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I help, therefore, I am? – A registered report on longitudinal inter‐relations of the three‐dimensional moral self‐concept and prosocial behaviours in preschool children Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Lena Söldner, Markus Paulus
Children's moral self‐concept (MSC) has been proposed to relate to prosocial behaviour. However, systematic assessments of their inter‐relations are scarce. Therefore, this longitudinal study investigated the development, structure and inter‐relation of prosocial behaviours and the MSC in childhood, using three measurement points at ages 4, 5 and 6 years. We assessed children's MSC and helping, sharing
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Causal effect of parental reading on later development of children: Demonstrating a Bayesian approach Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Kazuo Shigemasu, Masanori Kono, Shun Ikemoto, Hideo Akabayashi
This study examined the relationship between early parental treatment, specifically reading to young children and later cognitive development with a Bayesian perspective. Previous research established a positive link between parental reading to infants and their cognitive development, such as receptive vocabulary, reading comprehension and motivation to read. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study
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White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Emily Herry, S. M. Rodan, Madeline Martin, Mariam M. Sanjak, Kelly Lynn Mulvey
A growing body of research has attended to the experiences of transgender and gender non‐conforming (TGN) youth's gender identity development. However, practical and ethical concerns have impeded our ability to understand the experiences of TGN youth. Thus, the aim of this study was to utilize one‐on‐one semi‐structured interviews to explore White American TGN adults' (N = 15) retrospective accounts
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Picture book reading improves children's learning understanding Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Zhenlin Wang, Yihao Shao
Mental state reasoning is an integral part of children's teaching and learning understanding. This study investigated whether a picture book reading approach focusing on mental state discourse and contrasting perspectives in a preschool classroom setting would improve children's teaching and learning understanding and school readiness. In total, 104 children from four classrooms aged between 46 and
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Media exposure and preschoolers' social‐cognitive development Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jan Lenhart, Tobias Richter
Exposure to narratives may have beneficial effects on children's social‐cognitive development because narratives provide information about the social world and often require social understanding for story comprehension. In the current study, we examined the influence of narratives presented via different media (books, audiobooks, TV/films) on theory‐of‐mind performance and mental verb comprehension
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From mindreading to originality: Exploring the relationship between Theory of Mind and Creativity across the lifespan Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Vassiliki Beloyianni, Dimitrios Zbainos, Maria‐Paraskevi Karagianni
In the previous psychoeducational literature, many theorists have argued that creativity and originality require the ability to make predictions and assumptions regarding other individuals' ideas. Thus, it has been widely hypothesized that social cognition and theory of mind (ToM) might be a fundamental component or even a prerequisite of creativity. Despite their common grounds, the empirical evidence
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Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: Is imagining reward pay‐off helpful? Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ciarán Canning, Teresa McCormack, Eirinn Clifford, Ciara Donnelly, Erinn Duffy, Samuel Hickland, Agnieszka J. Graham
Previous studies have failed to show an effect of episodic future thinking (EFT) on children's delay of gratification (DoG), contrasting strikingly with adult findings. Recent findings from a sample of 8–11‐year‐old children by Canning et al. (J. Exp. Child Psychol., 228, 2023, 105618) indicate that EFT cueing is not effective compared to a no‐cue control even when it is reward related. Canning et
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Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Vanessa Lloyd-Esenkaya, Ailsa J. Russell, Michelle C. St Clair
Current methods used to investigate emotional inference and conflict resolution knowledge are limited in their suitability for use with children with language disorders due to a reliance on language processing. This is problematic, as nearly 8% of the population are estimated to have developmental language disorder (DLD). In this paper, we present ‘Zoti's Social Toolkit’, a set of animated scenarios
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Older adults' name–face association learning is facilitated for names with high-frequency first syllables Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Bianca A. Headen, Lori E. James
Older adults have even greater difficulty learning name–face associations than young adults, although many variables reflecting properties of the names have been shown to affect young and older adults' name learning similarly. Older adults' name–face association learning was compared for names with high-frequency (HF) first syllables versus names with low-frequency (LF) first syllables. Twenty-eight
