scholarly journals Associations of behavioral problems and white matter properties of the cerebellar peduncles in boys and girls born full term and preterm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Machiko Hosoki ◽  
Lisa Bruckert ◽  
Lauren Borchers ◽  
Virginia Marchman ◽  
Katherine Travis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Full Term ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Cerebellar Peduncles ◽  
Deterministic Tractography

Accumulating evidence suggests that the role of cerebellum includes regulation of behaviors; Cerebellar impairment may lead to behavioral problems. Behavioral problems differ by sex: internalizing problems are more common in girls, externalizing problems in boys. Behavioral problems are also elevated in children born preterm (PT) compared to children born full-term (FT). The current study examined internalizing and externalizing problems in 8-year-old children in relation to sex, birth-group, FA of the cerebellar peduncles, and interactions among these predictor variables. Participants (N=78) were 44 boys (28 PT) and 34 girls (15 PT). We assessed behavioral problems via standardized parent-reports and FA of the cerebellar peduncles using deterministic tractography. Internalizing problems were higher in children born PT compared to children born FT (p=.032); the interaction of sex and birth-group was significant (p=.044). When considering the contribution of the mean-tract FA of cerebellar peduncles to behavioral problems, there was a significant interaction of sex and mean-tract FA of the ICP with internalizing problems; the slope was negative in girls (p=.020) but not boys. In boys, internalizing problems were only associated with mean-tract FA ICP in those born preterm (p=.010). We found no other significant associations contributing to internalizing or externalizing problems. Thus, we found sexual dimorphism and birth-group differences in the association of white matter metrics of the ICP and internalizing problems in school-aged children. The findings inform theories of the origins of internalizing behavioral problems in middle childhood and may suggest approaches to treatment at school age.

scholarly journals Difficult temperament and social maladjustment in childhood: The mediating role of family environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 492-502
Author(s):  
Ester Ato Lozano ◽  
María Dolores Galián Conesa ◽  
María Angeles Fernández-Vilar
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Marital Adjustment ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el papel mediador del ambiente familiar en la relación entre temperamento difícil y problemas externalizantes/internalizantes en una muestra de 474 niños españoles de entre 6 y 8 años. Un segundo objetivo fue analizar el efecto del género en el patrón de mediación encontrado. Para la medida de los problemas externalizantes/internalizantes, el ajuste marital, las prácticas parentales y el temperamento del niño los padres cumplimentaron la Batería de Socialización (BAS-1), el Test de Ajuste Marital (MAT) y la versión española del Cuestionario de Temperamento en la niñez intermedia (TMCQ). El análisis de mediación probado confirmó el efecto de mediación del ajuste marital y las prácticas parentales de implicación y disciplina en la relación entre temperamento difícil y problemas externalizantes, y el efecto de mediación del ajuste marital y la implicación parental en la relación entre temperamento y difícil y problemas internalizantes. Por otro lado, los resultados apuntaron un patrón de mediación diferente cuando comparamos a niños y niñas. En concreto, encontramos que el efecto de mediación del ajuste marital y la implicación parental fue más fuerte en niños que en niñas. The aim of this work was to analyze the mediating role of family environment in the relationship between difficult temperament and externalizing/internalizing problems in a sample of 474 Spanish children aged between 6 and 8 years. A secondary objective of this work was to analyze the effect of gender in the mediation pattern found. To measure externalizing/internalizing problems, marital adjustment, parenting practices and children’s temperament, the parents were given a Socialization Battery (BAS-1), the Marital Adjustment Test (MAT), the Spanish version of the PCRI (Parent-Child Relationship Inventory), and the Temperament in Middle Childhood Questionnaire (TMCQ). We tested a statistical mediation model that revealed the mediating role of marital adjustment, and the parenting practices of involvement and limit setting, in the relationship between difficult temperament and externalizing problems. We found that marital adjustment and parental involvement mediated the relationship between internalizing problems and difficult temperament. On the other hand, the results pointed to a different mediation pattern when we compared boys and girls. Specifically, we found that the mediating role of marital adjustment and parental involvement in the relationship between difficult temperament and externalizing problems was stronger in boys than in girls.

scholarly journals The role of environmental sensitivity in the development of rumination and depressive symptoms in childhood: a longitudinal study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Lionetti ◽  
Daniel N. Klein ◽  
Massimiliano Pastore ◽  
Elaine N. Aron ◽  
Arthur Aron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Environmental Sensitivity ◽  
Permissive Parenting

