Differential components of reactivity and attentional control predicting externalizing behavior
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Recruitment and attrition
The current study utilized data from three cohorts of children who are part of an ongoing longitudinal study of social and emotional development. The goal for recruitment was to obtain a sample of children who were at risk for developing future externalizing behavior problems, and who were representative of the surrounding community in terms of race and socioeconomic status (SES). All cohorts were recruited through child day care centers, the County Health Department, and the local Women,
Results
The data were first imputed to account for missing values using the missing value analysis (MVA) technique in SPSS version 20. Little's (Little & Rubin, 2002) missing completely at random (MCAR) yielded a Chi-square = 2425.12 (p = 0.91; df = 2520), indicating that the data were not systematically missing. An expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm was then used to generate values to fill in all the missing data. Preliminary analyses were conducted, and the scales were normally distributed based upon
Discussion
The current study sought to clarify the role of reactivity and regulation on externalizing behavior by examining specific individual factors and establishing the presence of a unique interactive effect between attention shifting and anger reactivity. We investigated the interplay between cognitive and affective processes based upon the developmental psychopathology perspective, which highlights how converging processes initiate maladaptive pathways (Sroufe, 2009). More specifically, Eisenberg
Acknowledgments
Support for this project was provided by a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (58144) awarded to Dr. Susan D. Calkins, Dr. Susan P. Keane, Dr. Marion O'Brien, and Dr. Lilly Shanahan. Thank you to the Right Track families for participating in our project.
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