Early - adolescents» pure externalizing and co-occurring problems shared childhood and / or early - adolescent risk factors of
low effortful control, high impulsivity, and high anger.
Further, high parental accuracy proved protective among children with
low effortful control and high negative affect.
The results show that high levels of frustration / negative affect in the 1 — 3 year - old group and
low effortful control in children 3 to 6 years old are the most relevant variables in differentiating between aggressive and non-aggressive subjects.
At child age 5, higher levels of paternal depression and anxiety increased the effect of
low effortful control on ODD.
One indirect effect was found, with
low effortful control predicting increases in depressive symptoms through heightened levels of RNT.
For example,
low effortful control, high surgency, high frustration, high parental stress and low academic performance increased the likelihood of serious delinquents, but had no effect on minor delinquents.
In comparison, RA has been associated with hostile attributions toward potential sources of threats or pain [36, 37],
low effortful control [38, 39], and generally to deficits in executive functioning [40, 41].
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).
Temperament could be implicated in the development of ADHD.54 The link could be mediated through extreme approach tendencies or
low effortful control and through some negative parenting resulting from ADHD symptoms.20, 21 As for the sex of the child, it is well documented that boys are more susceptible to neurodevelopmental disorders and other disruptive behaviors (among which is ADHD) from early childhood.55
In addition, there was a significant difference between mothers and fathers on punishment of
low effortful control and discouraging surgency, favoring fathers.
This program targets callous / unemotional traits and
low effortful control, which are indicators of a developmental trajectory toward antisocial or disruptive behaviors.
For instance, the temperament trait of high fear predicted mainly internalizing problems in adolescents, whereas temperament traits of
low effortful control and high - intensity pleasure (which expresses adolescents» pleasure derived from novel and intense experiences) more strongly predicted externalizing problems.
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.
Extraversion / surgency and
low effortful control have also been associated with the development of behaviour problems.
Depression and attachment insecurity of the primary caregiver and more distal family adversity factors (such as incomplete schooling or vocational training of parents, high person - to - room ratio, early parenthood, and broken - home history of parents) were found to best predict inadequate parenting13, 14 and precede the development of a child's low compliance with parents,
low effortful control, and behavior problems.13, 15, — , 17 These psychosocial familial characteristics might also constrain the transfer of program contents into everyday family life and the maintenance of modified behaviors after the conclusion of the programs.
Extraversion / surgency and
low effortful control have also been associated with the development of behaviour problems.
However, the referred children did have significantly
lower effortful control than the general population children (Table 2).
Lower effortful control predicted changes in externalizing (pure and co-occurring) over 6 years, but only when parental positive expressivity was low.
Not exact matches
«Together these data suggest that political conservatism may be a process consequence of
low - effort thought; when
effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases.»
For example, it is clear that
effortful control is linked to positive development, even in the first five years of life, since it has been associated with
lower levels of problem behaviours and has been found to correlate with and predict
low levels of negative emotion, highly committed compliance, high levels of social competence, and conscience.
Greater ability to take «I» positions in relationships, along with
lower emotional reactivity (ER) and attachment anxiety, were unique predictors of
effortful control.
In general, children high in frustration, impulsivity and
low in
effortful control are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of negative parenting, while in turn, many negative parenting behaviors predict increases in these characteristics.
For the fine - grained components of
effortful control — the self - regulative temperamental dimension — we found that higher attentional focusing was related to
lower levels of CU traits.
Moreover, Gartstein et al. (2012), in a longitudinal study that covered early childhood (from infancy till preschool period), found that higher levels of both surgency and negative emotionality predicted preschoolers» higher levels of externalizing problems, while higher levels of
effortful control were linked to
lower levels of externalizing difficulties.
For the potential moderator effects between negative affectivity and
effortful control on ODD problems, we predicted that high levels of negative emotionality and
low levels of
effortful control would be linked to ODD - related problems.
Regarding levels of temperament traits, results showed that referred children had significantly
lower levels of
effortful control than general population children, with less capacity to maintain attentional focus and less capacity to plan and suppress inappropriate response reactions.
We expected that referred children display higher levels of negative affectivity and
lower levels of
effortful control (and related fine - grained traits) than general population children.
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.
Effortful control included: attention focusing, inhibitory control,
low - intensity pleasure and perceptual sensitivity.
Low levels of effortful control and more fine - grained traits within this dimension (such as attention focusing, inhibitory control and low - intensity pleasure) were found to predict externalizing problem behavior, also when internalizing problems co-occurred [22, 2
Low levels of
effortful control and more fine - grained traits within this dimension (such as attention focusing, inhibitory control and
low - intensity pleasure) were found to predict externalizing problem behavior, also when internalizing problems co-occurred [22, 2
low - intensity pleasure) were found to predict externalizing problem behavior, also when internalizing problems co-occurred [22, 24].
Within the temperament dimension
effortful control all subscales were significantly different between the groups in the expected direction, with the referred group scoring
lower than the population group (Table 2).
In addition, there is evidence from population studies for trait - by - trait moderation, such that negative affectivity is most strongly predicting externalizing problem behavior when
effortful control is
low [24, 26].
High levels of negative affect and
low levels of
effortful control at age 3 were statistical predictors of ODD levels at age 5, and this relationship was also moderated by paternal anxiety and depression.
Efforts to enhance social skills may prove particularly important for children with
low or medium
effortful control.
However, such social skills were only protective among children with
low and medium
effortful control.
An integrative structural equation model tested hypotheses that mothers» parenting (i.e.,
low levels of inductive discipline and maternal warmth) would mediate adverse effects of early maternal distress on child
effortful control, which in turn would mediate effects of maternal parenting on child externalizing behavior.