AbstractSome children are more affected than others by their upbringing due to their increased sensitivity to the environment. More sensitive children are at heightened risk for the development of internalizing problems, particularly when experiencing unsupportive parenting. However, little is known about how the interplay between children’s sensitivity and parenting leads to higher levels of depressive symptoms. In the current study, we investigated the interaction between early parenting and children’s sensitivity on levels of depressive symptomatology in middle childhood, exploring the role of rumination as a possible mediator in a community sample. Participants included 196 USA resident families, from a middle class and mostly European–American background, and their healthy children, followed up from age 3 until 9 and 12 years. Environmental sensitivity was assessed observationally when children were 3 years old. Parenting style was based on parent-report at the age of 3 years. When children were nine, they completed questionnaires on rumination and depressive symptoms (repeated at 12 years). Analyses were run applying a Bayesian approach. Children’s sensitivity interacted with permissive parenting in predicting rumination at age 9. Rumination, in turn, was associated with depressive symptoms at age 9 and, to a lesser extent, at age 12. No relevant interactions emerged for authoritative and authoritarian parenting. Sensitive children may be at heightened risk for internalizing problems when exposed to a permissive parenting style. Permissive parenting was associated with increased ruminative coping strategies in sensitive children which, in turn, predicted higher levels of depression. Hence, rumination emerged as an important cognitive risk factor for the development of depressive symptoms in sensitive children.

Maternal differential treatment of siblings and children's behavioral problems: A longitudinal study

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley McGuire ◽  
Judy Dunn ◽  
Robert Plomin
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Differential Treatment ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Differential Attention ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Older Siblings

AbstractResearchers have examined links between maternal differential treatment of siblings and children's adjustment; however, little is known about the longitudinal nature of these associations. The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between maternal differential treatment of the siblings, direct parenting of older siblings, and older siblings' behavior problems across middle childhood. Eighty-two families were interviewed twice in their homes when the siblings averaged 4.7 and 7.7 years of age and, again when they averaged 7.9 and 10.5 years of age. Mothers completed questionnaires about parenting and older siblings' adjustment during the summer after the older siblings' 7th and 11th birthdays. Teachers completed questionnaires about the older siblings' adjustment and returned them through the mail. There was significant stability in the mothers' reports of differential treatment and significant associations between mothers' reports of maternal differential discipline and differential attention and mothers' and teachers' reports of older siblings' externalizing problems across time. Direct parenting measures were not correlated with differential treatment or older siblings' behavior problems across time.

scholarly journals Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems during childhood

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ran Liu ◽  
Susan D. Calkins ◽  
Martha Ann Bell
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Eeg Asymmetry ◽  
Frontal Eeg Asymmetry ◽  
Resilience Process ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Eeg Activation ◽  
Socioemotional Outcomes

Abstract Fearful inhibition and impulsivity-anger significantly predict internalizing and externalizing problems, respectively. An important moderator that may affect these associations is frontal EEG asymmetry (FA). We examined how temperament and FA at 6 years interactively predicted behavioral problems at 9 years. A community sample of 186 children (93 boys, 93 girls) participated in the study. Results indicated that the effect of fearful inhibition on parent-reported internalizing problems increased as children exhibited greater right FA. The effect of impulsivity-anger on parent-reported externalizing problems increased as children showed greater left FA. Because FA was allowed to vary rather than children being dichotomized into membership in left FA and right FA groups, we observed that children’s FA contributed to the resilience process only when FA reached specific asymmetry levels. These findings highlight the importance of considering the different functions of FA in combination with specific dimensions of temperament in predicting children’s socioemotional outcomes. Clinical implications include providing suggestions for intervention services by demonstrating the role of FA in developing behavioral problems and inspiring research on whether it is possible to alter EEG activation and thus potentially improve developmental outcomes.

Core White Matter Characteristics Related to Behavioral Problems in 9-16 Year Old Preterm and Full-term Children

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (Abstracts) ◽  
pp. E23
Author(s):  
Eliana S. Lee ◽  
Irene M. Loe ◽  
Roland Bammer ◽  
Heidi M. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Full Term

scholarly journals Hyperhomocysteinemia and MTHFR Polymorphisms as Antenatal Risk Factors of White Matter Abnormalities in Two Cohorts of Late Preterm and Full Term Newborns

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia M. Marseglia ◽  
Antonio Nicotera ◽  
Vincenzo Salpietro ◽  
Elisa Giaimo ◽  
Giovanna Cardile ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
White Matter ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Late Preterm ◽  
Periventricular White Matter ◽  
Cranial Ultrasound ◽  
Mthfr Polymorphisms ◽  
White Matter Abnormalities ◽  
Term Newborns

