Promises and Pitfalls of Latent Variable Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology: Reply to Burke and Johnston, Eid, Jungh änel and Colleagues, and Willoughby.
Promises and Pitfalls of Latent Variable Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology: Reply to Burke and Johnston, Eid, Junghänel and Colleagues, and Willoughby. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2020 May 16;: Authors: Burns GL, Geiser C, Servera M, Becker SP, Beauchaine TP Abstract The commentaries by Burke and Johnston (this issue), Eid (this issue), Junghänel et al. (this issue), and Willoughby (this issue) on Burns et al. (this issue) provide useful context for comparing three latent variable modeling approaches to understanding psychopathology-the correlated first-order syndrome-spec...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Burns GL, Geiser C, Servera M, Becker SP, Beauchaine TP Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Reparative Prosocial Behavior Difficulties across Childhood Predict Poorer Social Functioning and Depression in Adolescence.
This study used established developmental trajectories of reparative behaviors that span preschool through early adolescence (low-stable, moderate-stable, and high-stable) to predict social and psychological outcomes in adolescence (N = 129). Membership in trajectories characterized by lower levels of reparative behaviors predicted greater social rejection, social withdrawal, aggression, and symptoms of depression in adolescence, even when controlling for baseline levels of each outcome. Membership in the low-stable reparative trajectory also significantly mediated the relationship between high levels of guilt in presc...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Donohue MR, Tillman R, Luby J Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Prematurity and Maladaptive Mealtime Dynamics: the Roles of Maternal Emotional Distress, Eating-Related Cognitions, and Mind-Mindedness.
This study examined the roles of maternal cognitions in the link between prematurity, emotional distress and mother-infant maladaptive mealtime dynamics in a sample of 134 families (70 preterm, low medical risk; 64 full-term) followed longitudinally. Specifically, maternal cognitions related to eating and health (perception of child vulnerability and concerns about child's eating) and understanding of mental states (interactional mind-mindedness) were considered. A multiple-mediators model was tested, controlling for infants' weight and breastfeeding history. Although prematurity did not directly predict mealtime dynamics,...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - May 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yatziv T, Gueron-Sela N, Meiri G, Marks K, Atzaba-Poria N Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Moderators of School Intervention Outcomes for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Abstract A prior cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) compared outcomes for a comprehensive school intervention (schoolMAX) to typical educational programming (services-as-usual [SAU]) for 103 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without intellectual disability. The schoolMAX intervention was superior to SAU in improving social-cognitive understanding (emotion-recognition), social/social-communication skills, and ASD-related impairment (symptoms). In the current study, a range of demographic, clinical, and school variables were tested as potential moderators of treatment outcomes from the prio...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lopata C, Donnelly JP, Thomeer ML, Rodgers JD, Lodi-Smith J, Booth AJ, Volker MA Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

From Impulse to Action? Cognitive Mechanisms of Impulsivity-Related Risk for Externalizing Behavior.
This study sought to adapt the bioSocial Cognitive Theory (bSCT) of impulsivity and substance use (an externalizing behavior) for externalizing behavior in general. It was predicted that only the component of impulsivity characterized by lack of forethought (rash impulsiveness; RI) would be associated with (non-substance use-related) externalizing behaviors, not reward sensitivity/drive. Further, this association would be mediated by negative automatic thoughts. Participants were 404 (226 female, 63%) adolescents from 6 high schools across South-East Queensland (age = 13-17 years, mean age = 14.97 years, SD =â€...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Revill AS, Patton KA, Connor JP, Sheffield J, Wood AP, Castellanos-Ryan N, Gullo MJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Correction to: Coercive Parenting Mediates the Relationship between Military Fathers' Emotion Regulation and children's Adjustment.
Abstract The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. PMID: 32335788 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zhang J, Palmer A, Zhang N, Gewirtz AH Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Physiological Correlates of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Children: Examining Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity during Social and Cognitive Stressor Tasks.
This study provides the first evidence that SCT symptoms are associated with sympathetic nervous system reactivity. These findings suggest that SCT symptoms may be associated with greater behavioral inhibition system activation, and reactivity may be especially pronounced in social challenges. PMID: 32328864 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Becker SP, McQuade JD Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Daily Mood Reactivity to Stress during Childhood Predicts Internalizing Problems Three Years Later.
This study examined individual differences in mood reactivity to naturally occurring school problems using daily diaries, and assessed their prospective associations with youth mental health, three years later. At baseline, 47 children ages 8 to 13 years described common problems at school and mood on a daily basis, for 8 weeks. Thirty-three youth returned for follow-up three years later at ages 11 to 17 years. Children and parents also completed one-time questionnaires about youth mental health at baseline and follow-up. There were individual differences in the within-person associations between school problems and sam...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bai S, Robles TF, Reynolds BM, Repetti RL Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Parental Presence Impacts a Neural Correlate of Anxiety (the Late Positive Potential) in 5-7 Year Old Children: Interactions with Parental Sensitivity to Child Anxiety.
Abstract Anxiety disorders tend to onset early in development and often result in chronic impairment across the lifespan. Thus, there is substantial interest in identifying early neural markers of anxiety and leveraging these markers to better understand processes leading to anxiety. The late positive potential (i.e., LPP) indexes sustained attention to motivationally relevant stimuli; and the LPP to negative images is increased in individuals with anxiety. In the current study, we examined how parental presence impacts the LPP to threatening images in children (52.6% male) between 5 and 7 years-old (N ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Day TN, Chong LJ, Meyer A Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Sad Dads and Troubled Tots: Protective Factors Related to the Stability of Paternal Depression and Early Childhood Internalizing Problems.
Abstract The present study tested the moderating role of interparental relationship quality and child inhibitory control on the stability of paternal depression over time and associations between paternal depression and child internalizing problems in early childhood. Participants were a subsample (n = 166) of families from the Early Steps Multisite study, a longitudinal study of low-income parents and children. Interparental relationship quality (age 2) attenuated the association between paternal depressive symptoms at age 2 and paternal depressive symptoms at age 3. Both interparental relationship qu...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Taraban L, Feldman JS, Wilson MN, Dishion TJ, Shaw DS Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

