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Trajectories of Parental Engagement in Early Childhood among Dual-Earner Families: Effects on Child Self-Control
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Ferreira, Tiago; Cadima, Joana; Matias, Marisa; Vieira, Joana Marina; Leal, Teresa; Verschueren, Karine; Matos, Paula Mena – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Parental engagement in positive activities with the child may show significant variation across time, assuming a crucial influence on child development. In dual-earner families, work-family conflict can interfere with parental engagement, with negative consequences for children's behavior. The current study examined the change trajectories of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education
Is the Association between Children's Baby Video Viewing and Poor Language Development Robust? A Reanalysis of Zimmerman, Christakis, and Meltzoff (2007)
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Ferguson, Christopher J.; Donnellan, M. Brent – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Zimmerman, Christakis, and Meltzoff (2007) reported that exposure to Baby Einstein videos was negatively associated with language development. The current study uses the Zimmerman et al. (2007) data set to replicate and extend the original analyses. Caregivers of 392 children aged 6 to 16 months and 358 children aged 17 to 27 months reported on…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Replication (Evaluation), Caregivers, Predictor Variables
Psychological Factors Associated with Drug and Alcohol Usage among Neighborhood Youth Corps Enrollees
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Eisenthal, Sherman; Udin, Harriet – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Study reaffirmed the central significance of the peer group's influence on adolescent behavior. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Peer Groups
Some Issues of Conducting Secondary Analyses.
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McCall, Robert B.; Appelbaum, Mark I. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Discusses procedures and considerations involved with secondary analyses of longitudinal databases. Procedures involve (1) formulating questions; (2) creating a feasibility matrix; (3) reformulating questions; (4) creating derived variables; (5) performing data reduction; (6) analyzing data; and (7) interpreting results. Problems associated with…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables
Sex Differences in the Intellectual Structure of Social Interaction Skills
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Coie, John D.; Dorval, Bruce – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Analytic intelligence was a good predictor of communication scores for boys but not for girls. Verbal ability was no better a predictor for girls than boys. The correlational evidence indicates that conventional intelligence tests predict social perspective taking as well as Piaget's measure of spatial perspective-taking ability. (Authors)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intelligence, Interpersonal Competence, Predictor Variables
Cognitive Functioning in Five-Year-Old Boys as Related to Social-Emotional and Background-Demographic Variables
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Kohn, Martin; Rosman, Bernice L. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The most potent social-emotional variables were Interest-Participation and Task Orientation; a third social-emotional variable, Cooperation-Compliance, was not related to cognitive functioning. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Emotional Adjustment, Factor Structure, Kindergarten Children