Longitudinal relations between clinical problem behaviors in preadolescence and emotion regulation in early childhood

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24730612
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Clinical psychology
Research Institution	Seinan Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	KASHIMA NATSUME 西南学院大学, 人間科学部, 准教授 (80442408)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	不安・抑うつの非連続性 / 非行・攻撃的行動の遷延 / 人間関係と不安・抑うつ / 追跡調査 / 幼児期 / 児童期 / 前思春期 / 情動制御
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study examined the factors that related clinical anxiety and depression in preadolescence with emotion regulation and clinical problem behaviors in early childhood. The longitudinal effect that emotion regulation in early childhood had on clinical anxiety and depression disappeared by the age of 9 years. The quality of the relationship among classmates inhibited the occurrence of clinical depression in preadolescence. This study validated the common view in clinical studies that peer relationship is important inpreadolescenceadjustment.Further, the study found that clinical anxiety and depression in preadolescence didn’t continue from early childhood.On clinical rule-breaking and aggressive behaviors, parents’ punitive and minimum reactions to children’s negative emotions at the age of 4 years had longitudinal effects on clinical problems in preadolescence.