학술논문
Prediction of elementary school children's externalizing problem behaviors from attentional and behavioral regulation and negative emotionality.
Document Type
Journal Article
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Subject
*MENTAL health
*BEHAVIOR modification for problem children
*BEHAVIOR disorders in children
*ATTENTION in children
*AGE distribution
*ATTENTION
*BEHAVIOR
*COMPARATIVE studies
*DEFENSE mechanisms (Psychology)
*EMOTIONS
*FACTOR analysis
*LOCUS of control
*LONGITUDINAL method
*MATHEMATICAL models
*RESEARCH methodology
*MEDICAL cooperation
*PSYCHOLOGY
*RESEARCH
*EVALUATION research
*PREDICTIVE tests
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ISSN
0009-3920
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating role of individual differences in negative emotionality in the relations of behavioral and attentional (emotional) regulation to externalizing problem behaviors. Teachers' and one parent's reports of children's regulation (attentional and behavioral), emotionality, and problem behavior were obtained when children were in kindergarten to grade 3 and two years later (N = 169; 146 in major analyses); children's behavioral regulation also was assessed with a measure of persistence. According to the best fitting structural equation model, at two ages behavioral dysregulation predicted externalizing behavior problems for children both high and low in negative emotionality, whereas prediction of problem behavior from attentional control was significant only for children prone to negative emotionality. There were unique, additive effects of behavioral and attentional regulation for predicting problem behavior as well as moderating effects of negative emotionality for attentional regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]