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On a need-to-know basis: Young children distinguish conventional and privileged information Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Douglas A. Behrend, Helana Girgis, Rachel Stevens
Young children are biased to treat new information communicated to them as conventional, shareable, and known by others in their community. However, some information is privileged in the sense that is not intended to be shared with or known by all. The current study compared judgements regarding sharing conventional versus privileged information. Seventy-four 3- to 5-year-olds and adults responded
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Preschoolers' retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice following distributive actions Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Alessandra Geraci, Uberta Ganucci Cancellieri
Prior research provided evidence for retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice in adults, but the developmental origins of judgements of immanent justice remain unknown. Both retrospective and prospective judgements were investigated in preschool age, using explicit and implicit measures. In Experiment 1, 2.5- and 4-year-olds were first shown events in which one agent distributed
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Identity development and adjustment during emerging adulthood from a gender perspective Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Inmaculada Sánchez-Queija, Paula Domínguez-Alarcón, Marta Díez, Águeda Parra
Identity development is a key task during emerging adulthood. The goals of the present study are to validate the Spanish version of the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS) and to explore the relationship between identity dimensions and adjustment (flourishing and distress), from a gender perspective. The sample comprised 1502 Spanish university students (60.1% women). The results reveal
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Self-processing and social functioning in autistic preschoolers Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Ruth M. Ford, Tracy McLean
There is evidence of weak self-processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including diminished self-reference effects (SREs) in memory. Because smaller SREs in older ASD children and adults are sometimes associated with worse social functioning, we examined this relation for the first time in ASD preschoolers (n = 21). Following a self-performed task, children completed tests of self/other source
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Rates of family history of autism and ADHD varies with recruitment approach and socio-economic status Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tessel Bazelmans, Gaia Scerif, Karla Holmboe, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Alexandra Hendry
Family history (FH) of autism and ADHD is not often considered during the recruitment process of developmental studies, despite high recurrence rates. We looked at the rate of autism or ADHD amongst family members of young children (9 to 46 months) in three UK-based samples (N = 1055) recruited using different methods. The rate of FH-autism or FH-ADHD was 3%–9% for diagnosed cases. The rate was highest
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The effect of competition on children's merit-based resource allocation: The difference between interpersonal and intergroup competition Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Xue Xiao, Miaomiao Zhang, Yanfang Li
Competition usually exists in groups in everyday interactions, but how children allocate according to competition outcomes (e.g., merit-based allocation) after intergroup competition and the difference in children's allocations of rewards between interpersonal and intergroup competition remain unclear. Children aged 3–8 years were asked to complete interpersonal or intergroup competitive games and
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I help, therefore, I am?—longitudinal interrelations of the three-dimensional moral self-concept and prosocial behaviours in 4–6-year-old children Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Lena Söldner, Markus Paulus
Children's moral self-concept (MSC) has been proposed to relate to prosocial behaviour. However, systematic assessments of their interrelations are scarce. The current study examines the early development, structure, stability and interrelation of three key prosocial behaviours and the corresponding dimensions of the moral self-concept. To this end, we use a longitudinal approach with three measurement
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Maternal beliefs about the benefits and costs of child and adolescent friendship Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Jenna P. Weingarten, Julie C. Bowker, Robert J. Coplan, Kenneth H. Rubin
The goals of this study were to examine maternal beliefs about the primary benefits and costs of their children's time spent with friends, and to explore child age and gender differences in these beliefs. Participants were N = 512 mothers (Mchildage = 10.18 years; 11% ethnic minority). Open-ended responses to questions about the benefits and costs were coded and analysed, with results indicating that
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Construction play frequency and relations with spatial ability and mathematics performance Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 E. McDougal, K. A. Gilligan-Lee, C. Gilmore, E. K. Farran
