Boys’ Maladaptive Social Information Processing, Family Emotional Climate, and Pathways to Early Conduct Problems

Authors: Schultz D.; Shaw D.S.¹

Source: Social Development, Volume 12, Number 3, July 2003 , pp. 440-460(21)

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Abstract:

Maladaptive social information processing characterizes many children with behavioral adjustment difficulties. Yet, we know little about the antecedents of maladaptive social information processing. The present study examined the relations between early family risk and later maladaptive social information processing and conduct problems in a sample of 178 economically disadvantaged boys. Early childhood assessments of socioeconomic disadvantage (low SES, single parent status, low maternal education) and maternal depression predicted boys’ maladaptive response generation and conduct problems at age 10, accounting for 6% and 14% of the variances, respectively, but not hostile attribution bias. Maladaptive response generation also fit a model of significant partial mediation of the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage on conduct problems. Results suggest the importance of the family's emotional climate during children's early development for their later adjustment.

Keywords: social information processing; conduct problems; risk; maternal depression; socioeconomic status

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00242

Affiliations: 1: University of Pittsburgh