| Adult Attachment States of Mind: Measurement Invariance Across Ethnicity and Associations With Maternal Sensitivity |
2013 |
1239 |
This study examined the developmental significance of mothers' adult attachment representations assessed prenatally with the Adult Attachment Interview in relation to observed maternal sensitivity at 6 months postpartum in an ethnically diverse sampl... |
| African American and European American Mothers' Beliefs About Negative Emotions and Emotion Socialization Practices |
2012 |
4991 |
Objective . The authors examined mothers’ beliefs about their children's negative emotions and their emotion socialization practices. Design . A total of 65 African American and 137 European American mothers of 5-year-old children reported their beli... |
| Antecedents of maternal sensitivity during distressing tasks: Integrating attachment, social information processing, and psychobiological perspectives |
2015 |
1385 |
Predictors of maternal sensitivity to infant distress were examined among 259 primiparous mothers. The Adult Attachment Interview, self-reports of personality and emotional functioning, and measures of physiological, emotional, and cognitive response... |
| Associations between eating behaviors, diet quality and body mass index among adolescents |
2020 |
292 |
Objective: Some eating behaviors are associated with negative nutrition-related outcomes in adults, but research is lacking in adolescent samples. The current study examined whether dietary restraint moderates the relationship between disinhibition a... |
| Attentional fluctuations in preschoolers: Direct and indirect relations with task accuracy, academic readiness, and school performance |
2018 |
969 |
Attentional control fluctuates in the presence of internal and external distractors, wandering on and off a given task. The current study investigated individual differences in attentional fluctuations in 250 preschoolers. Attentional fluctuations we... |
| Behavioral and physiological antecedents of inhibited and uninhibited behavior. |
1996 |
6061 |
4-month-old infants were specifically selected for patterns of affective and motoric reactivity that were hypothesized to be associated with later inhibited and uninhibited behavior. Infants were classified as high on motor activity and negative affe... |
| Being alone, playing alone and acting alone: Distinguishing among reticence, and passive- and active-solitude in young children. |
1994 |
6069 |
Three forms of solitude were studied in young children—reticence (onlooker and unoecupied behavior), solitary-passive behavior (solitary-constructive and -exploratory play), and solitary-active behavior (solitary-functional and -dramatic play). 48 4-... |
| Biological, behavioral, and relational levels of resilience in the context of risk for early childhood behavior problems. |
2007 |
3725 |
Longitudinal growth patterns of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems were examined in a community sample of 441 children across the ages of 2 to 5 using hierarchical linear modeling. Contextual risk was measured using five indicators (so... |
| A biopsychosocial perspective on maternal psychopathology and the development of child emotion regulation |
2014 |
601 |
In this commentary, the authors note that Gratz and colleagues (2014) have made an important step in understanding the effect of maternal borderline personality (BP) pathology on children's developing emotion regulation. The emphasis on mechanisms of... |
| A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Parenting and Developmental Psychopathology |
2013 |
10921 |
Although considerable research has examined the relations between parental behavior and a range of child developmental outcomes, much of this work has been conducted at a very broad level of behavioral analysis. A developmental psychopathology framew... |
| Cardiac vagal regulation and early peer status. |
2007 |
3267 |
A sample of 341 5 ½ -year-old children participating in an ongoing longitudinal study was the focus of a study on the relation between cardiac vagal regulation and peer status. To assess cardiac vagal regulation, resting measures of respiratory sinus... |
| Cardiac vagal regulation to emotional challenge differentiates among child behavior problem subtypes. |
2007 |
1908 |
A sample of 335 five-year-old children participating in an ongoing longitudinal study was the focus of a study on the effects of emotional and behavioral challenge on cardiac activity in children with different patterns of early childhood behavior pr... |
| Cardiovascular Regulation Profile Predicts Developmental Trajectory of BMI and Pediatric Obesity |
2011 |
2602 |
The present study examined the role of cardiovascular regulation in predicting pediatric obesity. Participants for this study included 268 children (141 girls) obtained from a larger ongoing longitudinal study. To assess cardiac vagal regulation, res... |
