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JOURNAL OF APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 595-618Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2003.08.002
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emotionality; self-regulation; adjustment problems; positive adjustment; middle childhood
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The combined effects of emotionality and self-regulation in predicting child adjustment problems and positive adjustment were examined using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a community sample of mothers and children grades 3-5 (n = 89). Specificity in the associations of emotionality and self-regulation with adjustment was examined. Emotionality and self-regulation each predicted children's adjustment controlling for the other. Irritability was related to higher internalizing and externalizing problems and lower social competence; positive emotionality predicted higher wellbeing and social competence. Attention regulation was related to lower depression and higher social competence and well-being; inhibitory control was related to lower internalizing and externalizing problems and higher social competence. Impulsivity was unrelated to adjustment after the other emotionality and self-regulation variables were accounted. The findings support separate dimensions of emotionality and self-regulation and their unique contributions to child adjustment. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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