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Preschool interpersonal relationships predict kindergarten achievement: Mediated by gains in emotion knowledge
Marcela M. Torres | Celene E. Domitrovich | Karen L. Bierman
Using longitudinal data, this study tested a model in which preschool interpersonal relationships promoted kindergarten achievement in a pathway mediated by growth in emotion knowledge. The sample included...
LaRue Allen | Hee Jin Bang
With high rates of migration worldwide in the past decade, industrialized nations have witnessed substantial growth in the diversity of their populations and challenges to the civic and political status...
Children's negative emotionality moderates influence of parenting styles on preschool classroom adjustment
Katherine W. Paschall | Henry Gonzalez | Jennifer A. Mortensen | Melissa A. Barnett | Ann M. Mastergeorge
This investigation utilized a subsample from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (N = 1101) to examine how profiles of maternal behaviors at 36-months were associated with children's...
Abigail S. Hoffman | Jill V. Hamm | Thomas W. Farmer
This study examined the longitudinal association between teachers' broad attunement to students’ peer group memberships and students’ social centrality and status in early elementary classrooms in a...
Mediating and moderating processes underlying the association between maternal cognition and infant attachment
Erinn Hawkins | Sheri Madigan | Greg Moran | David R. Pederson
The goal of this longitudinal study was to elucidate aspects of maternal cognition associated with maternal sensitivity and the development of infant attachment. Seventy-seven mothers were administered...
Available online 6 June 2015
B.K. Elizabeth Kim | Sabrina Oesterle | Richard F. Catalano | J. David Hawkins
Understanding the developmental changes in protective factors that lead to healthy youth development provides important information on the appropriate timing and targets for community-based prevention....
The configuration protective model: Factors associated with adolescent behavioral and emotional problems
Michela Lenzi | Danielle Dougherty | Michael J. Furlong | Jill Sharkey | Erin Dowdy
The current study examined the association between quantity, variety, and configuration of developmental assets with risk behaviors (tobacco and alcohol use) and developing emotional problems (depressive...
Sara S. Nozadi | Tracy L. Spinrad | Nancy Eisenberg | Natalie D. Eggum-Wilkens
The mediating and moderating roles of self-regulation in the associations of dispositional anger and fear to later conduct and anxiety symptoms were tested. Mothers and teachers rated children's anger...
Daily cybervictimization among Latino adolescents: Links with emotional, physical and school adjustment
The current study examines how Latino adolescents’ daily cybervictimization experiences are associated with their emotional and physical well-being and school adjustment. Latino high school students...
Soyeon Shim | Joyce Serido | Chuanyi Tang | Noel Card
Using a two-time longitudinal survey, we studied a cohort of college students (N=1511) to develop a socialization model of the proposed pathways leading to healthy financial development. The participants...
Mothers' and fathers' sensitivity and children's cognitive development in low-income, rural families
W. Roger Mills-Koonce | Michael T. Willoughby | Bharathi Zvara | Melissa Barnett | Hanna Gustafsson | Martha J. Cox
This study examines associations between maternal and paternal sensitive parenting and child cognitive development across the first 3years of life using longitudinal data from 630 families with co-residing...
Hsing-Fang Hsieh | Justin E. Heinze | Sophie M. Aiyer | Sarah A. Stoddard | Jin-Liang Wang | Marc A. Zimmerman
We apply a developmental cascade approach to study the longitudinal, cross-domain effects of negative family influence, deviant peer associations, and individual substance use on risky driving among...
Melissa W. Clearfield | Sarah B. Stanger | Helen K. Jenne
This study assessed the impact of SES on early means–end behavior. Sixty-one 6- to 8- and 10- to 12-month-old infants from high and low SES families were presented with two tasks requiring a two-step...
Available online 8 April 2015
Jonathan F. Zaff | Elizabeth Pufall Jones | Katie Aasland | Alice E. Donlan | Emily S. Lin | Jennifer Elise Prescott | Alexandra Baker
Youth-focused comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) exist to create the conditions so all young people may have the developmental supports needed to thrive. Research shows alignment is a key ingredient...
Available online 8 April 2015
Jay A. Mancini | Gary L. Bowen | Catherine Walker O'Neal | Amy Laura Arnold
Anchored in the social organization theory of action and change (Mancini & Bowen, 2013), this empirical analysis of military youth examines relationship provisions as related to youth outcomes of anxiety,...
Declines in efficacy of anti-bullying programs among older adolescents: Theory and a three-level meta-analysis
David Scott Yeager | Carlton J. Fong | Hae Yeon Lee | Dorothy L. Espelage
Highly visible tragedies in high schools thought to involve bullying have directly contributed to public support for state-mandated K-12 anti-bullying programming. But are existing programs actually...
Dorothy L. Espelage | Sabina Low | Joshua R. Polanin | Eric C. Brown
School-based social-emotional (SEL) programs that address interpersonal conflict and teach emotion management have succeeded in reducing youth aggression among elementary school youth, with few studies...
Articulating the theory of bullying intervention programs: Views from social psychology, social work, and organizational science
Patricia H. Hawley | Anne Williford
Outcomes associated with bullying intervention programs have been described in their collective as “disappointing” (Stassen Berger, 2007). As anxiety mounts about the prevalence and severity of bullying...
Shelley Hymel | Robyn McClure | Miriam Miller | Ellen Shumka | Jessica Trach
In order to enhance efforts to address bullying in schools, and in response to the limited success of school-based anti-bullying programs to date, this paper considers bullying as a group phenomenon...
