Early childhood executive control modulates negative affectivity's role in increasing adolescent body mass index trajectories.

Autor: Tomaso CC; Yale Child Study Center, Department of Child Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA., James TD; Office of Research and Economic Development, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA., Brock RL; Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA., Yaroch AL; Center for Nutrition and Health Impact, Omaha, Nebraska, USA., Hill JL; Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., Huang TT; Center for Systems and Community Design and NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA., Nelson JM; Office of Research and Economic Development, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA., Mason WA; Department of Child, Youth, & Family Studies, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA., Espy KA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA., Nelson TD; Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Pediatric obesity [Pediatr Obes] 2024 Sep; Vol. 19 (9), pp. e13144. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 26.
DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.13144
Abstrakt: Background: Executive control and temperament have been associated with pediatric obesity. However, interactions between these constructs in relation to future weight outcomes have not been investigated.
Objective: This longitudinal study examined early childhood executive control, early temperament (negative affectivity and surgency), and their interactions as predictors of adolescent BMI trajectories.
Methods: At age 5.25, children (N = 229) completed executive control tasks, and parents completed the Child Behavior Questionnaire to assess temperament. BMI was calculated annually between ages 14-17.
Results: Greater early negative affectivity predicted more positive BMI growth. Although early childhood executive control was not associated with BMI growth, greater negative affectivity predicted greater BMI escalation at average and below average executive control abilities.
Conclusions: For children without robust executive control abilities early in development, negative affectivity may be a risk factor for accelerated adolescent BMI growth. Targeted assessment of early risk factors may be useful for childhood obesity prevention efforts.
(© 2024 World Obesity Federation.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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