title: Developmental delay and emotion dysregulation: Predicting parent-child conflict across early to middle childhood.
abstract: Cumulative risk research has increased understanding of how multiple risk factors impact various socioemotional and interpersonal outcomes across the life span. However, little is known about risk factors for parent-child conflict early in development, where identifying predictors of change could be highly salient for intervention. Given their established association with parent-child conflict, child developmental delay (DD) and emotion dysregulation were examined as predictors of change in conflict across early to middle childhood (ages 3 to 7 years). Participants (n = 211) were part of a longitudinal study examining the development of psychopathology in children with or without DD. Level of parent-child conflict was derived from naturalistic home observations, whereas child dysregulation was measured using an adapted CBCL-Emotion Dysregulation Index. PROCESS was used to examine the conditional interactive effects of delay status (typically developing, DD) and dysregulation on change in conflict from child ages 3 to 5 and 5 to 7 years. Across both of these timeframes, parent-child conflict increased only for families of children with both DD and high dysregulation, providing support for an interactive risk model of parent-child conflict. Findings are considered in the context of developmental transitions, and implications for intervention are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Willa A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Marquis
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Amanda N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Noroña
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Bruce L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*