Lee, Jasmine;
Janson, Harald;
Nærde, Ane;
Flouri, Eirini;
(2025)
The impact of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on child effortful control in the preschool years: Findings from the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental study.
Children and Youth Services Review
, 170
, Article 108147. 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108147.
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Abstract
We carried out this study to explore the role of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on child effortful control at age 4 years, using data from the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental Study (n = 1,101). At child’s age 4 years the mother reported whether she had ever experienced any of the following: death of someone close, violence, abuse, bullying, serious financial problems, hunger or homelessness, and being a refugee. We did not find an impact of maternal lifetime exposure to stressors on child effortful control. Findings were null irrespective of operationalisation of adversity (i.e., whether a linear or threshold model of cumulative risk was tested or whether specific adversities were considered). Socioeconomic risk and gender were far stronger predictors and remained significant across models. Future research should explore how proximal experience of socioeconomic disadvantage impacts effortful control early in development.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The impact of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on child effortful control in the preschool years: Findings from the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108147 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108147 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Stressful Life Events, Maternal Adversity, Effortful Control, Young Children |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204175 |
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