| Childhood self-regulation as a mechanism through which early overcontrolling parenting is associated with adjustment in preadolescence |
2018 |
768 |
We examined longitudinal associations across an 8-year time span between overcontrolling parenting during toddlerhood, self-regulation during early childhood, and social, emotional, and academic adjustment in preadolescence (N = 422). Overcontrolling... |
| Childhood social preference predicts lowered risk of insulin resistance in adolescence |
2020 |
209 |
Insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and Type II diabetes are increasingly common among young people in the United States. The quality of social relationships is a predictor of cardiometabolic health among adults, but has not been studied as a predi... |
| Childhood temperament predictors of adolescent physical activity |
2017 |
1039 |
Background: Physical inactivity is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Many patterns of physical activity involvement are established early in life. To date, the role of easily identifiable early-life individual predictors of PA, such as childhoo... |
| Cognitive and emotional processes as predictors of a successful transition into school |
2017 |
1974 |
Research Findings: The aim of this research was to delineate developmental processes that contribute to early school success. To achieve this aim, we examined emotion regulation, executive functioning, emotion knowledge, and metacognition at ages 3 a... |
| Continuity and Discontinuity of Behavioral Inhibition and Exuberance: Psychophysiological and Behavioral Influences across the First Four Years of Life. |
2001 |
12369 |
Four-month-old infants were screened (N = 433) for temperamental patterns thought to predict behavioral inhibition, including motor reactivity and the expression of negative affect. Those selected (N = 153) were assessed at multiple age points across... |
| Contributions of Child’s Physiology and Maternal Behavior to Children’s Trajectories of Temperamental Reactivity |
2010 |
2348 |
Trajectories of children’s temperamental reactivity (negative affectivity and surgency) were examined in a community sample of 370 children across the ages of 4 to 7 using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Children’s physiological reactivity (respiratory... |
| The development of self-control of emotion: Intrinsic and extrinsic influences. |
2003 |
9533 |
In this paper, we review evidence that supports the notion that intrinsic and extrinsic factors contribute to the development self-control of emotions. Intrinsic factors include the infant’s temperament, and cognitive processes such as attention and ... |
| Developmental cascade and transactional associations among infant biological and behavioral indicators of temperament and maternal behavior |
2017 |
321 |
An empirical model of temperament that assessed transactional and cascade associations between respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), negative affectivity, and the caregiving environment (i.e., maternal intrusiveness) across three time points during inf... |
| Developmental Dynamics of Emotion and Cognition Processes in Preschoolers |
2012 |
2102 |
Dynamic relations during the preschool years across processes of control and understanding in the domains of emotion and cognition were examined. Participants were 263 children (42% non-White) and their mothers who were seen first when the children w... |
| Developmental origins of early antisocial behavior |
2009 |
2984 |
Early antisocial behavior has its origins in childhood behavior problems, particularly those characterized by aggressive
and destructive behavior. Deficits in self-regulation across multiple domains of functioning, from the physiological to
the cog... |
| Developmental patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia from toddlerhood to adolescence |
2020 |
1470 |
Parasympathetic nervous system functioning as indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is widely used as a measure of physiological regulation. We examined developmental patterns of children’s resting RSA and RSA reactivity from 2 to 15 years of... |
| Developmental transitions as windows on parental socialization of emotions. |
1999 |
1976 |
Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad (1998) set forth a model of the socialization of emotion that is both broad in scope and specific in illustrative description. They pointed out that although assumptions have long been made about parents as socializ... |
| Dietary Restraint in Adolescence Predicts Diet Quality in Young Adulthood |
2020 |
946 |
Establishing a diet that follows the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been associated with lower risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer. Some research has shown that individuals’ desire for weight control is an important factor ... |
