scholarly journals Exuberant and inhibited toddlers: Stability of temperament and risk for problem behavior

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia A. Stifter ◽  
Samuel Putnam ◽  
Laudan Jahromi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Internalizing Behaviors ◽  
Socially Responsive ◽  
Neutral Affect

AbstractTemperament, effortful control, and problem behaviors at 4.5 years were assessed in 72 children classified as exuberant, inhibited, and low reactive as 2-year-olds. Exuberant toddlers were more positive, socially responsive to novel persons, less shy, and rated as having more problem behaviors, including externalizing and internalizing behaviors, than other children as preschoolers. Two forms of effortful control, the ability to delay a response and the ability to produce a subdominant response, were associated with fewer externalizing behaviors, whereas expressing more negative affect (relative to positive/neutral affect) when disappointed was related to more internalizing behaviors. Interaction effects implicated high levels of unregulated emotion during disappointment as a risk factor for problem behaviors in exuberant children.

scholarly journals Transdiagnostic mechanisms in internalizing and externalizing psychopathology: The role of effortful control in reflexive responding to emotion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Havens Sperry ◽  
Neil Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Externalizing Psychopathology ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

Emotion-based impulsivity is a transdiagnostic construct related to both internalizing and externalizing behaviors. The Reflexive Responding to Emotion (RRE) framework proposes one possible mechanism through which emotion-based impulsivity predicts two phenotypically different presentations – poor effortful control in the face of strong negative and positive affect can result in either approach or avoidance tendencies. In the present study, we tested this theoretical model in a large developmental community sample, the Enhanced NKI-RS sample (Adult n = 708, Adolescent n = 367), which has a wide range of psychopathology and healthy functioning. Using structural equation path modeling, we tested our primary hypothesis that heightened negative or positive affect would be associated with internalizing and externalizing behaviors indirectly through activation control (avoidance) or inhibitory control (approach) facets of effortful control. In adolescents, pathways consistent with the RRE framework for negative urgency emerged such that there was a significant indirect path from negative affect to activation control to internalizing and from negative affect to inhibitory control to externalizing. There was no evidence of positive urgency pathways in the adolescent sample. In contrast, distinct pathways emerged for negative and positive affect in the adult sample – both indirectly led to internalizing psychopathology through activation control and externalizing psychopathology through inhibitory control. Results provide empirical support for the theoretical RRE model and highlight differential cognitive mechanisms through which heightened emotion states may lead to distinct impulsive action or inaction. Implications of these results are discussed, particularly as they relate to differential intervention targets for emotion-based impulsivity in transdiagnostic populations.

Cognitive Distortion and Problem Behaviors in Adolescents

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALVARO Q. BARRIGA ◽  
JENNIFER R. LANDAU ◽  
BOBBY L. STINSON ◽  
ALBERT K. LIAU ◽  
JOHN C. GIBBS
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Cognitive Distortions ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Internalizing Behaviors ◽  
Cognitive Distortion ◽  
School Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Delinquents ◽  
Internalizing Problem

The authors investigated the prevalence of self-serving and self-debasing cognitive distortions and their specific relations to externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors in 96 incarcerated male and female delinquents and a comparison sample of 66 high school students. The incarcerated participants evidenced higher levels of cognitive distortion (self-serving and self-debasing) and problem behavior (externalizing and internalizing) than did comparison participants. Both self-serving and self-debasing cognitive distortions were associated with unique variance in overall problem behaviors. Most notably, self-serving cognitive distortions specifically related to externalizing behaviors, whereas self-debasing cognitive distortions specifically related to internalizing behaviors. The theoretical and treatment implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Representative Classification of Teacher’s Perceptions of Externalizing Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Bagneris
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Regression Tree ◽  
Internalizing Behaviors ◽  
Classification And Regression Tree ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Cart Analysis

*This report was prepared as part of course requirements for SOW 6938 and has not been submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Background: This study aimed to identify what contributors influenced whether a teacher observed externalizing behaviors among fourth-grade children. Methods: Data was obtained from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS) Program data set provided by the National Center for Education Statistics. A Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis was conducted to determine the relative importance of the varying factors that were attributed to externalizing behaviors. Results: The CART analysis revealed that teacher classification of children as exhibiting externalizing problem behaviors was influenced by internalizing problem behaviors, race, and gender. Exhibiting internalizing behaviors was the most significant contributor. Lower internalizing behaviors were classified as lower externalizing behaviors. Higher internalizing behaviors were further classified by gender, with female students being less likely attributed to high externalizing behaviors. Male students were further classified by race; Caucasian and Hispanic male students were classified with lower externalizing behaviors than African American students. Caucasian and Hispanic students were then classified by internalizing behaviors, with higher internalizing behaviors being classified toward higher externalizing behaviors. Conclusion: The findings are supported by the extant literature stating that African American males are more often classified as exhibiting externalizing behaviors. Future implications for research and practice will be discussed.

