Developing mechanisms of temperamental effortful control.

The Relations of Temperamental Effortful Control and Anger/Frustration to Chinese Children’s Academic Achievement and Social Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study

The prospective relations of temperamental effortful control and anger/frustration to Chinese children’s (N 425, age range 6.6 –9.1 years) academic achievement (grade point average, or GPA) and social adjustment (externalizing problems and social competence) were examined in a 2-wave (3.8 years apart) longitudinal study. Parents and teachers rated children’s temperament, and parents, teachers, ...

Effortful control, executive attention, and emotional regulation in 7¬タモ10-year-old children

In this study, self-regulation was investigated in 7to 10-year-old children using three different measures: (1) parent and child report questionnaires measuring temperamental effortful control, (2) a conflict task assessing efficiency of executive attention, and (3) the mistaken gift paradigm assessing social smiling in response to an undesirable gift. Both efficiency in executive attention and...

Rebelliousness, Effortful Control, and Risky Behavior: Metamotivational and Temperamental Predictors of Risk-Taking in Older Adolescents

An ERP study of conflict monitoring in 4–8-year old children: Associations with temperament

Although there is great interest in identifying the neural correlates of cognitive processes that create risk for psychopathology, there is a paucity of research in young children. One event-related potential (ERP), the N2, is thought to index conflict monitoring and has been linked cognitive and affective risk factors for anxiety. Most of this research, however, has been conducted with adults,...

Infant Predictors of Toddler Effortful Control: A Multi-method Developmentally Sensitive Approach

Effortful control (EC) is a form of self-regulation characterized by inhibition of dominant responses in favour of more adaptive subdominant responses. In the present study, temperamental antecedents in infancy were examined in relationship to toddler EC. Parents reported on infant temperament at 6, 8, 10, and 12months, using the regulatory capacity/orienting (RCO) factor of the Infant Behavior...