U.S. Child Behavioral Health Quality Measures: Advancing a National Research Agenda.
Abstract This paper is based on the keynote presentation for the biennial meeting of the International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP) in Los Angeles, California. The topic was purposively selected to raise awareness of how the measurement of child behavioral health care quality at the national level, and corresponding standards for reliability and clinical validity, substantially differ from those traditionally applied to the measurement of child psychopathology. Under a federal mandate, an initial Core Set of quality measures for children was created for voluntary re...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zima BT Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

The Bifactor S-1 Model: a Psychometrically Sounder Alternative to Test the Structure of ADHD and ODD?
Abstract Questions persist about whether attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and conduct disorder are in fact distinct from one another. When such questions arise, ODD is often suggested to be subsumed under one or the other condition. Modeling approaches that can evaluate whether specific subfactors can be distinguished from general psychopathology are of great interest, and the general bifactor model has been increasingly applied in studies evaluating the structure of psychopathology. However, evidence for bias in the model, the frequency of anomalous ind...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Burke JD, Johnston OG Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Affective Prosody Perception and the Relation to Social Competence in Autistic and Typically Developing  Children.
This study used non-verbal emotional voice-clips to examine the ability of autistic and typically-developing children (7-13 years old) to extract affect from changes in prosody. This research also explored whether difficulty extracting affective intent from changes in prosody may be related to social competence. Autistic (n = 26) and typically-developing (n = 26) children accurately matched emotional voice-clips to emotion words, suggesting autistic children can accurately extract the affective meaning conveyed by changes in prosody. Autistic children were less accurate at matching the voice-clips to emotional fa...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scheerer NE, Shafai F, Stevenson RA, Iarocci G Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Co-Rumination Moderates the Relation between Emotional Competencies and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: a Longitudinal Examination.
Abstract Research suggests co-rumination during adolescence has developmental tradeoffs that result in elevated self-disclosure and intimacy between friends but also can be associated with increases in depression (Rose et al. 2007; Rose 2002). The current study further examined this paradox by assessing the role of emotional competencies in co-rumination as they predict depressive symptoms over a 2-year period. We tested whether co-rumination moderated the relation between emotional awareness and emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in reciprocated best friend dyads. At Time 1, 202 adolescents (101 s...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - April 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Miller ME, Borowski S, Zeman JL Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Applying the Bifactor S-1 Model to Ratings of ADHD/ODD Symptoms: A Commentary on Burns et al. (2019)  and a Re-Analysis.
Applying the Bifactor S-1 Model to Ratings of ADHD/ODD Symptoms: A Commentary on Burns et al. (2019) and a Re-Analysis. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2020 Mar 31;: Authors: Junghänel M, Rodenacker K, Dose C, Döpfner M Abstract To examine the construct validity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), the bifactor S-1 approach has been applied as an alternative to the fully symmetrical bifactor models in order to eliminate anomalous results and to allow for an unambiguous interpretation of g- and s-factors. We compared and contrasted ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - March 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Junghänel M, Rodenacker K, Dose C, Döpfner M Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research