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Do Distinct Groups of Reactively and Proactively Aggressive Children Exist? A Confirmatory Latent Profile Approach J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Anouk van Dijk, Julie A. Hubbard, Peter K. H. Deschamps, Wieteke Hiemstra, Hanneke Polman
The present study examined whether there are distinct groups of children with reactive versus proactive motives for their aggressive behavior. We extended previous research by using a person-based analytical approach on data from a questionnaire assessing children’s motives independently from the severity of their aggression. Two competing hypotheses were tested. The both subtypes hypothesis holds
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Dispositional Negative Emotionality in Childhood and Adolescence Predicts Structural Variation in the Amygdala and Caudal Anterior Cingulate During Early Adulthood: Theoretically and Empirically Based Tests J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Benjamin B. Lahey, Kendra E. Hinton, Leah Burgess, Francisco C. Meyer, Bennett A. Landman, Victoria Villata-Gil, Xiaochan Yang, Paul J. Rathouz, Brooks Applegate, David H. Zald
Substantial evidence implicates the amygdala and related structures in the processing of negative emotions. Furthermore, neuroimaging evidence suggests that variations in amygdala volumes are related to trait-like individual differences in neuroticism/negative emotionality, although many questions remain about the nature of such associations. We conducted planned tests of the directional prediction
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Emotion Regulation as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Cognitive Biases and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed, At-risk and Healthy Children and Adolescents J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 A. Sfärlea, K. Takano, C. Buhl, J. Loechner, E. Greimel, E. Salemink, G. Schulte-Körne, B. Platt
Contemporary cognitive models of depression propose that cognitive biases for negative information at the level of attention (attention biases; AB) and interpretation (interpretation biases; IB) increase depression risk by promoting maladaptive emotion regulation (ER). So far, empirical support testing interactions between these variables is restricted to non-clinical and clinical adult samples. The
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A Multi-Method Investigation of Parental Responses to Youth Emotion: Prospective Effects on Emotion Dysregulation and Reactive Aggression in Daily Life J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 A. L. Byrd, V. Vine, O. A. Frigoletto, S. Vanwoerden, S. D. Stepp
Parental responses to negative emotion, one key component of emotion socialization, may function to increase (or decrease) reactive aggression over time via indirect effects on emotion dysregulation. However, despite its transdiagnostic relevance, very little research has examined this developmental risk pathway, and no studies have done so during the volatile and vulnerable transition to adolescence
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Coping and Mental Health in Early Adolescence during COVID-19 J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Andrea M. Hussong, Allegra J. Midgette, Taylor E. Thomas, Jennifer L. Coffman, Su Cho
The current longitudinal study examines changes in overall mental health symptomatology from before to after the COVID-19 outbreak in youth from the southeastern United States as well as the potential mitigating effects of self-efficacy, optimism, and coping. A sample of 105 parent–child dyads participated in the study (49% boys; 81% European American, 1% Alaska Native/American Indian, 9% Asian/Asian
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Examining the Potential Mental Health Costs of Defending Victims of Bullying: a Longitudinal Analysis J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Sarah T. Malamut, Jessica Trach, Claire F. Garandeau, Christina Salmivalli
It has been speculated that defending victims of bullying is stressful for youth, and may contribute to poor mental health among those who regularly intervene to defend their victimized peers. However, the extant literature is thus far primarily limited to correlational, single-informant studies. The current study examined the concurrent and prospective mental health costs (e.g., social anxiety, depressive
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Correction to: Improved Parent–Child Interactions Predict Reduced Internalizing Symptoms Among the Offspring of Parents with Bipolar Disorder Undergoing a Prevention Program: A Proof‑of‑Concept Study J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Lisa Serravalle, Vanessa Iacono, Alexa L. Wilson, Mark Anthony Orlando, Virginia Tsekova, Mark A. Ellenbogen
Correction to: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
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The Developmental Trajectory of Empathy and Its Association with Early Symptoms of Psychopathology in Children with and without Hearing Loss J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Yung-Ting Tsou, Boya Li, Carin H Wiefferink, Johan H M Frijns, Carolien Rieffe
