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De Pauw, Sarah S. W.; Mervielde, Ivan; De Clercq, Barbara J.; De Fruyt, Filip; Tremmery, Sabine; Deboutte, Dirk – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
Research on adulthood posits personality and self-esteem as important predictors of psychopathology. In childhood, however, the study of these relationships is complicated by the lack of consensus on how to combine data from multiple informants of child behavior. This study evaluates the relationships among personality symptoms, self-esteem and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Psychopathology, Child Behavior, Personality
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Jacobs, Emma; Miller, Laurie C.; Tirella, Linda G. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2010
Most international adoptees (IA) have rapid catch-up of the delays common at arrival. However, it is not known whether development at arrival predicts later abilities or school readiness. Therefore, we comprehensively evaluated language, fine motor, visual reception (VR), executive function (EF), attention (ATT), and sensory skills (SS) in IA…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, School Readiness, Standardized Tests, At Risk Students
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Kim, Geunyoung; Walden, Tedra; Harris, Vicki; Karrass, Jan; Catron, Thomas – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2007
The present study examined the role of emotion and emotion control in children's externalizing problems. Third- to sixth-grade children were administered a self-report measure of positive emotion, negative emotion, and emotion control. Peer- and teacher-reported adjustment problems were assessed. Structural equations modeling revealed that…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Interaction, Behavior Problems, Emotional Response
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Emond, Alice; Ormel, Johan; Veenstra, Rene; Oldehinkel, Albertine J. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2007
This article describes preschool social understanding and difficult behaviors (hot temper, disobedience, bossiness and bullying) as predictors of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and aggressive conduct disorder (ACD) in a Dutch population sample of (pre)adolescents (N = 1943), measured at age 10-12 and at age 13-15. ODD and ACD were assessed by…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Bullying, Early Adolescents, Preschool Children
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Luoma, Ilona; Kaukonen, Palvi; Mantymaa, Mirjami; Puura, Kaija; Tamminen, Tuula; Salmelin, Raili – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2004
The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine the associations between maternal depressive symptoms and perceptions of children's problems. One hundred and nineteen mother-child dyads were followed from the third trimester of pregnancy for almost 10 years. Depressive symptoms and background factors of the mothers and the anticipated/perceived…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Pregnancy, Child Behavior