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Bidirectional Effects Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Student-Teacher Relationship Quality Among Middle School Students.
Abstract The present study investigated the bidirectional effects between callous-unemotional (i.e., CU) traits, student-teacher relationship quality, and bonds with school. A sample of 301 middle school students (156 girls; M age = 12.96 years, SD = 0.94) completed the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits and the Student-Teacher Relationship Questionnaire, along with measures of both externalizing and internalizing problems, both in the first and second part of the school year (i.e., a time frame of 6 months). They also completed a peer-nominated measure of social preference within their peer...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - November 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Baroncelli A, Ciucci E Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Children with Behavioural Problems Misinterpret the Emotions and Intentions of Others.
This study investigated emotion and intention recognition in children with behavioural problems and examined their relationship and relations with behaviour problem severity. Participants were 7-11 year old children with behavioural problems (n = 93, mean age: 8.78, 82.8% male) who were taking part in an early intervention program and typically developing controls (n = 44, mean age: 9.82, 79.5% male). Participants completed emotion recognition and Theory of Mind tasks. Teachers and parents rated children's emotional and behavioural problems. Children with behavioural problems showed impaired emotion and intention ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - November 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wells AE, Hunnikin LM, Ash DP, van Goozen SHM Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Factor Structure of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits in a Representative Sample of German 9th Grade Students.
Abstract Callous-unemotional (CU) traits represent the affective components of the psychopathy construct and show a strong relationship to violence and conduct-disorder in children. The Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) is the current standard to assess CU traits. Despite the ICU having originally been constructed as a four-dimensional instrument, several studies found a three-factorial structure in combination with a general ICU-factor to be the best fitting factor-model. An imbalance in the number of positively and negatively worded items can be observed between the identified ICU dimensions....
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kliem S, Lohmann A, Neumann M, Glaubitz C, Haselbach S, Bergmann MC, Baier D Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Child Antisocial Behavior Is more Environmental in Origin in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: Evidence Across Residents' Perceptions and Geographic Scales in Two Samples.
Abstract Prior research has suggested that disadvantaged neighborhood contexts alter the etiology of youth antisocial behavior (ASB). Unfortunately, these studies have relied exclusively on governmental data collected in administratively-defined neighborhoods (e.g., Census tracts or block groups, zip codes), a less than optimal approach for studying neighborhood effects. It would thus be important to extend prior findings of GxE using neighborhood sampling techniques, in which disadvantage is assessed via resident informant-reports of the neighborhood. The current study sought to do just this, examining tw...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Burt SA, Pearson AL, Carroll S, Klump KL, Neiderhiser JM Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Examining Psychopathic Traits in Children Using the Child Psychopathy Scale - Revised.
Abstract Applying the affective dimension of psychopathy to youth has advanced understanding of conduct problems in youth, leading to suggestions that other aspects of psychopathy may do the same. This was addressed in the present study by examining the structure and validity of psychopathic traits in elementary-age children as rated by mothers and teachers on the Child Psychopathy Scale - Revised (CPS-R). Participants were 222 children (80.2% male; Mage = 8.92), the majority (71.6%) of whom met criteria for both ADHD and conduct problems. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a four-factor model cons...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Breaux R, Babinski DE, Willoughby MT, Haas SM, Coles EK, Pelham WE, Waxmonsky JG, Waschbusch DA Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Prospective Association between Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety: a Meta-Analysis.
Abstract Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a risk factor for anxiety. However, the estimates of the strength of this association vary widely. In addition, while BI is a strong predictor of social anxiety disorder (SAD), its association with other anxiety disorders is unclear. The current study sought to establish the relationship between BI and anxiety and to quantify this association for a range of anxiety disorders. We searched PsycInfo, PubMed and Embase for articles published before May 18th, 2019 using search terms for BI, anxiety and prospective study design. We selected articles which assessed the prosp...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sandstrom A, Uher R, Pavlova B Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

The Role of Primary School Composition in the Trajectories of Internalising and Externalising Problems across Childhood and Adolescence.
This study examined for the first time the role of several primary-school compositional characteristics, and their interactions with individual level characteristics, in the development of two such outcomes, internalising and externalising problems, at ages 7, 11 and 14 years in 4794 children in England participating in the Millennium Cohort Study. Using hierarchical (multilevel) linear models, we found that, even after adjusting for individual and family characteristics, children in schools with higher proportions of pupils eligible for free school meals had more externalising problems. In general, children with special ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Papachristou E, Flouri E, Midouhas E, Lewis G, Joshi H Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Assessing Children's Responses to Interparental Conflict: Validation and Short Scale Development of SIS and CPIC-Properties Scales.
Abstract The Children's Perception of the Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC) and The Security in the Interparental Subsystem (SIS) are two widely used scales capturing (a) children's perception of the interparental conflict properties and (b) children's reactions to the conflict. The aims of this study were to validate the part of CPIC measuring children's perception of the conflict (CPIC-properties) and a modified SIS-version in a Scandinavian context and to develop concise short versions of the scales. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were used to analyze the underlying factor structure of the full an...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Holt T, Helland MS, Gustavson K, Cummings EM, Ha A, Røysamb E Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Preschool-Onset Major Depressive Disorder is Characterized by Electrocortical Deficits in Processing Pleasant Emotional Pictures.