Empathy enables people to share, understand, and show concern for others’ emotions. However, this capacity may be more difficult to acquire for children with hearing loss, due to limited social access, and the effect of hearing on empathic maturation has been unexplored. This four-wave longitudinal study investigated the development of empathy in children with and without hearing loss, and how this
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Network Structure of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Conduct Disorder Symptoms Among At-Risk Youth: Multi-Informant Reports and Gender Differences J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Natalie Goulter, Marlene M. Moretti
Network analytic techniques examine how items used to measure underlying constructs are related to one another and identify core characteristics. While many studies have examined the covariance of callous-unemotional (CU) traits or features and conduct disorder (CD) symptoms, the inter-item relations of these constructs and the core characteristics of the CU construct are unclear. The present study
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Maternal Depressive Symptoms Predict Girls’ but Not Boys’ Emotion Regulation: A Prospective Moment-to-Moment Observation Study J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Jia (Julia) Yan, Xin Feng, Sarah J. Shoppe-Sullivan, Micah Gerhardt, Qiong Wu
We aimed to further the understanding of maternal depressive symptoms on temporal dynamics of child emotion regulation by applying the process model of emotion regulation to preschoolers and incorporating insights from children’s moment-to-moment emotional expressions. Following 108 mother–child dyads (57 girls; 72 mothers identified as White, 23 mothers as Black or African American, 10 mothers as
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Longitudinal Links among Mother and Child Emotion Regulation, Maternal Emotion Socialization, and Child Anxiety J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Natalee N. Price, Elizabeth J. Kiel
Models of transdiagnostic family emotion processes recognize parents’ emotion-related characteristics and behaviors as key contributors to child emotional development and psychological functioning. One such psychological outcome, child anxiety, is prevalent and early emerging, underscoring the importance of identifying early family- and emotion-related mechanisms involved in anxiety risk. We investigated
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Latent Class Analysis of Individual-Level Characteristics Predictive of Intervention Outcomes in Urban Male Adolescents J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Diana H. Fishbein, Jason Williams
Preventive intervention research dictates that new techniques are needed to elucidate what types of interventions work best for whom to prevent behavioral problems. The current investigation applies a latent class modeling structure to identify the constellation of characteristics—or profile—in urban male adolescents (n = 125, aged 15) that interrelatedly predict responses to a brief administration
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Daily Parent-Adolescent Digital Exchanges J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Michaeline Jensen, Madeleine J. George, Michael A. Russell, Melissa A. Lippold, Candice L. Odgers
The present study tracked adolescents via mobile phones to describe how parents and their adolescent children are using digital technologies in daily life (i.e. facilitating warmth and behavioral control), and whether these uses are associated with the quality of offline parent-adolescent interactions and with adolescents’ mental health. A sample of young adolescents (N = 388; mean age 13.37) completed
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Conditional Learning Deficits in Children with ADHD can be Reduced Through Reward Optimization and Response-Specific Reinforcement J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Hasse De Meyer, Gail Tripp, Tom Beckers, Saskia van der Oord
When children with ADHD are presented with behavioral choices, they struggle more than Typically Developing [TD] children to take into account contextual information necessary for making adaptive choices. The challenge presented by this type of behavioral decision making can be operationalized as a Conditional Discrimination Learning [CDL] task. We previously showed that CDL is impaired in children
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Using the 11-item Version of the RCADS to Identify Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jerica Radez, Polly Waite, Bruce Chorpita, Cathy Creswell, Faith Orchard, Ray Percy, Susan H. Spence, Tessa Reardon
The purpose of this study was to identify items from the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale – RCADS-C/P that provided a brief, reliable and valid screen for anxiety and/or depressive disorders in adolescents. In addition, we examined whether adding items assessing suicidal ideation (Moods and Feelings Questionnaire – MFQ- C/P) and symptom impact and duration (items adapted from the Strengths
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Distress Tolerance as a Mechanism Linking Violence Exposure to Problematic Alcohol use in Adolescence J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Charlotte Heleniak, China R. Bolden, Connor J. McCabe, Hilary K. Lambert, Maya L. Rosen, Kevin M. King, Kathryn C. Monahan, Katie A. McLaughlin
