Early Childhood Antecedents of Aggression and Passive‐Withdrawal in Early Elementary School

Renken, B.; Egeland, Byron; Marvinney, Denny; Mangelsdorf, Sarah C.; Sroufe, L. Alan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1989.tb00483.x

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“…Dix's (1991) affective model of parenting suggests that negative emotions disruptive to the parent-child relationship result when parents have difficulty managing their own emotions, heavily favor self-oriented concerns over childoriented concerns, and lack adequate skills necessary for parenting. Supporting this Egeland and Farber (1984) demonstrated that high levels of maternal irritability, disinterest in parenting, and deficient caregiving skills were associated with avoidant attachments during infancy, an insecure classification that was related to later externalizing problems during preschool and school-age in the same sample (Erickson et al 1985;Renken et al 1989). Similar relations may be even more striking during the toddler period when noncompliance becomes more frequent and behavior is often difficult to control.…”

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Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Trentacosta

Shaw

2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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The present study examined relations among maternal psychological resources, rejecting parenting, and early adolescent antisocial behavior in a sample of 231 low-income mothers and their sons with longitudinal assessments from age 18 months to 12 years. The maternal resources examined were age at first birth, aggressive personality, and empathy. Each of the maternal resources predicted rejecting parenting during early childhood in structural equation models that controlled for toddler difficult temperament, and rejecting parenting in early childhood predicted antisocial behavior in early adolescence. Rejecting parenting accounted for the indirect effect of each of the maternal resources on antisocial behavior, but a direct effect was also supported between maternal aggressive personality and youth antisocial behavior. Results highlight the importance of these relatively understudied maternal resources and have implications for prevention and intervention programs that focus on parenting during early childhood. KeywordsAge at first birth; Maternal personality; Empathy; Rejecting parenting; Antisocial behavior Belsky (1984) has suggested that specific types of parental attributes, termed psychological resources, are one of three primary determinants of parenting and include factors such as personality, psychopathology, and level of maturity (Belsky 1984;Belsky and Jaffee 2006). Empirical work on associations between maternal psychological resources, parenting, and child adjustment has focused extensively on a fairly narrow range of psychological resources. For example, across a large number of studies, depressed mothers demonstrate low levels of sensitivity in their care of young children and have children with a wide range of behavioral and emotional problems (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network 1999; Zahn-Waxler et al. 1990; for a review see Downey and Coyne 1990). Other maternal psychological resources that may be potentially important predictors of parenting and child adjustment have received relatively less attention. The present study sought to examine how three important but relatively under-represented maternal psychological resources might be related to rejecting parenting during the toddler period and antisocial behavior in early adolescence. The three psychological resources were maternal age at first birth, aggressive personality, and empathy. These three © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007 Correspondence to: Christopher J. Trentacosta, trentacostacj@upmc.edu. Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior NIH Public Access NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript resources were chosen based on their theoretical and empirical links to rejecting parenting during the toddler period. Thus, a first goal of the study was to examine these resources as predictors of early childhood rejecting parenting while controlling for toddler difficult temperament.Rejecting parenting also has been associated with acrimony ...

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Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

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2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…In the case of the latter, it is suggested that insecure "ambivalent" infants ("C" babies) are guided by a fear of rejection; consequently, in their extrafamilial peer relationships they are postulated to attempt to avoid rejection through passive, adultdependent behavior and withdrawal. This posited connection between C status (ambivalent attachment) and inhibited, dependent, withdrawn behaviors has been supported in several studies (e.g., Calkins & Fox 1992, Erickson et al 1985, Renken et al 1989, Shulman et al 1994.…”

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Social Withdrawal in Childhood

Hipson¹,

Coplan²

2017

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Socially withdrawn children frequently refrain from social activities in the presence of peers. The lack of social interaction in childhood may result from a variety of causes, including social fear and anxiety or a preference for solitude. From early childhood through to adolescence, socially withdrawn children are concurrently and predictively at risk for a wide range of negative adjustment outcomes, including socio-emotional difficulties (e.g., anxiety, low self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and internalizing problems), peer difficulties (e.g., rejection, victimization, poor friendship quality), and school difficulties (e.g., poor-quality teacher-child relationships, academic difficulties, school avoidance). The goals of the current review are to (a) provide some definitional, theoretical, and methodological clarity to the complex array of terms and constructs previously employed in the study of social withdrawal; (b) examine the predictors, correlates, and consequences of child and early-adolescent social withdrawal; and (c) present a developmental framework describing pathways to and from social withdrawal in childhood.