Karin S. Frey | Cynthia R. Pearson | Dov Cohen
A surprising omission of much research on bullying is the role of retaliation, a common response to bullying that predicts increased victimization. Retaliation appears to be a ubiquitous feature of...
Although some research has shown a negative relation between Facebook use and academic performance, more recent research suggests that this relation is likely mitigated by multitasking. This study examined...
Children's perceptions of the relationship with the teacher: Associations with appraisals and internalizing problems in middle childhood
Francine C. Jellesma | Marjolein Zee | Helma M.Y. Koomen
In this study, we aimed to examine the associations between child-perceived teacher–child relationships, children's appraisals of interactions with their teacher, and internalizing problems. Five hundred...
Seth J. Schwartz | Sam A. Hardy | Byron L. Zamboanga | Alan Meca | Alan S. Waterman | Simona Picariello | Koen Luyckx | Elisabetta Crocetti | Su Yeong Kim | Aerika S. Brittian | Sharon E. Roberts | Susan Krauss Whitbourne | Rachel A. Ritchie | Elissa J. Brown | Larry F. Forthun
The present study was conducted to contribute to our understanding of young adult identity development by deriving latent profiles from intrapersonal and interpersonal indices of identity synthesis...
Claire E. Baker | Lynne Vernon-Feagans The Family Life Project Investigators
The present study used data from the Family Life Project (FLP) to examine predictive relations between fathers' and mothers' language input during a wordless picture book task in the home just before...
Heather J. Lavigne | Katherine G. Hanson | Daniel R. Anderson
This study examined parent language directed at 1-year-olds during coviewing of infant-directed television programs, compared to a free play situation with the television off. Parent–child dyads participated...
Alexis R. Lauricella | Ellen Wartella | Victoria J. Rideout
Many children are spending more time with screen media than has been recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. There is evidence that parent television use is associated with higher levels...
Linking preschool language and sustained attention with adolescent achievement through classroom self-reliance
Nicole Gardner-Neblett | Jamie DeCoster | Bridget K. Hamre
This study examined self-reliant classroom behaviors during middle childhood as a mechanism through which early language and sustained attention become associated with academic achievement in adolescence....
Parent-to-child physical aggression, neighborhood cohesion, and development of children's internalizing and externalizing
Elizabeth M. Riina | Anne Martin | Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Taking a risk and resilience approach, this study examined (1) whether child age moderates the association between exposure to parent–child physical aggression (PCPA) and initial levels and growth in...
Elida V. Laski | Anna Ermakova | Marina Vasilyeva
The early use of decomposition for addition has been linked to future mathematics achievement. The present study examined kindergartners' performance on addition problems, focusing on their use of the...
Carissa A. Cerda | Myung Hee Im | Jan N. Hughes
Using an academically at-risk, ethnically diverse sample of 744 first-grade children, this study tested a multi-method (i.e., child performance measures, teacher ratings, and peer ratings) measurement...
Does higher peer socio-economic status predict children's language and executive function skills gains in prekindergarten?
Christina Weiland | Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Because most public preschool programs are means tested, children enrolled in these programs accordingly have peers from predominantly low-income families who present lower cognitive skills and more...
G. John Geldhof | Heather Malin | Sara K. Johnson | Tenelle Porter | Kendall C. Bronk | Michelle B. Weiner | Jennifer P. Agans | Megan K. Mueller | Dustin Hunt | Anne Colby | Richard M. Lerner | William Damon
The scientific study of youth entrepreneurship is truly in its infancy, with research on the development of entrepreneurship constrained by theoretical foundations that rely on static, trait-like approaches...
Pink gives girls permission: Exploring the roles of explicit gender labels and gender-typed colors on preschool children's toy preferences
Erica S. Weisgram | Megan Fulcher | Lisa M. Dinella
Children engage in gender-typed toy play to a greater extent than in non-gender-typed toy play leading to different developmental trajectories for boys and girls. The present studies examine the characteristics...
Scott P. Mirabile
Parents socialize children's emotion through active, purposeful strategies and through their own expressivity; yet little research has examined whether parents are inconsistent within or between these...
Jihyun Sung | Hui-Chin Hsu
Focusing on social pragmatics, this longitudinal study investigated the contribution of mother–toddler collaborative communication to theory of mind (ToM) development at age 4. At age 2½, 78 toddlers...
Hillel Goelman | Bozena Zdaniuk | W. Thomas Boyce | Jeffrey M. Armstrong | Marilyn J. Essex
Moderating effects of non-parental preschool child care quality on the impact of maternal mental health risks on children's behavioral and mental health outcomes were examined. The paper presents data...
Jamie L. Abaied | Caitlin Wagner | Wesley Sanders
This research examined respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity (RSAR) as a moderator of the association between parent coping suggestions, or socialization of coping, and youths' responses to stress...
Anamarie Auger | Stephanie M. Reich | Emily K. Penner
The impact of a baby book intervention on promoting positive reading beliefs and increasing reading frequency for low-income, new mothers (n=167) was examined. The Baby Books Project randomly assigned...
Home-school literacy experiences of Latino preschoolers: Does continuity predict positive child outcomes?
Adina R. Schick
The current study explored the literacy practices used by primary caregivers and Head Start teachers of low-income Latino children, examined the extent to which these practices are continuous, and investigated...
Geetha B. Ramani | Erica Zippert | Shane Schweitzer | Sophia Pan
Although children build in block areas both individually and jointly, little is known about the nature of children's behavior and communication in this play context with peers. We observed 4- and 5-year-old...