| Diets rich in fruits and vegetables are associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk in adolescents |
2018 |
1179 |
Obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk are public health concerns in adolescents, yet few studies have examined the association of their diet to CVD risk factors. This study investigated associations between diet, body mass index (BMI), waist ... |
| Differentiating Processes of Control and Understanding in the Early Development of Emotion and Cognition |
2012 |
2181 |
In this study, we examined the hypothesis that preschoolers' performance on emotion and cognitive tasks is organized into discrete processes of control and understanding within the domains of emotion and cognition. Additionally, we examined the relat... |
| Do aggressive/destructive toddlers lack concern for others? Behavioral and physiological indicators of empathic responding in 2-year-old children |
2003 |
5611 |
Ninety-nine 2-year-olds, out of a larger sample of 474 children, were classified as high (n = 49) or low (n = 50) in externalizing (aggressive/destructive) behaviors based on maternal reports assessed twice across a 2-month period. During a laborator... |
| Do hours spent watching television at age 3 and 4 predict vocabulary and executive functioning at age 5? |
2015 |
2244 |
We examined the impact of television viewing at ages 3 and 4 on vocabulary and at age 5 on executive functioning in the context of home learning environment and parental scaffolding. Children (N = 263) were seen in the lab when they were 3 years old ... |
| Does imitation facilitate the acquisition of grammar? Evidence from a study of autistic, Down's syndrome and normal children. |
1990 |
7841 |
This paper re-opens the question of whether imitation plays a sig-nificant role in the acquisition of grammar. Data for this study came from four samples of naturalistic mother-child speech taken over the course of one year from four autistic, four D... |
| The double-edged sword: Emotion regulation in high risk children. |
1996 |
12479 |
The capacity to manage emotion is based on the growth of self-regulatory capacities in the early years, but is also affected by situational demands, influences from other people, and the child's goals for regulating emotion in a particular setting. F... |
| Early physiological regulation predicts the trajectory of externalizing behaviors across the preschool period |
2014 |
1141 |
Early assessments of children's physiological functioning are shown to predict subsequentdevelopmental outcomes. However, individual changes that occur in the development ofphysiological systems may be associated with the pattern of change in behavio... |
| Electroencephalogram and Heart Rate Measures of Working Memory at 5 and 10 Months of Age |
2012 |
2183 |
We recorded electroencephalogram (EEG; 6–9 Hz) and heart rate (HR) from infants at 5 and 10 months of age during baseline and performance on the looking A-not-B task of infant working memory (WM). Longitudinal baseline-to-task comparisons revealed WM... |
| Emotion and cognition processes in preschool children |
2008 |
3027 |
The core processes of emotion understanding, emotion control, cognitive understanding, andcognitive control and their association with early indicators of social and academic success wereexamined in a sample of 141 3-year-old children. Confirmatory f... |
| Emotional reactivity and emotion regulation strategies as predictors of social behavior with peers during toddlerhood. |
1999 |
14580 |
Fifty-six mothers and their 24-month-old toddlers were observed on two occasions in a series of laboratory procedures designed to assess relations between emotional functioning (emotional reactivity and emotion regulation) in an individual assessment... |
| Emotionality, emotion regulation and preschooler’s social adaptation. |
1995 |
15153 |
It was proposed that the interaction between the constructs of emotion regulation and social interaction would predict social adaptation in preschoolers. Ninety-six 4-year-olds were observed in quartets of unfamiliar same-sex peers. Based on parent t... |
| European-American and African-American Mothers' Emotion Socialization Practices Relate Differently to Their Children's Academic and Social-emotional Competence |
2012 |
1263 |
The current study examines whether the relation between mothers' responses to their children's negative emotions and teachers' reports of children's academic performance and social-emotional competence are similar or different for European-American a... |
| Externalizing problems in two-year-olds: Implications for patterns of social behavior and peers’ responses to aggression. |
1999 |
3669 |
A sample of 48 two-year-old children selected on the basis of parents' responses to two administrations of the Child Behavior Checklist for two to three-year-olds was observed in peer interactions. Twenty-four of these children displayed symptoms of ... |