Abstract Reductions in positive affect are a salient feature of preschool-onset major depressive disorder. Yet, little is known about the psychophysiological correlates of this blunted positive affect and whether reduced physiological responding to pleasant stimuli may differentiate depressed and healthy young children. 120 four-to-seven year old children with current depression and 63 psychiatrically healthy 4-to-7 year old children completed a simple picture-viewing task of pleasant and neutral pictures while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The early-childhood version of the Kiddie Schedu...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Whalen DJ, Gilbert KE, Kelly D, Hajcak G, Kappenman ES, Luby JL, Barch DM Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Longitudinal Study of Sleep and Internalizing Problems in Youth Treated for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
Abstract The current study examined prospective bidirectional links between dysregulated sleep, and anxiety and depression severity across 4 years, among youth with a history of anxiety disorder. Participants were 319 youth (age 11-26 years), who previously participated in a large multisite randomized controlled trial for the treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders, Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS), and subsequently enrolled in a naturalistic follow-up, Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Extended Long-term Study (CAMELS), an average of 6.5 years later. They participated in four annual ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bai S, Ricketts EJ, Thamrin H, Piacentini J, Albano AM, Compton SN, Ginsburg GS, Sakolsky D, Keeton CP, Kendall PC, Peris TS Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Relations of Shyness and Unsociability with Adjustment in Migrant and Non-migrant Children in Urban China.
Abstract The present study examined the relations of shyness and unsociability with indexes of adjustment in migrant and non-migrant Chinese children. Participants were migrant (n = 413) and non-migrant students (n = 513) in fourth to seventh grades (M age = 11.4 years) in urban China. Data on shyness, unsociability, and adjustment were collected from multiple sources, including peer evaluations, teacher ratings, self-reports, and school records. The results showed that shyness was associated with social and school adjustment problems more evidently in non-migrant children than in migrant chil...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ding X, Chen X, Fu R, Li D, Liu J Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Protecting Youth Against the Adverse Effects of Peer Victimization: Why Do Parents Matter?
Abstract Exposure to peer victimization is associated with a variety of adverse outcomes but there is individual variability in its effects, suggesting the need to identify why some youth are resilient in the face of victimization. This research examined whether (a) high-quality parent-child relationships protect youth against the effects of peer victimization on psychopathology (antisocial behavior and depressive symptoms); and (b) mitigation of social risks (deviant peer group affiliation and social helplessness) accounts for the protective effects of high-quality parent-child relationships. Youths (N ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rudolph KD, Monti JD, Modi H, Sze WY, Troop-Gordon W Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Persistent Low Positive Affect and Sleep Disturbance across Adolescence Moderate Link between Stress and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adulthood.
Abstract The purpose of this study was to characterize the association between recent major life events and depressive symptoms during early adulthood, and to determine whether adolescents with chronically low positive affect or persistent sleep disturbance were more vulnerable to the link between stress and depressive symptoms. Adolescents (n = 147; 63.9% female; 33.7% non-Hispanic white) were recruited in 10th-11th grade and re-assessed 2 and 4 years later. At each assessment, adolescents completed measures of positive affect and sleep disturbances. At the final assessment, participants reported on ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kuhlman KR, Chiang JJ, Bower JE, Irwin MR, Cole SW, Dahl RE, Almeida DM, Fuligni AJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Social Rejection and Suicidal Ideation and Attempts among Adolescents Following Hospitalization: a Prospective Study.
Abstract Despite research indicating that stressful life events are associated with subsequent suicidal ideation (SI) and behavior, there is a lack of clarity regarding whether specific types of life events are differentially related to SI and attempts. The current prospective study examines whether social rejection related life events are proximally related to SI and suicide attempts in a clinically acute sample of adolescents. Adolescents aged 12 to 18 (n = 219) were followed for 6 months after discharge from inpatient hospitalization. A contextual threat interview of stressful life events between i...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cheek SM, Goldston DB, Erkanli A, Massing-Schaffer M, Liu RT Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Cumulative Antenatal Risk and Kindergarten Readiness in Preterm-Born Preschoolers.
Abstract A suboptimal intrauterine environment is thought to increase the probability of deviation from the typical neurodevelopmental trajectory, potentially contributing to the etiology of learning disorders. Yet the cumulative influence of individual antenatal risk factors on emergent learning skills has not been sufficiently examined. We sought to determine whether antenatal complications, in aggregate, are a source of variability in preschoolers' kindergarten readiness, and whether specific classes of antenatal risk play a prominent role. We recruited 160 preschoolers (85 girls; ages 3-4 years), born...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Heitzer AM, Piercy JC, Peters BN, Mattes AM, Klarr JM, Batton B, Ofen N, Raz S Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research