How and why children change in aggression and delinquency from childhood to adolescence: moderation of overreactive parenting by child personality

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines
A D de HaanMaja Deković

Abstract

This study examines how and why children change in aggression and delinquency from age 6 to 15 years. Besides assessing the shape of the developmental trajectories of aggression and delinquency, we investigated whether child personality characteristics, parenting, and interactions between these two predict the development of aggression/delinquency. Employing a cohort-sequential design, data from the Flemish Study on Parenting, Personality, and Development were used. The sample consisted of 586 children aged 6-9 years at the first assessment, and their parents. Mothers, fathers, and teachers rated child personality at Time 1 using the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children, and mothers and fathers rated externalizing behaviors at the first, second, and third assessment using the Child Behavior Checklist. Parents rated their own overreactive parenting at Time 1 with the Parenting Scale. Aggression and delinquency showed differential, though interrelated development. Less extraverted, benevolent and conscientious children, and more imaginative children were more susceptible to overreactivity. The model replicated across fathers' overreactivity. Parents of children who are less extraverted, benevolent and conscientious, or...Continue Reading

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Mar 6, 2013·Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology : the Official Journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53·Amaranta D de HaanPeter Prinzie
Mar 4, 2015·Aggressive Behavior·Liese ExelmansJan Van den Bulck
Oct 19, 2014·International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology·Larissa M HoogstederJan Hendriks
Nov 9, 2012·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology·Robert H Bradley, Robert Corwyn
Jul 5, 2021·Child Psychiatry and Human Development·Rachel C DavisRobert D Latzman

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