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The Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire (EATQ; was revised and updated to better assess as... more The Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire (EATQ; was revised and updated to better assess aspects of temperament related to selfregulation in adolescents. Scales measuring aggression and depressive mood were included to examine relationships between temperament and traits relevant to socialization.177 adolescents, aged 10-16, and 62 parent participants completed questionnaires. Analyses were conducted to determine reliability of scales. Exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors: Effortful Control, Surgency, Affiliativeness, and Negative Affect. Low Effortful Control and high Negative Affect scores were predictive of both aggression and depressive mood. However, aggression was associated with low scores on Affiliativeness, while depressive mood was associated with high levels of Affiliativeness, even when controlling for differences in gender.
Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, 2004
Abstract: This study examined temperament, executive attention, parental monitoring and relations... more Abstract: This study examined temperament, executive attention, parental monitoring and relationships, and involvement in pro- and antisocial behaviors in an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents. We sought to relate parent- and self-reported effortful control to performance on measures of executive attention and to better understand the relative contributions of individual-difference variables and environmental variables in predicting behaviors in adolescence. The results indicated a relationship between poor executive attention and mother-reported effortful control. Inclusion of individual-difference variables significantly increased prediction of problem-behavior scores, suggesting the importance of including such variables in studies of adolescent deviance.
Journal of Personality, 2003
Studies of temperament from early childhood to adulthood have demonstrated inverse relationships ... more Studies of temperament from early childhood to adulthood have demonstrated inverse relationships between negative affectivity and effortful control. Effortful control is also positively related to the development of conscience and appears as a protective factor in the development of behavior disorders. In this study, the development of attentional mechanisms underlying effortful control was investigated in 2-to 3-year-old children, as indexed by their performance in a) making anticipatory eye movements to ambiguous locations and b) resolving conflict between location and identity in a spatial conflict task. The ability to make anticipatory eye movements to ambiguous locations within a sequence was clearly present at 24 months. By 30 months, children could also successfully perform a spatial conflict task that introduced conflict between identity and location, and at that age, children's success on ambiguous anticipatory eye movements was related to lower interference from conflict in the spatial conflict task. Children's performance on the eye-movement task was correlated with performance
The Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire (EATQ; was revised and updated to better assess as... more The Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire (EATQ; was revised and updated to better assess aspects of temperament related to selfregulation in adolescents. Scales measuring aggression and depressive mood were included to examine relationships between temperament and traits relevant to socialization.177 adolescents, aged 10-16, and 62 parent participants completed questionnaires. Analyses were conducted to determine reliability of scales. Exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors: Effortful Control, Surgency, Affiliativeness, and Negative Affect. Low Effortful Control and high Negative Affect scores were predictive of both aggression and depressive mood. However, aggression was associated with low scores on Affiliativeness, while depressive mood was associated with high levels of Affiliativeness, even when controlling for differences in gender.
Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, 2004
Abstract: This study examined temperament, executive attention, parental monitoring and relations... more Abstract: This study examined temperament, executive attention, parental monitoring and relationships, and involvement in pro- and antisocial behaviors in an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents. We sought to relate parent- and self-reported effortful control to performance on measures of executive attention and to better understand the relative contributions of individual-difference variables and environmental variables in predicting behaviors in adolescence. The results indicated a relationship between poor executive attention and mother-reported effortful control. Inclusion of individual-difference variables significantly increased prediction of problem-behavior scores, suggesting the importance of including such variables in studies of adolescent deviance.
Journal of Personality, 2003
Studies of temperament from early childhood to adulthood have demonstrated inverse relationships ... more Studies of temperament from early childhood to adulthood have demonstrated inverse relationships between negative affectivity and effortful control. Effortful control is also positively related to the development of conscience and appears as a protective factor in the development of behavior disorders. In this study, the development of attentional mechanisms underlying effortful control was investigated in 2-to 3-year-old children, as indexed by their performance in a) making anticipatory eye movements to ambiguous locations and b) resolving conflict between location and identity in a spatial conflict task. The ability to make anticipatory eye movements to ambiguous locations within a sequence was clearly present at 24 months. By 30 months, children could also successfully perform a spatial conflict task that introduced conflict between identity and location, and at that age, children's success on ambiguous anticipatory eye movements was related to lower interference from conflict in the spatial conflict task. Children's performance on the eye-movement task was correlated with performance