Leveraging Latent Growth Modeling To Understand Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Regulation from Early-Childhood to Adolescence

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

Self-regulation is a prominent protective factor for children’s development over time. The contextual factors, such as parenting behaviors, socioeconomic status, and psychopathology that interact and contribute to the variability of the self-regulation trajectory, are crucial to further investigation. In this symposium, we represent the antecedents and consequences of self-regulation developmental trajectories in four diverse samples across early childhood to adolescence. Paper 1 uses Latent Class Growth Analysis to uncover trajectories of sensitive and intrusive maternal parenting in the first three years of the child’s life and their implications for children’s growth of executive function from age 3 to 5 with data from the Family Life Project. Paper 2 investigates the level and rate of change in socioeconomic status and its association with developmental trajectories of both executive function and emotion regulation longitudinally through bivariate growth curve modeling on a regionally representative adolescent sample. Paper 3 examines how facets of self-regulation contribute to distinct and co-developing internalizing and externalizing trajectories among children transitioning to adolescence using Growth Mixture Modeling with the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. Paper 4 leverages Growth Mixture Modeling to uncover self-regulation trajectories from early childhood to adolescence and investigate how each trajectory is uniquely associated with adolescent behavioral outcomes in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. These papers demonstrate the multidimensionality of contextual factors' influences on self-regulation by utilizing a person-centered approach and emphasize the importance of understanding the regulatory processes underlying behavioral trajectories in diverse populations.

Sub Unit

• Cognitive Processes

Chairs

• Qingyang Liu, Syracuse University

• Rachel A Razza, Syracuse University

Individual Presentations

• Longitudinal Trajectories of Maternal Parenting and the Growth of Executive Function during the Preschool Years - Presenting Author: Seulki Ku, Erikson Institute; Kibong Yun, Ewha Womans University; Clancy Blair, New York University

• Longitudinal Associations between Socioeconomic Status, Executive Function, and Emotion Regulation Development in Adolescence - Presenting Author: Claudia Clinchard, Virginia Tech; Brooks King-Casas, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, and Virginia Tech; Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, Virginia Tech

• The Role of Self-Regulation in the Development of Psychopathology during the Transition to Adolescence - Presenting Author: Alexis Brieant, Yale University; Ka I Ip, Yale University; Bailey Holt-Gosselin, Yale University; Dylan Gee, Yale University

• Differential Growth Trajectories of Self-Regulation from Early Childhood to Adolescence: Implications for Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes - Presenting Author: Qingyang Liu, Syracuse University; Rachel A Razza, Syracuse University; Gabriel J Merrin, Syracuse University; Ying Zhang, Clarkson University