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Children's Anxious Characteristics Predict how their Parents Socialize Emotions.
We examined whether young children's anxious characteristics, including expressed anxiety with peers and low basal respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), predicted changes in mothers' and fathers' emotion socialization over the subsequent year. Using regression and regions of significance analyses, we observed that children's expressed anxiety moderated the stability of mothers' and fathers' supportive and unsupportive emotion socialization, primarily in ways that would be likely to maintain or exacerbate children's social anxiety. For example, mothers' highly fretful and less supportive responses were more stable when childr...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hastings PD, Grady JS, Barrieau LE Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Wait and See: Observational Learning of Distraction as an Emotion Regulation Strategy in 22-Month-Old Toddlers.
Abstract Emotion regulation strategies have been linked to the development of mental disorders. In this experiment, we investigated if imitation is an effective way of learning to increase the usage of the emotion regulation strategy 'distraction' for 22-month-old toddlers. Toddlers in two experimental conditions participated in two waiting situations intended to elicit frustration, with a modeling situation between the first and the second waiting situation. In the modeling situation, toddlers observed how either a familiar model (parent) or an unfamiliar model (experimenter) demonstrated the use of distr...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Schoppmann J, Schneider S, Seehagen S Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Correction to: Behavioral Couples Treatment for Substance Use Disorder: Secondary Effects on the Reduction of Youth Internalizing Symptoms.
Abstract The authors would like to note a couple of errors in Table 3 of the originally published manuscript. PMID: 30334123 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kelley ML, Bravo AJ, Braitman AL Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Callous-Unemotional Behaviors and Harsh Parenting: Reciprocal Associations across Early Childhood and Moderation by Inherited Risk.
Abstract Callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors increase children's risk for subsequent antisocial behavior. This risk process may begin in early childhood with reciprocal pathways between CU behaviors and harsh parenting. In a sample of 561 linked triads of biological mothers, adoptive parents, and adopted children, the present study examined bidirectional links between CU behaviors and harsh parenting across three time points from 18 to 54 months and investigated moderation by inherited risk for psychopathic traits. Child CU behaviors and harsh parenting were measured using adoptive mother and adoptive fath...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Trentacosta CJ, Waller R, Neiderhiser JM, Shaw DS, Natsuaki MN, Ganiban JM, Reiss D, Leve LD, Hyde LW Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Interpersonal Stress Severity Longitudinally Predicts Adolescent Girls' Depressive Symptoms: the Moderating Role of Subjective and HPA Axis Stress Responses.
Abstract In recent decades, stress response models of adolescent depression have gained attention, but it remains unclear why only certain adolescents are vulnerable to the depressogenic effects of stress while others are not. Building on evidence that affective and physiological responses to stress moderate the impact of stress exposure on depression, the current study examined whether the interaction between severity of interpersonal stress, subjective affective reactivity, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis reactivity to an acute, in-vivo psychosocial stressor prospectively predicted depressi...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Owens SA, Helms SW, Rudolph KD, Hastings PD, Nock MK, Prinstein MJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Hopelessness and Delinquent Behavior as Predictors of Community Violence Exposure in Ethnic Minority Male Adolescent Offenders.
Abstract Justice-involved boys from urban communities are disproportionately impacted by community violence exposure (ECV) and despite decades of research, rates of ECV in youth continue to increase particularly for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Despite the increased risk of exposure, the majority of research focuses on what may protect youth from the deleterious outcomes associated with violence exposure, rather than strategies that may prevent the violence exposure from occurring. The current study seeks to shift the focus of research in this area to examining factors that may predict fu...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Burnside AN, Gaylord-Harden NK Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Having Siblings is Associated with Better Social Functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Abstract Sibling relationships play a unique developmental role, especially in emotional and social domains. In autism spectrum disorder (ASD), social-communication skills are often impaired in comparison to typical development. Therefore, studying siblings' effects on social skills of the child with ASD is important. This retrospective study examined how autism severity and functioning were affected by having older and younger sibling/s, the sex of the index child and of the sibling, and the number of siblings. The study population included 150 participants with ASD (mean age = 4:0 ± 1:6), divide...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ben-Itzchak E, Nachshon N, Zachor DA Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Children Sleep and Antisocial Behavior: Differential Association of Sleep with Aggression and Rule-Breaking.
Abstract There is a strong relationship between sleep and behavioral problems. These findings are often interpreted via environmental explanations, such that poor sleep directly exacerbates or causes symptoms of aggression and behavior problems. However, there are other possible explanations, such that the genes predicting poor sleep also predict aggression or rule-breaking. The current study sought to elucidate the origin of this relationship. The sample was composed of 1030 twin pairs (426 monozygotic and 604 dizygotic). The sample was 51.3% male with a mean age of 8.06 years (range 6-11.96; SD = 1....