The nature of the home mathematics environment (which includes numerical and spatial activities at home) is related to children's spatial and mathematics performance. The current study investigated concrete and digital construction play frequency and relations with spatial and mathematical skills. Participants aged 7–9 years (N = 634) reported their frequency of construction play (concrete and digital)
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Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Mingxuan Zhao, Frankie T. K. Fong, Andrew Whiten, Mark Nielsen
Children have a proclivity to learn through faithful imitation, but the extent to which this applies under significant cost remains unclear. To address this, we investigated whether 4- to 6-year-old children (N = 97) would stop imitating to forego a desirable food reward. We presented participants with a task involving arranging marshmallows and craft sticks, with the goal being either to collect marshmallows
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When intergroup contact correlates with gender-prejudice beliefs of emerging adults Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Joyce J. Endendijk
This study examined whether the contact emerging adults have with same-gender and other-gender friends, and other-gender romantic partners is associated with their sexist and gender-inequality beliefs, and whether these associations are moderated by their gender or gender contentedness (feeling content with one's gender). Dutch emerging adults (N = 381, 18–25 years old, 51% female) completed an online
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Actions versus Words: Exploring the contributions of working memory and motoric coding in children's instruction following using a dual-task paradigm Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Angie Makri, Abigail Fiske
Previous research in adults has showed that physical performance (i.e., enactment) of instructions at recall leads to better memory compared to verbal recall and that this effect does not rely solely on Working Memory resources. The current study aimed to replicate this finding in children. A group of 32 children encoded simple instructions verbally while engaging in a series of distractor tasks (articulatory
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Human's moral judgements towards different social actors: A cross-sectional study Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Ke Zhou, Luo Lan, Zhiqiang Yan
The proliferation of artificial intelligence may pose new challenges to people's moral judgements. We examined moral judgements towards different social actors and their influencing factors in children, adolescents and adults. Moral judgements were measured with ship problems which will ask participants whether they would choose to save humans, dogs, humanoid robots or animaloid robots. Results showed
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Investigating associations between parent engagement and toddlers' mathematics performance Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Alex M. Silver, Mackenzie Swirbul, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Natasha Cabrera, Melissa E. Libertus
Early mathematics skills relate to later mathematics achievement and educational attainment, which in turn predict career choice, income, health and financial decision-making. Critically, large differences exist among children in early mathematics performance, with parental mathematics engagement being a key predictor. However, most prior work has examined mothers' mathematics engagement with their
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Verbal but not visual–spatial working memory contributes to complex arithmetic calculation Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Chunhui Chen, Pengfei Liu, Shuzhen Lu, Siqi Li, Chunli Zhang, Xinlin Zhou
The contribution of working memory to mathematics has been extensively studied. It has been proposed that verbal working memory (VWM) and visual–spatial working memory (VSWM) have distinct contributions, but results have been inconclusive. Here, we hypothesized that VWM and VSWM contribute differentially to separate sub-domains of mathematics. To test this hypothesis, we enrolled 199 primary school
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‘But wait, that isn't real’: A proof-of-concept study evaluating ‘Project Real’, a co-created intervention that helps young people to spot fake news online Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Yvonne Skipper, Daniel Jolley, Joseph Reddington
As misinformation is one of the top risks facing the world today, it is vital to ensure that young people have the confidence and skills to recognize fake news. Therefore, we used co-creation to develop an intervention (called ‘Project Real’) and tested its efficacy in a proof-of-concept study. One hundred and twenty-six pupils aged 11–13 completed questionnaires before and after the intervention that
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Does first-hand evidence undermine young children's initial trust in positive gossip? Evidence from 5- to 6-year-old children Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Yulong Tang, Zhinuo Zhang, Paul L. Harris
What happens when children have formed an impression of a peer based on prior gossip, but later learn from direct observation that the gossip is untrue? We interviewed seventy 5- and 6-year-old children in Zhejiang, China. They first heard conflicting positive and negative gossip about an absent third party, and subsequently learned which piece of gossip was true. Initially, both 5- and 6-year-old
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The influence of socioeconomic status and appearance-reality understanding on pre-schoolers' sharing and generosity Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Nawal Hashim, Nastassja L. Fischer, Elizabeth B. Kim, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Rongjun Yu
