title: Correlates of the CBCL-dysregulation profile in preschool-aged children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A growing literature indicates that the Child Behavior Checklist-Dysregulation Profile (CBCL-DP) identifies youths with heightened risk for severe psychopathology, comorbidity, and impairment. However, this work has focused on school-age children and adolescents; no studies have examined whether preschool-aged children with the CBCL-DP exhibit a similar constellation of problems.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using a community sample of preschoolers, we compared children with (N = 61) and without (N = 488) the CBCL-DP on a broad range of variables assessed using multiple methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Univariate analyses revealed numerous differences between children with the CBCL-DP and their peers on psychiatric symptomatology, temperament, parenting behavior, and parental personality, psychopathology, and marital functioning. In multivariate analyses, children with the CBCL-DP exhibited greater temperamental negative affectivity and lower effortful control. They also had more depressive and oppositional defiant symptoms, as well as greater functional impairment. Parents of CBCL-DP children reported engaging in more punitive, controlling parenting behavior than parents of non-profile children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In a non-clinical sample of preschoolers, the CBCL-DP is associated with extensive emotional and behavioral dysregulation and maladaptive parenting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, USA.
authors.forename: Jiyon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Gabrielle A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Carlson
authors.forename: Stephanie E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Sara J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bufferd
authors.forename: Lea R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Dougherty
authors.forename: Margaret W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Dyson
authors.forename: Rebecca S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Laptook
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Olino
authors.forename: Daniel N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires