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Mother-Child Interactions and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Preschoolers over Time: Inhibitory Control as a Mediator

Previous research has shown links between parenting and externalizing behavior problems in young children over time. Associations between inhibitory control, one of the executive functions, and externalizing behavior problems are widely established as well. Yet, the role of inhibitory control in the...

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Autores principales: van Dijk, Rianne, Deković, Maja, Bunte, Tessa L., Schoemaker, Kim, Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, Mariëlle, Espy, Kimberly A., Matthys, Walter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28138808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-016-0258-1
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author van Dijk, Rianne
Deković, Maja
Bunte, Tessa L.
Schoemaker, Kim
Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, Mariëlle
Espy, Kimberly A.
Matthys, Walter
author_facet van Dijk, Rianne
Deković, Maja
Bunte, Tessa L.
Schoemaker, Kim
Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, Mariëlle
Espy, Kimberly A.
Matthys, Walter
author_sort van Dijk, Rianne
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description Previous research has shown links between parenting and externalizing behavior problems in young children over time. Associations between inhibitory control, one of the executive functions, and externalizing behavior problems are widely established as well. Yet, the role of inhibitory control in the maintenance and change of externalizing behavior problems over time remains unclear. We examined whether inhibitory control could explain the link between mother-child interactions measured on a moment-to-moment timescale and preschoolers’ externalizing behavior problems as reported by teachers. With a sample of 173 predominantly clinically referred preschoolers (76.9% boys) we tested a longitudinal model proposing that affective dyadic flexibility and maternal negative affect predict as well as interact in predicting hyperactive/impulsive behavior and aggressive behavior, with preschoolers’ inhibitory control as a mediator. Our results provide support for this model for preschoolers’ hyperactive/impulsive behavior, but not for aggressive behavior. Hence, inhibitory control is identified as a mechanism linking the content and structure of mother-child interactions to preschoolers’ hyperactivity and impulsivity over time. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10802-016-0258-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-56555882017-11-01 Mother-Child Interactions and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Preschoolers over Time: Inhibitory Control as a Mediator van Dijk, Rianne Deković, Maja Bunte, Tessa L. Schoemaker, Kim Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, Mariëlle Espy, Kimberly A. Matthys, Walter J Abnorm Child Psychol Article Previous research has shown links between parenting and externalizing behavior problems in young children over time. Associations between inhibitory control, one of the executive functions, and externalizing behavior problems are widely established as well. Yet, the role of inhibitory control in the maintenance and change of externalizing behavior problems over time remains unclear. We examined whether inhibitory control could explain the link between mother-child interactions measured on a moment-to-moment timescale and preschoolers’ externalizing behavior problems as reported by teachers. With a sample of 173 predominantly clinically referred preschoolers (76.9% boys) we tested a longitudinal model proposing that affective dyadic flexibility and maternal negative affect predict as well as interact in predicting hyperactive/impulsive behavior and aggressive behavior, with preschoolers’ inhibitory control as a mediator. Our results provide support for this model for preschoolers’ hyperactive/impulsive behavior, but not for aggressive behavior. Hence, inhibitory control is identified as a mechanism linking the content and structure of mother-child interactions to preschoolers’ hyperactivity and impulsivity over time. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10802-016-0258-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2017-01-31 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5655588/ /pubmed/28138808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-016-0258-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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van Dijk, Rianne
Deković, Maja
Bunte, Tessa L.
Schoemaker, Kim
Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, Mariëlle
Espy, Kimberly A.
Matthys, Walter
Mother-Child Interactions and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Preschoolers over Time: Inhibitory Control as a Mediator
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title_fullStr Mother-Child Interactions and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Preschoolers over Time: Inhibitory Control as a Mediator
title_full_unstemmed Mother-Child Interactions and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Preschoolers over Time: Inhibitory Control as a Mediator
title_short Mother-Child Interactions and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Preschoolers over Time: Inhibitory Control as a Mediator
title_sort mother-child interactions and externalizing behavior problems in preschoolers over time: inhibitory control as a mediator
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28138808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-016-0258-1
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