effortful control and negative emotionality are useful in distinguishing violent offender subtypes, which points toward differing intervention/treatment strategies.

Temperament Traits Mark Liability for Coexisting Psychiatric Symptoms in Children With Elevated ADHD Symptoms

2020 ◽  
pp. 108705472094328
Author(s):  
Tara M. Rutter ◽  
Anne B. Arnett
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Adhd Symptoms ◽  
Children With Adhd ◽  
Symptom Profile ◽  
Temperament Traits ◽  
Youth With Adhd ◽  
Linear Regressions ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

Objective: Among children with ADHD, coexisting psychiatric disorders are common and associated with greater impairment and symptom persistence. Given that temperament traits are easily measured, developmentally stable, and variable among youth with ADHD, temperament profiles may be clinically useful for predicting liability for coexisting psychiatric symptoms in this population. Methods: Eighty-three children with ADHD symptoms participated. Caregivers rated their child’s surgency, negative emotionality, and effortful control, as well as severity of internalizing and externalizing psychiatric symptoms. Hierarchical linear regressions were conducted to estimate associations between temperament traits and psychiatric symptoms, controlling for severity of ADHD. Results: Temperament ratings explained significant variance in psychiatric symptoms above and beyond ADHD symptoms alone. Symptoms of each coexisting psychiatric disorder was associated with a distinct temperament and ADHD symptom profile. Conclusion: Temperament ratings appear to have clinical utility for predicting coexisting psychiatric symptoms in children with elevated ADHD symptoms.

Temperament and peer problems from early to middle childhood: Gene–environment correlations with negative emotionality and sociability

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 1089-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liat Hasenfratz ◽  
Maya Benish-Weisman ◽  
Tami Steinberg ◽  
Ariel Knafo-Noam
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Peer Problems ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Gene Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpersonal Difficulties ◽  
Correlation Process

AbstractBased in a transactional framework in which children's own characteristics and the social environment influence each other to produce individual differences in social adjustment, we investigated relationships between children's peer problems and their temperamental characteristics, using a longitudinal and genetically informed study of 939 pairs of Israeli twins followed from early to middle childhood (ages 3, 5, and 6.5). Peer problems were moderately stable within children over time, such that children who appeared to have more peer problems at age 3 tended to have also more peer problems at age 6.5. Children's temperament accounted for 10%–22% of the variance in their peer problems measured at the same age and for 2%–7% of the variance longitudinally. It is important that genetic factors accounted for the association between temperament and peer problems and were in line with a gene–environment correlation process, providing support for the proposal that biologically predisposed characteristics, particularly negative emotionality and sociability, have an influence on children's early experiences of peer problems. The results highlight the need for early and continuous interventions that are specifically tailored to address the interpersonal difficulties of children with particular temperamental profiles.

scholarly journals Longitudinal relations of children’s effortful control, impulsivity, and negative emotionality to their externalizing, internalizing, and co-occurring behavior problems.

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 988-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Eisenberg ◽  
Carlos Valiente ◽  
Tracy L. Spinrad ◽  
Amanda Cumberland ◽  
Jeffrey Liew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Negative Emotionality

scholarly journals The Role of Temperament in the Onset of Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors across Adolescence: Findings from a 10-year Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Youth

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Lawson ◽  
John K. Kellerman ◽  
Evan Kleiman ◽  
Wiebke Bleidorn ◽  
Christopher James Hopwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Positive Emotionality ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Mexican Origin Youth ◽  
And Behaviors

Suicide among young people is an increasingly prevalent and devastating public health crisis around the world. To reduce the rate of suicide, it is important to identify factors that can help us better predict suicidal ideation and behaviors. Adolescent temperament (Effortful Control, Negative Emotionality, Positive Emotionality) may be a source of risk and resilience for the onset of suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts. The present study uses longitudinal data from a large community sample of Mexican-origin youth (N=674), assessed annually from age 12 to 21, to examine how temperament is associated with the onset of suicidal ideation and behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood. Results indicate that higher levels of Effortful Control (Activation Control, Inhibitory Control, Attention) are associated with decreased probability of experiencing the onset of suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts, whereas higher levels of Negative Emotionality (particularly Aggression, Frustration, and Depressed Mood) are associated with increased probability of experiencing the onset of suicidal ideation and behaviors. Positive Emotionality (Surgency, Affiliation) was not associated with the onset of suicidal ideation and behaviors. Supplemental analyses showed conceptually similar findings for the Big Five, with Conscientiousness associated with decreased risk, Neuroticism associated with increased risk, and the other three dimensions showing largely null results. No meaningful differences emerged between boys and girls, or youth born in the U.S. versus Mexico. Overall, these findings suggest that adolescent temperament serves as both a risk factor (via Negative Emotionality) and a protective factor (via Effortful Control) for suicidal ideation and behaviors in Mexican-origin youth.

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