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A cascade from disregard for rules of conduct at preschool age to parental power assertion at early school age to antisocial behavior in early preadolescence: Interplay with the child's skin conductance level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2016

Grazyna Kochanska ,
Rebecca L. Brock  and
Lea J. Boldt
Grazyna Kochanska*
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
Rebecca L. Brock
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lea J. Boldt
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Grazyna Kochanska, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242; E-mail: grazyna-kochanska@uiowa.edu.
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Abstract

Young children's disregard for conduct rules (failing to experience discomfort following transgressions and violating adults' prohibitions) often foreshadows future antisocial trajectories, perhaps in part because it elicits more power-assertive parental discipline, which in turn promotes children's antisocial behavior. This process may be particularly likely for children with low skin conductance level (SCL). In 102 two-parent community families, we tested a model in which children's SCL, assessed at 8 years, was posed as a moderator of the cascade from children's disregard for conduct rules at 4.5 years to parents' power assertion at 5.5 and 6.5 years to antisocial behavior at 10 and 12 years. Children's disregard for conduct rules was observed in scripted laboratory paradigms, parents' power assertion was observed in discipline contexts, and children's antisocial behavior was rated by parents. Conditional process analyses revealed that the developmental cascade from early disregard for rules to future parental power assertion to antisocial outcomes occurred only for the children with low SCL (below median), but not their high-SCL (above median) peers. By elucidating the specific interplay among children's disregard for rules, the parenting they receive, and their psychophysiology, this study represents a developmentally informed, multilevel approach to early etiology of antisocial behavior.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , August 2017 , pp. 875 - 885
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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Footnotes

This research was funded by NIMH (R01 MH63096, K02 MH01446) and NICHD (R01 HD069171) and by the Stuit Professorship (to G.K.). We thank Katherine Jonas for methodological contributions; Nazan Aksan, Steven W. Anderson, and Kuan-Hua Chen for collecting and processing psychophysiological data; Don Fowles for very helpful guidance on those measures; Lauren Wakschlag for input regarding disruptive behavior; many colleagues, students, and staff for contributions to the Family Study, especially Jarilyn Akabogu, Sanghag Kim, Jeung Eun Yoon, and Jessica O'Bleness; and all of the parents and children in the Family Study for their long-term commitment to this research. The authors had no conflicts of interest.

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