scholarly journals Children's callous-unemotional traits moderate links between their positive relationships with parents at preschool age and externalizing behavior problems at early school age

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 1251-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grazyna Kochanska ◽  
Sanghag Kim ◽  
Lea J. Boldt ◽  
Jeung Eun Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Externalizing Behavior Problems ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
School Age ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Callous Unemotional ◽  
Callous Unemotional Traits ◽  
Early School ◽  
Early School Age

Attachment and Externalizing Behavior: Mediation through Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation and Callous-Unemotional Traits

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Naska Goagoses ◽  
Ute Koglin
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Child Behavior Checklist ◽  
Externalizing Behavior Problems ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Callous Unemotional ◽  
Callous Unemotional Traits ◽  
Unemotional Traits

The aim of the current study was to investigate whether the association between parental attachment and externalizing behavior is parallelly mediated by dysfunctional emotion regulation and callous-unemotional traits. The community sample included 296 adolescents (Mage = 14.90, SDage = 1.31), who completed the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits, the Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire, and the Youth Self-Report Child Behavior Checklist. A mediation analysis revealed both direct and indirect effects. Secure attachment representations were negatively associated with internal- and external dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies and callous-unemotional traits, which in turn were positively associated with externalizing behavior problems. The current study expands previous research by simultaneously investigating familial and cognitive factors that foster externalizing behavior problems. An attachment-based perspective offers new possibilities for theory expansion, research directions, and the development of interventions.

Attachment and teacher-reported behavior problems during the preschool and early school-age period

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Moss ◽  
Sophie Parent ◽  
Catherine Gosselin ◽  
Denise Rousseau ◽  
Diane St-Laurent
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
School Age ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Early School ◽  
Assessment Time ◽  
Early School Age ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe association between attachment and behavior problems was examined for a nonclinical, diverse sociocconomic status (SES) French-Canadian sample of 77 children. Attachment classifications were assigned on the basis of reunion behavior with mother when the children were between 5 and 7 years of age. Teachers rated children's problem behavior using the Socioaffective Profile within 3 months of the attachment assessment (Time 2) and 2 years earlier (Time 1). Results indicated that children with a D classification were more likely than secures or other insecure groups (A or C) to be classified in the problem group at both ages. A majority (80%) of the D group showed problem behavior at some point during the 3–7 year period compared with a minority of A, B, or C children. However, only about 30% of controlling children (like other insecures) had stable problems. Analyses of subclinical scores showed that both controlling and avoidant groups were lower than secures in social competence at Time 1. At Time 2, A group children were lower in externalizing behavior, and C group children were higher. These results extend the association between the D classification and maladaptation previously found for clinical and high-risk samples to a nonclinical, mixed SES sample.

scholarly journals Anger in infancy and its implications: History of attachment in mother–child and father–child relationships as a moderator of risk

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (04) ◽  
pp. 1353-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Brock ◽  
Grazyna Kochanska
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Age ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
School Age ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Car Seat ◽  
Early School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early School Age ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child

AbstractGrowing research has documented distinct developmental sequelae in insecure and secure parent–child relationships, supporting a model of early attachment as moderating future developmental processes rather than, or in addition to, a source of direct effects. We explored maladaptive developmental implications of infants’ anger proneness in 102 community families. Anger was assessed in infancy through observations in the Car Seat episode and parents’ ratings. Children's security with parents was assessed in the Strange Situation paradigm at 15 months. At preschool age, child negativity (defiance and negative affect) was observed in interactions with the parent, and at early school age, oppositionality was rated by parents and teachers. Security was unrelated to infant anger; however, it moderated associations between infant anger and future maladaptive outcomes, such that highly angry infants embarked on a negative trajectory in insecure, but not in secure, parent–child dyads. For insecure, but not secure, mother–child dyads, infants’ mother-rated anger predicted negativity at preschool age. For insecure, but not secure, father–child dyads, infants’ anger in the Car Seat predicted father- and teacher-rated oppositional behavior at early school age. Results highlight the developmentally complex nature of the impact of attachment, depending on the relationship with mother versus father, type of measure, and timing of effects.

What do children know about German verb prefixes?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-297
Author(s):  
Veronika Mattes
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
School Age ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Verbal Prefixes ◽  
Early School ◽  
Speech Data ◽  
Early School Age ◽  
Semantic Awareness

Abstract Not much is known about how children cope with the task of acquiring the complex, polyfunctional, and often abstract and idiosyncratic system of German verbal prefixes. This paper presents an experimental study on children’s knowledge, i.e. their morphological and semantic awareness, of the five verbal prefixes be‑, ent‑, er‑, ver‑, and zer‑ in preschool age and early school age. The experiment combines a decision and a definition task involving canonical and novel prefix verbs, and it examines the influence of context on the recognition of the verbs. The results of the study show that, in general, the knowledge of prefix verbs increases significantly between 6 and 8 years. Preschoolers have preliminary, but still very labile representations of the five verbal prefixes, school children have established much more independent representations, however, the lexical knowledge they have about prefixes and prefixed verbs is still fragmentary. The five prefixes under investigation differ considerably with respect to their morpho-semantic transparency. Higher transparency results in good passive knowledge of the prefixes, even when they are rarely used by the children spontaneously, such as the infrequent, but semantically salient prefix ent- (ent-kommen ‘escape’), that is much better known to children than spontaneous speech data would suggest.

Links between children's attachment behavior at early school-age, their attachment-related representations, and behavior problems in middle childhood

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Moss ◽  
Jean-François Bureau ◽  
Marie-Julie Béliveau ◽  
Magdalena Zdebik ◽  
Suzanne Lépine
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Attachment Behavior ◽  
School Age ◽  
Narrative Story ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Social ◽  
Early School Age ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
And Behavior

The objective of the present study was to examine associations between children's attachment behavior at early school-age, dimensions of narrative performance, and behavior problems as assessed in middle childhood. Children's attachment patterns with mother were assessed at age 6 ( N = 127) using the Main and Cassidy (1988) separation—reunion classification system. Two years later, these children ( N = 109) completed the Narrative Story Stem Battery (Bretherton, Oppenheim, Buchsbaum, Emde, & The MacArthur Narrative Group, 1990), and teachers rated their level of behavior problems using the Social Behavior Questionnaire (Tremblay, Vitaro, Gagnon, Piché, & Royer, 1992). Results indicated that secure children depicted fewer conflict themes in their narratives than did disorganized/controlling children, produced more discipline themes than avoidant children, and had higher coherence scores than ambivalent children. Avoidant children also depicted fewer conflict themes than disorganized/controlling children. Finally, children's narrative conflict themes significantly predicted both level of externalizing and total behavior problems, even after controlling for variance explained by gender and disorganized/controlling attachment behavior. Girls' narratives were more likely to evoke discipline and affection/affiliation themes, and to be more coherent than boys' narratives.

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