TY - JOUR
T1 - Developmental risk and young children's regulatory strategies
T2 - Predicting behavior problems at age five
AU - Gerstein, Emily D.
AU - Pedersen Y Arbona, Anita
AU - Crnic, Keith
AU - Ryu, Ehri
AU - Baker, Bruce L.
AU - Blacher, Jan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement Data collection for this study was funded through the Collaborative Family Study, supported with a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, # 34879-1459 (Keith Crnic, Principal Investigator; Bruce Baker, Jan Blacher, and Craig Edelbrock, co-Principal Investigators). The first author was also supported by a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, #5-F31-MH087033.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Children with early developmental delays are at heightened risk for behavior problems and comorbid psychopathology. This study examined the trajectories of regulatory capabilities and their potentially mediating role in the development of behavior problems for children with and without early developmental delays. A sample of 231 children comprised of 137 typically developing children and 94 children with developmental delays were examined during mildly frustrating laboratory tasks across the preschool period (ages 3-5). Results indicated that children with delays had greater use of maladaptive strategies (distraction, distress venting) and lower use of adaptive strategies (constructive coping) than typically developing children. For both groups, strategies had similar rates of growth across time; maladaptive strategies decreased and adaptive strategies increased. The intercept of strategy use, but not the slope, was found to mediate the relation between developmental risk and externalizing behaviors. Findings support that dysregulation, rather than the developmental risk, may be responsible for the high levels of comorbid psychopathology.
AB - Children with early developmental delays are at heightened risk for behavior problems and comorbid psychopathology. This study examined the trajectories of regulatory capabilities and their potentially mediating role in the development of behavior problems for children with and without early developmental delays. A sample of 231 children comprised of 137 typically developing children and 94 children with developmental delays were examined during mildly frustrating laboratory tasks across the preschool period (ages 3-5). Results indicated that children with delays had greater use of maladaptive strategies (distraction, distress venting) and lower use of adaptive strategies (constructive coping) than typically developing children. For both groups, strategies had similar rates of growth across time; maladaptive strategies decreased and adaptive strategies increased. The intercept of strategy use, but not the slope, was found to mediate the relation between developmental risk and externalizing behaviors. Findings support that dysregulation, rather than the developmental risk, may be responsible for the high levels of comorbid psychopathology.
KW - Emotion regulation
KW - Externalizing problems
KW - Growth curves
KW - Intellectual disability
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U2 - 10.1007/s10802-010-9471-5
DO - 10.1007/s10802-010-9471-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 21107675
AN - SCOPUS:79953825269
SN - 0091-0627
VL - 39
SP - 351
EP - 364
JO - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
IS - 3
ER -