Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology articles from April 2002

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology archives from April 2002

What did mummy say? Dyadic interactions between young "hard to manage" children and their mothers.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... Disruptive behavior disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct disorder (CD) are common in childhood. However, it is only relatively recently that research has begun to examine the importance and relevance...

Victimization in South Korean children's peer groups.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... Research conducted in Western cultural settings has demonstrated that a small proportion of children emerge as persistent victims of maltreatment by their peers (for reviews, see Graham & Juvonen, 1998b; Perry, Perry, & Kennedy, 1992; Smith &...

A multisource exploration of the friendship patterns of children with and without learning disabilities.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION According to Sullivan (1953), children acquire interpersonal sensitivity, learn new social skills and behaviors, and receive validation in intimate relationships with close friends. Although studies of peer acceptance in...

Sibling collusion and problem behavior in early adolescence: Toward a process model for family mutuality.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Most social development research focuses on parent--child relationship processes and neglects sibling relationship dynamics. Systemic views of parenting, however, acknowledge that parenting does not occur in a vacuum. In...

The relationship between self-complexity and depressive symptoms in third and seventh grade children: A short-term longitudinal study.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... Linville's self-complexity buffering hypothesis (Linville, 1985, 1987) posits that individual differences exist in the complexity of cognitive representations of the self. Individuals high in self-complexity organize knowledge about the self...

Anxiety sensitivity as a specific and unique marker of anxious symptoms in youth psychiatric inpatients.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Expectancy theory (Reiss, 1991) asserts that anxiety sensitivity (i.e., the extent to which one believes that autonomic arousal can have harmful consequences; Reiss & McNally, 1985) represents a specific risk factor for the...

The tripartite model and dimensions of anxiety and depression: an examination of structure in a large school sample.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Clark and Watson's tripartite model of emotion (Clark & Watson, 1991) specifies a general factor, negative affect (NA), which represents a shared influence on anxiety and depression, and further specifies two specific...

Young adult outcome of children with "situational" hyperactivity: a prospective, controlled follow-up study.(Abstract)
April 1, 2002... The diagnosis and conceptualization of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have undergone several changes in the past three decades. DSM-II (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1968) used the term hyperkinetic reaction of...