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Area of Science:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Childhood behavioral and emotional development
  • Cognitive self-regulation

Background:

  • Low dispositional anger and good attention span are crucial for healthy social-emotional development.
  • Attention control is key to cognitive self-regulation of negative emotions like anger.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine attention span as a moderator of reciprocal links between anger and externalizing/internalizing problems.
  • To investigate changes in anger, attention, and behavioral problems from early to middle childhood.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study of children from the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD).
  • Data collected at four time points between 4.5 and 11 years of age.
  • Composite scores for anger and attention from multiple informants; externalizing/internalizing problems reported by mothers.

Main Results:

  • Reciprocal lagged effects observed between increased anger and elevated externalizing or internalizing problems.
  • Attention significantly moderated the effects of anger on externalizing problems, particularly in children with poor attention.
  • Attention also moderated the reciprocal effects of internalizing problems on anger in children with poor attention.

Conclusions:

  • Attention control mechanisms are integral to self-regulation of anger and its association with behavioral and emotional problems.
  • Strong attention regulation may buffer children with higher dispositional anger against developing behavioral and emotional problems during middle childhood.