Byron Egeland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3476339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byron Egeland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byron |
| FAMILY NAME | Egeland |
| SIGNATURE | EGELAND B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Roles of Antisocial History and Emerging Adulthood Developmental Adaptation in Predicting Adult Antisocial Behavior
Different trajectories of antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence have been identified by several researchers. However, more needs to be known about the development of antisocial behavior in adulthood and about factors that account for continuity and change. In this study, we investigated the developmental course into adulthood of different trajectories of antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence. Second, we examined the role of …
The developmental significance of late adolescent substance use for early adult functioning
This study examines the predictive significance of late adolescent substance use groups (i.e., abstainers, experimental users, at-risk users, and abusers) for early adult adaptation. Participants (N = 159) were drawn from a prospective longitudinal study of first-born children of low-income mothers. At 17.5 years of age, participants were assigned to substance use groups on the basis of their level of substance use involvement. At 26 years, early…
Interpersonal trauma exposure and cognitive development in children to age 8 years
BACKGROUND: Childhood trauma exposure has been associated with deficits in cognitive functioning. The influence of timing of exposure on the magnitude and persistence of deficits is not well understood. The impact of exposure in early development has been especially under-investigated. This study examined the impact of interpersonal trauma exposure (IPT) in the first years of life on childhood cognitive functioning. METHODS: Children (N=206) part…
Infancy parenting and externalizing psychopathology from childhood through adulthood
Developmental models and previous findings suggest that early parenting is more strongly associated with externalizing problems in early childhood than it is in adolescence. In this article, the authors address whether the association of poor-quality infancy parenting and externalizing problems "rebounds" in adulthood. Poor-quality infancy parenting was associated with externalizing problems at kindergarten and first grade (mother report) as well…
Exceptions to High School Dropout Predictions in a Low‐Income Sample
Adult–child relationship factors were examined to determine whether they differentiated between individuals who follow expected versus unexpected educational pathways. Low‐income participants (96 men, 83 women) in the United States were followed from birth through age 23. Individuals were identified who followed expected versus unexpected pathways to high school graduation or dropping out based on academic achievement and behavioral problems. Pat…
Sexual Partners and Contraceptive Use
Antecedents and correlates of sexual behavior among 167 (46% female) adolescents were examined in this multi‐informant longitudinal study. Data were collected at birth through middle adolescence. Data on number of sexual partners and contraception use at age 16 defined sexual abstinence (SAs, n =73), high‐risk sexual behavior (HRTs, n =45) and low‐risk sexual behavior (LRTs, n =49) groups. Moffitt's (1993) antisocial behavior taxonomy, problem be…
Longitudinal prediction of child outcomes from differing measures of parenting in a low-income sample
This study examined predictions from preschool parenting measures to middle childhood cognitive and socioemotional child outcomes to explore whether parenting assessment methodologies that require more time, training, and expense yield better predictions of child outcomes than less intensive methodologies. Mother-child dyads (N = 278) in low-income African American families were assessed when the child was in preschool, using maternal report, the…
When more is not better
Background: Cumulative risk research has established the deleterious effects of co‐occurring risk factors on child behavior outcomes. However, extant literature has not addressed potential differential effects of cumulative risk at different points in development and has left open questions about whether a threshold model or a linear risk model better describes the impact of cumulative risk on behavior outcomes. The current study examined the imp…
Children's Achievement in Early Elementary School
In this prospective, longitudinal study, the authors examined the relations among parental behaviors, parental expectations, and children's academic achievement. Participants were 187 low-income children and their mothers, studied from birth of the child through 3rd grade. Mothers' quality of instruction prior to school entry had significant direct effects on IQ and indirect effects on achievement in 1st and 3rd grades. Parental expectations in 3…
A Prospective Longitudinal Study of High School Dropouts Examining Multiple Predictors Across Development
Attachment from Infancy to Early Adulthood in a High-Risk Sample
This study explores the stability of attachment security and representations from infancy to early adulthood in a sample chosen originally for poverty and high risk for poor developmental outcomes. Participants for this study were 57 young adults who are part of an ongoing prospective study of development and adaptation in a high-risk sample. Attachment was assessed during infancy by using the Ainsworth Strange Situation (Ainsworth & Wittig) and …
Early Environmental Support and Elementary School Adjustment as Predictors of School Adjustment in Middle Adolescence
Longitudinal data from a high-risk sample (N = 173, male: n = 93, female: n = 80) were used to examine socioemotional antecedents of school adjustment in adolescence. Parental problem-solving support in early childhood and early adolescence and measures of peer competence, externalizing behavior, and emotional health/self-esteem in early middle childhood were examined both independently and in relation to academic achievement in early middle chil…
