@article{ref1,
title="Parenting, attention and externalizing problems: testing mediation longitudinally, repeatedly and reciprocally",
journal="Journal of child psychology and psychiatry",
year="2007",
author="Belsky, Jay and Pasco Fearon, R. M. and Bell, Brian",
volume="48",
number="12",
pages="1233-1242",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Building on prior work, this paper tests, longitudinally and repeatedly, the proposition that attentional control processes mediate the effect of earlier parenting on later externalizing problems. METHODS: Repeated independent measurements of all three constructs--observed parenting, computer-tested attentional control and adult-reported externalizing problems--were subjected to structural equation modeling using data from the large-scale American study of child care and youth development. RESULTS: Structural equation modeling indicated (a) that greater maternal sensitivity at two different ages (54 months, approximately 6 years) predicted better attentional control on the Continuous Performance Test (CPT) of attention regulation two later ages ( approximately 6/9 years); (2) that better attentional control at three different ages (54 months, approximately 6/9 years) predicted less teacher-reported externalizing problems at three later ages ( approximately 6/8/10 years); and (3) that attentional control partially mediated the effect of parenting on externalizing problems at two different lags (i.e., 54 months--> approximately 6 years--> approximately 8 years; approximately 6 years--> approximately 9 years--> approximately 10 years), though somewhat more strongly for the first. Additionally, (4) some evidence of reciprocal effects of attentional processes on parenting emerged (54 months--> approximately 6 years; approximately 6 years--> approximately 8 years), but not of problem behavior on attention. CONCLUSIONS: Because attention control partially mediates the effects of parenting on externalizing problems, intervention efforts could target both parenting and attentional processes.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9630",
doi="10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01807.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01807.x"
}