Does Preschool Self-Regulation Predict Later Behavior Problems in General or Specific Problem Behaviors?

Lonigan, Christopher J.; Spiegel, Jamie A.; Goodrich, John M.; Morris, Brittany M.; Osborne, Colleen M.; Lerner, Matthew D.; Phillips, Beth M.

doi:10.1007/s10802-016-0260-7

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“…While studies specifically examining inhibitory control in relation to prenatal risk are lacking, it seems that prenatal maternal stress is more strongly related to cognitive outcomes for girls than for boys (Sutherland & Brunwasser, ). With regard to the relation between inhibitory control or executive functioning and problem behavior, there are indications for stronger associations among girls (Carlson & Wang, ; Granvald & Marciszko, ; Hughes & Ensor, ), although it should be noted that results have not been consistent (Lonigan et al., ; Olson et al., ; Schoemaker et al., ).…”

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Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

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Huijbregts

Heijden

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Prenatal risk and a lack of inhibitory control have consistently been related to the development of physical aggression in older children. This study examined whether inhibitory control mediated the relation between prenatal risk and aggression in infants and toddlers. The role of gender in this mediation model was also examined. The sample consisted of 161 mother–child dyads (83 boys). A prenatal cumulative risk score was created from a number of well‐established risk factors including maternal psychopathology, substance use, and social and socioeconomic disadvantages. At 12 months, children performed an inhibitory control task. Physical aggression was assessed through maternal reports at 12 and 20 months of age. Results showed that higher prenatal risk was associated with more physical aggression. Inhibitory control mediated this association at both 12 and 20 months: higher prenatal risk was related to lower inhibitory control, which in turn led to higher aggression. At 20 months, gender moderated the mediation effect: the mediating role of inhibitory control was only found for girls. These results suggest that even before 2 years of age, inhibitory control is an important construct involved in the relation between prenatal risk and physical aggression.

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Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

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“…Since GABA is a major neurotransmitter in the brain, an imbalance could disrupt the excitation-inhibition neuronal activity and result in deficits in cognitive processes as well as over excitation, hyperactivity, and impulsivity behaviors. Attention and impulse control are strong correlates of hyperactivity, aggression, socio-emotional behaviors, and academic skills (Lonigan et al, 2017). …”

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Prenatal and postnatal polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) exposure and measures of inattention and impulsivity in children

Vuong

Yolton

Poston

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Neurotoxicology and Teratology

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Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) during fetal development may be associated with deficits in attention and impulse control. However, studies examining postnatal PBDE exposures and inattention and impulsivity have been inconsistent. Using data from 214 children in the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study, a prospective pregnancy and birth cohort with enrollment from 2003–2006 in the Greater Cincinnati Area, we investigated the relationship of both prenatal and postnatal PBDE exposures with attention and impulse control. Serum PBDEs were measured at 16±3 weeks of gestation and during childhood at 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 years. We assessed children’s attention and impulse control using the Conners’ Continuous Performance Test-Second Edition (CPT-II) at 8 years. We used multiple informant models to estimate associations of repeated PBDE measures with inattention and impulsivity. There was a pattern of associations between PBDEs and poorer performance on CPT-II measures of attention. For BDE-153, adverse associations extended to exposures at preschool and kindergarten ages; ten-fold increases in exposure were associated with higher omission errors (BDE-153 at 3 years: β=4.0 [95% CI: −2.4, 10.4]; at 5 years: β=4.6 [95% CI: −2.8, 12.0]; at 8 years: β=4.1 [95% CI: −3.4, 11.5]). Longer hit reaction times, indicated by the exponential part of the hit reaction curve, were also observed with 10-fold increases in BDE-153 during the prenatal period and throughout childhood (Prenatal: β=15.0 milliseconds (ms) [95% CI: −15.8, 45.8]; 5 years: β=20.6 ms [95% CI: −20.8, 61.9]; 8 years: β=28.6 ms [95% CI: −12.1, 69.4]). Significant impairment in discriminability, as indicated by detectability (d′), between targets and non-targets was also noted with 5 and 8-year PBDE concentrations. Associations between PBDEs and inattention significantly differed by child sex, with males performing more poorly than females with regard to omission errors and measures of reaction times. Collectively, these results do not strongly support that PBDEs are associated with poorer impulse and attention control among 8 year old children. However, there may be a possible relationship between prenatal and concurrent PBDEs and inattention, which requires additional research.