scholarly journals Cortico-amygdalar connectivity and externalizing/internalizing behavior in children with neurodevelopmental disorders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajer Nakua ◽  
Colin Hawco ◽  
Natalie J. Forde ◽  
Grace R. Jacobs ◽  
Michael Joseph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neurodevelopmental Disorders ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Internalizing Behaviors ◽  
Internalizing Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Data ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Connectivity Indices ◽  
Brain Behavior

ABSTRACTBackgroundExternalizing and internalizing behaviors are common and contribute to impairment in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Associations between externalizing or internalizing behaviors and cortico-amygdalar connectivity have been found in children with and without clinically significant internalizing/externalizing behaviors. This study examined whether such associations are present across children with different NDDs.MethodsMulti-modal neuroimaging and behavioral data from the Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Disorders (POND) Network were used. POND participants aged 6-18 years with a primary diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as typically developing children (TDC) with T1-weighted, resting-state fMRI or diffusion weighted imaging and parent-report Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL) data available, were analyzed (n range=157-346). Associations between externalizing or internalizing behavior and cortico-amygdalar structural and functional connectivity indices were examined using linear regressions, controlling for age, gender, and image-modality specific covariates. Behavior-by-diagnosis interaction effects were also examined.ResultsNo significant linear associations (or diagnosis-by-behavior interaction effects) were found between CBCL-measured externalizing or internalizing behaviors and any of the connectivity indices examined. Post-hoc bootstrapping analyses indicated stability and reliability of these null results.ConclusionsThe current study provides evidence in favour of the absence of a shared linear relationship between internalizing or externalizing behaviors and cortico-amygdalar connectivity properties across a transdiagnostic sample of children with various NDDs and TDC. Detecting shared brain-behavior relationships in children with NDDs may benefit from the use of different methodological approaches, including incorporation of multi-dimensional behavioral data (i.e. behavioral assessments, neurocognitive tasks, task-based fMRI) or clustering approaches to delineate whether subgroups of individuals with different brain-behavior profiles are present within heterogeneous cross-disorder samples.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the interactionist model of socioeconomic status and problem behavior: A developmental cascade across generations

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica J. Martin ◽  
Rand D. Conger ◽  
Thomas J. Schofield ◽  
Shannon J. Dogan ◽  
Keith F. Widaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Family Stress ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Social Selection ◽  
Social Causation ◽  
Adolescent Problem Behavior ◽  
The Social

AbstractThe current multigenerational study evaluates the utility of the interactionist model of socioeconomic influence on human development (IMSI) in explaining problem behaviors across generations. The IMSI proposes that the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and human development involves a dynamic interplay that includes both social causation (SES influences human development) and social selection (individual characteristics affect SES). As part of the developmental cascade proposed by the IMSI, the findings from this investigation showed that Generation 1 (G1) adolescent problem behavior predicted later G1 SES, family stress, and parental emotional investments, as well as the next generation of children's problem behavior. These results are consistent with a social selection view. Consistent with the social causation perspective, we found a significant relation between G1 SES and family stress, and in turn, family stress predicted Generation 2 (G2) problem behavior. Finally, G1 adult SES predicted both material and emotional investments in the G2 child. In turn, emotional investments predicted G2 problem behavior, as did material investments. Some of the predicted pathways varied by G1 parent gender. The results are consistent with the view that processes of both social selection and social causation account for the association between SES and human development.

Grandparent-child cohesion, friendship quality, and left-behind children’s positive/negative affect in rural China

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532110499
Author(s):  
Jingxin Zhao ◽  
Jing Ge ◽  
Qianyu Li
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Emotional Adaptation ◽  
Reinforcement Model ◽  
Intimate Exchange

This study examined the roles of grandparent-child cohesion and friendship quality in left-behind children’s positive and negative affect compared with non-left-behind children. Data from 557 participants indicated that grandparent-child cohesion and friendship quality predicted children’s emotional adaptation. Friend trust and support and intimate exchange had a stronger predictive effect on positive affect among non-left-behind children. Moreover, the interaction effects between grandparent-child cohesion and friendship quality on children’s positive affect supported the reinforcement model, while the interaction effects on negative affect supported the reinforcement model among left-behind children but supported the compensation model among non-left-behind children.

