Predicting child effortful control: An integrative analysis of child physiological, familial, and community factors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoning Sun ◽  
Jeffrey Measelle ◽  
Jennifer C. Ablow
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Integrative Analysis ◽  
Community Factors ◽  
Child Effortful Control

scholarly journals Considering child effortful control in the context of teacher effortful control: Implications for kindergarten success

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 199-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Michelle Gaias ◽  
Tashia Abry ◽  
Jodi Swanson ◽  
Richard A. Fabes
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Child Effortful Control

scholarly journals Pathways to social-emotional functioning in the preschool period: The role of child temperament and maternal anxiety in boys and girls

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 961-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah F. Behrendt ◽  
Mark Wade ◽  
Laurie Bayet ◽  
Charles A. Nelson ◽  
Michelle Bosquet Enlow
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Emotional Functioning ◽  
Negative Affectivity ◽  
Child Temperament ◽  
Maternal Anxiety ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Preschool Period ◽  
Emotional Outcomes ◽  
Social Emotional Functioning ◽  
Child Effortful Control

AbstractIndividual differences in social-emotional functioning emerge early and have long-term implications for developmental adaptation and competency. Research is needed that specifies multiple early risk factors and outcomes simultaneously to demonstrate specificity. Using multigroup longitudinal path analysis in a sample of typically developing children (N = 541), we examined child temperament dimensions (surgency, negative affectivity, and regulation/effortful control) and maternal anxiety in infancy and age 2 as predictors of child externalizing, internalizing, dysregulation, and competence behaviors at age 3. Four primary patterns emerged. First, there was stability in temperament dimensions and maternal anxiety from infancy to age 3. Second, negative affectivity was implicated in internalizing problems and surgency in externalizing problems. Third, effortful control at age 2 was a potent mediator of maternal anxiety in infancy on age 3 outcomes. Fourth, there was suggestive evidence for transactional effects between maternal anxiety and child effortful control. Most pathways operated similarly for boys and girls, with some differences, particularly for surgency. These findings expand our understanding of the roles of specific temperamental domains and postnatal maternal anxiety in a range of social-emotional outcomes in the preschool period, and have implications for efforts to enhance the development of young children's social-emotional functioning and reduce risk for later psychopathology.

Pathways to Problem Behaviors: Chaotic Homes, Parent and Child Effortful Control, and Parenting

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Valiente ◽  
Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant ◽  
Mark Reiser
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Child Effortful Control

scholarly journals The Role of Maternal and Child Characteristics in Chinese Children’s Dietary Intake Across Three Groups

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 503-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Zhou ◽  
Charissa S L Cheah ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Junsheng Liu ◽  
Shuyan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Unhealthy Diet ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Child Effortful Control ◽  
Past Experiences

Abstract Objective To examine whether mothers’ early-life food insecurity (ELFI), pressuring to eat feeding practices (PEP), and child effortful control (EC) are associated with child dietary intake within and across three Chinese ethnic groups. Method Participants included 119 Chinese international immigrants in the United States, 230 urban nonmigrant, and 468 rural-to-urban migrant mothers and preschoolers in China. Mothers reported on their ELFI, PEP, and their children’s EC and dietary intake. Results Controlling for maternal and child body mass index, age, and gender, multiple group path analyses revealed that maternal ELFI was positively associated with PEP in all groups, which in turn was positively associated with child unhealthy diet in all groups, but negatively associated with child fruits and vegetables (F&V) consumption in the urban nonmigrant group only. Also, EC was positively associated with child F&V diet for all groups. Moreover, the indirect effect of ELFI on children’s unhealthy diet through PEP was significant only for immigrant children with lower levels of EC, but not those with higher levels of EC. Conclusions Our findings highlighted the long-lasting effect of mothers’ ELFI on their feeding and child eating. Mothers’ pressuring to eat played a central role in the association between their past experiences and children’s diet. Also, children’s poor EC abilities might exacerbate the adverse effect of mothers’ ELFI through PEP, resulting in more unhealthy eating. These findings can contribute to the design of contextually based intervention/prevention programs that promote young children’s healthy eating through maternal feeding practices and children’s EC abilities.

scholarly journals Interaction between effortful control and parenting as factors of child mental health

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
E. N. Petrenko ◽  
E. A. Kozlova ◽  
S. V. Loginova ◽  
H. R. Slobodskaya
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Risk Model ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Perceptual Sensitivity ◽  
Externalizing And Internalizing Problems ◽  
Child Effortful Control

The study examined interactions between parenting and child effortful control in the prediction of problem behavior in Russian preschoolers in parent reports of 28-year-old children (N = 652). Effortful Control and its components, inhibitory control, attentional control, low-intensity pleasure, and perceptual sensitivity, were measured by the Very Short Form of the Children’s Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ-VS). Positive parenting, punishment, and inconsistent discipline were measured by the Alabama Parenting QuestionnairePreschool Revision (APQ-R). Externalizing problems, internalizing problems, total difficulties, and impact of problems on the child’s life were measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The results indicated that effortful control and perceptual sensitivity interacted with parental punishment to predict externalizing problems and total difficulties such that temperament was more strongly related to problem behavior when parents used more punishment. In a similar way, inhibitory control was more strongly related to externalizing problems and their impact on the child’s life when parents used more punishment. The majority of moderating effects were consistent with the diathesis-stress or dual risk model. That is, temperament was more strongly related to externalizing and internalizing problems and their impact on the child’s life when parents used more punishment and were inconsistent in their use of discipline.

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