Adult Attachment
(1997). Adult Attachment: Implications for the Therapeutic Process in a Home Visitation Intervention. Applied Developmental Science: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43-52
Early Childhood Antecedents of Aggression and Passive‐Withdrawal in Early Elementary School
Early childhood antecedents of elementary school aggression and passive‐withdrawal were evaluated in a large longitudinal study ( N = 191) With teacher ratings as outcome measures, a variety of predictor variables were selected from a comprehensive data base Predictors were selected to represent several major factors ( a ) a developmental history of insecure attachment and poor adjustment, ( b ) inadequate or hostile parental care, and ( c ) stre…
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
Maternal relationship history as an indicator of developmental risk
Two groups of disadvantaged mothers and children were formed on the basis of the mothers' histories of relationships with men. Comparisons of the groups when the children were 24, 42, and 64 months old and at first grade suggest that initial differences in maternal support for the child eventually led to differences in mother-child interaction and in ratings of child behavior by mothers and teachers
The Relationship between Quality of Attachment and Behavior Problems in Preschool in a High-Risk Sample
Martha Farrell Erickson, L. Alan Sroufe, Byron Egeland, The Relationship between Quality of Attachment and Behavior Problems in Preschool in a High-Risk Sample, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 50, No. 1/2, Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research (1985), pp. 147-166
Infant-Mother Attachment
The developmental consequence of different patterns of maltreatment
Attachment and Early Maltreatment
Developmental sequelae of maltreatment in infancy
Three patterns of maltreatment in addition to physical abuse were identified as part of a prospective study of the antecedents of child maltreatment. Over the first two years of the infants' life, these different forms of maltreatment were found to have cumulative and differential negative effects upon development
Maternal personality and attitude in disturbances of child rearing
Personality and attitudinal variables were assessed prenatally and three months following the birth of the first child of 267 high-risk mothers. Four consistent factors emerged and, along with constructs rationally derived from sets of variables, were analyzed for discriminatory power. Level of Personal Integration yielded the strongest differentiation with respect to adequacy of maternal care, suggesting this as an area for exploration in interv…
Failure of “bond formation” as a cause of abuse, neglect, and maltreatment
Among a group of "high-risk" mothers, limited contact with the newborn at birth was not related to later disorders of mothering. In this prospective, longitudinal study, prematurity and other indices of "bonding failure" did not occur with greater frequency among a subsample of mothers who mistreated their children than among a similar subgroup providing adequate care
Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment at Twelve and Eighteen Months
100 economically disadvantaged mothers and their infants were observed in the Ainsworth and Wittig "strange situation" at 12 and 18 months. Infants were classified as secure, anxiously attached/avoidant, or anxiously attached/resistant. In addition, mothers reported occurrence of stressful events related to the stability of the caretaking environment during the 12--18 month period by completing a 44-item checklist concerning work, finances, famil…
The Relationship of Intelligence, Visual-Motor, Psycholinguistic and Reading-Readiness Skills With Achievement
Longitudinal prediction of child outcomes from differing measures of parenting in a low-income sample
This study examined predictions from preschool parenting measures to middle childhood cognitive and socioemotional child outcomes to explore whether parenting assessment methodologies that require more time, training, and expense yield better predictions of child outcomes than less intensive methodologies. Mother-child dyads (N = 278) in low-income African American families were assessed when the child was in preschool, using maternal report, the…
Exceptions to High School Dropout Predictions in a Low‐Income Sample
Adult–child relationship factors were examined to determine whether they differentiated between individuals who follow expected versus unexpected educational pathways. Low‐income participants (96 men, 83 women) in the United States were followed from birth through age 23. Individuals were identified who followed expected versus unexpected pathways to high school graduation or dropping out based on academic achievement and behavioral problems. Pat…
Sexual Partners and Contraceptive Use
Antecedents and correlates of sexual behavior among 167 (46% female) adolescents were examined in this multi‐informant longitudinal study. Data were collected at birth through middle adolescence. Data on number of sexual partners and contraception use at age 16 defined sexual abstinence (SAs, n =73), high‐risk sexual behavior (HRTs, n =45) and low‐risk sexual behavior (LRTs, n =49) groups. Moffitt's (1993) antisocial behavior taxonomy, problem be…
Early Environmental Support and Elementary School Adjustment as Predictors of School Adjustment in Middle Adolescence
Longitudinal data from a high-risk sample (N = 173, male: n = 93, female: n = 80) were used to examine socioemotional antecedents of school adjustment in adolescence. Parental problem-solving support in early childhood and early adolescence and measures of peer competence, externalizing behavior, and emotional health/self-esteem in early middle childhood were examined both independently and in relation to academic achievement in early middle chil…
Interpersonal trauma exposure and cognitive development in children to age 8 years
