One class of parent–child interaction that has recently received attention is a mother’s engagement with her child at a mental level. The current study operationalizes this notion by asking the mothers of 354 7to 11-year-old children drawn from a larger community sample (N 1⁄4 659) to guess the responses of their children, who, in turn, were asked to attribute thoughts to their peers in distres...

OBJECTIVE To examine the stability of the occurrence of psychiatric disorders in a nonpsychiatric sample of young children. METHOD There were 510 children ages 2-5 years enrolled through pediatric practices, with 391 children participating in the second wave, and 344 in the third wave of data collection 42-48 months later. The assessment battery administered at each wave yielded best-estimate...

INTRODUCTION Assessing childhood anxiety is complicated by differences between informants, particularly parents and children. We examined factors associated with mother- and child-report, to understand how children identified by each might differ. METHOD Eighty-five children with anxiety disorders diagnosed by semi-structured interview, and 45 children without such disorders and their mothers...

Although much has been written about the utility of applying Sameroff and Chandler's transactional perspective to the study of child psychopathology, relatively few researchers have used such an approach to trace the emergence of child problem behavior from infancy to adolescence. Using a sample of 289 male toddlers from predominantly low-income families, the current study examined associations...

The assessment of children's psychopathology is often based on parental report. Earlier studies have suggested that rater bias can affect the estimates of genetic, shared environmental and unique environmental influences on differences between children. The availability of a large dataset of maternal as well as paternal ratings of psychopathology in 7-year old children enabled (i) the analysis ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the effect of maternal eating disorders (ED) on childhood psychopathology, early delays in cognitive, motor and language development, mother and child relationship, and child temperament in a community-based cohort: the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC). METHOD Data were obtained prospectively on 48 403 children at 18 months and 46 156 children at 7 years. ...

BACKGROUND International studies indicate that the median prevalence of psychotic experiences in children is 7%. It has been proposed that environmental stress during pregnancy may affect the neurodevelopment of the foetus and lead to a vulnerability in the child to later stressors and psychopathology. AIM In this study we explore the relationship between environmental stress during pregnancy...

Using an accelerated longitudinal design, the development of externalizing problems from age 2 to 5 years was investigated in relation to maternal psychopathology, maternal parenting, gender, child temperament, and the presence of siblings. The sample consisted of 150 children selected at age 2-3 years for having high levels of externalizing problems. Parenting was measured using observational ...