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The relationships between parental attachment, peer attachment, automatic thoughts, and mindfulness skills among Iranian adolescents Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Mohtaram Rabbani, Simin Hosseinian, Saeid Nosrati
This study aimed to examine the relationship between parental attachment, peer attachments, and automatic thoughts with adolescent mindfulness skills in Iranian adolescents, drawing on internal working models and social cognitive theory. The data was collected from a sample of Iranian adolescents in Tehran using standardized measurement instruments previously developed by researchers. The collected
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Coping self-efficacy mediates effects of posttraumatic distress on communal coping in parent-adolescence dyads after floods Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Kotaro Shoji, Charles C. Benight, Tamara Afifi, Erika D. Felix
Social cognitive theory provides a framework of human agency during environmental challenges, with coping self-efficacy (CSE) as an important construct underlying adaptation. We examined two alternative models involving CSE as a mediator of the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and communal coping among parent-youth dyads after severe floods using Bayesian dyadic multilevel modeling
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Variation in coupling across neural and cardiac systems of regulation is linked to markers of anxiety risk in preschool Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Sarah G. Peoples, Elizabeth L. Davis, Rebecca J. Brooker
Both cortical and parasympathetic systems are believed to regulate emotional arousal in the service of healthy development. Systemic coordination, or coupling, between putative regulatory functions begins in early childhood. Yet the degree of coupling between cortical and parasympathetic systems in young children remains unclear, particularly in relation to the development of typical or atypical emotion
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Programming the next generation of prenatal programming of stress research: A review and suggestions for the future of the field Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nicole R. Bush
In this article, I highlight core ideas, empirical findings, and advances in the study of how stress during pregnancy may prenatally program child neurodevelopmental, psychopathological, and health outcomes, emphasizing reviews, metanalyses, and recent contributions of conceptual and empirical work. The article offers a perspective on the history of this area of science, the underrecognized contributions
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Emotional impacts of racial discrimination on caregiver-child dyads: Can mentalizing-focused parenting groups buffer against racism-related stress? Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Henry A. Willis, Lillian Polanco-Roman, Olivia J. Derella, Amanda Zayde
Black and Latinx caregivers face high risk for parenting stress and racism-related stress due to experiences of racial discrimination (RD). This study aimed to explore the associations between RD, parenting stress, and psychological distress in caregiver-child dyads, as well as the impact of a mentalizing-focused group intervention on caregivers’ experiences of RD distress. Ethnoracially minoritized
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Psychopathology as long-term sequelae of maltreatment and socioeconomic disadvantage: Neurocognitive development perspectives Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, Alexis Brieant, Ann Folker, Morgan Lindenmuth, Jacob Lee, Brooks Casas, Kirby Deater-Deckard
Neuroscience research underscores the critical impact of adverse experiences on brain development. Yet, there is limited understanding of the specific pathways linking adverse experiences to accelerated or delayed brain development and their ultimate contributions to psychopathology. Here, we present new longitudinal data demonstrating that neurocognitive functioning during adolescence, as affected
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Social anxiety moderates the association between adolescent irritability and bully perpetration Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Michael T. Perino, Jennifer C. Harper-Lednicky, Alecia C. Vogel, Chad M. Sylvester, Deanna M. Barch, Joan L. Luby
Background: Preliminary work suggests anxiety moderates the relationship between irritability and bullying. As anxiety increases, the link between irritability and perpetration decreases. We hypothesize that any moderation effect of anxiety is driven by social anxiety symptoms. We sought to explicate the moderating effect of anxiety, while clarifying relations to other aggressive behaviors. Methods:
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Patterns and predictors of alcohol misuse trajectories from adolescence through early midlife Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mallory Stephenson, Peter Barr, Nathaniel Thomas, Megan Cooke, Antti Latvala, Richard J. Rose, Jaakko Kaprio, Danielle Dick, Jessica E. Salvatore
We took a multilevel developmental contextual approach and characterized trajectories of alcohol misuse from adolescence through early midlife, examined genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in those trajectories, and identified adolescent and young adult factors associated with change in alcohol misuse. Data were from two longitudinal population-based studies. FinnTwin16
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Towards the understanding of the core of general personality disorder factor: g-PD and its relation to hostile attributions Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Anna Zajenkowska, Iwona Nowakowska, Jan Cieciuch, Łukasz Gawęda, Radosław Rogoza, Amy Pinkham, Katarzyna Czajkowska-Łukasiewicz
