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Session Type: Paper Symposium
A great deal of research has shown how early risks for anxiety in young children develop through proximal factors such as attention, temperament, and parenting, but much of this work does not consider the influence of risk or protective factors embedded in the larger environmental context. While the bioecological theory has proposed that distal and proximal factors might interact to influence development, this has rarely been tested in work focused on very young children (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006). By including environmental risk factors, we may gain a more holistic understanding about how the development of anxiety unfolds across childhood and how we can better intervene for different children in different contexts.
The three papers in this symposium will address the impact of environmental risk on associations between temperament, parenting, and the development of risk factors for anxiety in young children. The first talk addresses the moderating effect of environmental disorder on the association between temperament and visual attention to angry faces. The second talk presents data on the direct effect of perceived neighborhood risk and its interaction with child temperament on the development of internalizing behaviors across early childhood. The third talk will be on the effects of perceived neighborhood risks, maternal psychopathology, and anxiety symptoms in preschool children. The discussant will touch on the importance of including contextual factors in the study of early risks for anxiety in children.
Disorder in the environment moderates the relation between infant temperament and visual attention to threatening faces - Presenting Author: Jessica L. Burris, Rutgers University; Non-Presenting Author: Denise Oleas, Rutgers University; Non-Presenting Author: Vanessa LoBue, Rutgers University; Non-Presenting Author: Kristin A Buss, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Koraly PĂ©rez-Edgar, The Pennsylvania State University
The Effects of Neighborhood Risk and Exuberant Temperament on the Development of Internalizing Behaviors Across Early Childhood - Presenting Author: Meghan Elizabeth McDoniel, SRCD Pre-doctoral State Policy Fellow, Bureau of Early Learning Services, Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning, Doctoral Candidate, Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Kristin A Buss, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Dawn Paula Witherspoon, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Ginger A Moore, Pennsylvania State University
Neighborhood Risk Predicts Anxiety in Head Start Preschoolers via Maternal Psychopathology - Presenting Author: Kristin A Buss, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Karen Bierman, Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Laureen Teti, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Dawn Paula Witherspoon, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Meghan Elizabeth McDoniel, SRCD Pre-doctoral State Policy Fellow, Bureau of Early Learning Services, Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning, Doctoral Candidate, Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Frances Lobo, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Connor Destafney, The Pennsylvania State University