Adolescents exposed to violence are at elevated risk of developing most forms of psychopathology, including depression, anxiety, and alcohol abuse. Prior research has identified emotional reactivity and difficulties with emotion regulation as core mechanisms linking violence exposure with psychopathology. Scant research has examined behavioral responses to distress as a mechanism in this association
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Correction to: A Family Socialization Model of Transdiagnostic Risk for Psychopathology in Preschool Children J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Mark Wade, Andre Plamondon, Jennifer M. Jenkins
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00812-1
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Trajectories of Response to Treatments in Children with ADHD and Word Reading Difficulties J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Melissa Dvorsky, Leanne Tamm, Carolyn A. Denton, Jeffery N. Epstein, Christopher Schatschneider
This study investigated patterns of response to intervention in children with co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and reading difficulties (RD), who participated in a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of reading intervention, ADHD treatment, or combined treatments. Growth Mixture Modeling (GMM) was used to investigate trajectories of parent and teacher academic
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Attention Problems and Restlessness as Transdiagnostic Markers of Severity and Treatment Response in Youth with Internalizing Problems J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Madison Aitken, Brendan F. Andrade
Transdiagnostic models of psychopathology suggest that disorders may share common features that could influence their severity. Attention problems and psychomotor restlessness are included in the diagnostic criteria for several disorders, including disorders on the internalizing spectrum, but their transdiagnostic significance has received little attention. The present study identifies patterns of
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Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Neuropsychological Functioning J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Chava A. Creque, Erik G. Willcutt
Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) is marked by impairments across social, emotional, and academic functioning, but few studies have examined the association between SCT and neuropsychological functioning. The present study examined the associations between SCT and measures of processing speed, executive function, attention, and reaction time. From a larger sample of 8,238 children and adolescents, a subsample
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All in the Family: How Parental Criticism Impacts Depressive Symptoms in Youth J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Nishita Berla, Virginia Peisch, Abigail Thacher, Jennifer Pearlstein, Claire Dowdle, Shauna Geraghty, Victoria Cosgrove
Despite a strong connection between family environment and mood symptoms in youth, little research to date has examined potential underlying mechanisms. We propose an etiological model investigating how parenting (i.e., expressed emotion, or EE) affects youth depression by shaping their emotion regulation abilities. Forty-six youth and caregivers participated in this cross-sectional study. Family environment
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Conduct Problems and Adherence to COVID-19 Guidelines: A Developmental Psychopathology-Informed Approach J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Alexa Martin-Storey, Caroline Temcheff, Michèle Déry, Mélanie Lapalme, Melina Tomasiello, Audrey Mariamo, Jean-Pascal Lemelin
COVID-19 underscores the importance of understanding variation in adherence to rules concerning health behaviors. Children with conduct problems have difficulty with rule adherence, and linking early conduct problems with later adherence to COVID-19 guidelines can provide new insight into public health. The current study employed a sample (N = 744) designed to examine the longitudinal consequences
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Modulation of Amygdala Response by Cognitive Conflict in Adolescents with Conduct Problems and Varying Levels of CU Traits J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Catherine L. Sebastian, Jean Stafford, Eamon J. McCrory, Arjun Sethi, Stephane A. De Brito, Patricia L. Lockwood, Essi Viding
Adolescents with conduct problems and low callous-unemotional traits are characterised by high levels of reactive aggression. Prior studies suggest that they can have exaggerated neural and behavioural responses to negative emotional stimuli, accompanied by compromised affect regulation and atypical engagement of prefrontal areas during cognitive control. This pattern may in part explain their symptoms
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Maternal Depression History Moderates the Association Between Criticism (but not Praise) and Depressive Symptoms in Youth J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Reuma Gadassi-Polack, Julia Chertkof, Hedy Kober, Jutta Joormann
