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Longitudinal Associations between Mothers' and Fathers' Anger/Irritability Expressiveness, Harsh Parenting, and Adolescents' Socioemotional Functioning in Nine Countries
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Di Giunta, Laura; Rothenberg, W. Andrew; Lunetti, Carolina; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Eisenberg, Nancy; Thartori, Eriona; Basili, Emanuele; Favini, Ainzara; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Peña Alampay, Liane; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (N = 1,298 families) from 12…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
Threat Appraisals and Coping Responses to Stressors: Links to Chinese Children's Behavioral Problems and Social Competence
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Chung, Sara; Zhou, Qing; Eisenberg, Nancy; Wolchik, Sharlene – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
Given the increasing societal concerns about youth's mental health problems in the context of rapid sociocultural changes in urban China, studying the links of appraisals and coping to Chinese children's adjustment can inform cultural adaptations of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions for this population. In a school-based sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Elementary School Students, Adolescent Attitudes
Relations over Time among Children's Shyness, Emotionality, and Internalizing Problems
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Eggum, Natalie D.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Reiser, Mark; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Valiente, Carlos; Sallquist, Julie; Michalik, Nicole M.; Liew, Jeffrey – Social Development, 2012
Data regarding children's shyness and emotionality were collected at three time points, two years apart (T1: N = 214, M = 6.12 years; T2: N = 185, M = 7.67 years; T3: N = 185, M = 9.70 years), and internalizing data were collected at T1 and T3. Relations among parent-rated shyness, emotionality [parent- and teacher-rated anger, sadness, and…
Descriptors: Shyness, Behavior Problems, Psychological Patterns, Child Development
Mother-Adolescent Conflict: Stability, Change, and Relations with Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems
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Hofer, Claire; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Morris, Amanda S.; Gershoff, Elizabeth; Valiente, Carlos; Kupfer, Anne; Eggum, Natalie D. – Social Development, 2013
Stability and change in mother-adolescent conflict reactions (CRs) and the prediction of CRs from adolescents' earlier behavior problems (and vice versa) were examined with 131 mothers and their adolescents (63 boys). Dyads engaged in a 6-min conflict discussion twice, 2 years apart ["M" age was 13 at Time 1 (T1)]. Non-verbal expressive…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Behavior Problems, Adolescents
"Then It Will Be Good": Negative Life Events and Resilience in Ugandan Youth
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Eggum, Natalie D.; Sallquist, Julie; Eisenberg, Nancy – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2011
Youths (N = 57; mean age = 13.83 years) residing near Tororo, Uganda, were interviewed to obtain quantitative and qualitative data pertaining to negative life events, adjustment problems, coping, social support, self-worth, and hope. On average, they experienced nearly half of the 22 negative life events assessed. The experience of negative life…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Stress Variables, Coping, Foreign Countries
Longitudinal Relations of Children's Effortful Control, Impulsivity, and Negative Emotionality to Their Externalizing, Internalizing, and Co-Occurring Behavior Problems
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Valiente, Carlos; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Cumberland, Amanda; Liew, Jeffrey; Reiser, Mark; Zhou, Qing; Losoya, Sandra H. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine the relations of effortful control (EC), impulsivity, and negative emotionality to at least borderline clinical levels of symptoms and change in maladjustment over four years. Children's (N = 214; 77% European American; M age = 73 months) externalizing and internalizing symptoms were rated by parents and…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Behavior Problems, Self Control, Adjustment (to Environment)
The Relations of Problem Behavior Status to Children's Negative Emotionality, Effortful Control, and Impulsivity: Concurrent Relations and Prediction of Change
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Sadovsky, Adrienne; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Fabes, Richard A.; Losoya, Sandra H.; Valiente, Carlos; Reiser, Mark; Cumberland, Amanda; Shepard, Stephanie A. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The relations of children's internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors to their concurrent regulation, impulsivity (reactive undercontrol), anger, sadness, and fearfulness and these aspects of functioning 2 years prior were examined. Parents and teachers completed measures of children's (N = 185; ages 6 through 9 years) adjustment, negative…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Children, Conceptual Tempo, Self Control