@article{ref1,
title="Associations of anger and fear to later self-regulation and problem behavior symptoms",
journal="Journal of applied developmental psychology",
year="2015",
author="Nozadi, Sara S. and Spinrad, Tracy L. and Eisenberg, Nancy and Eggum-Wilkens, Natalie D.",
volume="38",
number="",
pages="60-69",
abstract="The mediating and moderating roles of self-regulation in the associations of dispositional anger and fear to later conduct and anxiety symptoms were tested. Mothers and teachers rated children's anger and fear at 54 months (N = 191), and mothers reported on children's symptoms of anxiety and conduct disorders at 72 and 84 months (Ns = 169 and 144). Children's self-regulatory ability was assessed using the Tower of Hanoi task at 72 months. Children's self-regulation mediated the association between early dispositional fear and 84-month mother-reported anxiety disorder symptoms above and beyond the effects of earlier generalized anxiety symptoms. Children's anger directly predicted relatively high mother-reported conduct and anxiety disorder symptoms. <br><br>FINDINGS are discussed in terms of the importance of considering self-regulation as potential mechanism relating early childhood dispositional reactivity to later psychopathology symptoms.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0193-3973",
doi="10.1016/j.appdev.2015.04.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2015.04.005"
}