Children of mothers with past depression are at increased risk for developing the disorder themselves; however, the specific factors that increase their risk are unclear. Aberrant reactivity to social experiences may be one characteristic that increases risk for depression in offspring. This study investigates whether mothers’ depression history is associated with increased reactivity to criticism
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The Interplay of Parental Response to Anger, Adolescent Anger Regulation, and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems: A Longitudinal Study J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Nantje Otterpohl, Elke Wild, Sophie S. Havighurst, Joachim Stiensmeier-Pelster, Christiane E. Kehoe
Numerous studies have reported substantive correlations between anger socialization, children’s anger regulation, and internalizing/externalizing problems. However, substantially less is known about the interplay among these constructs during the developmental stage of adolescence, and longitudinal studies on causal relations (i.e., parent-directed, adolescent-directed, or reciprocal effects) are rare
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Longitudinal Outcomes of Child Parent Psychotherapy: Response to Commentaries J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Michelle E. Alto, Andrew J. Ross, Elizabeth D. Handley, Jody Todd Manly, Danielle J. Guild, Dante Cicchetti, Fred A. Rogosch, Sheree L. Toth
In response to the commentaries provided by Chu et al. (2020), Harmon et al. (2020), and McMahon & Maxwell (2020) on our longitudinal follow-up of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) with mothers with depression and their children, we focus on two domains: accessibility and scalability of CPP and identifying empirically supported mechanisms of change in attachment intervention research. In considering
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A Family Socialization Model of Transdiagnostic Risk for Psychopathology in Preschool Children J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Mark Wade, Andre Plamondon, Jennifer M. Jenkins
This longitudinal study examined the presence of general (P) and specific internalizing (INT) and externalizing (EXT) psychopathology factors in a community sample of preschool children. We assessed child and contextual correlates of P, INT, and EXT, and tested a model connecting socioeconomic risk to these factors through family socialization processes and child cognitive abilities. Participants were
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Observed Maternal Coping Socialization and Child Internalizing Symptoms: The Roles of Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Peer Stress J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Kelly H. Watson, Allegra S. Anderson, Kimberly Savin, Francesca Penner, Ellen Williams, Michelle M. Reising, Jennifer P. Dunbar, Alexandra H. Bettis, Meredith Gruhn, Bruce Compas
Empirical evidence relying primarily on questionnaire reports indicates parent coping socialization messages play an important role in children’s psychological functioning. The present study utilized a multi-informant, multi-method design to build on previous coping socialization research in childhood and adolescence. A novel coding system was developed to measure observed parental socialization of
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Levels and Instability of Daily Self-Esteem in Adolescents: Relations to Depressive and Anxious Symptoms J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Fanny Mlawer, Julie A. Hubbard, Megan K. Bookhout, Christina C. Moore
The current study examined whether individual differences in depressive and anxious symptoms relate to level of daily self-esteem and instability of daily self-esteem in adolescence. Participants were a racially and ethnically diverse sample of adolescents (79 girls, 65 boys; M age = 13.53 years). Adolescents reported on their depressive and anxious symptoms during a baseline home visit. Then, adolescents
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Longitudinal Effects of Reminiscing and Emotion Training on Child Maladjustment in the Context of Maltreatment and Maternal Depressive Symptoms J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Kristin Valentino, Ruth Speidel, Kaitlin Fondren, Brigid Behrens, Katherine Edler, Kreila Cote, E. Mark Cummings
Exposure to child maltreatment and maternal depression are significant risk factors for the development of psychopathology. Difficulties in caregiving, including poor emotion socialization behavior, may mediate these associations. Thus, enhancing supportive parent emotion socialization may be a key transdiagnostic target for preventive interventions designed for these families. Reminiscing and Emotion
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Correction to: Preschool-Onset Major Depressive Disorder is Characterized by Electrocortical Deficits in Processing Pleasant Emotional Pictures J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Diana J. Whalen, Kirsten E. Gilbert, Danielle Kelly, Greg Hajcak, Emily S. Kappenman, Joan L. Luby, Deanna M. Barch
