The present study aimed to examine the effects of the Spanish confinement derived from the COVID-19 crisis on children and their families, accounting for child’s age. A range of child negative (e.g., conduct problems) and positive outcomes (e.g., routine maintenance) were examined, along with a set of parent-related variables, including resilience, perceived distress, emotional problems, parenting distress and specific parenting practices (e.g., structured or avoidant parenting), which were modeled through path analysis to better understand child adjustment. Data were collected in April 2020, with information for the present study provided by 940 (89.6%) mothers, 102 (9.7%) fathers and 7 (0.7%) different caregivers, who informed on 1049 Spanish children (50.4% girls) aged 3 to 12 years (M_age = 7.29; SD = 2.39). The results suggested that, according to parents’ information, most children did not show important changes in behavior, although some increasing rates were observed for both negative and positive outcomes. Child adjustment was influenced by a chain of effects, derived from parents’ perceived distress and emotional response to the COVID-19 crisis, via parenting distress and specific parenting practices. While parenting distress in particular triggered child negative outcomes, specific parenting practices were more closely related to child positive outcomes. These findings may help to better inform, for potential future outbreaks, effective guidelines and prevention programs aimed at promoting the child’s well-being in the family.

The general theory of crime has been one of the most influential contributions to criminology of the last decade. Since its formulation, a number of self-report scales have been developed for assessing self-control, the central construct of the theory. The present study collected data from a sample of Spanish university students and another of Spanish adolescents, with the aim of investigating (1) the components of self-control evaluated by the different scales, (2) relationships between the components of self-control and antisocial behavior, (3) the relationship between the components of self-control and the factors and facets of the Five-Factor Model of personality. Our results indicate that self-control, as evaluated by self-report scales, comprises five components, which show differing relationships with antisocial behavior and personality factors. At the most fundamental level, self-control appears to correspond to constructs that are well known in personality psychology, and indeed insights drawn from this field may prove useful for understanding the nature and origins of self-control.

Impulsivity has been linked to several risky behaviours, however, the multifaceted conceptualization of the construct has hardly been studied regarding adolescent antisocial behaviour. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyse the influence of impulsivity facets assessed by the UPPS-P scale on different types of antisocial behaviours (i.e. aggression, rule-breaking behaviour, theft, and vandalism), and whether sex moderated those relationships. The sample was composed of 575 Spanish adolescents aged 14 to 18. Four hierarchical multiple regression models were carried out, one for each antisocial behaviour. Results show that positive urgency and sensation seeking were related to all behaviours above and beyond prediction from the other facets. Lack of premeditation only predicted aggression whereas lack of perseverance predicted all nonviolent behaviours. After taking into account all the impulsivity facets, negative urgency was no longer related to antisocial behaviours. Males displayed higher levels of sensation seeking and sex moderated a quarter of the associations between impulsivity facets and antisocial behaviour. Results support the multidimensional conceptualization of impulsivity and reveal differential effects on diverse typologies of antisocial behaviour.