There is a general consensus that personality disorders (PDs) share a general factor (g-PD) overlapping with the general factor of psychopathology (p-factor). The general psychopathology factor is related to many social dysfunctions, but its nature still remains to some extent ambiguous. We posit that hostile attributions may be explanatory for the factor common for all PDs, i.e., interpersonal problems
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Emergence and evolution of developmental resilience science over half a century Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Ann S. Masten
This reflection on the history and future of developmental resilience science (DRS) highlights its co-emergence with developmental psychopathology (DP), as well as the roles of this journal and its founding editor, Dante Cicchetti, in the evolution of these intertwined domains of scholarship. A remarkable constellation of scholars at the University of Minnesota shaped the course of both conceptual
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The long and winding road: Pathways from basic research to implementation and evaluation Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sheree L. Toth, Catherine Cerulli, Jody Todd Manly
In this article, we celebrate Dante Cicchetti’s extensive contributions to the discipline of developmental psychopathology. In his seminal article, he articulated why developmental psychopathology was imperative to create research portfolios that could inform the causes, consequences, and trajectories for adults often initiated by early lived experiences (Cicchetti, 1984). In this three-part article
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The future of neuroscience in developmental psychopathology Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Luke W. Hyde, Jessica L. Bezek, Cleanthis Michael
Developmental psychopathology started as an intersection of fields and is now a field itself. As we contemplate the future of this field, we consider the ways in which a newer, interdisciplinary field – human developmental neuroscience – can inform, and be informed by, developmental psychopathology. To do so, we outline principles of developmental psychopathology and how they are and/or can be implemented
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Family risk, parental cortisol contagion, and parenting: A process-oriented approach to spillover Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Zhi Li, Melissa L. Sturge-Apple, Hannah G. Swerbenski, Siwei Liu, Patrick T. Davies
This multi-method longitudinal study sought to investigate linkage in parental neuroendocrine functioning – indicated by cortisol – over two measurement occasions. In addition, we examined how parental cortisol linkage may operate as an intermediate factor in the cascade of contextual risks and parenting. Participants were 235 families with a young child (Mage = 33.56, 36.00 years for mothers and fathers
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Genetic and phenotypic evidence of the predictive validity of preschool parent reports of hyperactivity/impulsivity and inattention Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ginette Dionne, Sara Mascheretti, Bei Feng, Hélène Paradis, Mara Brendgen, Frank Vitaro, Richard Tremblay, Michel Boivin
To determine the validity of parent reports (PRs) of ADHD in preschoolers, we assessed hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI) and inattention (IN) in 1114 twins with PRs at 1.5, 2.5, 4, 5, 14, 15, and 17 years, and teacher-reports at 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12. We examined if preschool PRs (1) predict high HI/IN trajectories, and (2) capture genetic contributions to HI/IN into adolescence. Group-based trajectory
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Trait anxiety predicting the developmental trajectories of depression symptoms in children: The mediating role of attentional control Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Qiaochu Zhang
Trait anxiety and attentional control are important factors related to depression symptoms. The study investigated how trait anxiety and attentional control predicted the trajectories of depression symptoms during the transition into early adolescence. The mediating effect of attentional control on the relationship of trait anxiety to the trajectories of depression symptoms was also examined. Children
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The double jeopardy of low family income and negative emotionality: The family stress model revisited Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Gülbin Şengül-İnal, Nicolai Topstad Borgen, Eric Dearing, Henrik Daae Zachrisson
The family stress model has, for decades, guided empirical work linking poverty with increased risk of child social-emotional dysfunction. The present study extends this line of work by examining whether child negative emotionality moderates associations between family income, family stress (maternal distress, parental locus of control, and relationship dissatisfaction), and later externalizing and
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How a defensive mindset develops from early adverse experiences and guides antisocial outcomes Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kenneth A. Dodge
Dante Cicchetti has had a lasting impact on our understanding of the development of externalizing psychopathology through at least two seminal contributions, including establishment of the field of developmental psychopathology and assertion of the hypothesis that early physical abuse and neglect trigger a cascade of maladaptive outcomes across the life course. These ideas have guided a program of
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Maternal alcohol dependence symptoms, maternal insensitivity to children’s distress, and young children’s blunted emotional reactivity Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Debrielle T. Jacques, Melissa L. Sturge-Apple, Patrick T. Davies, Dante Cicchetti