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The authors discovered an error in the processing of the ERP data included in originally published manuscript. All of the data has been reprocessed using average referencing. The primary findings in our original paper highlighted diagnostic group differences in ERPs from the 400–600 ms range but no group differences from 600–1000 ms
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Investigating Friendship Difficulties in the Pathway from ADHD to Depressive Symptoms. Can Parent–Child Relationships Compensate? J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Victoria Powell, Lucy Riglin, Terry Ng-Knight, Norah Frederickson, Katherine Woolf, Chris McManus, Stephan Collishaw, Katherine Shelton, Anita Thapar, Frances Rice
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with friendship difficulties. This may partly account for the increasingly recognised association between ADHD and subsequent depression. Little is known about the types of friendship difficulties that could contribute to the association between ADHD and depressive symptoms and whether other relationships, such as parent–child relationships
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Distinct Patterns of Impaired Cognitive Control Among Boys and Girls with ADHD Across Development J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Alyssa DeRonda, Yi Zhao, Karen E. Seymour, Stewart H. Mostofsky, Keri S. Rosch
This study examined whether girls and boys with ADHD show similar impairments in cognitive control from childhood into adolescence and the developmental relationship between cognitive control and ADHD symptoms. Participants include 8–17-year-old children with ADHD (n = 353, 104 girls) and typically developing (TD) controls (n = 241, 86 girls) with longitudinal data obtained from n = 137. Participants
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Examining Maternal Elaborative Reminiscing as a Protective Factor in the Intergenerational Transmission of Psychopathology J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Caroline Swetlitz, Sarah F. Lynch, Cathi B. Propper, Jennifer L. Coffman, Nicholas J. Wagner
Most research examining the impact of early parental depression on the developing child has focused on the nature of parenting practices observed in depressed adults. Maternal elaborative reminiscing, or the extent to which mothers elaboratively discuss past shared experiences with their children, has a considerable influence on children’s emotional and social development and is understudied within
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The Roles of Shame and Guilt in the Development of Aggression in Adolescents With and Without Hearing Loss J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Evelien Broekhof, Marieke G. N. Bos, Carolien Rieffe
This longitudinal study examined how shame and guilt contribute to the development of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescents with and without hearing loss. Adolescents between 9 and 16 years old (adolescents with hearing loss (n = 80; Mage = 11.91) and without hearing loss (n = 227; Mage = 11.63)) completed self-reports on three occasions with an interval of 9 months. Mixed model analyses
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Who Reports What? A Comparison of Child and Caregivers´ Reports of Child Trauma Exposure and Associations to Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Functional Impairment in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinics J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar, Tine K. Jensen, Anna Naterstad Harpviken
Identifying trauma-related symptoms is important for treatment planning at child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), and routine trauma screening may be a first step to ensure appropriate treatment. Studies with community samples have found modest agreement between children’s and caregivers´ report of exposure to potentially traumatizing events (PTEs). However, studies from clinical populations
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A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Test of the Low Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model of Callous-Unemotional Traits Among Spanish Preschoolers J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Beatriz Domínguez-Álvarez, Estrella Romero, Laura López-Romero, Aimé Isdahl-Troye, Nicholas J. Wagner, Rebecca Waller
Despite advances in the theoretical and empirical literature, a better understanding of the etiological determinants of callous-unemotional (CU) traits is needed. In this study, we tested the hypotheses advanced by the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) model, a theoretical framework, which proposes that individual differences in two temperament dimensions, fearlessness and low affiliation
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Fearful Temperament and Child Social Anxiety Symptoms: Clarifying the Influence of Maternal Punitive Responses J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Erika S. Trent, Andres G. Viana, Elizabeth M. Raines, Haley E. Conroy, Emma C. Woodward, Eric A. Storch, Michael J. Zvolensky