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Madrid-Valero JJ, Ordoñana JR, Klump KL, Burt SA Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Using Early Childhood Behavior Problems to Predict Adult Convictions.
Abstract The current study examined whether teacher and parent ratings of externalizing behavior during kindergarten and 1st grade accurately predicted the presence of adult convictions by age 25. Data were collected as part of the Fast Track Project. Schools were identified based on poverty and crime rates in four locations: Durham, NC, Nashville, TN, Seattle, WA, and rural, central PA. Teacher and parent screening measures of externalizing behavior were collected at the end of kindergarten and 1st grade. ROC curves were used to visually depict the tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity and best mod...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kassing F, Godwin J, Lochman JE, Coie JD, Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship between Trauma-Related Cognitive Factors and Internalising and Externalising Psychopathology in Physically Injured Children.
Abstract Cognitive models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) highlight maladaptive posttrauma appraisals, trauma memory qualities, and coping strategies, such as rumination or thought suppression, as key processes that maintain PTSD symptoms. Anxiety, depression and externalising symptoms can also present in children in the aftermath of trauma, yet there has been little empirical investigation of the potential relevance of posttrauma cognitive processes for such difficulties. Here, we examined whether: a) acute maladaptive cognitive processes (specifically, maladaptive appraisals, memory qualities, an...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hiller RM, Creswell C, Meiser-Stedman R, Lobo S, Cowdrey F, Lyttle MD, Ehlers A, Halligan SL Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

A Preliminary Examination of the Association between Adolescent Gender Nonconformity and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors.
This study examined data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (n = 7730) to estimate the association between gender nonconformity and high school-aged adolescents' likelihood of endorsing four distinct suicide outcomes: suicidal ideation, suicide plans, any suicide attempts, and single vs. multiple suicide attempts. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were utilized to control for other known risk factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors, including age, sex, sexual minority status, depression symptoms, and suicidal ideation. Results revealed that gender nonconformity was significantly associated wit...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Spivey LA, Prinstein MJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Age-Adapted Stress Task in Preschoolers Does not Lead to Uniform Stress Responses.
Abstract Acute stress response measures serve as an indicator of physiological functioning, but have previously led to contradictory results in young children due to age-related cortisol hypo-responsivity and methodological inconsistencies in assessment. The aim of this study was to investigate stress responses during a validated age-adapted socio-evaluative stress task in children aged 2-6 years in a child care environment and to detect socio-demographic, task- and child-related characteristics of stress responses. Stress responses were assessed in 323 children for salivary cortisol and salivary alpha amy...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stülb K, Messerli-Bürgy N, Kakebeeke TH, Arhab A, Zysset AE, Leeger-Aschmann CS, Schmutz EA, Meyer AH, Garcia-Burgos D, Ehlert U, Kriemler S, Jenni OG, Puder JJ, Munsch S Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Sad, Scared, or Rejected? A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of the Predictors of Social Avoidance in Chinese Children.
Abstract The goal of the present study was to empirically examine different conceptual mechanisms previously postulated to underlie the development of social avoidance in childhood. Participants were N = 601 children (321 boys, 280 girls) attending elementary schools (Mage = 10.21 years) and middle schools (Mage = 12.77 years) in Shanghai, P.R. China. Measures of motivations for social withdrawal (shyness, unsociability, social avoidance) and socio-emotional adjustment were collected using self-reports and peer nominations at two time-points separated by 9 months. Results from cross-lagged pa...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ding X, Coplan RJ, Deng X, Ooi LL, Li D, Sang B Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System Functioning and Experiences of Peer Exclusion: Links to Internalizing Problems in Early Adolescence.
This study examines the moderating effect of both branches of the autonomic nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic) on associations between peer exclusion and internalizing behaviors. Young adolescents (N = 68) self-reported their perceptions of peer exclusion and internalizing problems and participated in stress-inducing public speaking tasks. Skin conductance and respiratory sinus arrhythmia were assessed at baseline (skin conductance baseline, SCLB; respiratory sinus arrhythmia baseline, RSAB) and during the challenge task to provide measures of physiological reactivity (skin conductance reactivity, SCLR; re...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Benito-Gomez M, Fletcher AC, Buehler C Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Adolescent Emotion Network Dynamics in Daily Life and Implications for Depression.
Abstract Emotion network density describes the degree of interdependence among emotion states across time. Higher density is theorized to reflect rigidity in emotion functioning and has been associated with depression in adult samples. This paper extended research on emotion networks to adolescents and examined associations between emotion network density and: 1) emotion regulation and 2) symptoms of depression. Data from a daily diary study (t = 21 days) of adolescents (N = 151; 61.59% female; mean age = 14.60 years) were used to construct emotion network density scores. Emotion regulation w...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lydon-Staley DM, Xia M, Mak HW, Fosco GM Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research