Maternal insensitivity to children’s emotional distress (e.g., expressions of sadness or fearfulness) is one mechanism through which maternal alcohol dependence may increase children’s risk for psychopathology. Although emotion dysregulation is consistently associated with psychopathology, it remains unclear how or why alcohol dependence’s effects on caregiving responses to children’s distress may
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Temperament and sex as moderating factors of the effects of exposure to maternal depression on telomere length in early childhood Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Immaculata De Vivo, Carter R. Petty, Charles A. Nelson
Individual differences in sensitivity to context are posited to emerge early in development and to influence the effects of environmental exposures on a range of developmental outcomes. The goal of the current study was to examine the hypothesis that temperament characteristics and biological sex confer differential vulnerability to the effects of exposure to maternal depression on telomere length
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Examination of protective factors that promote prosocial skill development among children exposed to intimate partner violence Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Megan R. Holmes, Anna E. Bender, Susan Yoon, Kristen A. Berg, Janelle Duda-Banwar, Yafan Chen, Kylie E. Evans, Amy Korsch-Williams, Adam T. Perzynski
This retrospective cohort study examined prosocial skills development in child welfare-involved children, how intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure explained heterogeneity in children’s trajectories of prosocial skill development, and the degree to which protective factors across children’s ecologies promoted prosocial skill development. Data were from 1,678 children from the National Survey of
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Hot and cool executive function in the development of behavioral problems in grade school Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yiji Wang, Huayu Ji
Despite the well-established link between children’s executive function and behavioral adjustment, it remains unclear whether the hot and cool aspects of executive function are uniquely associated with children’s behavioral problems. Using longitudinal data spanning in the grade school (N = 1,140), this study aimed to examine whether hot and cool executive function skills may be uniquely related to
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Integrating equifinality and multifinality into the of prevention programs in early childhood: The conceptual case for use of tiered models Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Daniel S. Shaw, Alan L. Mendelsohn, Pamela A. Morris-Perez, Chelsea Weaver Krug
Introduced in the context of developmental psychopathology by Cicchetti and Rogosh in the Journal, the current paper incorporates the principles of equifinality and multifinality to support the use of tiered models to prevent the development of emerging child psychopathology and promote school readiness in early childhood. We use the principles of equifinality and multifinality to describe the limitations
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Parenting in a post-conflict region: Associations between observed maternal parenting practices and maternal, child, and contextual factors in northern Uganda Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Julia Möllerherm, Regina Saile, Elizabeth Wieling, Frank Neuner, Claudia Catani
Studies show that war leads to an increase in harsh parenting and a decrease in parental warmth, which in turn has a devastating impact on children’s development. However, there is insufficient research on the factors that affect parenting in post-conflict regions. In addition, most previous studies on the role of parenting in the context of war rely on self-reports, which are subject to a number of
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Person-centered methods to advance developmental psychopathology Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Elizabeth D. Handley, Erinn B. Duprey, Justin Russotti, Rachel Y. Levin, Jennifer M. Warmingham
Dante Cicchetti’s remarkable contributions to the field of developmental psychopathology include the advancement of key principles such as the interplay of typical and atypical development, multifinality and equifinality, the dynamic processes of resilience, and the integration of multiple levels of analysis into developmental theories. In this paper we assert that person-centered data analytic methods
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Principles, policies, and practices: Thoughts on their integration over the rise of the developmental psychopathology perspective and into the future Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Erin B. Tone, Christopher C. Henrich
Developmental psychopathology has, since the late 20th century, offered an influential integrative framework for conceptualizing psychological health, distress, and dysfunction across the lifespan. Leaders in the field have periodically generated predictions about its future and have proposed ways to increase the macroparadigm’s impact. In this paper, we examine, using articles sampled from each decade
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Using randomized controlled trials to ask questions regarding developmental psychopathology: A tribute to Dante Cicchetti Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Kristen N. Miller, Stacia V. Bourne, Claire M. Dahl, Christopher Costello, Jillian Attinelly, Kathryn Jennings, Mary Dozier
Dante Cicchetti, the architect of developmental psychopathology, has influenced so many of us in profound ways. One of his many contributions was in demonstrating the power of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to study the effects of Child–Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). These RCTs have shed light on causal mechanisms in development. Following Cicchetti and colleagues’ work, we designed a brief home