Prosocial behaviour can be defined as any voluntary action that is performed to benefit another individual. Despite accumulating evidence of the importance of environmental variables (e.g., socioeconomic status; SES), and individual characteristics (e.g., theory of mind – ToM – skills), in influencing prosocial behaviours in young children, it is unknown how these factors relate to the underlying motivations
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The Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents (CERSA): How does emotion regulation vary according to context? Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Yoann Fombouchet, Lyda Lannegrand, Joanna Lucenet
Recent models of emotion regulation (ER) highlight the need to construct tools that assess ER in different contexts. This paper describes the development and validation of the Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents (CERSA). This questionnaire assesses ER strategies and abilities in three situations that elicit specific emotions (i.e. sadness, fear and anger). Data were collected from
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Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Aisling Mulvihill, Rebecca Armstrong, Charlotte Casey, Jonathan Redshaw, Nerina Scarinci, Virginia Slaughter
The study examined the presence and nature of a relationship between 13 early childhood educators' mental state language (MSL) and 77 preschool children's (3- to 5 years) Theory of Mind (ToM). Educator language samples were elicited during two naturalistic group-time contexts, wordless picture book storytelling and an instructional building task. MSL was coded according to a comprehensive scheme that
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The effects of model age and familiarity on children's reproduction of ritual behaviour Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Chang Wang, Zhidan Wang
Rituals are fundamental social acts that structure relationships and enable the filtering of important cognitive attributes (e.g. working memory and inhibitory control) that make humans what they are today. This study investigated the influence of model age and familiarity on the reproduction of ritual behaviour in five-year-old children. Through an exploration of these factors, this study sheds light
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Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Julie Dickinson, Patrick J. Leman, Matthew J. Easterbrook
Income inequality is growing in many parts of the world and, for the poorest children in a society, is associated with multiple, negative, developmental outcomes. This review of the research literature considers how childrens' and adolescents' understanding of economic inequality changes with age. It highlights shifts in conceptual understanding (from ‘having and not having’, to social structural and
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Children's sympathy moderates the link between their attentional orientation and ethical guilt Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Mishika Mehrotra, Sebastian P. Dys, Tina Malti
This study examined how children's attentional orientation towards environmental cues, dispositional sympathy and inhibitory control were associated with their ethical guilt. Participants were 4- and 6-year-old children (N = 211; 55% male) from ethnically diverse backgrounds. To assess ethical guilt, children were presented with two vignettes depicting ethical violations and reported how they would
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Emotion dysregulation and symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence: Bidirectional longitudinal associations and the antecedent role of parent–child attachment Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Kelly M. Y. Chan, Ryan Y. Hong, Xiang Ling Ong, Hoi Shan Cheung
Difficulties in emotion regulation have been consistently associated with various psychological difficulties, including anxiety and depression; however, less is known about the directionality of this relationship, particularly in adolescents. In addition, early parent–child attachment quality has been closely linked to the development of emotion regulation. Previous studies have proposed an overarching
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Building connections through play: Influences on children's connected talk with peers Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Emily J. Goodacre, Elian Fink, Paul Ramchandani, Jenny L. Gibson
Effective reciprocal communication is a vital component in forming and maintaining social relationships. Peer social play may provide a particularly important context for communicative skill development, as sophisticated negotiation and exchange are required to coordinate play. We focus on connectedness, a property of conversation referring to the topical relation between speakers' turns, to understand
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Parental scaffolding and children's math ability: The type of activities matters Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Qi Huang, Jin Sun, Eva Yi Hung Lau, Yan-ling Zhou
A growing body of research has shown that parent–child math activities predict children's math competence. However, observational studies are limited. This study investigated maternal and paternal scaffolding behaviours in three types of parent–child math activities (i.e., worksheet, game and application activities) and their associations with children's formal and informal math abilities. Ninety-six
