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Parents' and children's gendered beliefs about toys and screen media J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Sierra Eisen, Shoronda Erica Matthews, Jamie Jirout
Contemporary discussions around gender roles, stereotypes, and play highlight the need for updated research on the influences of children's early play experiences and learning (Weisgram, 2018). Different types of play relate to different skills and vary by gender, such as spatial play and spatial skill (Jirout & Newcombe, 2015; Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995), and very little is known about gender and
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Student–teacher relationships and school engagement: Comparing boys from special education for autism spectrum disorders and regular education J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Debora L. Roorda, Marjolein Zee, Rianne J. Bosman, Helma M.Y. Koomen
The present study examined differences in student–teacher relationship quality and engagement with schoolwork between boys from regular education and boys from special education for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We also investigated whether the strength of associations between student–teacher relationship quality and engagement differed across boys from regular and special education
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School readiness and achievement in early elementary school: Moderation by Students' temperament J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Carlos Valiente, Leah D. Doane, Sierra Clifford, Kevin J. Grimm, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant
The goals of this study were to examine the longitudinal relations between school readiness and reading and math achievement and to test if these relations were moderated by temperament. The sample included socio-economically and ethnically diverse twins (N = 551). Parents reported on school readiness when children were five years old. Teachers reported on temperament (effortful control, anger, and
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Transactional associations among adolescents' depressive symptoms and self- and friend-reported friendship experiences J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette, Hannah R. Lawrence, Raegan V. Harrington
Despite theoretical propositions regarding the transactional interplay between depressive symptoms and friendship experiences (e.g., Coyne, 1976), few studies have tested interpersonal theories of depression in adolescence. The current study used cross-lagged panel models to test longitudina, reciprocal associations of adolescents' depressive symptoms with self- and friend-reported positive friendship
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The refugee crisis and peer relationships during childhood and adolescence J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 David Schwartz, Yana Ryjova, Annemarie R. Kelleghan, Hannah Fritz
This paper is a call for empirical research, and theory development, that focuses on the peer relationships of children and adolescents who experience forced displacement. During the last decade, an escalating humanitarian crisis has developed with historic levels of involuntary migration occurring across the world. The extant research on youth who become refugees or internally displaced has primarily
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Associations between parents' number talk and management language with young children J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-26 Lindsay J. Clements, Rebekah A. LeMahieu, Ariadne E. Nelson, Sarah H. Eason, Eric Dearing
Evidence from a growing body of observational and experimental studies indicates that parent math talk is a key input supporting early mathematical thinking. Very little research, however, has been dedicated to understanding parenting or family correlates of math talk. In the present study, we examined relations between parents' number talk and their management language (i.e., the extent to which parents
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Transactional models linking maternal authoritative parenting, child self-esteem, and approach coping strategies J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Dan Gao, Junsheng Liu, Amanda Bullock, Dan Li, Xinyin Chen
The aim of this study is to identify the transactional pathways among maternal authoritative parenting, children's self-esteem, and approach coping strategies (i.e., problem solving coping and social support seeking coping). We collected three waves of data over three years from N = 888 Chinese children (50.3% girls; Mage = 9.83 years, SDage = 1.28 years at Time 1). Children reported their self-esteem
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The socializing role of the problem-constraint link: A multimethod investigation J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Jean-Michel Robichaud, Amy-Lee Normandin, Geneviève A. Mageau
Experimental studies on parent-youth disagreements have revealed the potential socialization advantages of favoring parental constraints with strong problem-constraint links (i.e., logical consequences) over constraints with weak problem-constraint links (e.g., mild punishments). In this study, we extended this line of research by examining the relation between youth perceptions of their parents' actual
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Two may be better than one: Promoting incidental word learning through multiple media J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Susan B. Neuman, Preeti Samudra, Kevin M. Wong
Previous studies have often compared and contrasted differences among media presentations, including traditional storybooks and videos and their potential for incidental word learning among preschoolers. Studies have shown that children learn words from a variety of media, and that repetition is an important source for incidental learning. Yet, to date, little is known about how repeated presentations
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Mothers' emotion socialization profiles and relation to adolescent socio-emotional functioning in China and India J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Mackenzie Trevethan, Kathy L. Lin, Vaishali V. Raval, Xu Li, Jinsheng Hu, Neeraj Deo
Literature on parental emotion socialization does not capture the complexity of parents' emotion-related behaviors with variable-centered approaches that aggregate parent behaviors. To provide a contextually grounded portrayal of parental ES, utilizing a person-centered approach, we identified profiles of mothers' responses to their young adolescents' emotions and examined adolescent outcomes in a
