Moderating Effects of Gender on Outcomes Associated with Stressful Life Events Among Elementary School-Age Youth

Brown, Shaquanna; Fite, Paula J.; Poquiz, Jonathan L.

doi:10.1007/s10578-015-0592-5

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“…Shields and Cicchetti (1998) examined the interplay of aggression, emotion, and attention among youth with and without maltreatment histories and found that physically abused youth exhibited higher levels of reactive aggression than youth without such histories. Additional research has found a unique association between stressful life events and reactive, but not proactive, aggression (Brown, Fite, & Poquiz, In press; Fite, Wimsatt, et al, 2012; Silvern & Griese, 2012). In contrast, Connor and colleagues (2004) examined correlates of reactive and proactive aggression among psychiatrically referred youth.…”

Section: Child Maltreatment and Reactive And Proactive Aggressionmentioning

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The Role of Hostile Attributions in the Associations Between Child Maltreatment and Reactive and Proactive Aggression

Richey

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Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

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The present study examined the relations between child maltreatment and reactive and proactive functions of aggression, and whether hostile attribution biases partially accounted for these associations in a sample of 339 college students (mean age = 19; 51% male). Child maltreatment was associated with reactive, but not proactive, aggression, and instrumental hostile attribution biases accounted for this association. Relational hostile attributions were correlated with both reactive and proactive aggression, but did not play a role in the link between child maltreatment and reactive aggression.

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The Role of Hostile Attributions in the Associations Between Child Maltreatment and Reactive and Proactive Aggression

Richey

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et al. 2016

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

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“…Also in this context gender is said to be an important differentiating factor. Many clinical and epidemiological studies have been devoted to the problem of frequency of occurrence of developmental and psychiatric disorders and have taken into account the criterion of sex (see Maschi, Morgen, Bradley, & Hatcher, 2008;Eaton et al, 2012;Runions, 2014;Paulus, Backes, Sander, Weber, & Gontard, 2015;Brown, Fite, & Poquiz, 2016).…”

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"Daughter and son: a completely different story”? Gender as a moderator of the relationship between sexism and parental attitudes

Lipowska¹,

Lipowski²,

Pawlicka³

2016

Health Psychology Report

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health psychology report · volume 4(3), 6 original article background During childhood, parents are the first and most important individuals who form the base of the content of gender stereotypes in children. A parent's expectations about the extent a child's behaviour should be line with gender stereotypes also depends on the intensity of a parent's sexism. A parent's sexism may be exhibited in parental attitudes. Hence, in our study we analysed the relationship between parental ambivalent sexism and parental attitudes within dyads of mothers and fathers with a special focus on the role of the gender of both parents and children. participants and procedureTwo hundred and ninety-four couples of parents of fiveyear-olds (153 girls, 141 boys) participated. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) was used to measure levels of sexism, and the Parental Attitudes Scale (SPR) was used to assess parental attitudes. resultsIn terms of the profile of parental attitudes, regardless of the child's sex, mothers and fathers scored highest for inconsequent and demanding attitudes, and lowest for overprotective and autonomy attitudes. The child's sex is also not important for the overall levels of parents' sexism -fathers exhibit higher levels of hostile sexism in comparison to mothers. Only the mothers' education level is important for levels of sexism -women with higher education exhibited the lowest levels of hostile sexism. The child's sex moderates relationships between parents' sexism and parental attitudes. In the case of mothers of sons, the intensity of benevolent sexism is negatively related to overprotective and demanding attitudes. The more educated the mothers of sons, the more demanding they were. For fathers of sons, the inconsequence attitude increases under the influence of both hostile and benevolent sexism. Among fathers of daughters, hostile sexism strengthens the overprotective attitude, while levels of both benevolent and hostile sexism as well as education influence the autonomy attitude. conclusionsThe gender of both the parents and the child moderates the relationship between sexism and parental attitudes. The role of sexism in shaping the attitude of mothers towards sons is the most prominent -it seems that it guards the 'manliness' of young boys.

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“…In another body of literature broader life-stressors place youth at risk for internalizing problems; events with negative consequences that outweigh a child's ability to cope but are not considered traumatic [15,28]. Illustrative examples include parental separation, moving house, or death of a pet.…”

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“…Research suggests that general life-stressors can contribute to youth internalizing problems [29][30][31]. Children with anxiety disorders tend to experience more stressful life events prior to onset of the disorder and perceive these events as more impactful compared to their non-anxious counterparts [28,29,[32][33][34][35]. Lifestressors are also associated with youth depression [36][37][38][39][40][41].…”

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Exploring the stress sensitization theory with temperamentally inhibited children: a population-based study

Brown

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et al. 2020

BMC Pediatr

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Background: This study explored whether temperamentally inhibited children who experience early trauma are vulnerable to developing internalizing problems in the face of later life-stressors. Methods: A validated screen for temperamental inhibition was distributed to parents of young children attending preschools in six government regions of Melbourne, Australia. Screening identified 11% of children as inhibited (703 of 6347 screened) and eligible for a prevention study. Participants were 545 parents of inhibited preschoolers (78% uptake), of whom 84% were followed into mid childhood (age 7-10 years: wave 1, n = 446; wave 2, n = 427; wave 3, n = 426). Parents and children then completed questionnaires for child internalizing (anxious and depressive) symptoms, and parents received a diagnostic interview for child anxiety disorder. In mid-childhood parents also completed questionnaires annually to describe recent life-stressors experienced by their child, and any potentially traumatic events in the first four years of life. Results: Only one in 14 temperamentally inhibited children had experienced a potentially traumatic event in early childhood. In mid childhood 56% experienced recent life-stressors. Inhibited children who had early life trauma experienced slightly more anxiety disorder and symptoms in mid childhood. Those children with more recent lifestressors in mid childhood also had slightly more symptoms of anxiety and depression. In contrast to stress sensitization, inhibited children with early trauma plus recent stressors did not show especially high mid-childhood internalizing difficulties. Conclusions: Early life trauma and recent life-stressors each convey a small risk for children with an inhibited temperament to develop internalizing problems. Nevertheless, early life stress may not always result in negative sensitization for children in the general population.

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Moderating Effects of Gender on Outcomes Associated with Stressful Life Events Among Elementary School-Age Youth

Cited by 30 publications

References 56 publications

The Role of Hostile Attributions in the Associations Between Child Maltreatment and Reactive and Proactive Aggression

The Role of Hostile Attributions in the Associations Between Child Maltreatment and Reactive and Proactive Aggression

"Daughter and son: a completely different story”? Gender as a moderator of the relationship between sexism and parental attitudes

Exploring the stress sensitization theory with temperamentally inhibited children: a population-based study

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