TY - JOUR
T1 - Developmental cascades to children's conduct problems
T2 - The role of prenatal substance use, socioeconomic adversity, maternal depression and sensitivity, and children's conscience
AU - Ettekal, Idean
AU - Eiden, Rina D.
AU - Nickerson, Amanda B.
AU - Molnar, Danielle S.
AU - Schuetze, Pamela
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support. Research reported in this article was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Awards R01DA013190 and R01DA041231. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This study investigated the longitudinal associations among prenatal substance use, socioeconomic adversity, parenting (maternal warmth, sensitivity, and harshness), children's self-regulation (internalization of rules and conscience), and conduct problems from infancy to middle childhood (Grade 2). Three competing conceptual models including cascade (indirect or mediated), additive (cumulative), and transactional (bidirectional) effects were tested and compared. The sample consisted of 216 low-income families (primary caretaker and children; 51% girls; 74% African American). Using a repeated-measures, multimethod, multi-informant design, a series of full panel models were specified. Findings primarily supported a developmental cascade model, and there was some support for additive effects. More specifically, maternal prenatal substance use and socioeconomic adversity in infancy were prospectively associated with lower levels of maternal sensitivity. Subsequently, lower maternal sensitivity was associated with decreases in children's conscience in early childhood, and in turn, lower conscience predicted increases in teacher-reported conduct problems in middle childhood. There was also a second pathway from sustained maternal depression (in infancy and toddlerhood) to early childhood conduct problems. These findings demonstrated how processes of risk and resilience collectively contributed to children's early onset conduct problems.
AB - This study investigated the longitudinal associations among prenatal substance use, socioeconomic adversity, parenting (maternal warmth, sensitivity, and harshness), children's self-regulation (internalization of rules and conscience), and conduct problems from infancy to middle childhood (Grade 2). Three competing conceptual models including cascade (indirect or mediated), additive (cumulative), and transactional (bidirectional) effects were tested and compared. The sample consisted of 216 low-income families (primary caretaker and children; 51% girls; 74% African American). Using a repeated-measures, multimethod, multi-informant design, a series of full panel models were specified. Findings primarily supported a developmental cascade model, and there was some support for additive effects. More specifically, maternal prenatal substance use and socioeconomic adversity in infancy were prospectively associated with lower levels of maternal sensitivity. Subsequently, lower maternal sensitivity was associated with decreases in children's conscience in early childhood, and in turn, lower conscience predicted increases in teacher-reported conduct problems in middle childhood. There was also a second pathway from sustained maternal depression (in infancy and toddlerhood) to early childhood conduct problems. These findings demonstrated how processes of risk and resilience collectively contributed to children's early onset conduct problems.
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U2 - 10.1017/S095457941800144X
DO - 10.1017/S095457941800144X
M3 - Article
C2 - 30704548
AN - SCOPUS:85061006227
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 32
SP - 85
EP - 103
JO - Development and Psychopathology
JF - Development and Psychopathology
IS - 1
ER -