@article{ref1,
title="Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and aggression in non-clinical children: relationships with self-report and performance-based measures of attention and effortful control",
journal="Child psychiatry and human development",
year="2008",
author="Muris, Peter and van der Pennen, Els and Sigmond, Rianne and Mayer, Birgit",
volume="39",
number="4",
pages="455-467",
abstract="This study investigated the relation between the regulative trait of effortful control, and in particular attention control, and psychopathological symptoms in a sample of 207 non-clinical children aged 8-12 years. For this purpose, children completed self-report scales for measuring regulative traits and various types of psychopathological symptoms (i.e., anxiety, depression, and aggression) and were tested with a neuropsychological battery for measuring attention/effortful control capacity. Results indicated that self-report and performance-based measures of attention/effortful control were at best moderately correlated. Further, it was found that self-report indexes of attention/effortful control were clearly negatively related to psychopathological symptoms, which provides support for the notion that low regulation is associated with higher levels of psychopathology. Finally, the performance-based measure of attention/effortful control was not convincingly related to psychopathological symptoms.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-398X",
doi="10.1007/s10578-008-0101-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-008-0101-1"
}