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Hard‐to‐Manage Preschool Boys: Symptomatic Behavior across Contexts and Time
Author(s) -
Campbell Susan B.,
Pierce Elizabeth W.,
March Cynthia L.,
Ewing Linda J.,
Szumowski Emily K.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1994.tb00787.x
Subject(s) - psychology , impulsivity , observational study , developmental psychology , persistence (discontinuity) , clinical psychology , medicine , geotechnical engineering , pathology , engineering
Preschool boys identified by their parents and/or teachers as active, inattentive, and impulsive ( N = 69) at age 4 were compared with boys without problem ( N = 43) on observational measures of symptm‐related behaviors, obtained across context (home, laboratory, and preschool). Problem boys differed from comparison boys on measures of activity/inattention, noncompliance, and impulsivity obtained in the 3 settings. At a 2‐year follow‐up, when they were 6 years old, problem boys continued to differ from comparison boys on laboratory measures of activity and impulsivity; there also was some stability in these symptomatic behaviors. Implications of these findings for the emergence and persistence of externalizing problems in preschool boys are addressed.