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Recognition of facial emotions across the lifespan: 8-year-olds resemble older adults Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Ted Ruffman, Qiuyi Kong, Hui Mei Lim, Kangning Du, Emilia Tiainen
On standard emotion recognition tasks with relatively long or unlimited stimuli durations, recognition improves as children grow older, whereas older adults are worse than young adults. Crucially, it was unknown (a) how older adults compare to age groups below young adulthood and (b) whether children can recognize emotions at shorter durations, with short durations likely common in real life. We compared
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Prospective associations between grandiose narcissism and perfectionism: A longitudinal study in adolescence Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Michele Vecchione, Mariacarolina Vacca, Francesco Dentale, Giorgia Spagnolo, Caterina Lombardo, Katharina Geukes, Mitja D. Back
The current study investigates the longitudinal association between grandiose narcissism and multidimensional perfectionism over 2 years in adolescence. We adopted the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept, which differentiates between two aspects of grandiose narcissism. We also considered multiple dimensions of perfectionism, including Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and two forms of
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Adolescent chronic pain links parental rejection to young adult biopsychosocial problems Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Kandauda A. S. Wickrama, Thulitha Wickrama, Tara E. Sutton, Tae Kyoung Lee
Little is known about the mediating role of adolescent chronic pain in the connection between adolescent parental rejection and psychosocial and physical health (i.e., disease risk) outcomes in young adulthood (YA). To address this gap, the present study tested a model of a successively contingent developmental process that integrates neurophysiological research and the life course developmental perspective
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Contributions of cognitive flexibility, inhibition and number label knowledge to numerical equivalence in 3- to 5-year-old children Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Yinghe Chen, Congcong Han, Xiao Yu, Xiujie Yang, Jiali Jiang, Yuxi Zhao
To investigate the contributions of cognitive flexibility, inhibition and number label knowledge to children's numerical equivalence, one hundred and one 3- to 5-year-olds were administered the dimensional change card sorting task, the day-night task and the give-a-number task. The numerical equivalence was assessed with the numerical matching task in three surface similarity conditions. Results showed
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Latent profiles of maternal disrupted communication: Relations to affect and behaviour in early infancy Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Jennifer E. Khoury, Molly Cunningham, Emma Jenkins, Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Karlen Lyons-Ruth
Few studies have examined how mothering is organized in the first months of infancy, especially regarding risk-related interactions. Person-centred approaches, including latent profile analysis (LPA), add valuable insights about early parenting by identifying distinct profiles of interaction. First, this study aimed to identify profiles of disrupted maternal interaction during the Still-Face Paradigm
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Development of subjective well-being and its relationship with self-esteem in early adolescence Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Ioannis Katsantonis, Ros McLellan, Jose Marquez
Despite evidence indicating that self-esteem (SE) may be considered a precondition to subjective well-being (SWB), there are inconclusive findings regarding its developmental links with SWB. Considering the declines in SWB, the purpose of this study is to examine the developmental changes in SWB and its relationship with SE in early adolescence. The data of 11,231 adolescents aged 11 and 14 years old
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Never trust a stranger: Effects of explicit belief statements from strangers on children's reality status beliefs and beliefs about consensus Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Rebecca A. Dore, Jacqueline Woolley, Jenny Nissel, John G. Hixon
Children learn about much of the world through testimony and may hear explicit belief statements (e.g., “I believe in God” or “climate change is real”) about entities whose existence is controversial. Prior research has shown that these statements, when spoken by a parent, influence children's beliefs about the reality status of the entity and their beliefs about societal consensus surrounding that
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The influence of popular media characters on children's object choices Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Kimberly E. Vanderbilt, Charlene Andreason
Children often prefer objects and food packaging bearing images of popular media characters. However, it is unclear what factors may influence this. This study investigated whether depictions of popular media characters on high-quality (brand new) and low-quality (dirty, broken) objects influenced 3- to 4-year-old children's (N = 84) object preferences, as well as which objects children selected to
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Differential effects of maternal- and paternal-adolescent attachments on friendship security and intimacy Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Ryan J. Persram, Chiaki Konishi
