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Mazurek C, Barry TD, Fisher K. Low neurocognitive performance and problematic contexts: interaction influences in predicting adolescent externalizing behaviors within a community sample. Child Neuropsychol 2024:1-25. [PMID: 39072450 DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2024.2375804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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Research has identified neurocognitive and contextual risk factors of externalizing behaviors. However, fewer studies have examined the interaction among neurocognitive and other risk factors in predicting externalizing behaviors. The goal of the current study was to examine the relation between neurocognitive and contextual factors in predicting externalizing behaviors in a community sample of adolescents. Participants were 84 adolescents, aged 11-17 (M = 13.39, SD = 1.82), recruited as part of a larger study. Separate moderated multiple regression models were utilized in which neurocognitive variables (intellectual functioning, short-term memory/attention, disinhibition) were added as predictors and contextual variables (family dysfunction and parental depression, anxiety, and stress) were added as moderators in step 1, and their interaction was added in step 2. Externalizing behaviors served as criterion variables (hyperactivity/impulsivity and oppositional defiant disorder symptom severity, reactive and proactive aggression). Overall, results suggest that higher levels of problematic contextual factors exacerbate the significant negative associations among neurocognitive functioning and externalizing behaviors. Importantly, this pattern was shown across neurocognitive domains and contextual factors. Findings suggest that contextual factors should be targeted for the treatment or prevention of youth externalizing behaviors, particularly for adolescents with neurocognitive vulnerabilities.
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- Callie Mazurek
- Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Allina Health Care & Medical Services, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Kong Y, Cui L, Yang Y, Cao M. A three-level meta-analysis of belief in a just world and antisociality: Differences between sample types and scales. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Schmidt AT, Camins JS, Henderson CE, Christensen MR, Magyar MS, Crosby JW, Boccaccini MT. Identifying the Contributions of Maternal Factors and Early Childhood Externalizing Behavior on Adolescent Delinquency. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 2021; 52:544-553. [PMID: 32779072 DOI: 10.1007/s10578-020-01040-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We examined whether childhood externalizing group subtypes were uniquely related to maternal depression and victimization and whether these subtypes differentially predicted adolescent delinquency. Data were drawn from the Longitudinal Study on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) consortium (N = 1091; 51.3% female, 52.2% African American). Latent class analysis indicated three groups at age 4 (titled "well-adjusted," "hyperactive/oppositional," and "aggressive/rule-breaking"). Caregiver victimization and depression significantly predicted group membership such that aggressive/rule-breaking group had higher levels of maternal depression and victimization although the well-adjusted group had higher levels of maternal victimization relative to the hyperactive/oppositional group. Further, membership in higher externalizing groups at age four is associated with greater risk of adolescent delinquency at age 16. These findings underscore the need to address maternal risk factors in the treatment of childhood disruptive behavior and provide evidence of the continuity of disruptive behaviors from early childhood to adolescence.
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- Adam T Schmidt
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Campus Box 42051, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA.
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- Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
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What Do Preschool Teachers Know About Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Does It Impact Ratings of Child Impairment? SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12310-020-09395-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Coelho IC, Neves AC, Caridade S. Risk factors for antisocial behavior in children: comparison between boys and girls. ESTUDOS DE PSICOLOGIA (CAMPINAS) 2020. [DOI: 10.1590/1982-0275202037e190027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Abstract Recognizing the importance of assessing the risk of antisocial behavior, this study aimed to characterize the risk factors for the occurrence of antisocial behavior, seeking to understand if there are differences between boys and girls. Eighty-five cases of children referred by the promotion and protection system due to the display of antisocial behaviors were reviewed. A total of 65 were boys and 20 were girls, aged between six and eleven years. Data collection was performed using the Portuguese version of the risk assessment instruments Early Assessment Risk List for boys and for girls. Gender differences were assessed, with boys exhibiting a higher risk level for antisocial behavior, adopting more serious behaviors (e.g., impulsive behaviors). Girls engaged in less serious behavior (e.g., disrespect). By characterizing the most prevalent risk factors, the results of this study may contribute to the identification of intervention priorities.
