Attention Allocation to Emotions and Parenting Styles Moderate the Relation between Behavioral Inhibition and Internalizing Problems in Young Children: An ERP Study

Children with higher temperamental behavioral inhibition had more internalizing problems when they had lower P2 amplitude to faces and had parents who reported feeling ineffective when socializing their child’s emotions. Children with higher behavioral inhibition had more internalizing problems when coupled with lower P2 amplitude and having more authoritarian parents.