Effortful control includes the abilities to voluntarily manage attention and inhibit or activate behaviour as needed to adapt to the environment, especially when the child does not particularly want to do so.
Effortful control includes the abilities to voluntarily manage attention and inhibit or activate behaviour as needed to adapt to the environment, especially when the child does not particularly want to do so.
Effortful control included: attention focusing, inhibitory control, low - intensity pleasure and perceptual sensitivity.
Not exact matches
The current list of temperament dimensions
includes three broad basic dimensions: Extraversion / Surgency, which is related to positive emotionality, activity level, impulsivity and risk - taking; Negative Affectivity, which is related to fear, anger, sadness and discomfort; and
Effortful Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational c
Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational
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Effortful disengagement responses are
controlled responses that are directed away from a problem and
include avoiding the stressful situation or denying that there's a problem; involuntary responses can
include uncontrollable engagement with a problem (e.g., ruminating) or uncontrollable disengagement from a problem (e.g., feeling numb and unable to think about it).
The current list of temperament dimensions
includes three broad basic dimensions: Extraversion / Surgency, which is related to positive emotionality, activity level, impulsivity and risk - taking; Negative Affectivity, which is related to fear, anger, sadness and discomfort; and
Effortful Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational c
Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational
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Measures utilized
include the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI),
Effortful Control (EC), the Callous / Unemotional Traits (CU), the Parental Stress Index - Short Form, the Marital Quality Scale (MQS - I), and the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire — Preschool, Revised.
Measures utilized
include the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI),
Effortful Control (EC), the Callous / Unemotional traits (CU), the Parental Stress Index - Short Form, the Marital Quality Scale (MQS - I), and the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire — Preschool, Revised.
Effortful control refers to the voluntary regulation of attention and behaviour,
including inhibition of undesirable behaviour and activation of appropriate behaviour.
The cumulative risk scale for temperament, for example,
included low
effortful control, high surgency, and high frustration (referring to the three temperamental risk factors from Table 2).
This definition allows for inclusion of multiple dimensions of emotionally - salient processes and regulation of these processes,
including but not limited to: emotional reactivity, arousal, sympathetic and parasympathetic activity, impulsivity,
effortful control, behavioral and emotional inhibition, emotional awareness, and features of temperament [e.g., 16, 17, 18 •, 22].
The cumulative promotive scale for temperament
included high
effortful control, high shyness, and low surgency, with a higher score indicating an easier temperament (range = 0 — 3, M = 0.71, SD = 0.76).
The quadratic term for
effortful control was
included because both low as well as high levels of
effortful control have been found to be associated with child internalizing problem behavior in population studies.
The interactions between
effortful control and negative affectivity were
included in order to examine the role of
effortful control as a possible moderator of the relation between negative affectivity and child problem behavior.
In the best - fitting model: (a) SES had indirect effects on contextual factors of stress and conflict, parental depression, and parenting factors
including hostility, support, and scaffolding; (b) stress and conflict had both direct effects on ODD symptoms, and indirect effects via parental depression and parenting; (c) parenting had direct effects on ODD symptoms and indirect effects via child
effortful control (EC), negative affect (NA) and sensory regulation (SR); (c) NA, EC, and SR had direct effects on symptom frequency, and attachment had indirect effects via EC, and SR..
Contextual factors
include socioeconomic status, family stress, and conflict; parent factors
included parental depression; parenting factors
included parental hostility, support, and scaffolding skills; child factors
included child
effortful control (EC), negative affect (NA), and sensory regulation.