Maternal Life Stress and Subsequent Chinese Toddlers’ Social Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Inhibitory Control

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siman Liu ◽  
Nan Zhou ◽  
Zhengyan Wang ◽  
Xi Liang ◽  
Jiahui Shi
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals Activity Restriction and Depressive Symptoms in Older Couples

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1251-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong Eun Lee ◽  
Lynn M. Martire ◽  
Steve H. Zarit ◽  
Michael J. Rovine
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Older Couples ◽  
Activity Restriction ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Moderating Role

Objective: The present study aimed to clarify the circumstances under which activity restriction (AR) is associated with depressive symptoms among patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and their spouses. Method: A total of 220 older adults with OA and their caregiving spouses participated in the study. The actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) was used to examine the associations between AR stemming from patients’ OA and the depressive symptoms of patients and spouses. The potential moderating role of marital satisfaction also was examined. Results: After accounting for pain severity, health, and life stress of both patients with OA and spouses, higher AR was associated with more depressive symptoms for both patients and spouses. In regard to partner effects, patients whose spouse had higher AR reported more depressive symptoms. In addition, the association of spouses’ and patients’ AR and their own depressive symptoms was moderated by their marital satisfaction. For both patients and spouses, the associations between their own AR and depressive symptoms were weaker for those with higher levels of marital satisfaction compared with those with lower levels of marital satisfaction. Discussion: This pattern of findings highlights the dyadic implications of AR and the vital role of marital satisfaction in the context of chronic illness.

scholarly journals Social Avoidance and Social Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation and Emotion Lability/Negativity Among Chinese Preschool Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjing Zhu ◽  
Bowen Xiao ◽  
Will Hipson ◽  
Chenyu Yan ◽  
Robert J. Coplan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Adjustment Difficulties ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
Moderating Role

The present study explored the role of emotion regulation and emotion lability/negativity as a moderator in the relation between child social avoidance and social adjustment (i.e., interpersonal skills, asocial behavior, peer exclusion) in Chinese culture. Participants were N = 194 children (102 boys, 92 girls, Mage = 70.82 months, SD = 5.40) recruited from nine classrooms in two public kindergartens in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Multi-source assessments were employed with mothers rating children’s social avoidance and teachers rating children’s emotion regulation, emotion lability/negativity and social adjustment outcomes. The results indicated that the relations between social avoidance and social adjustment difficulties were more negative among children lower in emotion regulation, but not significant for children with higher emotion regulation. In contrast, the relations between social avoidance and social adjustment difficulties were more positive among children higher in emotion lability/negativity, but not significant for children with lower emotion lability/negativity. This study informs us about how emotion regulation and emotion lability/negativity are jointly associated with socially avoidant children’s development. As well, the findings highlight the importance of considering the meaning and implication of social avoidance in Chinese culture.

scholarly journals Temperamental exuberance and executive function predict propensity for risk taking in childhood

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 847-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelet Lahat ◽  
Kathryn A. Degnan ◽  
Lauren K. White ◽  
Jennifer Martin McDermott ◽  
Heather A. Henderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Function ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Attention Shifting ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractThe present study utilized a multilevel approach to examine developmental trajectories in risk-taking propensity. We examined the moderating role of specific executive function components, attention shifting and inhibitory control, on the link between exuberant temperament in infancy and propensity for risk taking in childhood. Risk taking was assessed using a task previously associated with sensation seeking and antisocial behaviors. Two hundred ninety-one infants were brought into the lab and behaviors reflecting exuberance were observed at 4, 9, 24, and 36 months of age. Executive function was assessed at 48 months of age. Risk-taking propensity was measured when children were 60 months of age. The results indicated that exuberance and attention shifting, but not inhibitory control, significantly interacted to predict propensity for risk taking. Exuberance was positively associated with risk-taking propensity among children who were relatively low in attention shifting but unrelated for children high in attention shifting. These findings illustrated the multifinality of developmental outcomes for temperamentally exuberant young children and pointed to the distinct regulatory influences of different executive functions for children of differing temperaments. Attention shifting likely affords a child the ability to consider both positive and negative consequences and moderates the relation between early exuberance and risk-taking propensity.

The moderating role of internalising negative emotionality in the relation of self-regulation to social adjustment in Italian preschool-aged children

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1512-1520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Pecora ◽  
Stefania Sette ◽  
Emma Baumgartner ◽  
Fiorenzo Laghi ◽  
Tracy L. Spinrad
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Preschool Aged Children

Life stress, sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms: The moderating role of prefrontal activation during emotion regulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 000486742110257
Author(s):  
Kyung Hwa Lee ◽  
Ha Young Lee ◽  
Inkyung Park ◽  
Jeong Eun Jeon ◽  
Nambeom Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sleep Disturbance ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Lateral Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Moderating Role

Objectives: Evidence suggests that emotion regulation difficulty may play an important role in the association between life stress, sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms. We proposed two models depicting the possible moderating roles of prefrontal cortex activation during emotion regulation in the associations among these variables and tested them. We hypothesized that (1) the association between stress and sleep disturbance would differ across prefrontal cortex activation during emotion regulation (moderation model) and (2) the indirect effects of stress on depressive symptoms through sleep disturbance would depend on prefrontal cortex activation during emotion regulation (moderated mediation model). Methods: Forty-eight healthy adults without sleep disorders based on nocturnal polysomnography participated in this study. They received functional magnetic resonance imaging scans while performing an emotion regulation task. They also completed questionnaires assessing life stress, sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms. The proposed models were tested using the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Results: As hypothesized, there was a significant moderating effect of prefrontal cortex activation during emotion regulation on the association between life stress and sleep disturbance. Furthermore, right lateral prefrontal cortex activation had a moderating role in the indirect effect of life stress on depressive symptoms through sleep disturbance. Conclusion: These findings highlight the important role of prefrontal cortex function during emotion regulation in the associations between stress, sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms. Increasing lateral prefrontal cortex recruitment when regulating the emotional response to negative life events may be critical for the prevention and intervention of depression as well as sleep problems.

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