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Longitudinal Studies of Anger and Attention Span: Context and Informant Effects
Author(s) -
Kim Jungmeen,
DeaterDeckard Kirby,
Mullineaux Paula Y.,
Allen Ben
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00621.x
Subject(s) - anger , psychology , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , context effect , latent growth modeling , social environment , clinical psychology , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , political science , word (group theory) , law , biology
This study examined stabilities of informant and context (home vs. classroom) latent factors regarding anger and attention. Participants included children from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development who were measured at 54 months, first grade, and third grade. Latent factors of anger and attention span were structured using different indicators based on mothers', fathers', caregivers', teachers', and observers' reports. We used structural equation modeling to examine the autoregressive effects within a context (stability), the concurrent associations between home and classroom contexts, and informant effects. The results indicated that for both anger and attention (1) there were significant informant effects that influenced stability in a context, (2) there was higher stability in home context than nonhome context, and (3) stability within a context increased over time. The findings suggested that anger was more prone to context effects and informant effects than attention.