A Reexamination of Child Problem Behaviors as Measured by ECBI: Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance Across Two Parent Training Interventions

Assessment ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1270-1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silje S. Hukkelberg
Keyword(s):  
Parent Training ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Parent Management Training ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Oppositional Defiant

The Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) is a widely used instrument that assesses disruptive problem behaviors via parent report. The present study compares three different conceptualizations of problem behaviors using traditional confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), a bifactor–CFA, and a bifactor exploratory structural equation model, whereof the latter two represent novel conceptualizations of disruptive problem behaviors. Data were derived from 353 Norwegian parents assigned to parent management training—the Oregon model (PMTO; N = 137) or brief parent training (BPT; N = 216), who rated their child’s problem behavior (age 3-12 years). The factor models were estimated within the PMTO and BPT samples, and in the total sample. Results showed that the bifactor–CFA, with a general problem behavior factor and three specific factors representing oppositional defiant, conduct problem, and inattentive behavior provided the best model fit. Furthermore, factorial invariance across control/intervention groups and across time (pre/post intervention) was estimated within the PMTO and BPT samples. Results revealed properties of metric and intercept invariance across intervention/control groups and over time, within both interventions. Implications of the results are discussed.

scholarly journals PARENTING STYLES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON CHILD PROBLEM BEHAVIORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-285
Author(s):  
Agnes Maria Sumargi ◽  
Eli Prasetyo ◽  
Benedicta Winona Ardelia
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Family Adjustment ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting ◽  
Child Problem Behavior ◽  
Child Emotional Problems ◽  
Child Problem Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

Managing child problem behaviors as early as possible is crucial. Several studies have shown the impact of parenting on child problem behavior; however, the studies did not investigate the influence of paternal and maternal parenting on child behavior separately. This study aimed to test the effect of mothers’ and fathers’ authoritative and authoritarian parenting on child problem behavior. Furthermore, this study examined the influence of family adjustment on parenting styles. Participants were 105 pairs of parents (fathers and mothers). They completed a set of questionnaires assessing their parenting styles, child problem behavior, and family adjustment. Multiple regression analyses resulted in a significant effect of mothers’ authoritative parenting on child emotional problems, as well as significant effects of fathers’ authoritative and authoritarian parenting on child behavioral problems. Another key finding was that parental teamwork predicted the effectiveness of parenting.

scholarly journals Validity Evidences for the Portuguese Version of the Problem Behavior Scale: Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales-2

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (65) ◽  
pp. 273-281
Author(s):  
Sofia Major ◽  
Maria João Seabra-Santos
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
High Internal Consistency ◽  
Behavior Scale

ABSTRACT The early identification of problem behaviors is essential in preschool. This paper presents evidence of validity (confirmatory factor analysis) for the Problem Behavior scale of the Portuguese version of the Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales - Second Edition (PKBS-2). Analyses were performed for the scale's 46 items, which were grouped into 16 item-parcels. Once it was verified that the model fit the total sample (N = 2000; CFI = .98; RMSEA = .06), analyses were replicated for the samples collected at home and at school (n = 1000 per setting). Results indicate a factor structure equivalent to the original version, with five supplemental subscales, distributed into two subscales (Externalizing and Internalizing), stable for the two subsamples, with high internal consistency levels (α = .78-.97). The discussion highlights the utility/validity of the Portuguese version of the Problem Behavior scale among preschoolers.

scholarly journals Temperament, sleep quality, and insomnia severity in university students: Examining the mediating and moderating role of sleep hygiene

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0251557
Author(s):  
Angela F. Lukowski ◽  
Dmitry Tsukerman
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
University Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
Sleep Hygiene ◽  
Individual Difference Variables ◽  
Hygiene Behavior ◽  
Insomnia Severity

University students commonly experience sleep problems which have implications for daily functioning and academic achievement. For this reason, research is needed to identify modifiable individual difference variables that may contribute to better sleep in this population. Temperament and sleep hygiene may be two such factors. As part of a larger study, 167 university students (61.7% female) completed online questionnaires that inquired about temperament (the Adult Temperament Questionnaire; ATQ), sleep hygiene behavior (the Sleep Hygiene Index; SHI), global sleep quality (the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; PSQI), and insomnia severity (the Insomnia Severity Index; ISI). Correlations amongst the included measures were in the predicted direction: effortful control was negatively associated with the SHI composite, PSQI global scores, and ISI scores; extraversion was negatively related to PSQI global scores; and negative affect was positively associated with the SHI composite and ISI scores. In addition, the SHI composite mediated the association between effortful control and the PSQI global scores as well as the association between negative affect and PSQI global scores; similar patterns of mediation were found when considering ISI scores, although the direct effects differed. That is, negative affect was directly associated with ISI scores but not PSQI global scores. These findings suggest that interventions designed enhance effortful control, reduce negative affect, and improve sleep hygiene may contribute to better global sleep quality and decrease insomnia in university students.

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