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Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Linda L. Lagasse ,
Elisabeth Conradt ,
Sarah L. Karalunas ,
Lynne M. Dansereau ,
Jonathan E. Butner ,
Seetha Shankaran ,
Henrietta Bada ,
Charles R. Bauer ,
Toni M. Whitaker  and
Barry M. Lester
Linda L. Lagasse*
Affiliation:
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
Elisabeth Conradt
Affiliation:
University of Utah
Sarah L. Karalunas
Affiliation:
Oregon Health & Science University
Lynne M. Dansereau
Affiliation:
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
Jonathan E. Butner
Affiliation:
University of Utah
Seetha Shankaran
Affiliation:
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Henrietta Bada
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Charles R. Bauer
Affiliation:
University of Miami
Toni M. Whitaker
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee
Barry M. Lester
Affiliation:
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Linda L. LaGasse, Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905; E-mail: Linda_Lagasse@brown.edu.
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Abstract

Developmental psychopathologists face the difficult task of identifying the environmental conditions that may contribute to early childhood behavior problems. Highly stressed caregivers can exacerbate behavior problems, while children with behavior problems may make parenting more difficult and increase caregiver stress. Unknown is: (a) how these transactions originate, (b) whether they persist over time to contribute to the development of problem behavior and (c) what role resilience factors, such as child executive functioning, may play in mitigating the development of problem behavior. In the present study, transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and behavior problems were examined in a sample of 1,388 children with prenatal drug exposures at three developmental time points: early childhood (birth to age 5), middle childhood (ages 6 to 9), and early adolescence (ages 10 to 13). Transactional relations differed between caregiving stress and internalizing versus externalizing behavior. Targeting executive functioning in evidence-based interventions for children with prenatal substance exposure who present with internalizing problems and treating caregiving psychopathology, depression, and parenting stress in early childhood may be particularly important for children presenting with internalizing behavior.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 28 , Special Issue 3: Longitudinal Transactional Models of Development and Psychopathology , August 2016 , pp. 743 - 756
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