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Direct linkLaure Lu Chen; Jean Anne Heng; Chengyi Xu; Michelle R. Ellefson; Miryam Edwards; Hana D'Souza; Elian Fink; Mikeda Jess; Louise Gray; Caoimhe Dempsey; Mishika Mehrotra; Siu Ching Wong; Catherine Wu; Brittany Huang; Jiayin Zheng; Zhen Wu; Rory T. Devine; Claire Hughes – Child Development, 2025
Cross-site comparisons indicate that East Asian children typically excel on tests of executive function (EF), but interpreting this contrast is made difficult by both the heavy reliance on testing in school settings and by the scarcity of studies that assess across-site measurement invariance. Addressing these gaps, our study included remote…
Descriptors: Children, Executive Function, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development
Kirlic, Namik; Colaizzi, Janna M.; Cosgrove, Kelly T.; Cohen, Zsofia P.; Yeh, Hung-Wen; Breslin, Florence; Morris, Amanda S.; Aupperle, Robin L.; Singh, Manpreet K.; Paulus, Martin P. – Child Development, 2021
This study used a machine learning framework in conjunction with a large battery of measures from 9,718 school-age children (ages 9-11) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development[superscript SM] (ABCD) Study to identify factors associated with fluid cognitive functioning (FCF), or the capacity to learn, solve problems, and adapt to novel…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Learning Processes
Shuffrey, Lauren C.; Morales, Santiago; Jacobson, Melanie H.; Bosquet Enlow, Michelle; Ghassabian, Akhgar; Margolis, Amy E.; Lucchini, Maristella; Carroll, Kecia N.; Crum, Rosa M.; Dabelea, Dana; Deutsch, Arielle; Fifer, William P.; Goldson, Brandon; Hockett, Christine W.; Mason, W. Alex; Jacobson, Lisette T.; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Pini, Nicolò; Rayport, Yael; Sania, Ayesha; Trasande, Leonardo; Wright, Rosalind J.; Lee, Seonjoo; Monk, Catherine – Child Development, 2023
This study examined the association of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), prenatal, and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms with externalizing, internalizing, and autism spectrum problems on the Preschool Child Behavior Checklist in 2379 children aged 4.12 ± 0.60 (48% female; 47% White, 32% Black, 15% Mixed Race, 4% Asian, <2% American…
Descriptors: Young Children, Pregnancy, Diabetes, Mothers
Labella, Madelyn H.; Narayan, Angela J.; McCormick, Christopher M.; Desjardins, Christopher D.; Masten, Ann S. – Child Development, 2019
A multimethod, multi-informant design was used to examine links among sociodemographic risk, family adversity, parenting quality, and child adjustment in families experiencing homelessness. Participants were 245 homeless parents (M[subscript age] = 31.0, 63.6% African American) and their 4- to 6-year-old children (48.6% male). Path analyses…
Descriptors: Child Development, Risk, Adjustment (to Environment), Parenting Skills
Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Bates, John E.; Goodnight, Jackson A.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Pettit, Gregory S. – Child Development, 2013
The interaction between a temperament profile (four groups determined by high vs. low resistance to control [unmanageability] and unadaptability [novelty distress]) and family stress in predicting externalizing problems at school in children followed from kindergarten through eighth grade (ages 5-13) was investigated. The sample consisted of 556…
Descriptors: Personality, Anxiety, Antisocial Behavior, Children
Rivas-Drake, Deborah; Syed, Moin; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana; Markstrom, Carol; French, Sabine; Schwartz, Seth J.; Lee, Richard – Child Development, 2014
One point of intersection in ethnic and racial identity research is the conceptual attention paid to how positively youth feel about their ethnicity or race, or "positive ethnic-racial affect." This article reports results of a series of meta-analyses based on 46 studies of this dimension and psychosocial, academic, and health risk…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Affective Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Pauletti, Rachel E.; Menon, Madhavi; Menon, Meenakshi; Tobin, Desiree D.; Perry, David G. – Child Development, 2012
Narcissism--a strong need to be admired for a grandiose self--is a problematic personality trait for children as well as adults. This study of 236 preadolescents (M age = 11.3 years; 129 girls, 107 boys) evaluated 2 intrapersonal (cognitive) pathways by which narcissism might contribute to maladjustment. The first was that narcissism combines with…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Sex Stereotypes, Adjustment (to Environment), Depression (Psychology)