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Developmental perspectives on the origins of psychotic disorders: The need for a transdiagnostic approach Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Elaine F. Walker, Katrina Aberizk, Emerald Yuan, Zarina Bilgrami, Benson S. Ku, Ryan M. Guest
Research on serious mental disorders, particularly psychosis, has revealed highly variable symptom profiles and developmental trajectories prior to illness-onset. As Dante Cicchetti pointed out decades before the term “transdiagnostic” was widely used, the pathways to psychopathology emerge in a system involving equifinality and multifinality. Like most other psychological disorders, psychosis is associated
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Beyond form: The value of systems conceptualizations of function in increasing precision and novelty in the study of developmental psychopathology Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Patrick T. Davies, Melissa L. Sturge-Apple
Developmental psychopathology has successfully advanced an understanding of risk and protective factors in multivariate models. However, many areas have relied on top-down approaches that define psychological constructs based largely or solely on their physical form. In this paper, we first describe how top-down approaches have significantly hindered progress by generating generic risk and protective
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Caregiving relationships are a cornerstone of developmental psychopathology Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Kathryn L. Humphreys, Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Kaylin E. Hill, Lauren G. Bailes, Whitney Barnett, Megan M. Hare
The interdisciplinary field of developmental psychopathology has made great strides by including context into theoretical and empirical approaches to studying risk and resilience. Perhaps no context is more important to the developing child than their relationships with their caregivers (typically a child’s parents), as caregivers are a key source of stimulation and nurturance to young children. Coupled
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Developmental psychopathology as a meta-paradigm: From zero-sum science to epistemological pluralism in theory and research Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Theodore P. Beauchaine
In a thoughtful commentary in this journal a decade ago, Michael Rutter reviewed 25 years of progress in the field before concluding that developmental psychopathology (DP) initiated a paradigm shift in clinical science. This deduction requires that DP itself be a paradigm. According to Thomas Kuhn, canonical paradigms in the physical sciences serve unifying functions by consolidating scientists’ thinking
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Developmental trajectories of adolescent internalizing symptoms and parental responses to distress Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jason D. Jones, R. Chris Fraley, Jessica A. Stern, Carl W. Lejuez, Jude Cassidy
Parents’ responses to their children’s negative emotions are a central aspect of emotion socialization that have well-established associations with the development of psychopathology. Yet research is lacking on potential bidirectional associations between parental responses and youth symptoms that may unfold over time. Further, additional research is needed on sociocultural factors that may be related
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Reflections on resilience Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Edith Chen, Tao Jiang, Michelle A. Chen, Gregory E. Miller
Resilience research has long sought to understand how factors at the child, family, school, community, and societal levels shape adaptation in the face of adversities such as poverty and war. In this article we reflect on three themes that may prove to be useful for future resilience research. First is the idea that mental and physical health can sometimes diverge, even in response to the same social
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Taking stock to move forward: Where the field of developmental psychopathology might be heading Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Peter Fonagy, Patrick Luyten, Elizabeth Allison, Chloe Campbell
In this paper, dedicated to Dante Cicchetti’s contributions and enduring influence, we explore the prospective directions of developmental psychopathology. Our focus centers on key domains where Cicchetti’s significant achievements have continually shaped our evolving thinking about psychological development. These domains include (a) the concepts of equifinality and multifinality, along with the challenges
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Beyond developmental psychopathology: Positive child development Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Michael Pluess
The field of developmental psychopathology has made significant contributions to our understanding of both typical and atypical development. However, while there are established theories for developmental psychopathology with detailed criteria for pathological outcomes, there is less agreement regarding development under optimal conditions and the definition of positive outcomes. In this conceptual
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The pernicious role of stress on intergenerational continuity of psychopathology Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Leslie D. Leve, Veronica Oro, Misaki N. Natsuaki, Gordon T. Harold, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Jody M. Ganiban, Daniel S. Shaw, David S. DeGarmo
Development and Psychopathology has been a premier resource for understanding stressful childhood experiences and the intergenerational continuity of psychopathology. Building on that tradition, we examined the unique and joint influences of maternal stress on children’s effortful control (age 7) and externalizing behavior (age 11) as transmitted via genetics, the prenatal environment, and the postnatal
