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Differentiating Adolescent Self-Injury from Adolescent Depression: Possible Implications for Borderline Personality Development
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Crowell, Sheila E.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Hsiao, Ray C.; Vasilev, Christina A.; Yaptangco, Mona; Linehan, Marsha M.; McCauley, Elizabeth – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
Self-inflicted injury (SII) in adolescence marks heightened risk for suicide attempts, completed suicide, and adult psychopathology. Although several studies have revealed elevated rates of depression among adolescents who self injure, no one has compared adolescent self injury with adolescent depression on biological, self-, and informant-report…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Personality Problems, Females, Injuries
Parent Personality and Positive Parenting as Predictors of Positive Adolescent Personality Development over Time
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Schofield, Thomas J.; Conger, Rand D.; Donnellan, M. Brent; Jochem, Rachel; Widaman, Keith F.; Conger, Katherine J. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
We investigated the degree to which parent positive personality characteristics in terms of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability predict similar adolescent personality traits over time, as well as the role played by positive parenting in this process. Mothers and fathers of 451 White adolescents (52% female, mean age = 13.59…
Descriptors: Evidence, Personality Traits, Parents, Personality
Gender Differences in Emotional Expressivity and Self-Regulation during Early Infancy.
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Weinberg, M. Katherine; Tronick, Edward Z.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Olson, Karen L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Evaluated gender differences in infant and maternal emotional expressivity and regulation with 6-month-old infants and their mothers, using Tronick's face-to-face still-face model. Found that maternal affect, matching, rate of change between matching and mismatching states, and synchrony in the play preceding the still face differentially mediated…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Facial Expressions, Infants
The Effect of Infant Irritability on Mother-Infant Interaction: A Growth-Curve Analysis.
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van den Boom, Dymphna C.; Hoeksma, Jan B. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
To further understanding of temperament-interaction relationships, patterns of interactive behavior were observed in 30 lower-class mother-infant dyads (15 irritable and 15 nonirritable infants) at monthly intervals over a 6-month period. Findings revealed that maternal behavior was systematically more positive with nonirritable infants that with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Infants, Lower Class Parents
The Structure of Temperamental Fear and Pleasure in Infants: A Psychometric Perspective.
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Goldsmith, H. Hill; Campos, Joseph J. – Child Development, 1990
Temperament of nine-month olds was assessed by means of questionnaires and two laboratory visits. Mothers' and fathers' agreement on questionnaire scales was low, and their factor structures differed. In laboratory measures, fearfulness and pleasure showed cross-situation generality, short-term stability, and convergence with questionnaire scales.…
Descriptors: Fathers, Fear, Infant Behavior, Infants
Problem Behaviors in Young Children.
Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – 1987
Early personality and environmental characteristics that predict later problematic aggression and depression in children were investigated longitudinally. A developmental psychopathology approach was taken. (This approach assumes that patterns of adaptation and maladaptation in development can best be understood when explored simultaneously and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Infants