The present study examined the differential contributions of adolescent-reported maternal and paternal attachment anxiety and avoidance on friendship security and intimacy. Participants were 776 Canadian adolescents between the ages of 13 and 19 years (M = 15.18, SD = 1.58) who provided ratings of their perceived attachment avoidance and anxiety towards their mothers and fathers and responded to measures
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Inhibitory deficits and symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: How are they related to effortful control? Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne, Sam V. Wass, Hodo Yusuf, Vidya Rao, Chloé Bertini, Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke
Separate studies with clinical and community-based samples have identified an association between symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and inhibitory control deficits and ADHD and weak effortful control. We tested whether differences in effortful control explained the associations between ADHD symptoms and inhibitory control deficits, controlling for conduct problems. In a community
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Background context affects word-object mapping Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Nicholas Tippenhauer, Megan M. Saylor
Children encounter new words across variable and noisy contexts. This variability may affect word learning, but the literature includes discrepant findings. The current experiment investigated one source of these discrepant findings: whether contexts with familiar, nameable objects are associated with less robust label learning. Two year olds were exposed to word-object pairings on variable contexts
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Primary school children rate children with autism negatively on looks, speech and speech content Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Steven D. Stagg, Lauren Thompson-Robertson, Carina Morgan
Adults and adolescents form negative first impressions of ASD adults and children. We examined the first impression ratings of primary school children (6–9 years) of their ASD peers. 146 school children rated either silent videos, speech or transcribe speech from 14 actors (7 ASD, 7 TD). The ASD actors were rated more negatively than the typically developing actors on all three stimulus types. Children
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Early language outcomes in Argentinean toddlers: Associations with home literacy, screen exposure and joint media engagement Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Julieta Medawar, Ángel Javier Tabullo, Lucas Gustavo Gago-Galvagno
This study aimed to analyse the contribution of mothers' home literacy beliefs and practices and the quantity and quality of screen media exposure on Argentinean toddler's language. In addition, we considered parent–child joint engagement, as well as adult scaffolding behaviours during the use of electronic devices. A total of 465 mothers of 18–36 months old children completed an online survey including:
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Predicting developmental outcomes in middle childhood from early life language and parenting experiences Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Sophie von Stumm, Jelena O'Reilly, Katrina d'Apice
Children's early life experiences of language and parenting are thought to have pervasive, long-term influence on their cognitive and behavioural development. However, studies are scarce that collected naturalistic observations to broadly assess children's early life experiences and test their associations with developmental outcomes in middle childhood. Here, we used digital audio-recorders to collect
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Psychomotor development in two-year-old Ivorian and Ghanaian children – Psychometric properties of the Kilifi Developmental Inventory Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Dana Barthel, Levente Kriston, Esther Doris Yao, Daniel Fordjour, Koffi Ekissi Jean Armel, Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt, Rebecca Hinz, Stephan Ehrhardt, Carola Bindt
The assessment of psychomotor development in young children from low- and middle-income countries is impeded due to the lack of tools specifically designed for these resource-constrained contexts. This cross-sectional study aimed at analysing the measurement properties of the Kilifi Developmental Inventory (KDI) in two-year-old children. We administered the KDI to 289 children from Côte d'Ivoire and
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Being helpful to other-gender peers: School-age children's gender-based intergroup prosocial behaviour Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Sonya Xinyue Xiao, Carol Lynn Martin, Tracy L. Spinrad, Nancy Eisenberg, Dawn DeLay, Laura D. Hanish, Richard A. Fabes, Krista Oswalt
Promoting prosocial behaviour towards those who are dissimilar from oneself is an urgent contemporary issue. Because children spend much time in same-gender relationships, promoting other-gender prosociality could help them develop more inclusive relationships. Our goals were to better understand the development of school-age children's intergroup prosocial behavior and the extent to which elementary
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Parental warmth predicts more child pro-social behaviour in children with better emotion regulation Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 H. Melis Yavuz, Tyler Colasante, Tina Malti
