ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2020
The Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC): Behavioral and Neural Validation of a Parent-Report of Child Overcontrol in Early Childhood.
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- Development and Initial Validation of the Pathological Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Scale for Children (POPS-C).Journal of personality disorders · 2026Article
- Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Risk for psychiatric and peer outcomes.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- The association between parental involvement in developmental advance and mental health in Chinese preschoolers: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Psychometric validation of the Ego-undercontrol scale in Chinese college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Telehealth-Delivered Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (RO DBT-A): A Pilot Mixed-Methods Study.American journal of psychotherapy · 2024Article
- Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Relationships with cognitive functioning, error monitoring, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Picky Eating in Childhood: Associations With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2022Article
- Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2020Article
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Abstract
Self-control is protective against psychopathology in childhood. However, too much self-control, namely overcontrol, potentiates risk. Overcontrol is a constellation of child characteristics related to high need for control, perfectionism, inflexibility, social comparison, and performance monitoring and is a transdiagnostic risk factor associated with psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. However, there are no quick and developmentally appropriate screeners to identify overcontrol in early childhood, when overcontrol purportedly becomes stable. The current study validated the Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC) in 4-7 year old children and examined relationships with cognitive, social, and psychiatric, neural and behavioral indicators. The OCYC demonstrated good psychometrics and was associated with deficits in cognitive shifting, social functioning, and preschool psychopathology. Higher OCYC scores were associated with a blunted ΔERN, an indicator of performance monitoring in preschoolers. Findings demonstrate the OCYC to be a developmentally valid measure of overcontrol that identifies this transdiagnostic risk factor early in development.
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