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The onset of mental health disparities in sexual minority and majority youth: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Charlotte Booth, Emla Fitzsimons
Decades of research shows that sexual minority youth (SMY) display heightened risk for mental health problems, although the onset of such disparities remains unclear. The Millennium Cohort Study is the largest nationally representative longitudinal study of adolescents in the United Kingdom. In this study, participants (N = 10,047, 50% female) self-reported their sexual identity at age 17 and had parent-reported
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Neuroticism and extraversion as predictors of first-lifetime onsets of depression, anxiety, and suicidality in high-risk adolescents Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 McKinley Pawlak, Hayley Schmidtler, Daniel C. Kopala-Sibley
There is substantial evidence that personality traits, in particular neuroticism and extraversions predict depressive and anxiety episodes as well as suicidal ideation. However, little research has examined whether these traits predict the first onset of depressive and anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation. Moreover, the few studies to date have not adjusted for pre-existing subthreshold symptoms
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The next generation of developmental psychopathology research: Including broader perspectives and becoming more precise Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Kristin Valentino, Katherine Edler
The current Special Issue marks a major milestone in the history of developmental psychopathology; as the final issue edited by Cicchetti, we have an opportunity to reflect on the remarkable progress of the discipline across the last four decades, as well as challenges and future directions for the field. With contemporary issues in mind, including rising rates of psychopathology, health disparities
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Are prosocial tendencies relevant for developmental psychopathology? The relations of prosocial behavior and empathy-related responding to externalizing problems, internalizing problems, and autism spectrum disorder Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Nancy Eisenberg, Antonio Zuffianò, Tracy L. Spinrad
The field of developmental psychopathology tends to focus on the negative aspects of functioning. However, prosocial behavior and empathy-related responding – positive aspects of functioning– might relate to some aspects of psychopathology in meaningful ways. In this article, we review research on the relations of three types of developmental psychopathology– externalizing problems (EPs), internalizing
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Developmental psychopathology: Our welcoming, inclusive, and eclectic intellectual home Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Grazyna Kochanska, Danming An
The integrative nature of developmental psychopathology is its defining and most remarkable feature. Since its inception, often identified with the special issue of Child Development (Cichetti, 1984), this new discipline has shattered barriers and divisions that until then had artificially compartmentalized the study of human development, and perhaps even psychology in general, and it has proposed
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The nature of nurture: Darwinian and mendelian perspectives Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jay Belsky
Two perspectives on the nature of nurture are reviewed, one Mendelian and the other Darwinian, in an effort to draw links between the two and, thereby, integrate them in a developmental modern synthesis, mirroring the one that took place in biology early in the last century. Thus, the heritability of environmental measures and gene-X-environment interaction are discussed with respect to Mendelian nature
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What’s next for the field of multigenerational mental health? The need for deep behavioral phenotyping via a prenatal mental health registry Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Elisabeth Conradt, Sierra Carter, Sheila E. Crowell
From its inception, development and psychopathology theorists have sought to uncover the earliest forms of risk for mental health challenges in children, to prevent the development of more severe, intractable manifestations of psychopathology. Large familial risk registries have advanced our understanding of early, potentially modifiable factors that could prevent or mitigate the expression of challenging
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Adolescent psychopathic traits and adverse environments: Associations with socially adaptive outcomes Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Kristopher J. Brazil, Ann H. Farrell, Abby Boer, Anthony A. Volk
Researchers have suggested that psychopathic traits among adults may be, at least in part, an adaptive and/or a learned response for securing socially adaptive outcomes in adverse environments, but there is a lack of developmental evidence supporting this hypothesis among adolescents. Therefore, we examined the indirect links from self-perceived adverse environments (parental neglect, socioeconomic
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Let’s face it! The role of social anxiety and executive functions in recognizing others’ emotions from faces: Evidence from autism and specific learning disorders Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Rachele Lievore, Ramona Cardillo, Irene C. Mammarella
Youth with different developmental disorders might experience challenges when dealing with facial emotion recognition (FER). By comparing FER and related emotional and cognitive factors across developmental disorders, researchers can gain a better understanding of challenges and strengths associated with each condition. The aim of the present study was to investigate how social anxiety and executive
