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Testing a core emotion-regulation prediction: does early attentional persistence moderate the effect of infant negative emotionality on later development?
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  11280474     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
To test the hypothesis that early attentional persistence will moderate the effect of infant negative emotionality on social competence, problem behavior, and school readiness at age 3, data collected as part of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care were subject to structural equation modeling analyses (N = 1,038). Consistent with Eisenberg et al.'s data on older children, high levels of negative emotionality were associated with low levels of social competence only when attentional persistence was poor. No such moderating effects of attentional persistence emerged in the case of behavior problems. And in the case of school readiness, findings indicated that high levels of negative emotionality predicted high levels of school readiness when attentional persistence was high, a result opposite to that found with respect to the prediction of social competence.
Authors:
J Belsky; S L Friedman; K H Hsieh
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Child development     Volume:  72     ISSN:  0009-3920     ISO Abbreviation:  Child Dev     Publication Date:    2001 Jan-Feb
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2001-03-30     Completed Date:  2001-07-12     Revised Date:  2007-11-14    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0372725     Medline TA:  Child Dev     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  123-33     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. j.belsky@psychology.bbk.ac.uk
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Affect*
Age Factors
Attention*
Child Behavior / physiology*
Child Development / physiology
Child Psychology
Child, Preschool
Forecasting
Humans
Infant
Longitudinal Studies
Problem Solving
Social Perception*
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
U10-HD25420/HD/NICHD NIH HHS

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