2-010 - How parenting impacts child externalizing problems: Neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

The deleterious effects of negative parenting and the protective effects of positive parenting on offspring externalizing problems have been well documented. However, the mechanisms by which parenting impacts child outcome are less well understood. This symposium presents research on parenting and its effects on child externalizing from a multidisciplinary perspective; panelists will showcase recent and integrative advances in neurobiological, psychosocial, and intervention research that will elucidate the pathways from rearing experiences to externalizing problems across development.

The authors of the first paper present data from a prospective birth-cohort in the U.K. that examines how very early parenting behaviors affect offspring drinking problems over a 16 year period. The second paper also uses data from a prospective longitudinal study to examine how interactions between pubertal timing and tempo and parental monitoring are associated with substance initiation during adolescence. The third paper examines how parenting moderates the effectiveness of an intervention for externalizing problems in a longitudinal study of low-income, minority children. Finally, the authors of the fourth paper examine associations between plasma vasopressin, parent-child conflict, and antisocial behavior in a racially and ethnically diverse sample of urban and suburban youth.

These presentations will highlight the utility of taking a multidisciplinary approach towards unraveling the interplay between biological and psychosocial risk and protective processes as they relate to parenting and externalizing problems. The symposium chairs will integrate these findings to discuss their research and clinical implications.

Sub Unit

• Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships

Chairs

• Ashlea Marie Klahr, University of Chicago

• James J Li, Virginia Commonwealth Univ

Individual Presentations

• A prospective study of early parental alcohol consumption and adolescent alcohol problems: Examining psychosocial mechanisms - Presenting Author: James J Li, Virginia Commonwealth Univ; Kenneth S Kendler, Virginia Commonwealth University; Danielle Dick, Virginia Commonwealth Univ

• Interactions of self-reported timing and tempo of puberty and parental monitoring predict substance initiation - Presenting Author: Kristine Marceau, Brown University; Caitlin C Abar, SUNY Brockport; Kristina Melia Jackson, Brown University

• Consideration of parenting as a moderator of intervention impact on child outcomes - Presenting Author: Elizabeth C. Shelleby, University of Pittsburgh; Spring R Dawson-McClure, New York University; Keng-Yen Huang, New York University; Demy Kamboukos, New York University; Rachelle Theise, New York University; Esther J Calzada, University of Texas at Austin; Laurie Miller Brotman, New York University, Child Study Ctr

• The association between vasopressin and youth antisocial behavior is moderated by parent-child conflict - Presenting Author: Ashlea Marie Klahr, University of Chicago; Royce J Lee, University of Chicago; C Sue Carter, RTI International; Kristen Jacobson, University of Chicago