| Family Stress and Parental Responses to Children’s Negative Emotions: Tests of the Spillover, Crossover, and Compensatory Hypotheses |
2009 |
3943 |
The relations between 4 sources of family stress (marital dissatisfaction, home chaos, parental depressive symptoms, and job role dissatisfaction) and the emotion socialization practice of mothers’ and fathers’ responses to children’s negative emotio... |
| Family-level factors affecting social and academic competence of African American children: An examination of promotive and protective factors |
2019 |
318 |
Background: Research shows children’s life trajectories and outcomes are strongly influenced by factors affecting development of social and academic competence that also interact with racial disparities in academic settings. Given the importance of s... |
| Frontal activation asymmetry and social competence at four years of age: Left frontal hyper and hypo activation as correlates of social behavior in preschool children. |
1995 |
2934 |
The pattern of frontal activation as measured by the ongoing electroencephalogram (EEG) may be a marker for individual differences in infant and adult disposition to respond with either positive or negative affect. We studied 48 4-year-old children w... |
| Frustration in infancy: Implications for emotion regulation, physiological processes, and temperament. |
2002 |
9473 |
A study sample of 162 six-month-old children was selected from a larger sample of 346 infants on the basis of parents’ report of their infants’ temperament and a laboratory assessment of temperament. Infants were classified as easily frustrated and l... |
| Further evidence of the limited role of candidate genes in relation to infant–mother attachment outcomes |
2016 |
1263 |
In this paper, we examine the associations between specific candidate genes (DRD2, DRD4, COMT, biallelic and tri-allelic 5HTTLPR, and OXTR) and infant attachment outcomes as main effects and in conjunction with maternal sensitivity. The sample includ... |
| Gene – Environment Contributions to the Development of Infant Vagal Reactivity: The Interaction of Dopamine and Maternal Sensitivity |
2008 |
2141 |
This study investigated dopamine receptor genes (DRD2 and DRD4) and maternal sensitivity as predictors of infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and RSA reactivity, purported indices of vagal tone and vagal regulation, in a challenge task at 3, 6,... |
| Individual differences in trajectories of emotion regulation processes: The effects of maternal depressive symptomatology and children’s physiological regulation. |
2008 |
3165 |
Trajectories of emotion regulation processes were examined in a community sample of 269 children across the ages of 4 to 7 using hierarchical linear modeling. Maternal depressive symptomatology (Symptom Checklist–90) and children’s physiological reac... |
| Infant and parent factors associated with early maternal sensitivity: A caregiver-attachment systems approach. |
2007 |
3864 |
We examined variations in maternal sensitivity at 6 months of child age as a function of child negativity and maternal physiology. We expected maternal vagal withdrawal in response to infant negative affect to facilitate the maintenance of sensitivit... |
| The Infant Crying Questionnaire: Initial factor structure and validation |
2012 |
3862 |
The current project reports on an initial investigation into the factor structure of the Infant Crying Questionnaire (ICQ), a measure designed to assess parental beliefs about infant crying, in a sample of 259 primiparous mothers. Exploratory factor ... |
| Infant negative affect and maternal interactive behavior during the still-face procedure: the moderating role of adult attachment states of mind |
2014 |
2264 |
The current study examined associations between attachment state of mind measured prenatally (N = 259) and maternal behavior in the reunion episode of the still-face procedure when infants were six months of age both as a main effect and in conjuncti... |
| Infants' vagal regulation in the still-face paradigm is related to dyadic coordination of mother-infant interaction |
2004 |
4100 |
The authors investigated relations between mother–infant dyadic coordination and infants’ physiological responses. Mothers (N = 73) and 3-month-old male and female infants were observed in the still-face paradigm, and mothers’ and infants’ affective ... |
| An Integrative Conceptual Model of Parental Racial/Ethnic and Emotion Socialization and Links to Children's Social-Emotional Development Among African American Families |
2017 |
2896 |
Researchers have called for increased evaluation of the processes that contribute to African American children's successful emotional development in the face of discrimination. Parents’ racial/ethnic and emotion socialization have been linked to chil... |
