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Needing to Shout to Be Heard? Caregiver Under-Responsivity and Disconnection between Vocal Signaling and Autonomic Arousal in Infants from Chaotic Households
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S. V. Wass; C. S. Smith; F. U. Mirza; E. M. G. Greenwood; L. Goupil – Child Development, 2025
Children raised in chaotic households show affect dysregulation during later childhood. To understand why, we took day-long home recordings using microphones and autonomic monitors from 74 12-month-old infant-caregiver dyads (40% male, 60% white, data collected between 2018 and 2021). Caregivers in low-Confusion Hubbub And Order Scale (chaos)…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Family Environment, Physiology, Parent Child Relationship
Disentangling Genetic and Environmental Influences on Early Language Development: The Interplay of Genetic Propensity for Negative Emotionality and Surgency, and Parenting Behavior Effects on Early Language Skills in an Adoption Study
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Rachael W. Cheung; Chloe Austerberry; Pasco Fearon; Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas; Leslie D. Leve; Daniel S. Shaw; Jody M. Ganiban; Misaki N. Natsuaki; Jenae M. Neiderhieser; David Reiss – Child Development, 2024
Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Evocative Effects on the Early Caregiving Environment of Genetic Factors Underlying the Development of Intellectual and Academic Ability
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Chloe Austerberry; Pasco Fearon; Angelica Ronald; Leslie D. Leve; Jody M. Ganiban; Misaki N. Natsuaki; Daniel S. Shaw; Jenae M. Neiderhiser; David Reiss – Child Development, 2024
This study examined gene-environment correlation (rGE) in intellectual and academic development in 561 U.S.-based adoptees (57% male; 56% non-Latinx White, 19% multiracial, 13% Black or African American, 11% Latinx) and their birth and adoptive parents between 2003 and 2017. Birth mother intellectual and academic performance predicted adoptive…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Adoption, Mothers, Cognitive Ability
Youth Experiences in Gender-Sexuality Alliances Predict Academic Engagement but Not Disaffection through Social-Emotional Wellbeing
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V. Paul Poteat; Jerel P. Calzo; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Daniel Kellogg; Robert A. Marx; Abigail Richburg; Arthur Lipkin – Child Development, 2025
Experiences in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs) could predict youth's academic engagement through improved social-emotional wellbeing (indicated by school belonging, hope, and positive and negative affect). This study utilized three waves of data, each spaced 2-3 months apart, among 627 youth (87% LGBQ+, 45% trans/nonbinary, 48% youth of color)…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, LGBTQ People, Well Being, Mental Health
Antecedents to and Outcomes Associated with Teacher-Child Relationship Perceptions in Early Childhood: Further Evidence for Child-Driven Effects
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Elif Dede Yildirim; Cynthia A. Frosch; António J. Santos; Manuela Veríssimo; Kristen Bub; Brian E. Vaughn – Child Development, 2024
Preschool teachers' perceptions about relationships with students (teacher-child relationships [TCRs]) predict children's subsequent social competence (SC) and academic progress. Why this is so remains unclear. Do TCRs shape children's development, or do child attributes influence both TCRs and subsequent development? Relations between TCRs and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Child Development, Preschool Teachers