Jahromi, Laudan B Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J Updegraff, Kimberly A Derlan Williams, Chelsea Kirkman, Katherine
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Developmental psychology
This study examined whether the mechanism linking changes in Mexican-origin adolescent mothers' depressive symptoms to children's subsequent self-regulation and academic readiness was via their emotion scaffolding when their children were 2, 3, 4, and 5 years of age. Data included home interviews with adolescent mothers (N = 204), observations of m...
Armstrong-Carter, Emma Telzer, Eva H
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Developmental psychology
Family meals have been associated with positive adolescent outcomes in cross-sectional and longitudinal research. However, it is not known how adolescents experience family meals on a daily basis, and whether family meals buffer stresses associated with interpersonal conflicts on the daily level. To address this gap in the literature, adolescents (...
Cuartas, Jorge McCoy, Dana Charles Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew Gershoff, Elizabeth
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Developmental psychology
This study estimates the effect of physical punishment on the cognitive development of 1,167 low-income Colombian children (Mage = 17.8 months old) using 3 analytic strategies: lagged-dependent variables, a difference-in-differences-like approach (DD), and a novel strategy combining matching with a DD-like approach. Across approaches, physical puni...
Booth, Amy E Shavlik, Margaret Haden, Catherine A
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Developmental psychology
To explore the potential contribution of parents' causal talk to preschooler's emerging scientific literacy and related interests, we observed 153 parent-child dyads playing together in a museum and in the lab. As in previous work, the frequency with which parents referenced causal information in their speech predicted the strength of their childre...
Bishop, Meg D Fish, Jessica N Hammack, Phillip L Russell, Stephen T
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Developmental psychology
Using data from the first national probability sample of Black, White, and Latinx sexual minority people in the United States, we examined whether and how sexual identity development timing and pacing differs across demographic subgroups at the intersections of cohort, sex, sexual identity, and race/ethnicity. Among a sample of 1,491 participants a...
Ansari, Arya Pianta, Robert C Whittaker, Jessica V Vitiello, Virginia E Ruzek, Erik A
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Developmental psychology
The present investigation examined the benefits of pre-K through the end of kindergarten for children from low-income homes who lived in a large and diverse county (n = 2,581) as well as factors associated with a reduction in benefits during the kindergarten year. Results revealed that pre-K graduates outperformed nonattenders in the areas of achie...
Segers, Magali Bebko, James M Zapparoli, Busisiwe L Stevenson, Ryan A
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Developmental psychology
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by impairments in social communication, restricted interests, and repetitive behaviors. Many studies have demonstrated atypical responses to audiovisual sensory inputs, particularly those containing sociolinguistic information. It is currently unclear whether these atyp...
Pedersen, Willy Hart, Rannveig Kaldager Moffitt, Terrie E von Soest, Tilmann
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Developmental psychology
Research has suggested that adolescent delinquency abstainers might have unfavorable characteristics, impeding their access to peer networks. However, recent studies have emphasized the possible heterogeneity of abstainers. We know little about the long-term adaption of delinquency abstainers. We identify subtypes of delinquency abstainers and inve...
Rizzo, Michael T. Killen, Melanie
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Developmental psychology
Social inequalities limit important opportunities and resources for members of marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Understanding the origins of how children construct their understanding of social inequalities in the context of their everyday peer interactions has the potential to yield novel insights into when – and how – individuals respond to...
Bower, Corinne A Foster, Lindsey Zimmermann, Laura Verdine, Brian N Marzouk, Maya Islam, Siffat Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy
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Developmental psychology
Early spatial skills predict the development of later spatial and mathematical skills. Yet, it is unclear how comprehension of the words that capture spatial relations, words like behind and under, might be associated with children's early spatial and mathematics skills. The current study addressed this question by conducting a moderated mediation ...