title: Externalizing problems in fifth grade: relations with productive activity, maternal sensitivity, and harsh parenting from infancy through middle childhood.
abstract: This study used data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to examine relations between parenting, self-control, and externalizing behavior from infancy through 5th grade. Results indicate that self-control measured during middle childhood mediates relations between maternal sensitivity, opportunity for productive activity, and parental harshness and both mother-reported and teacher-reported externalizing behavior. Results showed that parenting measured during middle childhood was more strongly related to 5th-grade externalizing behavior compared with parenting measured during infancy and early childhood. However, there was evidence that parenting during the preschool years was related to 5th-grade externalizing behavior through later parenting and self-control.
authors.affiliation: Center for Applied Studies in Education, University of Arkansas.
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.affiliation: Center for Applied Studies in Education, University of Arkansas.
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Corwyn
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D054582:National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.); D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012574:Schools; D012649:Self Concept; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012940:Social Problems / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States