Developmental precursors of young school-age children’s hostile attribution bias.

Choe, Daniel Ewon; Lane, Jo Ann; Grabell, Adam S.; Olson, Sheryl L.

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“…It is possible that poor verbal and visuospatial abilities impede problem-solving involved in non-aggressive responding, such as the identification of benign intent. Previous research and the current study indicate that boys’ low IQ is associated with greater antisocial behavior and hostile attributional bias, but not aggressive response generation (Choe et al, 2013; Hyde et al, 2010; Runions & Keating, 2007). Moreover, meta-analytic findings indicate that low general cognitive ability and SIP problems, while interrelated, contribute distinctively to child maladjustment (Orobio de Castro et al, 2002).…”

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“…We also accounted for childhood empathy to capture motivations for moral behavior that inform aggressive behavioral choices and are distinct from cognitive processes highlighted in most SIP studies. Because of its associations with hostile attributional bias and aggression, child IQ also was included as a covariate (Choe, Lane, Grabell, & Olson, 2013; Runions & Keating, 2007). We hypothesized that childhood SIP problems would predict young men’s increased amygdala reactivity to fear and anger faces, while accounting for this diverse group of covariates.…”

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Maladaptive social information processing in childhood predicts young men's atypical amygdala reactivity to threat

Choe

Shaw

Forbes

2014

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background Maladaptive social information processing, such as hostile attributional bias and aggressive response generation, is associated with childhood maladjustment. Although social information processing problems are correlated with heightened physiological responses to social threat, few studies have examined their associations with neural threat circuitry, specifically amygdala activation to social threat. Methods A cohort of 310 boys participated in an ongoing longitudinal study and completed questionnaires and laboratory tasks assessing their social and cognitive characteristics between 10- and 12-years-old. At age 20, 178 of these young men underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging and a social threat task. At age 22, adult criminal arrest records and self-reports of impulsiveness were obtained. Results Path models indicated that maladaptive social information processing at ages 10 and 11 predicted increased left amygdala reactivity to fear faces, an ambiguous threat, at age 20 while accounting for childhood antisocial behavior, empathy, IQ, and socioeconomic status. Exploratory analyses indicated that aggressive response generation—the tendency to respond to threat with reactive aggression—predicted left amygdala reactivity to fear faces and was concurrently associated with empathy, antisocial behavior, and hostile attributional bias, whereas hostile attributional bias correlated with IQ. Although unrelated to social information processing problems, bilateral amygdala reactivity to anger faces at age 20 was unexpectedly predicted by low IQ at age 11. Amygdala activation did not mediate associations between social information processing and number of criminal arrests, but both impulsiveness at age 22 and arrests were correlated with right amygdala reactivity to anger facial expressions at age 20. Conclusions Childhood social information processing and IQ predicted young men’s amygdala response to threat a decade later, which suggests that childhood social-cognitive characteristics are associated with the development of neural threat processing and adult adjustment.

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Maladaptive social information processing in childhood predicts young men's atypical amygdala reactivity to threat

Choe

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Forbes

2014

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…This may be because poor ToM contributes to biases and difficulties in interpreting social cues, which can result in reactive and aggressive behaviors toward others (Dodge & Coie, 1987). For example, in the current sample, Choe, Lane, Grabell, and Olson (2013) found that preschoolers who had low levels of ToM showed more hostile attribution biases at age six.…”

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Early Callous-Unemotional Behavior, Theory-of-Mind, and a Fearful/Inhibited Temperament Predict Externalizing Problems in Middle and Late Childhood

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Childhood externalizing problems are more likely to be severe and persistent when combined with high levels of callous-unemotional (CU) behavior. A handful of recent studies have shown that CU behavior can also be reliably measured in the early preschool years, which may help to identify young children who are less likely to desist from early externalizing behaviors. The current study extends previous literature by examining the role of CU behavior in very early childhood in the prediction of externalizing problems in both middle and late childhood, and tests whether other relevant child characteristics, including Theory-of-Mind (ToM) and fearful/inhibited temperament moderate these pathways. Multi-method data, including parent reports of child CU behavior and fearful/inhibited temperament, observations of ToM, and teacher-reported externalizing problems were drawn from a prospective, longitudinal study of children assessed at ages 3, 6, and 10 (N=241; 48% female). Results demonstrated that high levels of CU behavior predicted externalizing problems at ages 6 and 10 over and above the effect of earlier externalizing problems at age 3, but that these main effects were qualified by two interactions. High CU behavior was related to higher levels of externalizing problems specifically for children with low ToM and a low fearful/inhibited temperament. The results show that a multitude of child characteristics likely interact across development to increase or buffer risk for child externalizing problems. These findings can inform the development of targeted early prevention and intervention for children with high CU behavior.

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“…Indeed, numerous studies have linked lead exposure, even at relatively low levels, not only with lower IQ and poor executive functioning, but also with the subsequent development of aggression and juvenile delinquency (Needleman and Bellinger 2001; Needleman et al 2002). Considering these findings collectively, it is possible that exposure to lead in the neighborhood may contribute to CPs by disrupting cognitive control mechanisms that have theoretically and empirically been linked to the maladaptive processing of social information (Choe et al 2013; Runions and Keating 2007). …”

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Neighborhood Deprivation during Early Childhood and Conduct Problems in Middle Childhood: Mediation by Aggressive Response Generation

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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The tremendous negative impact of conduct problems to the individual and society has provided the impetus for identifying risk factors, particularly in early childhood. Exposure to neighborhood deprivation in early childhood is a robust predictor of conduct problems in middle childhood. Efforts to identify and test mediating mechanisms by which neighborhood deprivation confers increased risk for behavioral problems have predominantly focused on peer relationships and community-level social processes. Less attention has been dedicated to potential cognitive mediators of this relationship, such as aggressive response generation, which refers to the tendency to generate aggressive solutions to ambiguous social stimuli with negative outcomes. In this study, we examined aggressive response generation, a salient component of social information processing, as a mediating process linking neighborhood deprivation to later conduct problems at age 10.5. Participants (N = 731; 50.5 % male) were drawn from a multisite randomized prevention trial that includes an ethnically diverse and low-income sample of male and female children and their primary caregivers followed prospectively from toddlerhood to middle childhood. Results indicated that aggressive response generation partially mediated the relationship between neighborhood deprivation and parent- and teacher-report of conduct problems, but not youth-report. Results suggest that the detrimental effects of neighborhood deprivation on youth adjustment may occur by altering the manner in which children process social information.

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Developmental precursors of young school-age children’s hostile attribution bias.

Cited by 66 publications

References 61 publications

Maladaptive social information processing in childhood predicts young men's atypical amygdala reactivity to threat

Maladaptive social information processing in childhood predicts young men's atypical amygdala reactivity to threat

Early Callous-Unemotional Behavior, Theory-of-Mind, and a Fearful/Inhibited Temperament Predict Externalizing Problems in Middle and Late Childhood

Neighborhood Deprivation during Early Childhood and Conduct Problems in Middle Childhood: Mediation by Aggressive Response Generation

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