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- Title
Temperament Moderates Associations Between Exposure to Stress and Children's Externalizing Problems.
- Authors
Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Bates, John E.; Goodnight, Jackson A.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Pettit, Gregory S.
- Abstract
The interaction between a temperament profile (four groups determined by high vs. low resistance to control [unmanageability] and unadaptability [novelty distress]) and family stress in predicting externalizing problems at school in children followed from kindergarten through eighth grade (ages 5-13) was investigated. The sample consisted of 556 families (290 boys). At Time 1 just prior to kindergarten, mothers retrospectively reported on their child's temperament during infancy. Each year, mothers reported stress and teachers reported children's externalizing problems. Temperament profile was tested as a moderator of the stress-externalizing association for various time periods. Results indicated that the combination of high resistance to control and high unadaptability strengthens the stress-externalizing association. Findings are discussed in terms of possible underlying mechanisms.
- Subjects
TEMPERAMENT in children; STRESS in children; EXTERNALIZING behavior; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
- Publication
Child Development, 2013, Vol 84, Issue 5, p1579
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12076