Hard-to-manage preschool boys : family context and the stability of externalizing behavior

Preschool boys identified by their teachers as active, inattentive, and impulsive (N = 42) were compared with matched classroom controls (N = 43) and with parent-identified problem boys (N = 27) on measures of family functioning often associated with children's problem behaviors, including fami...

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Published in:Journal of abnormal child psychology 1991-06, Vol.19 (3), p.301-318
Main Authors: CAMPBELL, S. B, MARCH, C. L, PIERCE, E. W, EWING, L. J, SZUMOWSKI, E. K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Behavior Problems
Biological and medical sciences
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Child development
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Family (Sociological Unit)
Family - psychology
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Internal-External Control
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Males
Medical sciences
Mother-Child Relations
Personality Development
Preschool children
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social Environment
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Social research
Sociocultural environment
Stress, Psychological - complications
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Summary:Preschool boys identified by their teachers as active, inattentive, and impulsive (N = 42) were compared with matched classroom controls (N = 43) and with parent-identified problem boys (N = 27) on measures of family functioning often associated with children's problem behaviors, including family history of psychopathology, stressful life events, and family composition. Teacher-identified and parent-identified problem boys did not differ on measures of family adversity, and both groups came from less well functioning families than comparison boys. Mothers of problem boys, regardless of referral source, were more negative and controlling toward their sons when observed in a compliance task. Children's problem behaviors were moderately stable over a one-year follow-up period; initial symptom levels, maternal self-reported depression, and negative maternal control predicted follow-up ratings of externalizing problems.
ISSN:0091-0627
2730-7166
1573-2835
2730-7174
DOI:10.1007/bf00911233