| Latent profile and cluster analysis of infant temperament: Comparisons across person-centered approaches |
2017 |
1302 |
There is renewed interest in person-centered approaches to understanding the structure of temperament. However, questions concerning temperament types are not frequently framed in a developmental context, especially during infancy. In addition, the m... |
| Links between Family Social Status and Preschoolers' Persistence: The Role of Maternal Values and Quality of Parenting |
2012 |
2486 |
Children who develop persistence in the preschool years are likely to function more effectively during the transition into school. In this study of 231 3-year-old children and their mothers, we examined the relations among family social status, mater... |
| A longitudinal assessment of the relation between executive function and theory of mind at 3, 4, and 5 years |
2015 |
3260 |
This longitudinal study contributes to the growing literature on the predictive nature of the relation between executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM). A latent variable model was fit to the data acquired from 226 socioeconomically and racia... |
| Longitudinal Associations Between Children's Understanding of Emotions and Theory of Mind |
2011 |
2613 |
Theory of mind competence and knowledge of emotions were studied longitudinally in a sample of preschoolers aged 3 (n=263) and 4 (n=244) years. Children were assessed using standard measures of theory of mind and emotion knowledge. Three competing hy... |
| Longitudinal associations between emotion regulation and adiposity in late adolescence: Indirect effects through eating behaviors |
2019 |
1274 |
The prevalence of obesity among U.S. youth continues to increase, with many adolescents engaging in unhealthy eating behaviors. Increasingly, research points to the role of self-regulation in obesity development, yet existing work has largely focused... |
| A longitudinal study of language acquisition in autistic and Down syndrome children. |
1990 |
11696 |
Findings from a longitudinal study of language acquisition in a group of autistic children are presented. Six autistic subjects and six children with Down syndrome, matched on age and MLU at the start of the study, were followed over a period of betw... |
| Maternal Expressive Style and Children's Emotional Development |
2012 |
2022 |
Maternal expressive styles, based on a combination of positive and negative expressive patterns, were identified at two points in time and related to multiple aspects of preschool children's emotional development. Mother–child pairs from 260 families... |
| Maternal interactive style across contexts: Relations to emotional, behavioral and physiological regulation during toddlerhood. |
1998 |
8174 |
Sixty-five mothers and their 24-month-old toddlers were observed in a series of laboratory procedures designed to assess relations between maternal interactive style and emotional, behavioral and physiological regulation. Emotional regulation was ass... |
| Maternal physiological dysregulation while parenting poses risk for infant attachment disorganization and behavior problems |
2017 |
1246 |
The extent to which indices of maternal physiological arousal (skin conductance augmentation) and regulation (vagal withdrawal) while parenting predict infant attachment disorganization and behavior problems directly or indirectly via maternal sensit... |
| Maternal socialization of child emotion and adolescent adjustment: Indirect effects through emotion regulation |
2020 |
1876 |
A fundamental question in developmental science is how parental emotion socialization processes are associated with children’s subsequent adaptation. Few extant studies have examined this question across multiple developmental periods and levels of a... |
| Measures of frontal functioning and the emergence of inhibitory control processes at 10 months of age |
2012 |
2327 |
During the first year, infants begin to exhibit initial evidence of working memory and inhibitory control in conjunction with substantial maturation of the frontal cortex and corresponding neural circuitry. Currently, relatively little is known about... |
| Measuring preschool learning engagement in the laboratory |
2018 |
1272 |
Learning engagement is a critical factor for academic achievement and successful school transitioning. However, current methods of assessing learning engagement in young children are limited to teacher report or classroom observation, which may limit... |
| Moderate Vagal Withdrawal in 3.5-Year-Old Children is Associated with Optimal Performance on Executive Function Tasks |
2010 |
2346 |
Vagal tone (measured via respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RSA) and vagal withdrawal (measured by decreases in RSA) have been identified as physiological measures of self-regulation, but little is known how they may relate to the regulation of cognitive ... |
