Self-Control and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Kemp, Raymond A. T. de; Vermulst, Ad A.; Finkenauer, Catrin; Overbeek, Geertjan; Rommes, E.W.M.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.

doi:10.1177/0272431608324474

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“…Eisenberg, Taylor, Widaman, and Spinrad (2015) argued that children with relatively high levels of externalizing symptoms might elicit negative responses from their social environment and be less likely to create or take advantage of opportunities to learn attentional and behavioral self-regulation skills. In contrast, de Kemp et al (2009) found that greater delinquent behavior, but not aggression, predicted lower self-control in early adolescent boys, but not in girls, 6 months later. However, these findings are based on research on toddlers and pre-school or elementary school children, and there is a relative lack of knowledge about bidirectional relationships between EC and aggressive behavior in adolescence.…”

Section: Witnessing Community Violence Direct Victimization and Amentioning

confidence: 83%

“…Recently Murray, Obsuth, Eisner and Ribeaud (2016) reported a cross-lagged effect linking aggressive behavior at age 15 years to lower self-control 2 years later, but not vice versa. In contrast, de Kemp et al (2009) found that greater delinquent behavior, but not aggression, predicted lower self-control in early adolescent boys, but not in girls, 6 months later.…”

Section: The Role Of Effortful Control (Ec)mentioning

confidence: 83%

“…Previous empirical research examining the possibility that the association between self-regulation and aggressive behavior is bidirectional in adolescence comes from the criminology domain (de Kemp et al, 2009;Murray et al, 2016). As suggested by Ge and Conger (1999), the reciprocal relation between self-control and aggressive behavior might reflect a dynamic personality development process:…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross‐lagged relations in adolescence

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Self-regulation processes and violent contexts play an important role in predicting adolescents' aggressive behavior; less clear is how all three constructs are linked to each other over time. The present study examined the longitudinal relations among adolescents' self-reported effortful control (EC), exposure to community violence, both as a witness and as a victim, and aggressive behavior. Participants were 768 Italian adolescents (358 males) living in a high-risk context, with a mean age at T1 of 11 years in the younger cohort and 14 years in the older cohort. In a four-wave cross-lagged panel design, low EC was a strong predictor of aggressive behavior across each time point, whereas aggressive behavior was found to positively predict adolescents' violence exposure both as witnesses and victims. Some evidence of transactional relations was also found between adjustment problems and exposure to community violence and between EC and externalizing problems. Moreover, EC was indirectly related to exposure to violence through externalizing problems, and mediated the relation of witnessing community violence to aggression, thus supporting the view that top-down regulatory processes play a complex role in the development of violence and other externalizing problems. The importance of considering interventions that take in account these complex relations is discussed.

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Section: Witnessing Community Violence Direct Victimization and Amentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: The Role Of Effortful Control (Ec)mentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross‐lagged relations in adolescence

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“…In addition, prior research has demonstrated that self‐control predicts undesirable behaviours such as smoking and alcohol consumption among university students (de Boer, van Hooft, & Bakker, ; de Ridder, de Boer, Lugtig, Bakker, & van Hooft, ). Self‐control has also been linked to aggressive and delinquent behaviours in adolescents (e.g., fighting and stealing; de Kemp et al ., ). Alternatively, effectively exerting self‐control can often require both inhibiting undesirable behaviours and initiating desirable behaviours, which may have consequences for important outcomes across one's lifetime, such as educational attainment (de Ridder et al ., ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Integrating self‐control with physical attractiveness and cognitive ability to examine pathways to career success

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Thackray

Piccone

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J Occupat & Organ Psyc

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Physical attractiveness, cognitive ability, and self‐control predict many important outcomes but are rarely examined in combination, particularly in the context of career success. Drawing from Judge et al.'s (2009, J. Appl. Psychol., 94, 742) model of income antecedents and Caspi et al.'s (1989, J. Pers., 57, 375) concepts of cumulative and interactional continuity, this study investigated the pathways leading from these characteristics to career outcomes. Specifically, we developed a model with links involving (1) attractiveness, intelligence, and self‐control; (2) self‐evaluations, delinquent behaviours, educational attainment, and job complexity; and (3) income and job satisfaction. The model was examined with data from three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Results supported a slightly modified model, with major findings indicating attractiveness, intelligence, and self‐control measured during adolescence predicted later self‐evaluations or delinquent behaviour; these variables predicted later education level; education level predicted job complexity; and job complexity predicted income and job satisfaction. Implications related to this integrated model are discussed. Practitioner points Interventions might focus on enhancing self‐control‐related skills in adolescents in an effort to improve later work‐related outcomes. Core self‐evaluations and delinquent tendencies could also be targeted during adolescence to influence life pathways relevant to career outcomes.

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“…In addition to parental factors, adolescents' self-control is a strong and consistent predictor of a variety of risk behaviors (de Kemp et al, 2009;Griffi n et al, 2012;Kam et al, 2009;Pratt and Cullen, 2000). The inability to control one's own behavioral impulses increases the risk of getting involved in risk behaviors such as crime, delinquency, and substance use.…”

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Alcohol-Specific Parenting, Adolescents' Self-Control, and Alcohol Use: A Moderated Mediation Model

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Eijnden

Vollebergh

2014

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: There is convincing evidence that parental rules about alcohol are important in curbing adolescents' alcohol use. However, little is known about the mechanisms through which the direct link between alcohol-specifi c parenting and alcohol use is obtained. In this study, we investigated the mediating effect of adolescent self-control on the relationship between alcohol-specifi c rules and adolescents' drinking behavior and whether this mediation effect depends on the level of quality of communication. Method: A total of 883 adolescents participated in this longitudinal study at ages 13, 14, and 15 years. Results: Strict rules predicted lower rates of drinking, but no direct effect of the quality of communication on adolescents' alcohol use was found. A higher level of self-control was related to lower rates of drinking in adolescents. The indirect effect of rules about alcohol through adolescents' self-control was statistically signifi cant, yet only in adolescents with high qualitative parent-child communication about alcohol. In adolescents with low quality of parent-child communication, self-control was not related to drinking. Conclusions: These fi ndings imply that strict rule setting in combination with qualitative parent-child communication is an important target for prevention. In addition, fi ndings point at the importance of high qualitative parent-child communication for adolescents' motivation to engage in self-control to avoid drinking. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 75, 16-23, 2014)

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Self-Control and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Cited by 51 publications

References 42 publications

Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross‐lagged relations in adolescence

Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross‐lagged relations in adolescence

Integrating self‐control with physical attractiveness and cognitive ability to examine pathways to career success

Alcohol-Specific Parenting, Adolescents' Self-Control, and Alcohol Use: A Moderated Mediation Model

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