Naumova, Oksana Yu.; Hein, Sascha; Suderman, Matthew; Barbot, Baptiste; Lee, Maria; Raefski, Adam; Dobrynin, Pavel V.; Brown, Pamela J.; Szyf, Moshe; Luthar, Suniya S.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Child Development, 2016
This study attempted to establish and quantify the connections between parenting, offspring psychosocial adjustment, and the epigenome. The participants, 35 African American young adults (19 females and 16 males; age = 17-29.5 years), represented a subsample of a 3-wave longitudinal 15-year study on the developmental trajectories of low-income…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Psychological Patterns, Social Development
Golombok, Susan; Mellish, Laura; Jennings, Sarah; Casey, Polly; Tasker, Fiona; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2014
Findings are presented on a U.K. study of 41 gay father families, 40 lesbian mother families, and 49 heterosexual parent families with an adopted child aged 3-9 years. Standardized interview and observational and questionnaire measures of parental well-being, quality of parent-child relationships, child adjustment, and child sex-typed behavior…
Descriptors: Fathers, Homosexuality, Adoption, Foreign Countries
Williams, Lela Rankin; Steinberg, Laurence – Child Development, 2011
The over-time reciprocal links between parenting and adolescent adjustment were examined in a sample of 1,354 serious adolescent offenders followed for 3 years (16 years of age at baseline, SD = 1.14). Parallel processing growth curve models provided independent estimates of the impact of parenting on adolescent functioning as well as the impact…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Rearing, Adolescents, Adjustment (to Environment)
Betancourt, Theresa S.; McBain, Ryan; Newnham, Elizabeth A.; Brennan, Robert T. – Child Development, 2013
Three waves of data from a prospective longitudinal study in Sierra Leone were used to examine internalizing trajectories in 529 war-affected youth (ages 10-17 at baseline; 25% female). Latent class growth analyses identified 4 trajectories: A large majority of youth maintained lower levels of internalizing problems (41.4%) or significantly…
Descriptors: War, Conflict, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries
Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2010
Guided by family systems theory, the present study sought to identify patterns of family functioning from observational assessments of interparental, parent-child, and triadic contexts. In addition, it charted the implications for patterns of family functioning for children's developmental trajectories of adjustment in the school context across…
Descriptors: Family Life, Kindergarten, Family Counseling, Adjustment (to Environment)
Vigil, Jacob M.; Geary, David C.; Granger, Douglas A.; Flinn, Mark V. – Child Development, 2010
The study examines group and individual differences in psychological functioning and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity among adolescents displaced by Hurricane Katrina and living in a U.S. government relocation camp (n = 62, ages 12-19 years) 2 months postdisaster. Levels of salivary cortisol, salivary…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Relocation, Depression (Psychology), Coping
Martinez-Torteya, Cecilia; Bogat, G. Anne; von Eye, Alexander; Levendosky, Alytia A. – Child Development, 2009
Individual and family characteristics that predict resilience among children exposed to domestic violence (DV) were examined. Mother-child dyads (n = 190) were assessed when the children were 2, 3, and 4 years of age. DV-exposed children were 3.7 times more likely than nonexposed children to develop internalizing or externalizing problems.…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Mothers, Family Characteristics, Personality Traits
Gerard, Jean M.; Buehler, Cheryl – Child Development, 2004
Using data from 5,070 youth ages 11 to 18 years old who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, concurrent and longitudinal associations among cumulative risk, protective factors, and youth maladjustment were examined. Cumulative risk was associated with concurrent conduct problems and depressed mood. For conduct…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Psychological Patterns, Risk, Academic Achievement