BACKGROUND: Childhood trauma exposure has been associated with deficits in cognitive functioning. The influence of timing of exposure on the magnitude and persistence of deficits is not well understood. The impact of exposure in early development has been especially under-investigated. This study examined the impact of interpersonal trauma exposure (IPT) in the first years of life on childhood cognitive functioning. METHODS: Children (N=206) part…
Infancy parenting and externalizing psychopathology from childhood through adulthood
Developmental models and previous findings suggest that early parenting is more strongly associated with externalizing problems in early childhood than it is in adolescence. In this article, the authors address whether the association of poor-quality infancy parenting and externalizing problems "rebounds" in adulthood. Poor-quality infancy parenting was associated with externalizing problems at kindergarten and first grade (mother report) as well…
The Roles of Antisocial History and Emerging Adulthood Developmental Adaptation in Predicting Adult Antisocial Behavior
Different trajectories of antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence have been identified by several researchers. However, more needs to be known about the development of antisocial behavior in adulthood and about factors that account for continuity and change. In this study, we investigated the developmental course into adulthood of different trajectories of antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence. Second, we examined the role of …
The developmental significance of late adolescent substance use for early adult functioning
This study examines the predictive significance of late adolescent substance use groups (i.e., abstainers, experimental users, at-risk users, and abusers) for early adult adaptation. Participants (N = 159) were drawn from a prospective longitudinal study of first-born children of low-income mothers. At 17.5 years of age, participants were assigned to substance use groups on the basis of their level of substance use involvement. At 26 years, early…
Influence of Examiner and Examinee Anxiety on Wisc Performance
A high- or low-anxious E, as determined by scores on the TMAS, administered the WISC to a group of fifth-grade children to determine whether children differing in measured anxiety (scores on the CMAS) responded differentially to either the high- or low-anxious E. Ss tested by the high-anxious E obtained significantly higher mean scores than did the comparable group tested by the low-anxious E. on the Verbal scale high-anxious Ss performed equally…
The Relationship of Intelligence, Visual-Motor, Psycholinguistic and Reading-Readiness Skills With Achievement
Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment at Twelve and Eighteen Months
100 economically disadvantaged mothers and their infants were observed in the Ainsworth and Wittig "strange situation" at 12 and 18 months. Infants were classified as secure, anxiously attached/avoidant, or anxiously attached/resistant. In addition, mothers reported occurrence of stressful events related to the stability of the caretaking environment during the 12--18 month period by completing a 44-item checklist concerning work, finances, famil…
Attachment and Early Maltreatment
Developmental sequelae of maltreatment in infancy
Three patterns of maltreatment in addition to physical abuse were identified as part of a prospective study of the antecedents of child maltreatment. Over the first two years of the infants' life, these different forms of maltreatment were found to have cumulative and differential negative effects upon development
Maternal personality and attitude in disturbances of child rearing
Personality and attitudinal variables were assessed prenatally and three months following the birth of the first child of 267 high-risk mothers. Four consistent factors emerged and, along with constructs rationally derived from sets of variables, were analyzed for discriminatory power. Level of Personal Integration yielded the strongest differentiation with respect to adequacy of maternal care, suggesting this as an area for exploration in interv…
Failure of “bond formation” as a cause of abuse, neglect, and maltreatment
Among a group of "high-risk" mothers, limited contact with the newborn at birth was not related to later disorders of mothering. In this prospective, longitudinal study, prematurity and other indices of "bonding failure" did not occur with greater frequency among a subsample of mothers who mistreated their children than among a similar subgroup providing adequate care
The developmental consequence of different patterns of maltreatment
Infant-Mother Attachment
The Relationship between Quality of Attachment and Behavior Problems in Preschool in a High-Risk Sample
Martha Farrell Erickson, L. Alan Sroufe, Byron Egeland, The Relationship between Quality of Attachment and Behavior Problems in Preschool in a High-Risk Sample, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 50, No. 1/2, Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research (1985), pp. 147-166
Maternal relationship history as an indicator of developmental risk
Two groups of disadvantaged mothers and children were formed on the basis of the mothers' histories of relationships with men. Comparisons of the groups when the children were 24, 42, and 64 months old and at first grade suggest that initial differences in maternal support for the child eventually led to differences in mother-child interaction and in ratings of child behavior by mothers and teachers
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
Early Childhood Antecedents of Aggression and Passive‐Withdrawal in Early Elementary School
Early childhood antecedents of elementary school aggression and passive‐withdrawal were evaluated in a large longitudinal study ( N = 191) With teacher ratings as outcome measures, a variety of predictor variables were selected from a comprehensive data base Predictors were selected to represent several major factors ( a ) a developmental history of insecure attachment and poor adjustment, ( b ) inadequate or hostile parental care, and ( c ) stre…
