TY - JOUR
T1 - Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence
AU - Lagasse, Linda L.
AU - Conradt, Elisabeth
AU - Karalunas, Sarah L.
AU - Dansereau, Lynne M.
AU - Butner, Jonathan E.
AU - Shankaran, Seetha
AU - Bada, Henrietta
AU - Bauer, Charles R.
AU - Whitaker, Toni M.
AU - Lester, Barry M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2016.
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - Developmental psychopathologists face the difficult task of identifying the environmental conditions that may contribute to early childhood behavior problems. Highly stressed caregivers can exacerbate behavior problems, while children with behavior problems may make parenting more difficult and increase caregiver stress. Unknown is: (a) how these transactions originate, (b) whether they persist over time to contribute to the development of problem behavior and (c) what role resilience factors, such as child executive functioning, may play in mitigating the development of problem behavior. In the present study, transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and behavior problems were examined in a sample of 1,388 children with prenatal drug exposures at three developmental time points: early childhood (birth to age 5), middle childhood (ages 6 to 9), and early adolescence (ages 10 to 13). Transactional relations differed between caregiving stress and internalizing versus externalizing behavior. Targeting executive functioning in evidence-based interventions for children with prenatal substance exposure who present with internalizing problems and treating caregiving psychopathology, depression, and parenting stress in early childhood may be particularly important for children presenting with internalizing behavior.
AB - Developmental psychopathologists face the difficult task of identifying the environmental conditions that may contribute to early childhood behavior problems. Highly stressed caregivers can exacerbate behavior problems, while children with behavior problems may make parenting more difficult and increase caregiver stress. Unknown is: (a) how these transactions originate, (b) whether they persist over time to contribute to the development of problem behavior and (c) what role resilience factors, such as child executive functioning, may play in mitigating the development of problem behavior. In the present study, transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and behavior problems were examined in a sample of 1,388 children with prenatal drug exposures at three developmental time points: early childhood (birth to age 5), middle childhood (ages 6 to 9), and early adolescence (ages 10 to 13). Transactional relations differed between caregiving stress and internalizing versus externalizing behavior. Targeting executive functioning in evidence-based interventions for children with prenatal substance exposure who present with internalizing problems and treating caregiving psychopathology, depression, and parenting stress in early childhood may be particularly important for children presenting with internalizing behavior.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0954579416000286
DO - 10.1017/S0954579416000286
M3 - Article
C2 - 27427803
AN - SCOPUS:84978915574
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 28
SP - 743
EP - 756
JO - Development and Psychopathology
JF - Development and Psychopathology
IS - 3
ER -