ERIC Number: EJ1268396
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Oct
Pages: 13
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Trajectories of Pure and Co-Occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood to Adolescence: Associations with Early Childhood Individual and Contextual Antecedents
Shi, Qinxin; Ettekal, Idean; Deutz, Marike H. F.; Woltering, Steven
Developmental Psychology, v56 n10 p1906-1918 Oct 2020
As internalizing and externalizing problems often co-occur, the current study utilized a longitudinal dataset of 784 at-risk children (predominantly from low-income families and academically at-risk; 52.6% male) followed yearly from Grade 1 to Grade 12 to: (a) explore the heterogeneity in the codevelopment patterns of internalizing and externalizing problems by using a person-centered approach, and (b) investigate early childhood antecedents that might explain differentiated codevelopmental patterns. The antecedents consisted of individual (i.e., ego-resilient personality, intelligence, language ability, gender, and ethnicity) and contextual factors (i.e., maternal support and responsiveness, family socioeconomic adversity, teacher-child relationship conflict, and peer rejection). We identified 4 distinct codevelopment patterns including a chronic co-occurring group (30.1%), a moderate co-occurring group (28.5%), a pure-externalizing group (18.6%), and a low-risk group (22.8%). While children who belonged to any of the 3 higher risk groups exhibited more adverse early childhood antecedents compared with the low-risk group, the chronic co-occurring group displayed the most severe profiles of early childhood antecedents compared with the moderate co-occurring and the pure-externalizing groups. Common antecedents for the 3 higher risk groups were lower ego-resilient personality, higher teacher-child relationship conflict, being male, and being African American. Low language ability and peer rejection were identified as unique antecedents for the chronic co-occurring group.
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Self Destructive Behavior, Children, Adolescents, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Individual Characteristics, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Low Income Students, At Risk Students, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement; Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance
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