Higher total homocysteine (tHcy) levels, and C677T and A1298C methylenetetrahydrofolate (MTHFR) polymorphisms, have been reported in preterm or full term newborns with neonatal encephalopathy following perinatal hypoxic-ischemic insult. This study investigated the causal role of tHcy and MTHFR polymorphisms together with other acquired risk factors on the occurrence of brain white matter abnormalities (WMA) detected by cranial ultrasound scans (cUS) in a population of late preterm and full term infants. A total of 171 newborns (81 M, 47.4%), 45 (26.3%) born <37 wks, and 126 (73.7%) born ≥37 wks were recruited in the study. cUS detected predominant WMA pattern in 36/171 newborns (21.1%) mainly characterized by abnormal periventricular white matter signal and mild-to-moderate periventricular white matter volume loss with ventricular dilatation (6/36, 16.6%). WMA resulted in being depending on tHcy levels(P<0.014), lower GA(P<0.000), lower Apgar score at 1 minutes(P<0.000)and 5 minutes(P<0.000), and 1298AC and 677CT/1298AC genotypes (P<0.000andP<0.000). In conclusion, both acquired and genetic predisposing antenatal factors were significantly associated with adverse neonatal outcome and WMA. The role of A1298C polymorphism may be taken into account for prenatal assessment and treatment counseling.

Allostasis and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems: Changing relations with physiological systems across adolescence

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1149-1165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Hastings ◽  
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff ◽  
Bonnie Klimes-Dougan ◽  
Amber L. Allison ◽  
Laura Derose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
High Reactivity ◽  
Emotional And Behavioral Problems ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Externalizing And Internalizing Problems ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing ◽  
Over Time

AbstractAllostasis, or the maintenance of stability through physiological change, refers to the process by which individuals adjust to the continually changing demands that are put upon somatic activity by salient events. Bauer and colleagues proposed that allostasis could be detected through patterns of the joint reactivity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis system under stressful conditions. We examined the associations between ANS and HPA reactivity and the development of externalizing and internalizing problems over 2 years in a sample of 215 adolescents. The interactions of ANS and HPA reactivity were contemporaneously associated with, and longitudinally predictive of, adolescents' emotional and behavioral problems. Adolescents with symmetrical high reactivity across systems had more internalizing and fewer externalizing problems initially. Over time, both symmetrical and asymmetrical reactivity predicted increasing internalizing problems in girls, depending on the measure of ANS activity that was examined, heart rate, or blood pressure reactivity. Implications for the understanding of allostasis and the dynamic nature of the relations between multiple physiological regulatory systems and adolescents' developing psychopathology are discussed.

scholarly journals Developmental cascades: Externalizing, internalizing, and academic competence from middle childhood to early adolescence

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Moilanen ◽  
Daniel S. Shaw ◽  
Kari L. Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Academic Competence ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
White Mothers ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Cascade Effects ◽  
Shared Risk

AbstractThe current study was initiated to increase understanding of developmental cascades in childhood in a sample of at-risk boys (N= 291; 52% White). Mothers, teachers, and boys reported on boys' externalizing problems, internalizing difficulties, and academic competence. Consistent with hypotheses regarding school-related transitions, high levels of externalizing problems were associated with both low levels of academic competence and high levels of internalizing problems during the early school-age period, and with elevations in internalizing problems during the transition to adolescence. Low levels of academic competence were associated with high levels of internalizing problems in middle childhood, and with high levels of externalizing problems during the transition from elementary school to middle school. Shared risk factors played a minimal role in these developmental cascades. Results suggest that there are cascading effects of externalizing problems and academic competence in childhood and early adolescence, and that some cascading effects are more likely to occur during periods of school-related transitions. Implications of developmental cascade effects for research and intervention are discussed.

Method Matters: Comparing Cancer-Related Adjustment of Siblings to Norms and Well-matched Peers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saori C Tomatsu ◽  
Caroline Stanley ◽  
Rowena Conroy ◽  
Melissa A Alderfer
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Children With Cancer ◽  
Standardized Measures ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objective  The purpose of this study was to better understand conflicting findings in the literature regarding the adjustment of siblings of children with cancer by examining, in a single sample, differences in patterns of results as a function of reporter and comparator used (i.e., population norms, demographically matched classmates). Method  Self- and parent-report standardized measures of depression, anxiety, and behavioral problems were collected for 67 siblings and 67 demographically matched classmates. Comparisons were made to norms and controls. Results  Siblings consistently demonstrated poorer psychosocial functioning than their demographically matched peers across all measures but their scores did not differ from norms. A significantly greater percentage of siblings fell outside the normal range than that expected in the general population for parent-reported total and internalizing problems, but not for externalizing problems or the self-report measures. Conclusions  Findings regarding the psychological adjustment of siblings of children with cancer differ according to the research methods used. It is important to use rigorous methods such as demographically matched peer comparisons when investigating the impact of childhood cancer on siblings.

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