Attachment, parenting, and marital dissatisfaction as predictors of disruptive behavior in preschoolers

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
CRYSTAL DEVITO ◽  
JOYCE HOPKINS
Keyword(s):  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Preschool Assessment ◽  
Attachment Parenting ◽  
Permissive Parenting ◽  
Marital Dissatisfaction ◽  
Attachment Pattern

The aim of this study was to examine if an insecure coercive attachment pattern is associated with disruptive behavior in preschoolers, as well as to examine the concurrent and joint effects of attachment pattern, marital dissatisfaction, and ineffective parenting practices on disruptive behavior. Participants included 60 preschoolers and their mothers, recruited from three sites to ensure an adequate range of disruptive behavior. The Preschool Assessment of Attachment (Crittenden, 1992) was used to measure attachment pattern. Results of an analysis of variance revealed that children in the coercively attached dyads scored significantly higher on the measure of disruptive behavior than either the defended or secure children. Results of a hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the combination of a coercive pattern of attachment, marital dissatisfaction, and permissive parenting practices accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in disruptive behavior in preschoolers. These data suggest that a specific type of insecure attachment, a coercive pattern, is associated with disruptive behavior in preschoolers. Also, the data are consistent with previous findings of associations among marital dissatisfaction, ineffective parenting practices, and disruptive behavior.

Correlates of clinic referral for early conduct problems: Variable- and person-oriented approaches

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK T. GREENBERG ◽  
MATTHEW L. SPELTZ ◽  
MICHELLE DEKLYEN ◽  
KAREN JONES
Keyword(s):  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Disruptive Behavior Problems ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Oppositional Defiant ◽  
Family Ecology ◽  
Preschool Boys

The current study utilized both variable- and person-oriented analyses to examine correlates of early disruptive behavior problems. Participants included 80 preschool boys referred to a child psychiatry clinic and diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (with or without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) and 80 case-matched normal comparison boys. The study examined four domains of correlates: vulnerable child characteristics, poor parenting practices, insecure attachment, and adverse family ecology. Results indicated that the combination of these factors provided relatively high sensitivity (81%) and specificity (85%), clearly differentiating referred from comparison boys. A dramatic increase in clinic status occurred when three or more factors were present, and specific combinations of factors were differentially predictive of conduct problems. However, no correlates were found to be either necessary or sufficient for clinic status. By maintaining the integrity of individual cases, person-oriented analyses were able to answer different questions than more traditional variable-oriented analyses. Discussion focuses on the value of person-oriented analyses for understanding heterogeneous clinical groups.

In Search of the Prosocial Personality

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Wertag ◽  
Denis Bratko
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Prosocial behavior is intended to benefit others rather than oneself and is positively linked to personality traits such as Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility, and usually negatively to the Dark Triad traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). However, a significant proportion of the research in this area is conducted solely on self-report measures of prosocial behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between prosociality and the basic (i.e., HEXACO) and dark personality traits, comparing their contribution in predicting both self-reported prosociality and prosocial behavior. Results of the hierarchical regression analyses showed that the Dark Triad traits explain prosociality and prosocial behavior above and beyond the HEXACO traits, emphasizing the importance of the Dark Triad in the personality space.

The influence of deviant peers on the development of boys' disruptive and delinquent behavior: A temporal analysis

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Keenan ◽  
Rolf Loeber ◽  
Quanwu Zhang ◽  
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber ◽  
Welmoet B. van Kammen
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Delinquent Behavior ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Peer Influences ◽  
Deviant Peers ◽  
Moderating Effects

AbstractThe concurrent and predictive influence of deviant peers on boys' disruptive and delinquent behavior was examined in a community sample of fourth- and seventh-grade boys, who were followed-up over six data waves. Analyses were conducted separately for three different types of behavior problems: authority conflict, covert, and overt disruptive behavior. Consistent with the existing literature, concurrent relations between peers' and boys' disruptive behavior were expected to be significant. A more informative test, however, was whether exposure to deviant peers resulted in boys' subsequent initiation of disruptive behavior. Although peer influences were expected in the predictive analyses, the relations were hypothesized to differ by type of behavior. The potential moderating effects of hyperactivity and poor parenting practices were also examined to test the hypothesis that boys who are already at risk for behavior problems will be more susceptible to deviant peer influence. Results supported the significant concurrent and predictive relation between exposure to deviant peers and boys' engagement in disruptive and delinquent behavior. There were no significant moderating effects of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or parenting practices on peer influence.