Adult Attachment
(1997). Adult Attachment: Implications for the Therapeutic Process in a Home Visitation Intervention. Applied Developmental Science: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43-52
Early Environmental Support and Elementary School Adjustment as Predictors of School Adjustment in Middle Adolescence
Longitudinal data from a high-risk sample (N = 173, male: n = 93, female: n = 80) were used to examine socioemotional antecedents of school adjustment in adolescence. Parental problem-solving support in early childhood and early adolescence and measures of peer competence, externalizing behavior, and emotional health/self-esteem in early middle childhood were examined both independently and in relation to academic achievement in early middle chil…
A Prospective Longitudinal Study of High School Dropouts Examining Multiple Predictors Across Development
Attachment from Infancy to Early Adulthood in a High-Risk Sample
This study explores the stability of attachment security and representations from infancy to early adulthood in a sample chosen originally for poverty and high risk for poor developmental outcomes. Participants for this study were 57 young adults who are part of an ongoing prospective study of development and adaptation in a high-risk sample. Attachment was assessed during infancy by using the Ainsworth Strange Situation (Ainsworth & Wittig) and …
Children's Achievement in Early Elementary School
In this prospective, longitudinal study, the authors examined the relations among parental behaviors, parental expectations, and children's academic achievement. Participants were 187 low-income children and their mothers, studied from birth of the child through 3rd grade. Mothers' quality of instruction prior to school entry had significant direct effects on IQ and indirect effects on achievement in 1st and 3rd grades. Parental expectations in 3…
When more is not better
Background: Cumulative risk research has established the deleterious effects of co‐occurring risk factors on child behavior outcomes. However, extant literature has not addressed potential differential effects of cumulative risk at different points in development and has left open questions about whether a threshold model or a linear risk model better describes the impact of cumulative risk on behavior outcomes. The current study examined the imp…
Longitudinal prediction of child outcomes from differing measures of parenting in a low-income sample
This study examined predictions from preschool parenting measures to middle childhood cognitive and socioemotional child outcomes to explore whether parenting assessment methodologies that require more time, training, and expense yield better predictions of child outcomes than less intensive methodologies. Mother-child dyads (N = 278) in low-income African American families were assessed when the child was in preschool, using maternal report, the…
Sexual Partners and Contraceptive Use
Antecedents and correlates of sexual behavior among 167 (46% female) adolescents were examined in this multi‐informant longitudinal study. Data were collected at birth through middle adolescence. Data on number of sexual partners and contraception use at age 16 defined sexual abstinence (SAs, n =73), high‐risk sexual behavior (HRTs, n =45) and low‐risk sexual behavior (LRTs, n =49) groups. Moffitt's (1993) antisocial behavior taxonomy, problem be…
Exceptions to High School Dropout Predictions in a Low‐Income Sample
Adult–child relationship factors were examined to determine whether they differentiated between individuals who follow expected versus unexpected educational pathways. Low‐income participants (96 men, 83 women) in the United States were followed from birth through age 23. Individuals were identified who followed expected versus unexpected pathways to high school graduation or dropping out based on academic achievement and behavioral problems. Pat…
Infancy parenting and externalizing psychopathology from childhood through adulthood
Developmental models and previous findings suggest that early parenting is more strongly associated with externalizing problems in early childhood than it is in adolescence. In this article, the authors address whether the association of poor-quality infancy parenting and externalizing problems "rebounds" in adulthood. Poor-quality infancy parenting was associated with externalizing problems at kindergarten and first grade (mother report) as well…
Interpersonal trauma exposure and cognitive development in children to age 8 years
BACKGROUND: Childhood trauma exposure has been associated with deficits in cognitive functioning. The influence of timing of exposure on the magnitude and persistence of deficits is not well understood. The impact of exposure in early development has been especially under-investigated. This study examined the impact of interpersonal trauma exposure (IPT) in the first years of life on childhood cognitive functioning. METHODS: Children (N=206) part…
The Roles of Antisocial History and Emerging Adulthood Developmental Adaptation in Predicting Adult Antisocial Behavior
Different trajectories of antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence have been identified by several researchers. However, more needs to be known about the development of antisocial behavior in adulthood and about factors that account for continuity and change. In this study, we investigated the developmental course into adulthood of different trajectories of antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence. Second, we examined the role of …
Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (24 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (15 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Longitudinal study (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Injury prevention (8 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (7 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (7 works)