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"A Pirate Goes Nee-Nor-Nee-Nor!" Humor with Siblings in Middle Childhood: A Window to Social Understanding?
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Paine, Amy L.; Hashmi, Salim; Howe, Nina; Johnson, Nisha; Scott, Matthew; Hay, Dale F. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Humor is a central feature of close and intimate relationships in childhood. However, fundamental questions regarding the relationship between humor production, pretend play, and social understanding have been overlooked. In a selected subsample from a prospective longitudinal study of first-born children (N = 110, M age = 6.91 years, 46.4%…
Descriptors: Humor, Sibling Relationship, Children, Birth Order
Is Reproductive Development Adaptively Calibrated to Early Experience? Evidence from a National Sample of Females
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George B. Richardson; Daniel Bates; Amy Ross; Hexuan Liu; Brian B. Boutwell – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Many developmental theories have not been sufficiently evaluated using designs that control for unobserved familial confounds. Our long-term goal is to determine the causal structure underlying associations between early environmental conditions and later psychosocial and health outcomes. Our overall objective in this study was to further evaluate…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Females, Individual Development, Sexuality
Growing up Together: Differences between Siblings in the Development of Compliance Separating Within-Family and Between-Family Effects
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van Berkel, Sheila R.; Groeneveld, Marleen G.; van der Pol, Lotte D.; Linting, Mariëlle; Mesman, Judi – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study applies a "within-family, age-snapshot design" to investigate differences between siblings in the development of compliance during the preschool years by disaggregating situational, within-family, and between-family effects. The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between sibling differences in compliance and the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Preschool Children, Compliance (Psychology), Birth Order
The Effect of Older Sibling, Postnatal Maternal Stress, and Household Factors on Language Development in Two- to Four-Year-Old Children
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Havron, Naomi; Lovcevic, Irena; Kee, Michelle Z. L.; Chen, Helen; Chong, Yap Seng; Daniel, Mary; Broekman, Birit F. P.; Tsuji, Sho – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Previous literature has shown that family structure affects language development. Here, factors relating to older siblings (their presence in the house, sex, and age gap), mothers (maternal stress), and household size and residential crowding were assessed to systematically examine the different roles of these factors. Data from mother-child dyads…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Siblings, Family Environment, Mothers
A Longitudinal Study of Families Formed through Third-Party Assisted Reproduction: Mother-Child Relationships and Child Adjustment from Infancy to Adulthood
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Golombok, Susan; Jones, Catherine; Hall, Poppy; Foley, Sarah; Imrie, Susan; Jadva, Vasanti – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The seventh phase of this longitudinal study investigated whether children born through third-party assisted reproduction experienced psychological problems, or difficulties in their relationship with their mothers, in early adulthood. The impact of disclosure of their biological origins, and quality of mother-child relationships from age 3…
Descriptors: Mothers, Children, Parent Child Relationship, Birth
The Longitudinal Impact of Pre- and Postnatal Maternal Depression and Anxiety on Children's Cognitive and Language Development
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Noriyeh Rahbari; Monique Sénéchal; Blanca Bolea; Ashley Wazana – Developmental Psychology, 2024
We investigated the longitudinal associations among maternal pre- and postnatal depression, maternal anxiety, and children's language and cognitive development followed from 15 to 61 months. Furthermore, we assessed the protective role of children's early print experiences with books against the adverse effect of maternal depression on language…
Descriptors: Prenatal Care, Mothers, Birth, Mother Attitudes