ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2019
The Presence of a Controlling Parent Is Related to an Increase in the Error-Related Negativity in 5-7 Year-Old Children.
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- Maternal histories of depression and childhood maltreatment, authoritarian parenting, and daughter error-related negativity: Developmental model of adolescent daughter depression risk.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Child Effortful Control Moderates the Link Between Parenting Stress and Child Parasympathetic Regulation: Interactions Across Contexts and Measures.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts: New insights and future directions for research and practice.The British journal of educational psychology · 2025Article
- Enhanced Performance Monitoring as a Transdiagnostic Risk Marker of the Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum: The Role of Disorder Category, Clinical Status, Family Risk, and Anxiety Dimensions.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- Exploring the Association Between EEG Microstates During Resting-State and Error-Related Activity in Young Children.Brain topography · 2024Article
- Annual Research Review: Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Review
- In the Presence of Parents: Parental Heterosexism and Momentary Negative Affect and Substance Craving Among Sexual Minority Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Relationships with cognitive functioning, error monitoring, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Associations between lifetime stress exposure and the error-related negativity (ERN) differ based on stressor characteristics and exposure timing in young adults.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The relationship between stressful life events and the error-related negativity in children and adolescents.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Maternal Error-Related Negativity Relationship With Offspring Error-Related Negativity and Negative Parenting Styles: A Novel Model of Internalizing Psychopathology Risk.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2022Article
- The association between parenting and the error-related negativity across childhood and adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- The error-related negativity (ERN) moderates the association between interpersonal stress and anxiety symptoms six months later.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2020Article
- Parental Presence Impacts a Neural Correlate of Anxiety (the Late Positive Potential) in 5-7 Year Old Children: Interactions with Parental Sensitivity to Child Anxiety.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- A brief, computerized intervention targeting error sensitivity reduces the error-related negativity.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Controlling parenting and perfectionism is associated with an increased error-related negativity (ERN) in young adults.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Anxiety disorders often begin early in life and there is substantial interest in identifying neural markers that characterize developmental trajectories that result in anxiety. The error-related negativity (ERN) is elicited when people make errors on lab-based reaction-time tasks, is increased in anxious children, and can predict the onset of anxiety across development. In light of this, there is an increasing interest in identifying environmental factors that may shape the ERN in children. Previous work suggests that controlling parenting styles may relate to the ERN in offspring. However, no study had yet examined the specific mechanism whereby parenting style may impact the ERN in children. We propose that it may be children's repeated exposure to making mistakes in the context of their parents' reactions (i.e., verbal or non-verbal reactions, displays of parental control, etc.) that may lead to an increased ERN. We test this novel hypothesis by measuring the ERN in 94 children between the ages of 5-7 years old, while their parent observes them and then while an experimenter observes them complete a Go-No/Go task. Results suggest that the presence of parents characterized by high control potentiates the ERN in their children. Moreover, the relationship between controlling parenting styles and child anxiety disorder status was mediated by the parent presence potentiation of the ERN. These findings are important and novel insofar as they highlight the impact of an environmental factor (i.e., parenting) in shaping a neural marker of risk for anxiety in children (i.e., the ERN).
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