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Terri J. Sabol; Elise Chor; Teresa Eckrich Sommer; Lauren A. Tighe; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Amanda Sheffield Morris; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Christopher King – Child Development, 2024
This study explores the effects of the two-generation program Career"Advance"--which combines education and training for parents in healthcare with Head Start for children--on children's academic, language, mathematics, and inhibitory control followed for 3 years. The sample (collected in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2011 to 2018) includes 147…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Early Childhood Education
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Font, Sarah A.; Berger, Lawrence M. – Child Development, 2015
Associations between experiencing child maltreatment and adverse developmental outcomes are widely studied, yet conclusions regarding the extent to which effects are bidirectional, and whether they are likely causal, remain elusive. This study uses the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a birth cohort of 4,898 children followed from birth…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Young Children
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Layne, Christopher M.; Olsen, Joseph A.; Baker, Aaron; Legerski, John-Paul; Isakson, Brian; Pasalic, Alma; Durakovic-Belko, Elvira; Dapo, Nermin; Campara, Nihada; Arslanagic, Berina; Saltzman, William R.; Pynoos, Robert S. – Child Development, 2010
Methods are needed for quantifying the potency and differential effects of risk factors to identify at-risk groups for theory building and intervention. Traditional methods for constructing war exposure measures are poorly suited to "unpack" differential relations between specific types of exposure and specific outcomes. This study of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, Factor Analysis, War