Fearful temperament—the tendency to exhibit apprehension and/or avoidance in novel situations—is a well-established risk factor for childhood anxiety in general, and social anxiety in particular. Yet, there is little understanding of parent emotion socialization strategies that influence the association between fearful temperament and child social anxiety symptoms. The present investigation addresses
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Effects of A Parenting-Focused Mindfulness Intervention on Adolescent Substance Use and Psychopathology: A Randomized Controlled Trial J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Tara M. Chaplin, Kelsey L. Mauro, Timothy W. Curby, Claire Niehaus, Sarah Fischer, Caitlin C. Turpyn, Alexandra M. Martelli, Adam Bryant Miller, Richard N. Leichtweis, Ruth Baer, Rajita Sinha
Substance use and psychopathology symptoms increase in adolescence. One key risk factor for these is high parent stress. Mindfulness interventions reduce stress in adults and may be useful to reduce parent stress and prevent substance use (SU) and psychopathology in adolescents. This study tested the feasibility and effects of a mindfulness intervention for parents on adolescent SU and psychopathology
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Meta-Analyses of the Associations Between Disinhibited Social Engagement Behaviors and Child Attachment Insecurity or Disorganization J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Lory Zephyr, Chantal Cyr, Sébastien Monette, Maude Archambault, Stine Lehmann, Helen Minnis
Children with disinhibited social engagement disorder show reduced reticence with strangers, do not check back with their caregiver after venturing away, and may willingly leave with an unfamiliar adult. The recent DSM-5 has moved away from an attachment framework to understand disinhibited social engagement behavior (DSEB) due to studies indicating its presence in previously institutionalized children
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A Multi-Method, Multi-Informant Test of Maternal Emotion Socialization in Relation to Adolescent Fears of Social Evaluation J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Joseph W. Fredrick, Aaron M. Luebbe
Fears of negative and positive social evaluation are considered potential transdiagnostic mechanisms underpinning multiple internalizing disorders and impairments in adolescence. Although emotion socialization processes have been associated with adolescents’ internalizing symptoms, the socialization of distinct fears of social evaluation has not been studied. Thus, the goal of the current study was
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Investigating Emotional Body Posture Recognition in Adolescents with Conduct Disorder Using Eye-Tracking Methods J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Nayra A. Martin-Key, Erich W. Graf, Wendy J. Adams, Graeme Fairchild
Adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) show deficits in recognizing facial expressions of emotion, but it is not known whether these difficulties extend to other social cues, such as emotional body postures. Moreover, in the absence of eye-tracking data, it is not known whether such deficits, if present, are due to a failure to attend to emotionally informative regions of the body. Male and female
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Latent Class Analysis of Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning and Course of Major Depression J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Zuzanna K. Wojcieszak, Rebekah J. Mennies, Daniel N. Klein, John R. Seeley, Thomas M. Olino
There are few studies on the predictors of long-term course of major depressive disorder (MDD) with an onset in childhood and adolescence. Studies have relied on variable-centered methods, utilizing psychosocial and clinical characteristics to predict depression outcomes. However, fewer studies have used person-centered approaches that rely on profiles of functioning to predict course and outcomes
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Parental Buffering of Stress in the Time of COVID-19: Family-Level Factors May Moderate the Association Between Pandemic-Related Stress and Youth Symptomatology J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Emily M. Cohodes, Sarah McCauley, Dylan G. Gee
Nearly all families in the United States were exposed to varying degrees of stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic during the spring of 2020. Building on previous research documenting the pernicious effects of stress on youth mental health, we aimed to test the effects of exposure to COVID-19-related stress on youth symptomatology. Further, in light of evidence suggesting that parents play an important
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When is Parental Suppression of Black Children’s Negative Emotions Adaptive? The Role of Preparation for Racial Bias and Children’s Resting Cardiac Vagal Tone J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Angel S. Dunbar, Selin Zeytinoglu, Esther M. Leerkes
Research demonstrates that Black parents attempt to suppress children’s expressions of negative emotions (e.g., anger, fear), in part, to protect them from experiencing racial bias from authority figures. The goal of this study was to examine whether the effectiveness of parental suppression strategies in reducing behavior problems depends on whether parents talk to children about the potential of