| Mother –Infant Vagal Regulation in the Face-To-Face Still-Face Paradigm Is Moderated by Maternal Sensitivity |
2009 |
2443 |
Parents’ physiological regulation may support infants’ regulation. Mothers (N = 152) and 6-month-old male and female infants were observed in normal and disrupted social interaction. Affect was coded at 1-s intervals and vagal tone measured as respir... |
| Mothers' responses to children's negative emotions and child emotion regulation: The moderating role of vagal suppression |
2011 |
1468 |
The current study examined the moderating effect of children's cardiac vagal suppression on the association between maternal socialization of negative emotions (supportive and nonsupportive responses) and children's emotion regulation behaviors. One ... |
| Neural plasticity and development in the first two years of life: Evidence from cognitive and socioemotional domains of research. |
1994 |
5058 |
Three models that can be used to investigate the effects of different environmental events on brain development and organization are explored. The insult model argues against brain plasticity, and the environmental model regards the brain as infinite... |
| Parent Involvement and Student Academic Performance: A Multiple Mediational Analysis |
2010 |
10838 |
Parent involvement in a child's education is consistently found to be positively associated with a child's academic performance. However, there has been little investigation of the mechanisms that explain this association. The present study examines ... |
| Parental ADHD Symptomology and Ineffective Parenting: The Connecting Link of Home Chaos |
2010 |
3232 |
Objective. This study examines links between maternal and paternal attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and parenting practices that require inhibition of impulses, sustained attention, and consistency; the role of home chaos in t... |
| Pathways by which mothers’ physiological arousal and regulation while caregiving predict sensitivity to infant distress |
2016 |
1452 |
Pathways by which maternal physiological arousal (skin conductance level [SCL]) and regulation (respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA] withdrawal) while parenting are linked with concurrent and subsequent maternal sensitivity were examined. Mothers’ (N =... |
| Pathways from maternal effortful control to child self regulation: The role of maternal emotional support |
2017 |
1505 |
This study examined the direct and indirect pathways from maternal effortful control to 2 aspects of children’s self-regulation—executive functioning and behavioral regulation—via maternal emotional support. Two hundred seventy-eight children and the... |
| Physiological and behavioral regulation in two-year-old children with aggressive/destructive behavior problems. |
2000 |
10181 |
A sample of 99 two-year-old children was selected on the basis ofparents’ responses to two administrations ofthe Child Behavior Checklist for two- to three-year-olds. Forty-nine ofthese children displayed symptoms of aggressive/destructive (externali... |
| Predicting Cardiac Vagal Regulation in Early Childhood from Maternal–Child Relationship Quality during Toddlerhood |
2008 |
2696 |
The aim of this study was to examine the influence of maternal–child relationship quality during toddlerhood on early childhood physiological regulation. A community sample of 447 children (215 males) was recruited at age 2 for participation in the s... |
| Predicting change in parenting stress across early childhood: Child and maternal factors. |
2007 |
5930 |
This study examined maternal parenting stress in a sample of 430 boys and girls including those at risk for externalizing behavior problems. Children and their mothers were assessed when the children were ages 2, 4, and 5. Hierarchical linear modelin... |
| Predicting emotional and social competence during early childhood from toddler risk and maternal behavior |
2010 |
2484 |
The longitudinal associations between maternal parenting behavior and toddler risk with children’s emotional and social competence were examined during the transition to kindergarten, in a sample of 253 children. Toddler risk was characterized by ear... |
| Predicting Kindergarten Peer Social Status From Toddler and Preschool Problem Behavior |
2004 |
5846 |
The aim of this study was to investigate the toddler and preschool predictors of early peer social preference. Behavioral and social functioning were examined in a sample of children across the toddler and preschool years from parent and teacher obse... |
| Predicting stability and change in toddler behavior problems: Contributions of maternal behavior and child gender. |
2004 |
4237 |
This study examined the stability and continuity of early-identified behavior problems and the factors associated with this stability. Children and their mothers (N = 125) were seen when the children were 2 and 4 years of age. Maternal reports of chi... |
