In both samples, child maltreatment was associated with higher levels of
internalizing psychopathology, elevated emotional reactivity, and greater habitual engagement in rumination and impulsive responses to distress.
Second, it investigated the relationship between parental
internalizing psychopathology and the autonomic correlates of ER in their offspring.
After controlling for the overlap between internalizing and externalizing symptoms, familial risk to externalizing behaviors (FR - EXT) is specifically associated with externalizing but not with
internalizing psychopathology in the offspring [26].
A developmental cascade model linking symptoms of externalizing and
internalizing psychopathology through three indices of peer relational difficulty (peer rejection, peer victimization, friendedness) was tested in a general population sample of 653 children followed annually from kindergarten to fourth grade.
Familial loading of
internalizing psychopathology predicted offspring internalizing but not externalizing problems, whereas familial loading of externalizing psychopathology predicted offspring externalizing but not internalizing problems.
Neuroticism was genetically correlated with
internalized psychopathologies, such as depression and anxiety.
Not exact matches
The association between
psychopathology in fathers versus mothers and children's
internalizing and externalizing behavior problems: a meta - analysis
Trajectories of childhood
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology and psychotic - like experiences in adolescence: A prospective population - based cohort study.
Frustration acted as a general risk factor predicting severity of maladjustment; low Effortful Control and Fear acted as dimension - specific risk factors that predicted a particular type of
psychopathology; whereas Shyness, High - Intensity Pleasure, and Affiliation acted as direction markers that steered the conditional probability of
internalizing versus externalizing problems, in the event of maladjustment.
We used purified measures of temperament and
psychopathology and partialled out shared variance between
internalizing and externalizing problems.
Over the period of kindergarten to fourth grade,
psychopathology and peer relations become entangled, and the dynamic interplay between multiple manifestations of poor peer relations ultimately adds to the development of both externalizing and
internalizing problems and their cross-time relation.
Traits that have been demonstrated to have significant shared environmental influences include
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology, [53] substance use [54] and dependence, [45] and intelligence.
Studies in school - age children have shown that co-occurrence of
internalizing and externalizing problems is a very strong risk factor for adult
psychopathology (Althoff et al. 2010; Sourander et al. 2007).
Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic factor in the development of
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology: Current and future directions.
Continuities in family socialization and contextual risks across generations, as well as genetic factors, are associated with the development of
psychopathology — including both externalizing and
internalizing problems in children — and to intergenerational associations in the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other.
Growth in externalizing and
internalizing problems in childhood: A prospective study of
psychopathology across three generations.
Disorganized attachment processes are early predictors of both
internalizing and externalizing forms of
psychopathology from the preschool period onward.
Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with regulation and control of negative emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem,
internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and
internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall
psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure during infancy go on to develop significant social and emotional maladjustment and
psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.
Findings underscore the importance of assessing various types of
internalizing symptoms (i.e., controlling for shared construct variance), obtaining children's perceptions of parental style in conjunction with conducting behavioral observations, and including fathers in
psychopathology research.
The fact that less optimal child outcomes were related to different types of
psychopathology symptoms in fathers and mothers might reflect children's
internalized gender role standards about appropriate behaviors of males and females.
Results highlight the importance of accounting for both
internalizing and externalizing symptoms from an early age to understand risk for developing
psychopathology and the role harsh parenting plays in influencing these trajectories.
For example, various parental
psychopathology symptoms such as depressed mood, anxiety, and antisocial traits have been related to children's
internalizing problems such as withdrawn behavior and externalizing problems such as aggression (Breaux et al. 2013; Cummings et al. 2005; Papp et al. 2005).
First, do
internalizing symptoms and externalizing behavior each mediate the relations between parent
psychopathology (alcoholism, antisocial personality disorder, and affective disorder) and growth in adolescent heavy alcohol use?
In addition, we did not code the content and affective tone of parental emotion talk, which could have provided further insight in the positive relations we found between fathers»
psychopathology symptoms and maternal emotion talk and between maternal emotion talk and child
internalizing problems.
Perhaps these mothers with
internalizing symptoms might have compromised IS themselves and consequently transmit this vulnerability factor to their children, hereby increasing their offspring's risk for developing maladaptive ER (and possibly
psychopathology).
Deficits in emotion regulation prescribe the onset of risk in two prominent developmental pathways leading to SUDs and comorbid
psychopathology, including the externalizing pathway [80, 81] and the
internalizing pathway [82, 83 • •].
Guided by previous studies (Izard et al. in Early Education and Development 15:407 — 422, 2004; Izard et al. in Development and
Psychopathology 20:369 — 397 2008a), we hypothesized that, compared to the control condition, in the treatment group the EC would show greater increases in emotion knowledge (Hypothesis 1) and emotion regulation / utilization (Hypothesis 2), and greater increases in social competence along with greater decreases in externalized and
internalized behaviors (Hypothesis 3).
As suggested by Beauchaine [15], an important possible explanation is the presence of co-morbid
internalizing disorders in female aggressive behaviour, as post-trauma
psychopathology.
Although we found no association between parents» symptoms of
psychopathology and their own use of emotion talk, fathers»
internalizing problems did predict more elaborative mother — child conversations about negative emotions.
In sum, results of the present study imply that when studying the emotional underpinnings of (
internalizing)
psychopathology, researchers may want to focus less on the specific emotions, and more on the general form the dysregulation takes, as indicated by high levels of negative, and low levels of positive emotions, or highly variable emotions.
The present study focused on the role of the dynamics of four basic emotions (happiness, anger, anxiety, and sadness) in the 1 year change or stability of
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology in early adolescence.
Participants completed questionnaire reports of
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology and PLEs at baseline, and again approximately 2 years later.
The assessment protocol included the main attachment figure's sociodemographic data,
psychopathology, and dissociation; history of youth protection services, and child's adjustment measures (general,
internalizing, externalizing and social problems, and dissociative symptoms).
Epidemiological and clinical evidence indicates that SED is associated with multiple dimensions of
psychopathology, with more robust effects on externalizing problems, such as aggressive and delinquent behaviors, and a less robust, but still significant, association with
internalizing symptoms, such as anxiety and depression [10 — 12, 14].
Internalizing and externalizing expressions of dys - function: Rochester Symposium on Developmental
Psychopathology
Given the high rates of emotional difficulties (Ooi et al. 2011; Totsika et al. 2011),
psychopathology (Brereton et al. 2006; Dickerson et al. 2011), and externalizing and
internalizing problems (Maskey et al. 2013) in children with ASD, these findings support the need for interventions targeting the underlying deficits in emotion regulation abilities (Gross and Thompson 2007; Mazefsky et al. 2013; Rieffe et al. 2011; Weiss 2014).
The association between child
internalizing and externalizing behavior problems and
psychopathology in mothers versus fathers: A meta - analysis
Research has shown that sex - differences in (especially
internalizing)
psychopathology emerge / widen throughout adolescence (Zahn - Waxler et al. 2008).
These findings suggest that co-occurrence of
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology in adolescents results from both genetic and environmental influences.
Internalizing and externalizing problems in children with ASD have been associated with several parental and family factors, important considerations given that individual child characteristics often account for only a small amount of variance in
psychopathology (Gadow et al. 2008; Mayes et al. 2011; Sukhodolsky et al. 2008).
The present study addressed the role of the intensity and variability of happiness, anger, anxiety, and sadness in the development of
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology in 452 adolescents followed from age 13 to 14.
In Study 2, emotional reactivity and maladaptive responses to distress mediated the association between child maltreatment and both
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology.
Child maltreatment is a robust risk factor for
internalizing and externalizing
psychopathology in children and adolescents.