TY - JOUR

T1 - Early Temperament as a Predictor of Child Mental Health

AU - Kozlova, Elena A.

AU - Slobodskaya, Helena R.

AU - Gartstein, Maria A.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2020/12

Y1 - 2020/12

N2 - The present follow-up study examined the contribution of early temperament to mental health in preschool and school years. Participants represent a community sample of 96 children (54% female) from urban and rural areas of Russia. Temperament was measured by the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised and the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire; mental health was assessed using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Effortful control and negative affectivity accounted for 17% of the variance in internalizing problems and 6% in externalizing problems, and results also highlighted the contribution of lower-order traits. Our findings emphasize the importance of broadband and fine-grained early temperamental traits for later mental health in the Russian context and support the predominant role of effortful control and negative affectivity.

AB - The present follow-up study examined the contribution of early temperament to mental health in preschool and school years. Participants represent a community sample of 96 children (54% female) from urban and rural areas of Russia. Temperament was measured by the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised and the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire; mental health was assessed using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Effortful control and negative affectivity accounted for 17% of the variance in internalizing problems and 6% in externalizing problems, and results also highlighted the contribution of lower-order traits. Our findings emphasize the importance of broadband and fine-grained early temperamental traits for later mental health in the Russian context and support the predominant role of effortful control and negative affectivity.

KW - Childhood

KW - Follow-up

KW - Infancy

KW - Mental health

KW - Temperament

KW - Toddlerhood

KW - UNITED-STATES

KW - BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS

KW - OF-AMERICA US

KW - NEGATIVE EMOTIONALITY

KW - DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS

KW - IMPULSIVITY

KW - CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

KW - EFFORTFUL CONTROL

KW - INFANT TEMPERAMENT

KW - LONGITUDINAL RELATIONS

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U2 - 10.1007/s11469-019-00181-3

DO - 10.1007/s11469-019-00181-3

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85075918879

VL - 18

SP - 1493

EP - 1506

JO - International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

JF - International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

SN - 1557-1874

IS - 6

ER -