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“…Les attachements insécures mettent les enfants à risque de développer des problèmes comportementaux, quand ils sont combinés avec des situations de vie stressantes (décès d'un proche, divorce, changement de domicile de la famille,…) et avec des variations familiales (par exemple, naissances) (Erickson, Egeland, et Sroufe, 1985 ;Renken, Egeland, Marvinney et Sroufe, 1989). Cela est manifeste quand le caregiving et les facteurs contextuels négatifs sont permanents.…”

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“…Des histoires initiales d'attachement évitant ont pu être associées à l'agressivité dans la deuxième enfance (Renken et al, 1989) et à l'agressivité et la délinquance dans l'adolescence, spécialement chez les garçons. Le rôle de l'histoire précoce se reflète aussi dans l'étude de deux types de comportement antisocial des adolescents (Aguilar, Sroufe, Egeland, et al, 2000).…”

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La théorie de l'attachement : son importance dans un contexte pédiatrique

Tereno¹,

Soares²,

Martins³

et al. 2007

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La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Théorie de l'attachementLa thèse, maintenant classique, développée par John Bowlby en 1958, lors de sa première formulation de la théorie de l'attachement, est que l'attachement du bébé à sa figure d'attachement a pour base un équipe-ment comportemental constitué par un nombre déterminé de « réponses instinctives » qui l'orientent vers la figure d'attachement. Bowlby a identifié cinq de ces réponses, qui apportent une contribution spécifique au développement de l'attachement de l'enfant : sucer, attraper, suivre (comportements de proximité ), pleurer et sourire (comportements de signalisation). Ces comportements deviennent intégrés et dirigés vers la figure d'attachement au long de la première année de vie, donnant lieu à ce qu'il a désigné comme les comportements d'attachement. En 1969, Bowlby présente une version reformulée de sa thèse initiale, en reconnaissant que des formes plus élaborées de comportements d'attachement peuvent s'organiser dans un système comportemental d'attachement (Soares, 1996).Le comportement d'attachement, dans ce sens, est conçu comme une forme de comportement, simple ou organisé, qui aboutit à la recherche ou au maintien de la proximité à un individu différencié et préféré. Lorsque cette figure d'attachement paraît disponible, le comportement peut se limiter à une vérification visuelle ou auditive dirigée vers cette figure, et à un échange occasionnel de regards. Cependant, dans certaines circonstances, l'enfant peut s'adonner à la recherche de la figure d'attachement, ou chercher à l'attraper, de façons à éliciter chez elle un comportement de soins (c.-à-d. : careseeking role de protéger l'individu attaché, est celui de prodiguer les soins (c.-à-d. : caregiving role). Tel est le rôle du caregiver ou d'un autre adulte ; il est dirigé vers un enfant ou un adolescent, mais il peut aussi être mis en évi-dence chez un adulte ; vis-à-vis d'un autre adulte, spécialement en temps de maladie, de stress, ou d'âge avancé (Bowlby, 1980 ;Ainsworth, 1985). Durant l'enfance, la proximité physique et la disponibilité émotionnelle du caregiver sont des facteurs critiques de la qualité du caregiving. De la deuxième enfance à la vie adulte, le fait de savoir que le caregiver est potentiellement disponible devient progressivement aussi efficace que la proximité.L'attachement se réfère au lien émotionnel spécifique que le bébé développe avec son caregiver pendant la première année de sa vie (Bowlby, 1969(Bowlby, /1982. Il se distingue...

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Early Childhood Antecedents of Aggression and Passive‐Withdrawal in Early Elementary School

Cited by 282 publications

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Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Social Withdrawal in Childhood

La théorie de l'attachement : son importance dans un contexte pédiatrique

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