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Capaldi, Deborah M.; Pears, Katherine C.; Kerr, David C. R.; Owen, Lee D.; Kim, Hyoun K. – Child Development, 2012
Three generations of participants were assessed over approximately 27 years, and intergenerational prediction models of growth in the third generation's (G3) externalizing and internalizing problems across ages 3-9 years were examined. The sample included 103 fathers and mothers (G2), at least 1 parent (G1) for all of the G2 fathers (99 mothers,…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Behavior Problems, Mothers, Fathers
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Maikovich, Andrea Kohn; Jaffee, Sara R.; Odgers, Candice L.; Gallop, Robert – Child Development, 2008
Although many studies suggest that family violence is associated with child psychopathology, multiple features of the home environment might account for this association, such as poverty and caregiver psychopathology. Studies are needed examining how change in psychopathology symptoms is affected by home violence, controlling for children's own…
Descriptors: Discipline, Family Violence, Structural Equation Models, Psychopathology
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Garmezy, Norman; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Discusses building blocks for a developmental psychopathology, focusing on studies of risk, competence, and protective factors. Describes studies of stress and competence, giving particular attention to methodology and strategies for data analysis. A three-model approach to stress resistance is also presented, and Project Competence is evaluated…
Descriptors: Attention, Children, Data Analysis, Diseases
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Steinberg, Laurence; Avenevoli, Shelli – Child Development, 2000
Argues that extant research assessing relations between contextual factors and psychological disturbance has confused two different roles of context. Suggests that environmental factors are nonspecific stressors and elicit psychopathology, with specificity of expressed psychopathology governed by individual differences, and that context is…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Children, Context Effect, Emotional Disturbances
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Carlson, Elizabeth A. – Child Development, 1998
Explored the antecedents and consequences of attachment disorganization among 157 participants in a prospective longitudinal study from 24 months to 19 years. Found that infant history of attachment disorganization was correlated with consequent variables related to: mother-child relationship quality at 24 and 42 months; child behavior problems in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Children, Emotional Adjustment