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“…For example, meta-analytic studies suggest that inhibitory control is more strongly related to math than to reading performance (Allan et al 2014), whereas the relation between cognitive flexibility and these two academic subdomains does not appear to differ (Yeniad et al 2013). In this special section, Huang-Pollock et al (2017) and Lonigan et al (2017) both investigate questions about the degree to which EFs are associated with externalizing symptoms Bin general^as well as specific subtypes of externalizing symptoms such as inattention, hyperactivity, and oppositional behavior. Huang-Pollock et al (2017) examine relations between working memory (a specific EF skill) and internalizing and externalizing symptoms.…”

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“…These results suggest that EFs can help explain why internalizing and externalizing disorders co-occur, and further indicate that the association between EFs and internalizing symptoms may be spurious, an artifact of the much stronger relation between EFs and externalizing symptoms. Lonigan et al (2017) also use the bi-factor model to test children's language ability and EFs in preschool as predictors of elementary school externalizing symptoms. An important finding from this study was that gender moderated these relations: the association between language ability and a factor specific to inattention and hyperactivity was greater for girls, whereas the association between EFs and a general externalizing symptom factor was greater for boys.…”

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Introduction to the Special Section on Executive Functions and Externalizing Symptoms

Sulik

2017

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Executive functions (EFs) refer to a set of diverse, higherorder cognitive skills that includes inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, updating information in working memory, error monitoring, sustaining attention, and planning. EFs support goal-directed behavior and are believed to play a crucial role in self-regulation of behavior and emotions. It should, therefore, be no surprise that EFs are related to outcomes in diverse domains of functioning that include psychopathology, physical health, academic achievement, career success, and close relationships (Diamond 2013).Because of their importance for Bsuccess in life,^EFs (and self-regulation as a broader construct) have become a major topic of research. EFs have been of particular interest because a number of studies indicate that they are malleable: family and school based interventions have both shown promise for improving EFs, particularly for children with lower initial skills (Blair and Raver 2014;Diamond and Lee 2011;Schmitt et al. 2015). A large body of research has shown that EFs are consistent correlates of externalizing symptoms among both children and adults (Ogilvie et al. 2011;Schoemaker et al. 2013). Given the robust association between EFs and externalizing symptoms and the high societal costs of externalizing psychopathology, EFs have emerged as a promising target for prevention efforts.To fulfill this promise, however, researchers need to move beyond merely documenting associations between EFs and externalizing symptoms. We have reached a point where more nuanced questions are needed to advance the field. For example, how much do EFs contribute to change in externalizing symptoms over time? Despite high rates of cooccurrence among externalizing disorders (Krueger and Markon 2006), are EFs more strongly related to certain types of externalizing disorders? If so, why? What mediating mechanisms can account for the relations between EFs and externalizing symptoms? Answering these questions is necessary for designing effective prevention and treatment programs. The papers in this special section help move us towards this goal by addressing questions about the mediators, moderators, and prediction of longitudinal change for the relations between EFs and externalizing symptoms.As previously noted, EFs are positively related to success in many different domains of functioning. Yet as research on EFs has matured, investigators have adopted a greater focus on specificity, splitting the larger constructs into subdomains. For example, meta-analytic studies suggest that inhibitory control is more strongly related to math than to reading performance (Allan et al. 2014), whereas the relation between cognitive flexibility and these two academic subdomains does not appear to differ (Yeniad et al. 2013). In this special section, Huang-Pollock et al. (2017) and Lonigan et al. (2017) both investigate questions about the degree to which EFs are associated with externalizing symptoms Bin general^as well as specific subtypes of externalizing symptoms such as ina...

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Does Preschool Self-Regulation Predict Later Behavior Problems in General or Specific Problem Behaviors?

Cited by 65 publications

References 58 publications

Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

Prenatal and postnatal polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) exposure and measures of inattention and impulsivity in children

Introduction to the Special Section on Executive Functions and Externalizing Symptoms

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