Journal article
An Imbalance of Approach and Effortful Control Predicts Externalizing Problems: Support for Extending the Dual-Systems Model into Early Childhood
Journal of abnormal child psychology, Vol.46(8), pp.1573-1583
11/2018
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-018-0400-3
PMCID: PMC6060018
PMID: 29372367
Abstract
Although the association between deficits in effortful control and later externalizing behavior is well established, many researchers (Nigg Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(3-4), 395-422, 2006; Steinberg Developmental Review, 28(1), 78-106, 2008) have hypothesized this association is actually the product of the imbalance of dual systems, or two underlying traits: approach and self-regulation. Very little research, however, has deployed a statistically robust strategy to examine that compelling model; further, no research has done so using behavioral measures, particularly in longitudinal studies. We examined the imbalance of approach and self-regulation (effortful control, EC) as predicting externalizing problems. Latent trait models of approach and EC were derived from behavioral measures collected from 102 children in a community sample at 25, 38, 52, and 67 months (2 to 5 ½ years), and used to predict externalizing behaviors, modeled as a latent trait derived from parent-reported measures at 80, 100, 123, and 147 months (6 ½ to 12 years). The imbalance hypothesis was supported: Children with an imbalance of approach and EC had more externalizing behavior problems in middle childhood and early preadolescence, relative to children with equal levels of the two traits.
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- Title: Subtitle
- An Imbalance of Approach and Effortful Control Predicts Externalizing Problems: Support for Extending the Dual-Systems Model into Early Childhood
- Creators
- Katherine Jonas - Department of Psychiatry, HSC T10-060 Stony Brook Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA. katherine.jonas@stonybrookmedicine.eduGrazyna Kochanska - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of abnormal child psychology, Vol.46(8), pp.1573-1583
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10802-018-0400-3
- PMID
- 29372367
- PMCID
- PMC6060018
- NLM abbreviation
- J Abnorm Child Psychol
- ISSN
- 1573-2835
- eISSN
- 1573-2835
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- K02 MH001446 / NIMH NIH HHS R01 HD069171 / NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD091047 / NICHD NIH HHS R01 MH063096 / NIMH NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2018
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002585002771
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