Temperamental characteristics as predictors of externalizing and internalizing child behavior problems in the contexts of high and low parental psychopathology

Mun, Eun Young; Fitzgerald, Hiram E.; Eye, Alexander von; Puttler, Leon I.; Zucker, Robert A.

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“…Understanding the developmental course of illness is valuable because the persistence of psychopathology over time is a strong indicator of severity (Caspi et al, 2014; Kendler et al, 2011), and is consequently related to more severe and complex manifestations of IE over the life course, as well as later developmental outcomes (Young Mun, Fitzgerald, Von Eye, Puttler, & Zucker, 2001). Our framework is intertwined with the role of development in psychopathology because it represents an ontogenic process, as described in Part 2.…”

Section: Part 3: How This Structural Approach Enhances Developmental mentioning

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Beyond comorbidity: Toward a dimensional and hierarchical approach to understanding psychopathology across the life span

Tackett²,

et al. 2016

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In this review, we propose a novel developmentally informed framework to push research beyond a focus on comorbidity between discrete diagnostic categories, and to move towards research based on the well-validated dimensional and hierarchical structure of psychopathology. For example, a large body of research speaks to the validity and utility of the Internalizing and Externalizing (IE) spectra as organizing constructs for research on common forms of psychopathology. The IE spectra act as powerful explanatory variables that channel the psychopathological effects of genetic and environmental risk factors, predict adaptive functioning, and account for the likelihood of disorder-level manifestations of psychopathology. As such, our proposed theoretical framework uses the IE spectra as central constructs to guide future psychopathology research across the lifespan. The framework is particularly flexible, as any of the facets or factors from the dimensional and hierarchical structure of psychopathology can form the focus of research. We describe the utility and strengths of this framework for developmental psychopathology in particular, and explore avenues for future research.

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Section: Part 3: How This Structural Approach Enhances Developmental mentioning

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Beyond comorbidity: Toward a dimensional and hierarchical approach to understanding psychopathology across the life span

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“…Convergent findings indicate that high levels of reactivity in childhood predict high levels of the broad categories of both internalizing (Letcher, Smart. Sanson, & Toumbourou, 2009; Smart, Hayes, Sanson, & Toumbourou, 2007) and externalizing symptoms (Muris, Meesters, & Blijlevens, 2007; Sanson et al, 2004; Smart et al, 2007; Young Mun, Fitzgerald, Von Eye, Puttler, & Zucker, 2001). This is consistent with the finding that negative affect represents a broadband risk factor for psychopathology (e.g., Lahey, van Hulle, Singh, Waldman, & Rathouz, 2011; Tackett et al, 2013).…”

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“…In contrast, approach-sociability differentiates between internalizing and externalizing, whereby low levels of approach-sociability predict fearfulness, social withdrawal, behavioural avoidance, and correspondingly high internalizing symptoms (Leve, Kim, & Pears, 2005; Prior, Smart, Sanson, & Oberklaid, 2000b; Putnam & Stifter, 2002; Sanson et al, 2004; Young Mun et al, 2001), but act as a protective factor for the development of externalizing problems (Smart & Sanson, 2005; Schwartz, Snidman, & Kagan, 1996). Similarly, the inverse may also be true, as high levels of approach-sociability have been found to predict fearlessness, impulsivity, and risk-taking, and thus act as a risk factor for externalizing problems (e.g., Degnan et al, 2011; Hane, Fox, Henderson, & Marshall, 2008; Stifter, Putnam, & Jahromi, 2008).…”

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“…There is some evidence that persistence is related to lower levels of externalizing behaviours, likely through the higher levels of attention regulation that characterise the trait (Leve et al, 2005; Muris et al, 2007; Sanson et al, 2004; Smart et al, 2007; Young Mun et al, 2001). Limited research has also found indications of interactions among the three traits.…”

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“…For example, high reactivity and low persistence may interact to predict particularly high levels of internalizing and externalizing problems through a combination of negative affect and behavioural dysregulation (Muris et al, 2007; Sanson et al, 2004). Further, low approach and high persistence may interact to predict particularly high internalizing problems due to an inability to shift attention away from a focus on negative and/or fearful cognitions (White, McDermott, Degnan, Henderson & Fox, 2001). …”

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Unique Associations between Childhood Temperament Characteristics and Subsequent Psychopathology Symptom Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adolescence

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Existing research suggests that temperamental traits that emerge early in childhood may have utility for early detection and intervention for common mental disorders. The present study examined the unique relationships between the temperament characteristics of reactivity, approach-sociability, and persistence in early childhood and subsequent symptom trajectories of psychopathology (depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD) from childhood to early adolescence. Data were from the first five waves of the older cohort from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (n = 4983; 51.2% male), which spanned ages 4–5 to 12–13. Multivariate ordinal and logistic regressions examined whether parent-reported child temperament characteristics at age 4–5 predicted the study child’s subsequent symptom trajectories for each domain of psychopathology (derived using latent class growth analyses), after controlling for other presenting symptoms. Temperament characteristics differentially predicted the symptom trajectories for depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, and ADHD: Higher levels of reactivity uniquely predicted higher symptom trajectories for all 4 domains; higher levels of approach-sociability predicted higher trajectories of conduct disorder and ADHD, but lower trajectories of anxiety; and higher levels of persistence were related to lower trajectories of conduct disorder and ADHD. These findings suggest that temperament is an early identifiable risk factor for the development of psychopathology, and that identification and timely interventions for children with highly reactive temperaments in particular could prevent later mental health problems.

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Childhood Trajectories of Anxiousness and Disruptiveness as Predictors of Suicide Attempts

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Temperamental characteristics as predictors of externalizing and internalizing child behavior problems in the contexts of high and low parental psychopathology

Cited by 50 publications

References 43 publications

Beyond comorbidity: Toward a dimensional and hierarchical approach to understanding psychopathology across the life span

Beyond comorbidity: Toward a dimensional and hierarchical approach to understanding psychopathology across the life span

Unique Associations between Childhood Temperament Characteristics and Subsequent Psychopathology Symptom Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adolescence

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