Maternal and paternal unsupportive parenting and children's externalizing symptoms: The mediational role of children's attention biases to negative emotion

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Patrick T. Davies ◽  
Morgan J. Thompson ◽  
Jesse L. Coe ◽  
Melissa L. Sturge-Apple
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Externalizing Symptoms ◽  
Family Adversity ◽  
Children's Attention ◽  
Specific Association ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract This study examined children's duration of attention to negative emotions (i.e., anger, sadness, fear) as a mediator of associations among maternal and paternal unsupportive parenting and children's externalizing symptoms in a sample of 240 mothers, fathers, and their preschool children (Mage = 4.64 years). The multimethod, multi-informant design consisted of three annual measurement occasions. Analysis of maternal and paternal unsupportive parenting as predictors in latent difference changes in children's affect-biased attention and behavior problems indicated that children's attention to negative emotions mediated the specific association between maternal unsupportive parenting and children's subsequent increases in externalizing symptoms. Maternal unsupportive parenting at Wave 1 predicted decreases in children's attention to negative facial expressions of adults from Wave 1 to 2. Reductions in children's attention to negative emotion, in turn, predicted increases in their externalizing symptoms from Wave 1 to 3. Additional tests of children's fearful distress and hostile responses to parental conflict as explanatory mechanisms revealed that increases in children's fearful distress reactivity from Wave 1 to 2 accounted for the association between maternal unsupportive parenting and concomitant decreases in their attention to negative emotions. Results are discussed in the context of information processing models of family adversity and developmental psychopathology.

Children's Attention and Articulation

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Locke ◽  
Jeffrey I. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Children's Attention

scholarly journals Children’s Attention to Mother and Adolescent Stress Moderate the Attachment-Depressive Symptoms Link

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 294-314
Author(s):  
Guy Bosmans ◽  
Magali Van de Walle ◽  
Patricia Bijttebier ◽  
Simon De Winter ◽  
Joke Heylen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Adolescent Stress ◽  
Children's Attention

Interesting Packaging Structure Design of Children’s Biscuits

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 3262-3265
Author(s):  
Yu Ming Qi ◽  
Wen Hua Gao
Keyword(s):  
Structure Design ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Packaging Design ◽  
Children's Attention ◽  
Packaging Structure

Biscuit, as a common snack, in order to attract the children’s attention, besides its taste and shape, packaging design is equally important. The beautifully decorated surface of the box can be divided into a number of blocks (4 or 9) by setting the punch lines. After the biscuits are eaten up, tear the box along the punch lines, then it becomes a simple jigsaw puzzle. Inside the box except the biscuits bag, a cute clamp like scissors added. So the children can gripping biscuits by the clamp rather than by hand directly.

scholarly journals Talking About the Non-Literal: Internal States and Explanations in Child-Constructed Narratives

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edy Veneziano
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Narrative Skills ◽  
Children's Narratives ◽  
Internal States ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Children's Attention ◽  
Evaluative Instrument ◽  
Children's Stories

Abstract Non-literal language most often permeates interesting and informative narratives. These are the non-perceptible, inferential aspects of a story, such as the explanation of events, the attribution of internal, particularly mental, states to the characters of the story, or the evaluation of events by the participants and/or the narrator. The main aim of this paper is to examine whether non-literal uses can be promoted in 7-year-old French-speaking children’s narratives through the use of a short conversational intervention (SCI) which focuses the children’s attention on the causes of events. The results show that, after the SCI, the expression of non-literal aspects, even higher-order ones, may make their appearance or significantly increase in children’s stories. The reasons for the effectiveness of the SCI in the promotion of non-literal uses of language and narrative skills in general, as well as the importance of using the SCI as an evaluative instrument, are discussed.

scholarly journals The Children’s Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Telemental Health Treatment Study: Caregiver Outcomes

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Vander Stoep ◽  
Carolyn A. McCarty ◽  
Chuan Zhou ◽  
Carol M. Rockhill ◽  
Erin N. Schoenfelder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Telemental Health ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Children's Attention
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