said to show that both negative reinforcement and affect dysregulation mechanisms played a role in the development of antisocial behavior in children. It was observed that negative reinforcement of children's aggressive behavior and affect dysregulation covaried with feelings of irritability toward parents and siblings, and were predictors of a composite measure of child antisocial behavior, operationalized in terms of out-of-home placement, arrests, and school discipline incidents two years following the first observance of misbehavior. Based on these findings, reinforcement of aggression and affect dysregulation during family interaction were said to play complementary roles in the development of antisocial behavior by fostering the use of coercive means of dealing with social conflict.
What the foregoing study indicates is that a child's home environment as it relates to family interactions is likely to be a strong contributor to misbehavior in school, especially the more serious forms of misbehavior. Based on this implicatio
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