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Polygenic risk and hostile environments: Links to stable and dynamic antisocial behaviors across adolescence Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 E. L. Acland, N. Pocuca, S. Paquin, M. Boivin, I. Ouellet-Morin, T. F. M. Andlauer, J. P. Gouin, S. M. Côté, R. E. Tremblay, M. Geoffroy, N. Castellanos-Ryan
Adverse environments are linked to elevated youth antisocial behavior. However, this relation is thought to depend, in part, on genetic susceptibility. The present study investigated whether polygenic risk for antisociality moderates relations between hostile environments and stable as well as dynamic antisocial behaviors across adolescence. We derived two antisocial-linked polygenic risk scores (PRS)
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Unresolved attachment and identity diffusion in adolescence Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Manuela Gander, Anna Buchheim, Gabriele Kohlböck, Kathrin Sevecke
This study examined the severity of unresolved attachment underlying adolescent identity diffusion. Our sample consisted of 180 inpatient adolescents aged 14 to 18 years (77% female, M age = 15.13, SD = 1.35; 23% male, M age = 14.85, SD = 1.41) and 84 age-matched non-clinical adolescents (52% female, M age = 16.14, SD = 1.21; 48% males, M age = 15.98, SD = 1.07). We used the Adult Attachment Projective
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Maternal cognitive functioning and psychopathology predict quality of parent-child relationship in the context of substance use disorder: A 15-month longitudinal study Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Alessio Porreca, Pietro De Carli, Bianca Filippi, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Alessandra Simonelli
This longitudinal study aimed to investigate the role of maternal cognitive functioning and psychopathology in parent-child relationship quality during residential treatment for mothers with Substance Use Disorder (SUD), in order to identify factors that may enhance or limit intervention effects. We assessed cognitive functioning (Esame Neuropsicologico Breve-2 [ENB-2]) and psychopathology (Symptom
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Attachment expectations moderate links between social support and maternal adjustment from 6 to 18 months postpartum Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Yufei Gu, Theodore E.A. Waters, Victoria Zhu, Brittany Jamieson, Danielle Lim, Gabrielle Schmitt, Leslie Atkinson
Significant links exist between one’s perception of available social support and mental health outcomes, including during the transition to motherhood. Yet, attachment theory posits that individuals do not benefit equally from social support. As such, we examined the influence of attachment representations (i.e., secure base script knowledge) as they potentially moderate links between social support
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How adolescents’ lives were disrupted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal investigation in 12 cultural groups in 9 nations from March 2020 to July 2022 Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 W. Andrew Rothenberg, Ann T. Skinner, Jennifer E. Lansford, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Daranee Junla, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al-Hassan
It is unclear how much adolescents’ lives were disrupted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic or what risk factors predicted such disruption. To answer these questions, 1,080 adolescents in 9 nations were surveyed 5 times from March 2020 to July 2022. Rates of adolescent COVID-19 life disruption were stable and high. Adolescents who, compared to their peers, lived in nations with higher national COVID-19
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Pre-COVID respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates associations between COVID-19 stress and child externalizing behaviors: Testing neurobiological stress theories Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Hilary Skov, Erin B. Glackin, Stacy S. Drury, Jeffrey Lockman, Sarah A. O. Gray
Exposure to stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic contributes to psychopathology risk, yet not all children are negatively impacted. The current study examined a parasympathetic biomarker of stress sensitivity, respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), as a moderator of the effects of exposure to pandemic stress on child internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a sample of children experiencing economic
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Public health nurse-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for postpartum depression: Assessing the effects of maternal treatment on infant emotion regulation Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Bahar Amani, John E. Krzeczkowski, Louis A. Schmidt, Ryan J. Van Lieshout
The effects of maternal postpartum depression (PPD) on offspring emotion regulation (ER) are particularly deleterious as difficulties with ER predict an increased risk of psychopathology. This study examined the impact of maternal participation in a public health nurse (PHN)-delivered group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention on infant ER. Mothers/birthing parents were ≥ 18 years old with
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Associations between forms of aggression and peer victimization: Does prosocial behavior matter? Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Carlos R. Sanchez, John L. Cooley, Drew E. Winters, Brianna T. Ricker, Paula J. Fite
Relatively little is known regarding factors that may mitigate the strength of the associations between forms of aggressive behavior and peer victimization. The goal of the current study was to investigate prosocial behavior as a moderator of these links over a 2-year period during middle childhood. Participants included 410 third-grade students (53% boys) and their homeroom teachers. Results indicated
