scholarly journals Linking Childhood Sexual Abuse and Early Adolescent Risk Behavior: The Intervening Role of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Jones ◽  
Terri Lewis ◽  
Alan Litrownik ◽  
Richard Thompson ◽  
Laura J. Proctor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Risk Behavior ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Problems ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

scholarly journals Trajectories of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Early Adolescent HIV/AIDS Risk Behaviors: The Role of Other Maltreatment, Witnessed Violence, and Child Gender

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 667-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Jones ◽  
Desmond K. Runyan ◽  
Terri Lewis ◽  
Alan J. Litrownik ◽  
Maureen M. Black ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
Child Gender ◽  
Aids Risk ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Preschoolers’ emotion reactivity and regulation: Links with maternal psychological distress and child behavior problems

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Stella Tsotsi ◽  
Jessica L. Borelli ◽  
Mumtaz Backer ◽  
Noraini Veragoo ◽  
Nurshuhadah Abdulla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Emotion Reactivity ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Problems ◽  
Maternal Psychological Distress ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

Abstract Maladaptive offspring emotion regulation has been identified as one pathway linking maternal and child psychological well-being in school-aged children. Whether such a pathway is present earlier in life still remains unclear. The present study investigated the role of preschoolers’ emotion reactivity and regulation in the association between maternal psychological distress and child internalizing and externalizing problems. Children’s emotion reactivity and regulation were assessed through both observed behavior and physiology. At 42 months of age, children (n = 251; 128 girls) completed a fear induction task during which their heart-rate variability was assessed and their behavior was monitored, and maternal self-reports on depressive mood and anxiety were collected. At 48 months mothers and fathers reported on their children’s internalizing and externalizing problems. Higher maternal depressive mood was associated with lower child fear-related reactivity and regulation, as indexed by heart-rate variability. The latter mediated the association between higher maternal depressive mood and higher preschoolers’ externalizing problems. Overall, our findings support the role of preschoolers’ emotion reactivity and regulation in the relationship between maternal psychological distress and children’s socio-emotional difficulties. This role may also depend on the discrete emotion to which children react or seek to regulate as, here, we only assessed fear-related reactivity and regulation.

scholarly journals Role of temperament in early adolescent pure and co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems using a bifactor model: Moderation by parenting and gender

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (4pt2) ◽  
pp. 1487-1504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances L. Wang ◽  
Nancy Eisenberg ◽  
Carlos Valiente ◽  
Tracy L. Spinrad
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
Emotional Expressivity ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Problems ◽  
Externalizing And Internalizing Problems ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

AbstractWe contribute to the literature on the relations of temperament to externalizing and internalizing problems by considering parental emotional expressivity and child gender as moderators of such relations and examining prediction of pure and co-occurring problem behaviors during early to middle adolescence using bifactor models (which provide unique and continuous factors for pure and co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems). Parents and teachers reported on children's (4.5- to 8-year-olds; N = 214) and early adolescents’ (6 years later; N = 168) effortful control, impulsivity, anger, sadness, and problem behaviors. Parental emotional expressivity was measured observationally and with parents’ self-reports. Early-adolescents’ pure externalizing and co-occurring problems shared childhood and/or early-adolescent risk factors of low effortful control, high impulsivity, and high anger. Lower childhood and early-adolescent impulsivity and higher early-adolescent sadness predicted early-adolescents’ pure internalizing. Childhood positive parental emotional expressivity more consistently related to early-adolescents’ lower pure externalizing compared to co-occurring problems and pure internalizing. Lower effortful control predicted changes in externalizing (pure and co-occurring) over 6 years, but only when parental positive expressivity was low. Higher impulsivity predicted co-occurring problems only for boys. Findings highlight the probable complex developmental pathways to adolescent pure and co-occurring externalizing and internalizing problems.

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