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Examining the Effectiveness of a Video-Based Parent-Child Program on Executive Functions for Children 5 to 6 Years Old: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Eva Yi Hung Lau; Xiao-yuan Wu; Carrey Tik Sze Siu; Kate E. Williams; Alfredo Bautista – Child Development, 2025
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the "Parent-child Brain Camp," a 4-week video-based executive functions (EFs) training program for children ages 5-6, through a randomized controlled trial with a pre- and post-test design with 173 Hong Kong children (intervention "ni" = 79, 48.7% girls, M[subscript age] = 69.16 months;…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Comparative Analysis, Intervention
Influence of a Short-Term Attention Intervention on the Attentional Skills of Toddlers with Suspected or Confirmed Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Lori-Ann R. Sacrey; Lonnie Zwaigenbaum; Isabel M. Smith; Jessica A. Brian; Sam Wass; Emily J. H. Jones; Mark H. Johnson – Child Development, 2025
Examination of the effectiveness of an attention intervention using a randomized controlled trial for toddlers with suspected or confirmed autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Data was collected from Alberta, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, Canada between February 2018 and February 2020 (halted due to COVID-19 pandemic). Participants were 35 toddlers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Attention, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Peer Victimization and Empathy for Victims of Bullying: A Test of Bidirectional Associations in Childhood and Adolescence
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Trach, Jessica; Garandeau, Claire F.; Malamut, Sarah T. – Child Development, 2023
Anti-bullying interventions often assume that knowing how it feels to be bullied increases empathy for victims. However, longitudinal research on actual experiences of bullying and empathy is lacking. This study investigated whether within-person changes in victimization predicted changes in empathy over 1 year using random-intercept cross-lagged…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Intervention, Empathy
Efficacy of a Cultural Adaptation of the "Identity Project" Intervention among Adolescents Attending Multiethnic Classrooms in Italy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Ceccon, Chiara; Schachner, Maja K.; Lionetti, Francesca; Pastore, Massimiliano; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Moscardino, Ughetta – Child Development, 2023
Abstract This registered report evaluated the efficacy of an Italian adaptation of the "Identity Project," a school-based intervention promoting adolescents' cultural identity. Migration background and environmental sensitivity were explored as moderators. After adapting and piloting the intervention, a randomized controlled trial was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Ethnicity, Intervention
Girls Are Good at STEM: Opening Minds and Providing Evidence Reduces Boys' Stereotyping of Girls' STEM Ability
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Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Exploring Effects of an Early Math Intervention: The Importance of Parent-Child Interaction
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Ribner, Andrew; Silver, Alex M.; Elliott, Leanne; Libertus, Melissa E. – Child Development, 2023
We explore whether training parents' math skills or playing number games improves children's mathematical skills. Participants were 162 parent-child dyads; 88.3% were white and children (79 female) were 4 years (M = 46.88 months). Dyads were assigned to a number game, shape game, parent-only approximate number system training, parent-only general…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Mathematics Skills, Numbers, Games
An Early Parenting Intervention Focused on Enriched Parent-Child Interactions Improves Effortful Control in the Early Years of School
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C. Bennett; E. M. Westrupp; S. K. Bennetts; J. Love; N. J. Hackworth; D. Berthelsen; J. M. Nicholson – Child Development, 2025
This study examined long-term mediating effects of the "smalltalk" parenting intervention on children's effortful control at school age (7.5 years; 2016-2018). In 2010-2012, parents (96% female) of toddlers (N = 1201; aged 12-36 months; 52% female) were randomly assigned to either: standard playgroup, "smalltalk" playgroup…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Young Children
A Deeper Dive, a Wider Pool: Preschool Benefits Sustain to First Grade on a Broader Set of Outcomes
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Johnson, Anna D.; Partika, Anne; Martin, Anne; Horm, Diane; Phillips, Deborah A. – Child Development, 2023
The current study provides new evidence on the sustained benefits of preschool attendance on a broader range of skills--both academic and executive functioning (EF)--than many prior studies have examined. Using propensity score methods, we predicted children's (N = 920, M age at 1st = 6.5 years) literacy, language, math, and EF skills in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Skill Development, Academic Ability, Executive Function
The State of Evidence for Social and Emotional Learning: A Contemporary Meta-Analysis of Universal School-Based SEL Interventions
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Cipriano, Christina; Strambler, Michael J.; Naples, Lauren H.; Ha, Cheyeon; Kirk, Megan; Wood, Miranda; Sehgal, Kaveri; Zieher, Almut K.; Eveleigh, Abigail; McCarthy, Michael; Funaro, Melissa; Ponnock, Annett; Chow, Jason C.; Durlak, Joseph – Child Development, 2023
This article provides a systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence for universal school-based (USB) social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions for students in kindergarten through 12th grade available from 2008 through 2020. The sample includes 424 studies from 53 countries, reflecting 252 discrete USB SEL interventions,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Applying the PROSPER Prevention Delivery System with Middle Schools: Emerging Adulthood Effects on Substance Misuse and Conduct Problem Behaviors through 14 Years Past Baseline
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Spoth, Richard; Redmond, Cleve; Shin, Chungyeol; Trudeau, Linda; Greenberg, Mark T.; Feinberg, Mark E.; Welsh, Janet – Child Development, 2022
This study evaluated emerging adult effects of the PROmoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) universal prevention delivery system implemented in middle schools. Twenty-eight rural school districts were randomized to intervention and control conditions, with 1985 nineteen-year-old participants (90.6% White,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Prevention, Middle School Students, Rural Schools