Remember, though, that relying on physical punishment and yelling as your main ways to try and change your child's behavior has been associated
with more behavior problems as time goes on.
Although, at postintervention, CPP children exhibited fewer behavior problems while control children
exhibited more behavior problems by the 1 - year follow - up, reductions in behavior problems to rates below those found at baseline were observed in both groups of children.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Kids without a regular bedtime tend to have
more behavior problems at home and at school, a new study suggests.
The mothers who
reported more behavior problems in their children were anxious (i.e., high in Harm Avoidance) and they had a tendency toward unrealistically high expectations of their children (i.e., they were low in Self - Directedness and high in Self - Transcendence).
In addition to having a smaller number of friends, a further concern is poorer relationship quality (e.g., conflict, lack of closeness), as well as lack of stability, and the tendency to have friends
with more behavior problems themselves, in any friendships children with ADHD do have [19, 20, 21 •, 22, 23].
But this stress is magnified in vulnerable communities, because young children living with the adversities of poverty
exhibit more behavior problems, on average, than their peers (Evans et al., 2004; Gunnar, 2000).
Studies of people living in industrialized countries suggest that young children who lack regular bedtimes have
more behavior problems (e.g., Komada 2011; Kelly et al 2013).
But the study also found that daycare charges had
more behavior problems, even accounting for the child's gender, family income and quality of the daycare center.
Research has shown that preschoolers who sleep less have
more behavior problems.
Children growing up with a single mother are exposed to more family instability and complexity, have
more behavior problems, and are less likely to finish high school or attend college.
That's why we have
more behavior problems with the typical Asian breeds than the European ones... people are buying them as pets, but these Asian breeds have fewer generations of purposeful breeding for living as pets.
Indoor cats are more inclined to feline urinary infections, and I found a 2009 paper by Spanish researchers indicating that indoor cats had
more behavior problems.
On the Adolescent Behavior Questionnaire, adolescents who had been maltreated reported
more behavior problems than did their nonmaltreated counterparts (although this effect was accounted for by other risk factors rather than abuse per se) and were less likely to anticipate attending college (a little better than a 50 % chance vs a high or very high chance) even after controlling for other risk factors.
Studies of people living in industrialized countries suggest that young children who lack regular bedtimes have
more behavior problems (e.g., Komada 2011; Kelly et al 2013).
These practices, which are much more common in families that include a father, partly explain why boys with absent fathers have
more behavior problems and are more likely to be suspended from school.
However, studies comparing parent and child reports have found that children tend to report
more behavior problems (specifically internalizing) than their parents (Utens et al., 1993).