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Understanding the Progression from Early Alcohol Use Experimentation to Alcohol Use Disorder: Testing Vulnerability by Experience Interactions Using a Two-Part Latent Growth Curve Model J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Matthew D. Scalco, Miranda Evans, Craig R. Colder
Most adolescents experiment with alcohol, but a smaller percentage advance to heavy alcohol use (AU) and AU disorder (AUD). Understanding for whom and how early risk leads to AUD is of interest to prevention, treatment, and etiology of AUD. Informed by developmental and behavioral neuroscience theory, the current study tested whether temperament (effortful control, surgency, and negative affect), peer
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Links Between Early Personal Characteristics, Longitudinal Profiles of Peer Victimization in School and Victimization in College or at Work J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Mara Brendgen, Frank Vitaro, Isabelle Ouellet-Morin, Ginette Dionne, Michel Boivin
This study used a longitudinal design from age six through age 19 (N = 1206 (603 girls)) to examine the associations between anxious-withdrawal and reactive aggression during childhood, distinct profiles of peer victimization from kindergarten to grade 11 and victimization in college or at work in emerging adulthood. In particular, it was tested whether the predictive effect of personal characteristics
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Maternal Parenting and Toddler Temperament: Predictors of Early School Age Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder-Related Behaviors J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Heather M. Joseph, Kirsten M. P. McKone, Brooke S. G. Molina, Daniel S. Shaw
Detection of early risk for developing childhood attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) symptoms, inattention and hyperactivity, may be critical for prevention and early intervention. Temperament and parenting are two promising areas of risk, representing potential targets for preventive intervention; however, studies have rarely tested these factors longitudinally using multiple methods and
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Improved Parent–Child Interactions Predict Reduced Internalizing Symptoms Among the Offspring of Parents with Bipolar Disorder Undergoing a Prevention Program: A Proof-of-Concept Study J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Lisa Serravalle, Vanessa Iacono, Alexa L. Wilson, Mark Anthony Orlando, Virginia Tsekova, Mark A. Ellenbogen
The offspring of parents with bipolar disorder (OBD) exhibit elevated rates of psychopathology. However, preventative interventions are lacking. Using a quasi-experimental design with an assessment-only control group, we examined if a 12-week program (entitled Reducing Unwanted Stress in the Home, RUSH) decreases internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the OBD (aged 6–11 years) via intervention-related
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Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Maladaptive Interpersonal Behavior in Adolescence J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette, Hannah R. Lawrence, Jessica Shankman, Eliot Fearey, Raegan Harrington
Although most research conceptualizes emotion regulation as an internal process (i.e., intrapersonal), emotions are frequently regulated in an interpersonal context. Adolescents may be particularly prone to turn to peers for assistance, given that honing emotion regulation abilities is a key task and peers become increasingly important at this stage. Adolescents each participated with a self-nominated
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Evaluating the Viability of Neurocognition as a Transdiagnostic Construct Using Both Latent Variable Models and Network Analysis J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Hana-May Eadeh, Kristian E. Markon, Joel T. Nigg, Molly A. Nikolas
The relational structure of psychological symptoms and disorders is of crucial importance to mechanistic and causal research. Methodologically, factor analytic approaches (latent variable modeling) and network analyses are two dominant approaches. Amidst some debate about their relative merits, use of both methods simultaneously in the same data set has rarely been reported in child or adolescent psychopathology
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Developmental Variation in the Associations of Attention Bias to Emotion with Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Jessica L. Jenness, Hilary K. Lambert, Debbie Bitrán, Jennifer B. Blossom, Erik C. Nook, Stephanie F. Sasse, Leah H. Somerville, Katie A. McLaughlin
Attention biases to emotion are associated with symptoms of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in children and adolescents. It is unknown whether attention biases to emotion and their associations with different symptoms of psychopathology vary across development from early childhood through young adulthood. We examine this age-related variation in the current study. Participants (N = 190;
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A Longitudinal Investigation of Children’s Trauma Memory Characteristics and Their Relationship with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Rosie McGuire, Rachel M. Hiller, Anke Ehlers, Pasco Fearon, Richard Meiser-Stedman, Sophie Leuteritz, Sarah L. Halligan
