Sensory processing sensitivity as a marker of differential susceptibility to parenting.

• DOI: 10.1037/dev0000431
• Publication Date: 2017-11-20T15:07:07Z
• Authors: Meike Slagt; Judith Semon Dubas; Marcel A. G. van ...; Bruce J. Ellis; Maja Deković
• Keywords: Sensory Processing; PsycINFO; Prosocial Behavior; Differential effects

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) Dutch kindergartners (Mage 4.77, SD 0.60), followed across three waves, spaced seven months apart. Results show that associations between parenting child behavior did not depend on children's emotionality. Sensory sensitivity, however, interacted with both (changes in) positive in predicting externalizing, but prosocial, behavior. Depending the interaction, vantage differential models supported. The findings suggest may be a more proximal correlate of individual differences susceptibility, (PsycINFO Database Record