Maternal Depression and Parenting Practices Predict Treatment Outcome in Italian Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 2805-2816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Muratori ◽  
Annarita Milone ◽  
Annalaura Nocentini ◽  
Azzurra Manfredi ◽  
Lisa Polidori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Maternal Depression ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Behavior Disorder ◽  
Disruptive Behavior Disorder ◽  
Italian Children

The Role of Empathy and Adult Attachment in Predicting Stigma toward Severe and Persistent Mental Illness and other Psychosocial or Health Conditions

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Webb ◽  
Jessica Peterson ◽  
Stephanie C. Willis ◽  
Heather Rodney ◽  
Erin Siebert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Adult Attachment Style ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness ◽  
Interaction Terms

Research suggests that empathy may reduce stigma, while adult attachment style may influence empathy. We examined stigma toward schizophrenia and other psychosocial or health concerns. We created vignettes describing a person displaying behavioral problems with different reasons offered for the behavior. Vignettes were followed by stigma items. Participants (N = 347) also completed empathy and adult attachment scales. The most stigma was found with a homelessness vignette, and the least with an Alzheimer's disease vignette. No significant differences in stigma were found between bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or “severe psychological disorder” vignettes. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated a significant main effect for empathy. Interaction terms for empathy and adult attachment did not explain a significant proportion of stigma variance. Results are discussed in terms of mainstream conceptions of these conditions.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ANXIETY IN CHILDREN: EXPLORING INSECURE ATTACHMENT AND PARENTAL BEHAVIORS IN THE CONSTELLATION OF SOCIETAL AND CULTURAL MODERATORS

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Lotem KAROLINSKY
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Parental Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Extensive Body

The associations between insecure attachment, negative parental behaviors, and social anxiety in childhood and adolescence have long been established theoretically and documented by empirical research. Still, it is clear that those associations operate through various moderators that should be addressed, among which are societal, economical, and cultural variables whose effect can be neither ignored nor overlooked. The vicissitudes of individual psychological development are shaped by environments, both physical and symbolic, in which those individuals are embedded: indeed, the cross-cultural studies that compared between Western and non-Western samples consistently reveal interrelatedness between secure/insecure attachments, parenting practices, and socioeconomic and cultural influences. In the light of the above, the present article addresses the interplay between insecure attachment, parental behaviors, and social anxiety in children as a multi-layered constellation of risk-factors which are informed by the broad network of socioeconomic and cultural dimensions. The integrative review of extensive body of literature demonstrates that this constellation cannot be complete without elucidating the role of fathers in parenting that may contribute to developing social anxiety, as well as without taking into consideration characteristics of cultures and society which shape and inform both parental practices and their perceptions.

Children with Somatic Symptoms Disorders and Disruptive Behavior Disorder: Which is the Role of Anger to Caregivers?

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S124-S124
Author(s):  
F. Bizzi
Keyword(s):  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Behavior Disorders ◽  
Disruptive Behavior Disorders ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
Disruptive Behavior Disorder

IntroductionThe quality of adult-infant interactions represents a critical context in which child adaptation problems could evolve, and child psychopathology could develop. Literature has investigated the role of attachment to caregivers, nevertheless, there is a paucity of studies on middle-childhood and early adolescence in patients with somatic symptoms disorders and disruptive behavior disorders.ObjectiveThis study investigates the attachment to caregivers in children with somatic symptoms disorders and disruptive behavior disorders, focusing on the role of Anger to mothers and fathers.AimsThe aims are to verify the presence of: – high frequency of insecure attachment;– an overrepresentation of attachment disorganization;– high levels of Anger to caregivers.MethodFifty-six patients with somatic symptoms disorders, and 42 patients with disruptive behavior disorders, aged from 8 to 15, are administered the child attachment interview.ResultsFindings show: – Insecure attachment in more than half of the patients;– a significant presence of disorganized attachment with respect to both parents;– higher levels of anger to father in children with somatic symptoms disorders.ConclusionConsidering the attachment to have a regulatory function, the knowledge of the different attachment strategies in middle-childhood and early adolescence may enhance our understanding and improve the management and the treatment of patients with somatic symptoms disorders and disruptive behavior disorders.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

Boys' externalizing problems at elementary school age: Pathways from early behavior problems, maternal control, and family stress

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan B. Campbell ◽  
Elizabeth W. Pierce ◽  
Ginger Moore ◽  
Susan Marakovitz ◽  
Kristin Newby
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit Disorder ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Family Stress ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Maternal Control ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Marital Dissatisfaction ◽  
Preschool Boys ◽  
Oppositional Disorder

AbstractHard-to-manage preschool boys and comparison boys were studied at age 4 years and followed at ages 6 and 9 years. Externalizing problems at ages 4 and 9 were associated with concurrent family stress, but this relationship was partially mediated by negative maternal control. Cross-lagged regressions indicated that despite the high stability in children's problem ratings, observed negative maternal control at age 4 and self-reported negative discipline at age 9 predicted externalizing problems at age 9 years, controlling for earlier levels of symptoms. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that problems were more likely to persist in the context of chronic family stress, defined as negative life events, marital dissatisfaction, and maternal depressive symptoms. When problem boys who met diagnostic criteria for Oppositional Disorder and/or Attention Deficit Disorder were compared with boys who were improved by age 9 years, family stress and earlier symptom levels, as well as maternal control differentiated between them. Teacher ratings suggested that these boys were on a clear pathway to persistent problems by age 6 years. A small sample of comparison boys with emerging problems also were living in more dysfunctional families and their mothers reported using more negative discipline at age 9 years.

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