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Luby J, Allen N, Estabrook R, Pine DS, Rogers C, Krogh-Jespersen S, Norton ES, Wakschlag L. Mapping infant neurodevelopmental precursors of mental disorders: How synthetic cohorts & computational approaches can be used to enhance prediction of early childhood psychopathology. Behav Res Ther 2019; 123:103484. [PMID: 31734549 PMCID: PMC7667707 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.103484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Bridging advances in neurodevelopmental assessment and the established onset of common psychopathologies in early childhood with epidemiological data science and computational methods holds much promise for identifying risk for mental disorders as early as infancy. In particular, we propose the development of a mental health risk algorithm for the early detection of mental disorders with the potential for high public health impact that applies and adapts methods innovated in and successfully applied to early detection of cardiovascular risk. Specifically, we propose methods to advance risk prediction of early developmental psychopathology by creating synthetic cohorts that contain complete behavioral and neural data in the first years of life, as the basis for a robust and generalizable risk algorithm. The application of computational approaches within synthetic cohorts, an approach increasingly applied in psychiatry, may be particularly well suited to advancing risk prediction in early childhood mental health. We propose new research directions using these methods to generate an early childhood mental health risk calculator that could significantly advance early mental health risk detection to direct preventive intervention and/or need for more intensive assessment within a pragmatic framework for maximal clinical utility. The availability of such a tool in early childhood, a period of high neuroplasticity, holds promise to reduce the burden of mental disorder by identifying risk early in the clinical sequence and delivering prevention that targets the neurodevelopmental vulnerability phase.
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- Joan Luby
- Washington University School of Medicine, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA.
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, 633 N. St Clair, 19th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, 633 N. St Clair, 19th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program, Building 15K, Room 110, MSC 2670, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, 633 N. St Clair, 19th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Northwestern University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, 633 N. St Clair, 19th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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Golding P, Fitzgerald HE. The early biopsychosocial development of boys and the origins of violence in males. Infant Ment Health J 2019; 40:5-22. [DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Paul Golding
- Santa Fe Boys Educational Foundation; Santa Fe New Mexico
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Anderson S, Qiu W, Wheeler SJ. THE QUALITY OF FATHER-CHILD ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE PLAY AND TODDLERS' AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN CHINA. Infant Ment Health J 2017; 38:726-742. [PMID: 29069537 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of the quality of early father-child rough-and-tumble play (RTP) on toddler aggressive behaviors and more fully understand how child, mother, and father characteristics were associated with higher quality father-child RTP among contemporary urban Chinese families. Participants included 42 families in Changsha, China. Play observations of fathers and their children were coded for RTP quality. The specific RTP quality of father-child reciprocity of dominance was associated with fewer toddler aggressive behaviors, as rated by both fathers and mothers. Mothers' democratic parenting attitudes were associated with higher quality father-child RTP. These findings suggest that higher quality father-child RTP may be one way in which some fathers influence children's expression of aggressive behaviors, and the quality of father-child RTP may be influenced by the broader family, social, and cultural contexts.
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Mckinney M, Fitzgerald HE, Winn DM, Babcock P. PUBLIC POLICY, CHILD DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND BOYS AT RISK: CHALLENGING, ENDURING AND NECESSARY PARTNERSHIP. Infant Ment Health J 2017; 38:166-176. [DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Weatherston DJ. REFLECTING ON THE PRACTICE OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH AND THE REDUCTION OF RISK IN INFANCY AND EARLY PARENTHOOD: AN ESSAY. Infant Ment Health J 2016; 38:143-149. [DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Puttler LI, Fitzgerald HE, Heitzeg MM, Zucker RA. BOYS, EARLY RISK FACTORS FOR ALCOHOL PROBLEMS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF: AN INTERCONNECTED MATRIX. Infant Ment Health J 2016; 38:83-96. [PMID: 27976816 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Alcohol-use disorders are a major public health issue worldwide. Although drinking and problematic alcohol use usually begins during adolescence, developmental origins of the disorder can be traced back to infancy and early childhood. Identification of early risk factors is essential to understanding developmental origins. Using data from the Michigan Longitudinal Study, an ongoing, prospective, high-risk family study, this article summarizes findings of family context and functioning of both children and parents. We draw attention to the development of the self, an understudied aspect of very young children being reared in alcoholic families that exacerbates exposure to high childhood adverse experiences. We also provide evidence demonstrating that young boys are embedded in a dynamic system of genes, epigenetic processes, brain organization, family dynamics, peers, community, and culture that strengthens risky developmental pathways if nothing is done to intervene during infancy and early childhood.
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In utero and during the first 5 years of life, boys face unique risks as a result of neurobiological and environmental factors. This introductory article to the Special Issue describes the background of this gender-specific inquiry and outlines some of those risks, drawing attention to the areas that will be covered in depth in the following contributions. We also describe the basis of this inquiry as the link between early life and the subsequent difficulties that adolescent boys and many young men face, and pay particular attention to the circumstances of young men of color and to the growing knowledge about the contributions of fathers to boys' development.
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