While trauma memory characteristics are considered a core predictor of adult PTSD, the literature on child PTSD is limited and inconsistent. We investigated whether children’s trauma memory characteristics predict their posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) at 1 month and 6 months post-trauma. We recruited 126 6–13 year olds who experienced a single-incident trauma that led to attendance at an emergency
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Using Three Reporters to Identify Pre-Adolescent Peer Victims through Latent Profile Analysis J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Zachary M. Meehan, Julie A. Hubbard, Stevie N. Grassetti, Marissa A. Docimo, Lauren E. Swift, Megan K. Bookhout
The goals of the current study were to use a three-reporter methodology and multi-level Latent Profile Analysis: (a) to determine the victim groups that emerge; (b) to evaluate the stability of victim groups over one school year; and (c) to examine differences among victim groups across the adjustment constructs of aggression, depression, anxiety, and negative peer relations. Our sample included 1440
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The Role of Parental Beliefs About Anxiety and Attachment on Parental Accommodation of Child Anxiety J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Carly Johnco, Eric A. Storch, Ella Oar, Nicole M. McBride, Sophie Schneider, Wendy K. Silverman, Eli R. Lebowitz
This study examined: 1) the relationship between negative parental beliefs about child anxiety (i.e., it is harmful), insecure parental attachment and parental accommodation of child anxiety; 2) whether parental attachment insecurity moderates the effect of negative beliefs about anxiety on parent accommodation; and 3) a path model of parental factors affecting accommodation and child anxiety severity
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Children’s ADHD Symptoms and Friendship Patterns across a School Year J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Yeeun Lee, Amori Yee Mikami, Julie Sarno Owens
Symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in elementary school-age children are associated with poor relationships with classroom peers, as indicated by poor social preference, low peer support, and peer victimization. Less is known about how friendship patterns relate to ADHD symptoms, or how friendships may buffer risk for negative peer experiences. Participants were 558 children
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Maternal Emotion Socialization of Adolescent Girls Engaging in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Helen V. White, Thanharat Silamongkol, Andrea Wiglesworth, Madelyn H. Labella, Emersyn R. Goetz, Kathryn R. Cullen, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Non-suicidal self injury (NSSI) is a transdiagnostic maladaptive behavior that is highly prevalent in adolescence. A greater understanding of the mechanisms leading to NSSI is needed to guide the development of prevention efforts. The current study examined the relationship between maternal socialization of emotions and NSSI behaviors in their children. Female adolescents (N = 90, 12–17 years old)
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Maternal Depression and Child Externalizing Behaviors: The Role of Attachment Across Development in Low-income Families J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Christina Carlone, Stephanie Milan
Early attachment quality may be a lasting source of vulnerability or protection in children’s development. In this study, we examine whether attachment quality at age three moderates the impact of subsequent exposure to maternal depression (at age five or nine) on children’s externalizing symptoms at age nine. The sample included 1,917 low-income families (mean child age = 9.28; 55.9% African-American
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Variants of Psychopathic Traits Follow Distinct Trajectories of Clinical Features Among Children with Conduct Problems J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Vincent Bégin, Michèle Déry, Yann Le Corff
Original definitions of psychopathy suggest the existence of two variants that present with distinct clinical features among antisocial adults, but whether these clinical differences originate early in life or emerge at some point during childhood remains uncertain. We examined if primary and secondary variants follow distinct developmental trajectories of theoretically relevant clinical features among
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Polygenic Scores for ADHD: A Meta-Analysis J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. (IF 2.864) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 James J. Li, Quanfa He
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder that is known to have a polygenic (i.e., many genes of individually small effects) architecture. Polygenic scores (PGS), which characterize this polygenicity as a single score for a given individual, are considered the state-of-the-art in psychiatric genetics research. Despite the proliferation of ADHD
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