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Direct linkGruber, Thibaud; Deschenaux, Amélie; Frick, Aurélien; Clément, Fabrice – Child Development, 2019
Group membership is a strong driver of everyday life in humans, influencing similarity judgments, trust choices, and learning processes. However, its ontogenetic development remains to be understood. This study investigated how group membership, age, sex, and identification with a team influenced 39- to 60-month-old children (N = 94) in a series…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Learning Processes, Age Differences, Gender Differences
Hespos, Susan J.; Dora, Begum; Rips, Lance J.; Christie, Stella – Child Development, 2012
Infants can track small groups of solid objects, and infants can respond when these quantities change. But earlier work is equivocal about whether infants can track continuous substances, such as piles of sand. Experiment 1 ("N" = 88) used a habituation paradigm to show infants can register changes in the size of piles of sand that they…
Descriptors: Evidence, Infants, Psychology, Eye Movements
Killen, Melanie; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline – Child Development, 2013
"Interpersonal" rejection and "intergroup" exclusion in childhood reflect different, but complementary, aspects of child development. Interpersonal rejection focuses on individual differences in personality traits, such as wariness and being fearful, to explain bully-victim relationships. In contrast, intergroup exclusion focuses on how in-group…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship
Wang, Ming-Te; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Child Development, 2012
This study examined the relative influence of adolescents' supportive relationships with teachers, peers, and parents on trajectories of different dimensions of school engagement from middle to high school and how these associations differed by gender and race or ethnicity. The sample consisted of 1,479 students (52% females, 56% African…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Extracurricular Activities, Identification, Adolescents
Guerra, Nancy G.; Williams, Kirk R.; Sadek, Shelly – Child Development, 2011
In the present study, quantitative and qualitative data are presented to examine individual and contextual predictors of bullying and victimization and how they vary by age and gender. Two waves of survey data were collected from 2,678 elementary, middle, and high school youth attending 59 schools. In addition, 14 focus groups were conducted with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Bullying, Focus Groups, Sexuality
Mandara, Jelani; Gaylord-Harden, Noni K.; Richards, Maryse H.; Ragsdale, Brian L. – Child Development, 2009
This study assessed the unique effects of racial identity and self-esteem on 259 African American adolescents' depressive and anxiety symptoms as they transitioned from the 7th to 8th grades (ages 12-14). Racial identity and self-esteem were strongly correlated with each other for males but not for females. For both males and females, an increase…
Descriptors: Females, Mental Health, Racial Identification, Adolescents
Developmental Trajectories of Personal and Collective Self-Concept among American Indian Adolescents
Whitesell, Nancy Rumbaugh; Mitchell, Christina M.; Kaufman, Carol E.; Spicer, Paul – Child Development, 2006
Developmental trajectories of personal and collective self-concept were examined among American Indian adolescents. Personal self-concept (self-esteem) and collective self-concept (American Indian identity, Euro-American identity, community-mindedness) were assessed 6 times over 3 years in 4 cohorts of adolescents from 3 American Indian cultural…
Descriptors: Self Concept, American Indians, Adolescents, Racial Identification
