Externalizing Behavior Problems in Early Childhood: The Role of Parenting Behaviors and Temperament

Session Type: Flash Talk Session

Abstract

This symposium explores variables related to externalizing behavior in early childhood. The role of parent-child interaction is examined in a longitudinal study that investigated the reciprocal, transactional relations of parenting quality and child externalizing behaviors across early childhood, from ages 1 to 6 years. Another study focuses on families with a parental history of justice involvement and examines whether the timing of parental antisocial behavior, as well as parenting skills, predict to individual differences in young children’s (M age = 5 years, 4 months) early conscience development, which is a developmental precursor to antisocial behavior. Trajectories of callous-unemotional behavior development were assessed longitudinally with 3-year-old children who also participated at ages 4 and 5 years. Then, early fearfulness and social engagement were examined as predictors of the latent class memberships.

Sub Unit

• Developmental Psychopathology

Individual Presentations

• A Longitudinal Path Model Examining the Transactional Nature of Parenting and Child Behavior Problems - Presenting Author: Shaikh I. Ahmad, University of California - San Francisco; Kristen L. Rudd, University of California - San Francisco; Danielle Roubinov, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kaja Z. LeWinn, University of California, San Francisco; W. Alex Mason, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Joyce Carolyn Graff, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Nicole R Bush, University of California - San Francisco

• Conscience development among children of justice-involved parents: The role of timing of delinquency, and parenting - Presenting Author: Amelie Petitclerc, Laval University; Yohann Courtemanche

• Predictors of Developmental Patterns of Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in Preschoolers - Presenting Author: I-Tzu Hung, Boston University; Jody M. Ganiban, George Washington University; Kimberly J Saudino, Boston University

Moderator

• Tamara Del Vecchio, St. John’s University