Parental warmth and child emotion regulation have each been implicated in the development of child pro-social behaviours; however, their interactive benefits remain unclear. In this multi-method, multi-cohort longitudinal study, we examined the effect of parental warmth on child pro-social behaviours at different levels of child emotion regulation. We collected data from 6- and 10-year-olds in Canada
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Boy's math performance, compared to girls', jumps at age 6 (in the ELFE's data at least) Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Jean-Paul Fischer, Xavier Thierry
The mathematics achievement discrepancy between girls and boys, with its subsequent occupational consequences, is an issue that has received considerable attention in the literature. It is often referred to as the ‘math-gap’ and favours boys. A major component of the explanation of this gap resides in determining its age of onset. We analyse here data from more than 10,000 (cross-sectional study) and
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‘I can actually do it without any help or someone watching over me all the time and giving me constant instruction’: Autistic adolescent boys' perspectives on engagement in online video gaming Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Georgia Pavlopoulou, Claire Usher, Amy Pearson
Research into autistic adolescents' engagement in online gaming has so far focused on time spent gaming, or characterizing problematic gaming behaviour and has relied mostly on caregiver report. In the current study, we interviewed 12 autistic adolescent boys, asking about their perspectives on their engagement in online gaming, and their motivations. We analysed the interview data using thematic analysis
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The structure of executive functioning in 11 to 14 year olds with and without special educational needs Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 David Messer, Jennifer Kearvell-White, Henrik Danielsson, Dorothy Faulkner, Lucy Henry, Paul Ibbotson
The structure and development of executive functioning (EF) have been intensively studied in typically developing populations, with little attention given to those with Special Educational Needs (SEN). This study addresses this by comparing the EF structure of 132 adolescents (11–14 years-old) with SEN and 138 adolescents not requiring additional support (Non-SEN peers). Participants completed verbal
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Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Krisztina Andrási, Réka Schvajda, Ildikó Király
The present study examined whether three-year-old children (age = 42–48 months, n = 57; 31 boys) understand that object identities stipulated during pretend play could only be known by people witnessing the stipulation. Children participated in pretend scenarios that included some objects and two experimenters. Two pretend episodes corresponded to an object: one connected to its conventional function
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Correspondence in parents' and children's concepts of god: Investigating the role of parental values, religious practices and executive functioning Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Anondah Saide, Rebekah Richert
This study examined the extent to which children's concepts of God correspond with their parents' concepts of God. It also examined how parent-context factors and children's executive functioning relate to parent–child conceptual similarity. Parent–child dyads from varied religious and racial backgrounds participated. Dyads had the greatest conceptual similarity concerning God's mind-dependent functions
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Infant behavioural effects of smartphone interrupted parent-infant interaction Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Ida T. Tidemann, Annika M. D. Melinder
Infants are vulnerable to changes in the dyadic synchrony with their caregivers, as demonstrated in numerous experiments employing the still-face paradigm. The sudden lack of attunement causes infant stress reactions and the still-face literature have suggested potential long-term costs of this in terms of development of social, emotional and cognitive skills. Acknowledging the rapid technological
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Associations between symptoms of maternal postpartum depression, gestational age and infant social withdrawal: A longitudinal study in a community cohort Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Anne Christine Stuart, Maria Stougård, Johanne Smith-Nielsen, Ida Egmose, Antoine Guedeney, Mette Skovgaard Væver
Infant social withdrawal is a risk factor for non-optimal child development; thus, it is important to identify risk factors associated with withdrawal. In a large community sample (N = 19,017), we investigate whether symptoms of maternal and partner postpartum depression (PPD; measured with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) and prematurity are predictors of infant social withdrawal (measured
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Children’s developing views of social excluders: A dissociation between social evaluation and partner preference Br. J. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.148) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Amanda Mae Woodward, Lindsay A. Horen, Sarah J. Knoll, Jonathan S. Beier
When facing social exclusion, children seek to strengthen existing social connections and form new ones. This study asked whether they also make strategic choices about the targets of their affiliative goals. Three- to six-year-olds (N = 69; 36 female; mostly non-Hispanic White) observed characters acting inclusively or exclusively. All ages viewed excluders more negatively than includers, but only