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Zalewski, Maureen; Lengua, Liliana J.; Wilson, Anna C.; Trancik, Anika; Bazinet, Alissa – Child Development, 2011
The longitudinal relations of emotion regulation profiles to temperament and adjustment in a community sample of preadolescents (N = 196, 8-11 years at Time 1) were investigated using person-oriented latent profile analysis (LPA). Temperament, emotion regulation, and adjustment were measured at 3 different time points, with each time point…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Preadolescents, Personality, Profiles
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Zhou, Qing; Lengua, Liliana J.; Wang, Yun – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The relations of parents' and teachers' reports of temperament anger-irritability, positive emotionality, and effortful control (attention focusing and inhibitory control) to children's externalizing and internalizing problems were examined in Chinese (N = 382) and U.S. (N = 322) samples of school-age children. Results suggested that in both…
Descriptors: Personality, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
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Wilson, Anna C.; Lengua, Liliana J.; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Smith, Kimberly A. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
Parenting is related to children's adjustment, but little research has examined the role of parenting in children's responses to disasters. This study describes parenting responses specific to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and examines pre-9/11 parenting, child temperament, and 9/11-specific parenting as predictors of children's posttraumatic stress…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Child Rearing, Personality
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Lengua, Liliana J. – Social Development, 2008
Interactions among multiple dimensions of child temperament and parenting were tested as predictors of change in child adjustment problems using a community sample (N = 188) of children (8-12 years). Significant interactions suggested that the effect of parenting on changes in problems were dependent upon temperament and, in some cases, child sex.…
Descriptors: Discipline, Child Rearing, Personality, Punishment
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Lengua, Liliana J.; West, Stephen G.; Sandler, Irwin N. – Child Development, 1998
Assessed the possible confounding of preadolescents' temperament as a predictor of psychological adjustment, using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and expert ratings. CFAs demonstrated that temperament could be reliably measured after eliminating overlapping items. Negative emotionality and impulsivity were negatively related to symptom…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Adjustment
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Colder, Craig R.; Lengua, Liliana J.; Fite, Paula J.; Mott, Joshua A.; Bush, Nicole R. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
Hypotheses that positive affect and fear in infancy moderate later relationships between neighborhood quality and behavior problems were examined in a sample of children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results suggested that poor neighborhood quality was associated with antisocial behavior at age 6 for children who in infancy were…
Descriptors: Personality, Behavior Problems, Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Lengua, Liliana J.; Long, Anna C.; Smith, Kimberlee I.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: The aims of this study were to assess the psychological response of children following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC and to examine prospective predictors of children's post-attack responses. Method: Children's responses were assessed in a community sample of children in Seattle, Washington,…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Terrorism, Children, Personality