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Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries.

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Lansford, JE; Godwin, J; Bornstein, MH; Chang, L; Deater-Deckard, K; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Malone, PS; Oburu, P; Pastorelli, C; Skinner, AT ...
Published in: Development and psychopathology
December 2017

Using data from 1,177 families in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States), we tested a conceptual model of direct effects of childhood family adversity on subsequent externalizing behaviors as well as indirect effects through psychological mediators. When children were 9 years old, mothers and fathers reported on financial difficulties and their use of corporal punishment, and children reported perceptions of their parents' rejection. When children were 10 years old, they completed a computerized battery of tasks assessing reward sensitivity and impulse control and responded to questions about hypothetical social provocations to assess their hostile attributions and proclivity for aggressive responding. When children were 12 years old, they reported on their externalizing behavior. Multigroup structural equation models revealed that across all eight countries, childhood family adversity had direct effects on externalizing behaviors 3 years later, and childhood family adversity had indirect effects on externalizing behavior through psychological mediators. The findings suggest ways in which family-level adversity poses risk for children's subsequent development of problems at psychological and behavioral levels, situated within diverse cultural contexts.

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Development and psychopathology

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EISSN

1469-2198

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0954-5794

Publication Date

December 2017

Volume

29

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1675 / 1688

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Thailand
  • Sweden
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Social Perception
  • Social Behavior
  • Reward
  • Punishment
  • Poverty
  • Philippines
 

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Lansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., … Bacchini, D. (2017). Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. Development and Psychopathology, 29(5), 1675–1688. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579417001328
Lansford, Jennifer E., Jennifer Godwin, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, et al. “Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries.Development and Psychopathology 29, no. 5 (December 2017): 1675–88. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579417001328.
Lansford JE, Godwin J, Bornstein MH, Chang L, Deater-Deckard K, Di Giunta L, et al. Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. Development and psychopathology. 2017 Dec;29(5):1675–88.
Lansford, Jennifer E., et al. “Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries.Development and Psychopathology, vol. 29, no. 5, Dec. 2017, pp. 1675–88. Epmc, doi:10.1017/s0954579417001328.
Lansford JE, Godwin J, Bornstein MH, Chang L, Deater-Deckard K, Di Giunta L, Dodge KA, Malone PS, Oburu P, Pastorelli C, Skinner AT, Sorbring E, Steinberg L, Tapanya S, Alampay LP, Uribe Tirado LM, Al-Hassan SM, Bacchini D. Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. Development and psychopathology. 2017 Dec;29(5):1675–1688.
Journal cover image

Published In

Development and psychopathology

DOI

EISSN

1469-2198

ISSN

0954-5794

Publication Date

December 2017

Volume

29

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1675 / 1688

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Thailand
  • Sweden
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Social Perception
  • Social Behavior
  • Reward
  • Punishment
  • Poverty
  • Philippines