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The effects of life experiences and polygenic risk for depression on the development of positive and negative cognitive biases across adolescence: The CogBIAS hypothesis Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Orestis Zavlis, Sam Parsons, Elaine Fox, Charlotte Booth, Annabel Songco, John Paul Vincent
The Cognitive Bias (CogBIAS) hypothesis proposes that cognitive biases develop as a function of environmental influences (which determine the valence of biases) and the genetic susceptibility to those influences (which determines the potency of biases). The current study employed a longitudinal, polygenic-by-environment approach to examine the CogBIAS hypothesis. To this end, measures of life experiences
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Preliminary examination of the effects of an early parenting intervention on amygdala-orbitofrontal cortex resting-state functional connectivity among high-risk children: A randomized clinical trial Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Marta Korom, Emilio A. Valadez, Nim Tottenham, Mary Dozier, Jeffrey M. Spielberg
We examined the long-term causal effects of an evidence-based parenting program delivered in infancy on children’s emotion regulation and resting-state functional connectivity (rs-fc) during middle childhood. Families were referred to the study by Child Protective Services (CPS) as part of a diversion from a foster care program. A low-risk group of families was also recruited. CPS-involved families
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The role of environmental sensitivity in post-traumatic stress symptoms in Lebanese children and adolescents Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Elie G. Karam, John Fayyad, Yuanyuan Huang, Dahlia Saab, Josleen Al Barathie, Michael Pluess
Children differ substantially in their sensitivity to the quality of their environment. Some are more sensitive and more likely to develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in response to Childhood Adversities (CAs), but might also benefit more from Positive Home Experiences (PHE). The aim of this study is to investigate the role of Environmental Sensitivity (ES), CAs and PHEs in PTSD development
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Triarchic traits as risk versus protective factors for ADHD symptomatology: A prospective longitudinal investigation Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Elizabeth S. M. Chan, Emily R. Perkins, Bridget M. Bertoldi, Kelsey L. Lowman, Elia F. Soto, Catherine Tuvblad, Sofi Oskarsson, Laura A. Baker, Christopher J. Patrick
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are associated with myriad adverse outcomes, including interpersonal difficulties, but factors that moderate the developmental course and functional impact of ADHD over time are not well understood. The present study evaluated developmental contributions of the triarchic neurobehavioral traits (boldness, meanness, and disinhibition) to ADHD symptomatology
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Unique roles of adolescents’ friends and fathers in predicting verbal aggression in future adult romantic relationships Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Joseph P. Allen, Meghan A. Costello, Corey Pettit, Natasha A. Bailey, Jessica A. Stern
This 20-year prospective study examined verbal aggression and intense conflict within the family of origin and between adolescents and their close friends as predictors of future verbal aggression in adult romantic relationships. A diverse community sample of 154 individuals was assessed repeatedly from age 13 to 34 years using self-, parent, peer, and romantic partner reports. As hypothesized, verbal
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Within-person reciprocal links between stress, sleep, and depressive symptoms across Latino/a adolescents’ transition to and through college Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jeri Sasser, Emma K. Lecarie, Michaela S. Gusman, Leah D. Doane
Evidence suggests bidirectional relations between stress, sleep, and depressive symptoms in adolescence and young adulthood. Less research has disaggregated within- and between-person variance in these associations over time or within Latino/a college students. This study examined longitudinal, within-person reciprocal relations between stress, sleep, and depressive symptoms among 181 Latino/a adolescents
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Childhood abuse and neglect and profiles of adult emotion dynamics Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 S. Myroniuk, A. M. Reitsema, P. de Jonge, B. F. Jeronimus
Childhood maltreatment (CM) is experienced by ∼40% of all children at major personal and societal costs. The divergent associations between emotional, physical, and sexual abuse or neglect in childhood and differences in adult emotional functioning and regulation were examined in terms of daily emotion intensity, variability, instability, inertia, and diversity, reported over 30 days by 290 Dutch aged
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Collateral effects of Coping Power on caregiver symptoms of depression and long-term changes in child behavior Development and Psychopathology (IF 5.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Lissette M. Saavedra, John E. Lochman, Antonio A. Morgan-López, Heather L. McDaniel, Catherine P. Bradshaw, Nicole P. Powell, Lixin Qu, Alexa Budavari, Anna C. Yaros
A large body of research demonstrates positive impacts of the Coping Power Program as a preventive intervention for youth behavioral outcomes, but potential collateral effects for caregivers is less known. The current study examined whether the youth-focused Coping Power Program can have a secondary impact on caregiver self-reported symptoms of depression and in turn result in longer-term impacts on