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Predicting preschoolers' externalizing behaviors from toddler temperament, conflict, and maternal negativity.
Dev Psychol. 2003 Jan; 39(1):164-76.DP

Abstract

Rarely have researchers elucidated early childhood precursors of externalizing behaviors for boys and girls from a normative sample. Toddlers (N = 104; 52 girls) were observed interacting with a same-sex peer and their mothers, and indices of conflict-aggression, emotion and behavior dysregulation, parenting, and child externalizing problems were obtained. Results indicated that boys initiated more conflictual-aggressive interactions as toddlers and had more externalizing difficulties 2 years later, yet girls' (not boys') conflict-aggressive initiations at age 2 were related to subsequent externalizing problems. When such initiations were controlled for, emotional-behavioral undercontrol at age 2 also independently predicted externalizing problems at age 4. Moreover, the relation between conflict-aggressive initiations at age 2 and externalizing problems at age 4 was strongest for dysregulated toddlers. Finally, the relation between age 2 conflict-aggressive initiations and age 4 externalizing problems was strongest for those toddlers who incurred high levels of maternal negativity. These findings illustrate temperament by parenting connections in the development of externalizing problems.

Authors+Show Affiliations

Rubin KH
Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-1131, USA. kr61@umail.umd.edu
Burgess KB
No affiliation info available
Dwyer KM
No affiliation info available
Hastings PD
No affiliation info available

MeSH

Child BehaviorChild, PreschoolConflict, PsychologicalFemaleHumansMaleMaternal BehaviorMother-Child RelationsMothersProspective StudiesTemperamentVideotape Recording

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

12518817

Citation

Rubin, Kenneth H., et al. "Predicting Preschoolers' Externalizing Behaviors From Toddler Temperament, Conflict, and Maternal Negativity." Developmental Psychology, vol. 39, no. 1, 2003, pp. 164-76.
Rubin KH, Burgess KB, Dwyer KM, et al. Predicting preschoolers' externalizing behaviors from toddler temperament, conflict, and maternal negativity. Dev Psychol. 2003;39(1):164-76.
Rubin, K. H., Burgess, K. B., Dwyer, K. M., & Hastings, P. D. (2003). Predicting preschoolers' externalizing behaviors from toddler temperament, conflict, and maternal negativity. Developmental Psychology, 39(1), 164-76.
Rubin KH, et al. Predicting Preschoolers' Externalizing Behaviors From Toddler Temperament, Conflict, and Maternal Negativity. Dev Psychol. 2003;39(1):164-76. PubMed PMID: 12518817.
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