| Preschool-aged children's understanding of gratitude: Relations with emotion and mental state knowledge |
2012 |
4492 |
Developmental precursors to children's early understanding of gratitude were examined. A diverse group of 263 children was tested for emotion and mental state knowledge at ages 3 and 4, and their understanding of gratitude was measured at age 5. Chil... |
| Profiles of Disruptive Behavior Across Early Childhood: Contributions of Frustration Reactivity, Physiological Regulation, and Maternal Behavior |
2008 |
3004 |
Disruptive behavior, including aggression, defiance, and temper tantrums, typically peaks in early toddlerhood and decreases by school entry; however, some children do not show this normative decline. The current study examined disruptive behavior in... |
| Profiles of externalizing behavior problems for boys and girls across preschool: The roles of emotion regulation and inattention. |
2006 |
4244 |
Although externalizing behavior typically peaks in toddlerhood and decreases by school entry, some children do not show this normative decline. A sample of 383 boys and girls was assessed at ages 2, 4, and 5 for externalizing behavior and at age 2 on... |
| Rationale, design and methods for the RIGHT Track Health Study; pathways from childhood self- regulation to cardiovascular risk in adolescence |
2016 |
1041 |
Background: Cardiovascular risk factors during adolescence—including obesity, elevated lipids, altered glucose metabolism, hypertension, and elevated low-grade inflammation—is cause for serious concern and potentially impacts subsequent morbidity and... |
| Reassessing emotion regulation. |
2008 |
9186 |
Developmental research on emotion regulation is increasingly advancing toward a systems view that integrates behavioral and biological constituents of emotional self-control. However, this view poses fundamental challenges to prevailing conceptualiza... |
| Regulatory Contributors to Children’s Kindergarten Achievement. |
2003 |
9326 |
The present study sought to examine whether preschool children’s emotion regulation, problem behaviors, and kindergarten behavioral self-regulation in the classroom were predictors of kindergarten achievement scores. The children (N = 122, 47% male a... |
| The relation between maternal emotional support and child physiological regulation across the preschool years |
2012 |
1237 |
Trajectories of baseline RSA (respiratory sinus arrhythmia), an index of reactivity, and vagal withdrawal, an index of regulation, across the preschool period were examined. In addition, maternal emotional support was investigated as a potential time... |
| The relation of maternal behavior and attachment security to toddler’s emotions and emotion regulation |
2006 |
3780 |
In this study, we examined characteristics of the mother–child context that may support young children’s emotion expressions and emotion regulation. We observed children (N= 154) in four emotion-eliciting episodes to measure their emotion expressions... |
| The relation of maternal emotional and cognitive support during problem solving to pre-academic skills in preschoolers |
2012 |
2161 |
Using a sample of 263 mother–child dyads, we examined the extent to which maternal emotional and cognitive support during a joint problem-solving task when children were 3-years-old predicted children's academic skills 1 year later independent of eac... |
| The relations among infant temperament, security of attachment and behavioral inhibition at 24 months. |
1992 |
7354 |
The purpose of this study was to examine the relations among infant temperament, attachment, and behavioral inhibition. 52 infants were seen at 2 days, 5, 14, and 24 months of age. Assessments were made of temperament at 2 days and 5 months of age, a... |
| Relationships as the inputs and outputs of relationships. |
2000 |
2666 |
The three target articles presented in this issue add to a growing body of literature in social psychology that focuses on the "executive function" of the self (Baumeister, 1998). That is, in these target articles the self is viewed as a regulator of... |
| The Role of Emotion Regulation and Children's Early Academic Success |
2007 |
3093 |
This study investigated the role of children's emotion regulation skills and academic success in kindergarten, using a sample of 325 five-year-old children. A mediational analysis addressed the potential mechanisms through which emotion regulation re... |
| The role of emotion regulation and the student-teacher relationship in children’s academic success. |
2006 |
3278 |
This study investigated the role of emotion regulation in children's early academic success using a sample of 325 kindergarteners. A mediational analysis addressed the potential mechanisms through which emotion regulation relates to children's early ... |
