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JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 8, Pages 1573-1583Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-018-0400-3
Keywords
Dual systems; Imbalance; Effortful control; Approach; Externalizing
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- National Institute of Mental Health [R01 MH63096, K02 MH01446]
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R01 HD069171-11]
- Stuit Professorship
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD069171, R01HD091047] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH063096, K02MH001446] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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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 67months (2 to 5 1/2years), and used to predict externalizing behaviors, modeled as a latent trait derived from parent-reported measures at 80, 100, 123, and 147months (6 1/2 to 12years). 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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