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Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence.

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Lagasse, LL; Conradt, E; Karalunas, SL; Dansereau, LM; Butner, JE; Shankaran, S; Bada, H; Bauer, CR; Whitaker, TM; Lester, BM
Published in: Dev Psychopathol
August 2016

Developmental psychopathologists face the difficult task of identifying the environmental conditions that may contribute to early childhood behavior problems. Highly stressed caregivers can exacerbate behavior problems, while children with behavior problems may make parenting more difficult and increase caregiver stress. Unknown is: (a) how these transactions originate, (b) whether they persist over time to contribute to the development of problem behavior and (c) what role resilience factors, such as child executive functioning, may play in mitigating the development of problem behavior. In the present study, transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and behavior problems were examined in a sample of 1,388 children with prenatal drug exposures at three developmental time points: early childhood (birth to age 5), middle childhood (ages 6 to 9), and early adolescence (ages 10 to 13). Transactional relations differed between caregiving stress and internalizing versus externalizing behavior. Targeting executive functioning in evidence-based interventions for children with prenatal substance exposure who present with internalizing problems and treating caregiving psychopathology, depression, and parenting stress in early childhood may be particularly important for children presenting with internalizing behavior.

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Dev Psychopathol

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EISSN

1469-2198

Publication Date

August 2016

Volume

28

Issue

3

Start / End Page

743 / 756

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Stress, Psychological
  • Problem Behavior
  • Parenting
  • Male
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Executive Function
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Defense Mechanisms
 

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Lagasse, L. L., Conradt, E., Karalunas, S. L., Dansereau, L. M., Butner, J. E., Shankaran, S., … Lester, B. M. (2016). Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence. Dev Psychopathol, 28(3), 743–756. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579416000286
Lagasse, Linda L., Elisabeth Conradt, Sarah L. Karalunas, Lynne M. Dansereau, Jonathan E. Butner, Seetha Shankaran, Henrietta Bada, Charles R. Bauer, Toni M. Whitaker, and Barry M. Lester. “Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence.Dev Psychopathol 28, no. 3 (August 2016): 743–56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579416000286.
Lagasse LL, Conradt E, Karalunas SL, Dansereau LM, Butner JE, Shankaran S, et al. Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence. Dev Psychopathol. 2016 Aug;28(3):743–56.
Lagasse, Linda L., et al. “Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence.Dev Psychopathol, vol. 28, no. 3, Aug. 2016, pp. 743–56. Pubmed, doi:10.1017/S0954579416000286.
Lagasse LL, Conradt E, Karalunas SL, Dansereau LM, Butner JE, Shankaran S, Bada H, Bauer CR, Whitaker TM, Lester BM. Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence. Dev Psychopathol. 2016 Aug;28(3):743–756.
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Published In

Dev Psychopathol

DOI

EISSN

1469-2198

Publication Date

August 2016

Volume

28

Issue

3

Start / End Page

743 / 756

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Stress, Psychological
  • Problem Behavior
  • Parenting
  • Male
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Executive Function
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Defense Mechanisms