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An Entity Theory of Intelligence Predicts Higher Cortisol Levels When High School Grades Are Declining
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Lee, Hae Yeon; Jamieson, Jeremy P.; Miu, Adriana S.; Josephs, Robert A.; Yeager, David S. – Child Development, 2019
Grades often decline during the high school transition, creating stress. The present research integrates the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat with the implicit theories model to understand who shows maladaptive stress responses. A diary study measured declines in grades in the first few months of high school: salivary cortisol…
Descriptors: Prediction, High School Students, Student Adjustment, Stress Variables
Does Reading Cause Later Intelligence? Accounting for Stability in Models of Change
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Bailey, Drew H.; Littlefield, Andrew K. – Child Development, 2017
This study reanalyzes data presented by Ritchie, Bates, and Plomin (2015) who used a cross-lagged monozygotic twin differences design to test whether reading ability caused changes in intelligence. The authors used data from a sample of 1,890 monozygotic twin pairs tested on reading ability and intelligence at five occasions between the ages of 7…
Descriptors: Correlation, Child Development, Intelligence, Developmental Stages
Implicit Theories of Intelligence Predict Achievement across an Adolescent Transition: A Longitudinal Study and an Intervention
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Blackwell, Lisa S.; Trzesniewski, Kali H.; Dweck, Carol Sorich – Child Development, 2007
Two studies explored the role of implicit theories of intelligence in adolescents' mathematics achievement. In Study 1 with 373 7th graders, the belief that intelligence is malleable (incremental theory) predicted an upward trajectory in grades over the two years of junior high school, while a belief that intelligence is fixed (entity theory)…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Intervention, Experimental Groups, Mathematics Achievement
Intellectual Development in Family Constellations with Adopted and Natural Children: A Test of the Zajonc and Markus Model
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Grotevant, Harold D.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Presents a study of a theoretical confluence model which predicts the effects of birth order, child spacing and family size on intellectual development. The fit of this model was tested on samples of families with biological and adopted children. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Comparative Analysis, Family Structure, Intellectual Development
Modeling IQ Change: Evidence from the Texas Adoption Project.
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Loehlin, John C.; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Analyzed genetic and environmental contributions to intellectual change in 258 adopted and 93 biological children of 3-14 years. The effect of genes and family environment was significant at the time of the first measurement, but only genes made an additional contribution between the first and the second. (RJC)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Family Environment
Preschool Emotional Competence: Pathway to Social Competence?
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Denham, Susanne A.; Blair, Kimberly A.; DeMulder, Elizabeth; Levitas, Jennifer; Sawyer, Katherine; Auerbach-Major, Sharon – Child Development, 2003
Assessed preschoolers' patterns of emotional expressiveness, emotion regulation, and emotion knowledge. Used latent variable modeling to identify their contributions to social competence, evidenced by sociometric liability and teacher ratings. Found that emotional competence assessed at 3 to 4 years of age contributed to both concurrent and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Competence