| The role of frontal activation in the regulation and dysregulation of social behavior during the preschool year. |
1996 |
3030 |
We examined whether the interaction of resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry and social behavior during peer play was related to the occurrence of maladaptive behavior in preschoolers. Two independent cohorts of children were observed ... |
| The Role of Persistence at Preschool Age in Academic Skills at Kindergarten |
2013 |
5032 |
The current study examined the role of preschoolers’ motivation, operationalized as persistence, in the formation of language and math skills at kindergarten. The participants were 263 children from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Demo... |
| Self-regulation as a predictor of patterns of change in externalizing behaviors from infancy to adolescence |
2017 |
294 |
We examined associations between specific self-regulatory mechanisms and externalizing behavior patterns from ages 2 to 15 (N = 443). The relation between multiple self-regulatory indicators across multiple domains (i.e., physiological, attentional, ... |
| Self-regulatory processes in early personality development: A multilevel approach to the study of childhood social withdrawal and aggression. |
2002 |
7457 |
Self-regulatory processes are believed to be critical to early personality and behavioral adjustment. Such processes can be observed on multiple levels, including the physiological, attentional, emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal domains of func... |
| Shyness and Vocabulary: the Roles of Executive Functioning and Home Environmental Stimulation |
2011 |
2615 |
Although shyness has often been found to be negatively related to vocabulary, few studies have examined the processes that produce or modify this relation. The present study examined executive functioning skills and home environmental stimulation as ... |
| Temperament and externalizing behavior: Peer acceptance as a protective factor. |
2008 |
4574 |
The construct of temperament is commonly viewed as the basic organization of personality, which is observable as early as infancy and becomes elaborated over the course of development as the individual's skills, abilities, cognitions, and motivations... |
| Temperamental anger and positive reactivity and the development of social skills: Implications for academic competence during preadolescence |
2017 |
928 |
Research Findings: This study examines whether the development of social skills during childhood serves as a mechanism through which temperamental anger and positive reactivity in toddlerhood influence children’s academic competence during preadolesc... |
| Temperamental vulnerability to emotion dysregulation and risk for mental and physical health challenges |
2019 |
1738 |
Emotion dysregulation characterizes many forms of psychopathology. Patterns of dysregulation occur as a function of a developmental process in which normative and adaptive emotion regulation skills fail to become part of the child's behavioral repert... |
| Testing a developmental cascade model of emotional and social competence and early peer acceptance |
2010 |
2850 |
A developmental cascade model of early emotional and social competence predicting later peer acceptance was examined in a community sample of 440 children across the ages of 2 to 7. Children’s externalizing behavior, emotion regulation, social skills... |
| Toddler regulation of distress to frustrating events: Temperamental and maternal correlates. |
1998 |
6187 |
Seventy-three mothers and their 18-month-old toddlers were observed in a series of laboratory procedures designed to assess relations among physiological arousal, frustration distress, emotion regulation and maternal interactive style. Physiological ... |
| Trajectories of Peer Victimization: The Role of Multiple Relationships |
2010 |
1900 |
This study examined early elementary school children's trajectories of peer victimization with a sample of 218 boys and girls. Peer victimization was assessed (via peer report) in kindergarten and first, second, and fifth grades. Hierarchical linear ... |
| Vagal dysregulation in early childhood and cardiovascular risk in adolescence |
2017 |
296 |
Objective: Poor behavioral self-regulation in the first 2 decades of life has been identified as an important precursor of disease risk in adulthood. However, physiological regulation has not been well studied as a disease risk factor before adulthoo... |
| Variation in mothers’ arginine vasopressin receptor 1a and dopamine receptor D4 predicts maternal sensitivity via social cognition |
2017 |
342 |
We examined the extent to which the arginine vasopressin receptor 1a (AVPR1a) and dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) were related to sensitive maternal behavior directly or indirectly via maternal social cognition. Participants were 207 (105 European-Americ... |