Sensory processing sensitivity as a marker of differential susceptibility to parenting

Meike Slagt; Judith Semon Dubas; Marcel A.G. van Aken; Bruce J. Ellis; Maja Deković

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Sensory processing sensitivity as a marker of differential susceptibility to parenting

Meike Slagt, Judith Semon Dubas, Marcel A.G. van Aken, Bruce J. Ellis, Maja Deković

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In this longitudinal multiinformant study negative emotionality and sensory processing sensitivity were compared as susceptibility markers among kindergartners. Participating children (N = 264, 52.9% boys) were Dutch kindergartners (M_age = 4.77, SD = 0.60), followed across three waves, spaced seven months apart. Results show that associations between parenting and child behavior did not depend on children's negative emotionality. Sensory processing sensitivity, however, interacted with both (changes in) negative and (changes in) positive parenting in predicting externalizing, but not prosocial, behavior. Depending on the interaction, vantage sensitivity and differential susceptibility models were supported. The findings suggest that sensory processing sensitivity may be a more proximal correlate of individual differences in susceptibility, compared with negative emotionality.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	543-558
Number of pages	16
Journal	Developmental Psychology
Volume	54
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000431
State	Published - Mar 2018

Keywords

Differential susceptibility
Negative emotionality
Sensory processing sensitivity
Vantage sensitivity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Demography
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Life-span and Life-course Studies

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