TY - JOUR
T1 - Childhood inhibitory control and adolescent impulsivity and novelty seeking as differential predictors of relational and overt aggression
AU - Sarkisian, Katherine
AU - Van Hulle, Carol
AU - Lemery, Kathryn
AU - Goldsmith, H. H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health – United States via NIMH R01 MH59785 (PIsH.H. Goldsmith & Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant), NIMH R01 MH101504 (PIH.H. Goldsmith), NIMH R01 MH101504 (H.H. Goldsmith, PI), and T32 MH018931 (PIRichard Davidson). Support was also provided by Conte Neuroscience Centers (P50 MH084051 and P50 MH100031). Infrastructure support was provided by the Waisman Center via P30 HD03352. Special thanks to the twin families, research staff, and students at the Wisconsin Twin Project for data collection.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Impulsivity is commonly conflated with novelty seeking, but these traits are conceptually independent and hold different predictive implications. Using a multi-informant, longitudinal design, we examined childhood inhibitory control, as well as adolescent impulsivity and novelty seeking, as predictors of aggression in a sample of 976 twins. Lower childhood inhibitory control and higher adolescent impulsivity predicted both overt and relational aggression in regression analyses that accounted for sex, puberty status, age, and socioeconomic status. As predicted, novelty seeking did not predict aggression, a finding that supports its independence from impulsivity.
AB - Impulsivity is commonly conflated with novelty seeking, but these traits are conceptually independent and hold different predictive implications. Using a multi-informant, longitudinal design, we examined childhood inhibitory control, as well as adolescent impulsivity and novelty seeking, as predictors of aggression in a sample of 976 twins. Lower childhood inhibitory control and higher adolescent impulsivity predicted both overt and relational aggression in regression analyses that accounted for sex, puberty status, age, and socioeconomic status. As predicted, novelty seeking did not predict aggression, a finding that supports its independence from impulsivity.
KW - Impulsivity
KW - Inhibitory control
KW - Novelty seeking
KW - Overt aggression
KW - Relational aggression
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.07.011
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.07.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84995463502
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 67
SP - 144
EP - 150
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
ER -