A cross-sectional comparison of routinized and compulsive-like behaviours in typical children aged from 2 to 11 years

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 614-630

  Glenn, Sheila ^a   Cunningham, Cliff ^a   Nananidou, Angela ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Obsessive compulsive behaviour; Routinized behaviours; Typical children

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864714741     PISSN: 17405629     EISSN: 17405610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405629.2011.639139     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Achenbach, T. M. 1991. Manual for the Child Behaviour Checklist/4-18 and 1991 Profile, Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.
2. Arbuckle, J. L. 2006. Amos 7.0 user's guide, Chicago, IL: SPSS.
3. Aron, E. N. 2002. The highly sensitive child, New York, NY: Broadway Books.
4. Bentler, P. 1990. Comparative fit indices in structural models. Psychological Bulletin, 107: 238-246.
5. Blunch, N. J. 2008. Introduction to structural equation modelling using SPSS and AMOS, London, UK: Sage.
6. Boyer, P. and Liénard, P. 2008. Ritual behavior in obsessive and normal individuals: Moderating anxiety and reorganizing the flow of action. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17: 291-294.
7. Browne, M. W. and Cudeck, R. 1992. Alternative ways of assessing model fit. Sociological Methods and Research, 21: 230-258.
8. Cohen, J. 1988. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences, (2nd ed.), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
9. Evans, D. W. and Gray, L. F. 2000. Compulsive-like behavior in individuals with Down syndrome: Its relation to mental age level, adaptive and maladaptive behavior. Child Development, 71: 288-300.
10. Evans, D. W., Gray, L. F. and Leckman, J. F. 1999. The rituals, fears and phobias of young children: Insights from development, psychopathology and neurobiology. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 29: 261-275.
11. Evans, D. W., Leckman, J. F., Carter, A., Reznick, J. S., Henshaw, D. and King, R. 1997. Ritual, habit and perfectionism: The prevalence and development of compulsive-like behavior in young children. Child Development, 86: 58-68.
12. Evans, D. W., Lewis, M. D. and Iobst, E. 2004. The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in normally developing compulsive-like behaviours and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Brain and Cognition, 55: 220-234.
13. Gesell, A., Ames, L. B. and Ilg, F. L. 1974. Infant and the child in the culture today, New York, NY: Harper & Row.
14. Glenn, S. and Cunningham, C. 2007. Typical or pathological? Routinized and compulsive-like behaviours in children and young people with Down syndrome. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 45: 246-256.
15. Hodgson, R. J. and Rachman, S. 1977. Obsessional-compulsive complaints. Behavioural Research and Therapy, 15: 389-395.
16. Hu, L. and Bentler, P. M. 1995. "Evaluating model fit". In Structural equation modeling: Concepts, issues and applications, Edited by: Hoyle, R. H. 76-99. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
17. Hudziack, J. J., van Beijsterveldt, C. E. M., Althoff, R. R., Stanger, C., Rettew, D. C. and Nelson, E. C. 2004. Genetic and environmental contributions to the Child Behavior Checklist Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61: 608-616.
18. Hudziak, J. J., Althoff, R. R., Stanger, C., van Beijsterveldt, C. E. M., Nelson, E. C. and Hanna, G. L. 2006. The Obsessive Compulsive Scale of the Child Behavior Checklist predicts obsessive-compulsive disorder: A receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47: 160-166.
19. Laing, S. V., Fernyhough, C., Turner, M. and Freeston, M. H. 2009. Fear, worry and ritualistic behaviour in childhood: Developmental trends and interrelations. Infant and Child Development, 18: 351-366.
20. Langen, M., Durston, S., Kas, M. J. H., van Engeland, H. and Staal, W. G. 2011. The neurobiology of repetitive behavior:... and men. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35: 356-365.
21. Leonard, H. L., Goldberger, B. A., Rapoport, J. L., Cheslow, D. L. and Swedo, S. E. 1990. Childhood rituals: Normal development or obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29: 17-23.
22. Muris, P., Meesters, C., Merckelbach, H., Sermon, A. and Zwakhalen, S. 1998. Worry in normalchildren. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37: 703-710.
23. Noble, M., McLennan, D., Wilkinson, K., Whitworth, A., Exley, S. and Barnes, H. 2008. The English Indices of Deprivation 2007, London, UK: Department of Communities and Local Government, HMSO.
24. Peleg-Popko, O. and Dar, R. 2003. Ritual behavior in children and mothers' perceptions of family patterns. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 17(6): 667-681.
25. Piaget, J. 1953. The origins of intelligence in children, London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
26. Pietrefesa, A. S. and Evans, D. W. 2007. Affective and neuropsychological correlates of children's rituals and compulsive-like behaviors: Continuities and discontinuities with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Brain and Cognition, 65: 36-46.
27. Stayton, C. 2000. Compulsive-like behavior in school-aged children, Pennsylvania, USA: Bryn Mawr College. Unpublished Dissertation
28. Swedo, S. E. and Grant, P. H. 2005. Annotation. PANDAS: A model for human autoimmune disease. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46: 227-234.
29. Tabachnick, B. G. and Fidell, L. S. 2007. Using multivariate statistics, (5th ed.), Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
30. Tregay, J., Gilmour, J. and Charman, T. 2009. Childhood rituals and executive functions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27: 283-296.
31. Wigren, M. and Hansen, S. 2003. Rituals and compulsivity in Prader-Willi syndrome: Profile and stability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 47: 428-438.
32. Zohar, A. H. and Bruno, R. 1997. Normative and pathological obsessive-compulsive behavior and ideation in childhood: A question of timing. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38: 993-999.
33. Zohar, A. H. and Felz, L. 2001. Ritualistic behavior in young children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29: 121-128.