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Do girls pay an unequal price? Black and Latina girls' math attitudes, math anxiety, and mathematics achievement J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Saskias Casanova, Rose K. Vukovic, Michael J. Kieffer
This study examined the longitudinal relation between math attitudes and math anxiety in first grade (Mage = 6 years, 10 months) and mathematics achievement in fourth grade (Mage = 9 years, 11 months) for 155 Black and Latinx children. Multi-group structural equation modeling showed an inverse relation between math attitudes and math anxiety in first grade for boys and girls. Although there were no
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Cybervictimization and adjustment in late childhood: Moderating effects of social sensitivity J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Dan Li, Xinpei Xu, Junsheng Liu, Yan Dai, Xinyin Chen
The present study examined the moderating effects of social sensitivity in the relations between cybervictimization and school and psychological adjustment in Chinese children. Participants were 577 elementary school students in fifth and sixth grades (287 boys; Mage = 11 years) in Sichuan, China. Self-report data were collected on cybervictimization, social sensitivity, and psychological adjustment
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Building integrated peer relationships in preschool classrooms: The potential of buddies J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Laura D. Hanish, Carol Lynn Martin, Rachel Cook, Dawn DeLay, Bridget Lecheile, Richard A. Fabes, Priscilla Goble, Crystal Bryce
We tested an easy-to-implement, theoretically-grounded Buddy Up intervention designed to help preschoolers engage with diverse peers. Using naturalistic observation procedures, independent observers coded children’s (N = 137) peer experiences in preschool classrooms. Findings revealed an intervention effect on time spent with peers for boys only, such that boys in the intervention condition maintained
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Prospective links between acculturative stress and academic well-being among Latinx adolescents J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Rajni L. Nair, Melissa Y. Delgado, Lorey A. Wheeler, Rayni Thomas
Two salient domains of acculturative stress, bicultural stress and English competency pressures, were examined as predictors of academic well-being, including grades, educational expectations, and academic identity over a one-year period using a heterogeneous sample of 329 Latinx youth (MTime1age = 13.67, SD = 0.57; 51% boys). The buffering effects of coping and school belonging were tested along with
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Emotion regulation and specificity: The impact of animal-assisted interventions on classroom behavior J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 G. John Geldhof, Erin Flynn, Svea G. Olsen, Megan K. Mueller, Jaci Gandenberger, Dakota D. Witzel, Kevin N. Morris
We discuss Bornstein's (2017) specificity principle as a codification of the larger systems-oriented zeitgeist currently dominant in developmental science and the implications that accommodating specificity has for applied research. We illustrate the importance of specificity by analyzing coded videos obtained as part of an evaluation of animal-assisted interventions implemented in the context of a
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Context of reception, daily-linguistic biculturalism, and depressive symptoms among Hispanic college students J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Tae Kyoung Lee, Seth J. Schwartz, Alan Meca, Cory Cobb, Alexa Barton, Jennifer B. Unger
Daily diary studies allow for examining the day-to-day dynamic experiences of biculturalism. The present study used a 12-day daily diary dataset collected with 873 Hispanic college students. Our goal was to (a) identify two distinct forms of dynamic daily processes of linguistic biculturalism (bicultural levels and bicultural fluctuations) and (b) examine the mediating role of bicultural levels and
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Interrogating ergodicity and specificity in youth development programs in El Salvador J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Jonathan M. Tirrell, Patricia K. Gansert, Elizabeth M. Dowling, Kate Williams, Guillermo Iraheta, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Pamela Ebstyne King, Alistair T.R. Sim, Richard M. Lerner
Researchers and evaluators interested in positive youth development (PYD) programs seek to understand what works for what youth in what ways. Typically, measurement and analysis are framed by ergodic theorems, which assume homogeneity of individuals and stationarity in individuals' developmental pathways. However, such commonality (homogeneity and stationarity) does not characterize all developmental
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Predicting mother and child emotional availability in Singaporean bilingual English and Mandarin dyads: A multilevel approach to the specificity principle J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Gianluca Esposito, Bindiya L. Raghunath, Atiqah Azhari, Peipei Setoh, Marc H. Bornstein
When interacting with one another, bilingual caregivers and their young bilingual children can switch from one language to another to convey emotion and information in meaningful ways. The Specificity Principle (Bornstein, 2017) states that specific setting conditions affect specific outcomes in specific ways in specific individuals at specific times. Here we tested three constituents of the Specificity
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Preschool screen media exposure, executive functions and symptoms of inattention/hyperactivity J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Maria T. Corkin, Elizabeth R. Peterson, Annette M.E. Henderson, Karen E. Waldie, Elaine Reese, Susan M.B. Morton
The relationships between screen media use and hot and cool executive functioning (EF) and inattention/hyperactivity during the preschool years were assessed using data from mothers, fathers and children (N = 3787) participating in the Growing Up in New Zealand study. Patterns of screen time (i.e., whether children exceeded 2 hr of screen time at 2 and 4 years), content of screen media (adult-directed
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Commonalities and specificities of positive youth development in the U.S. and Taiwan J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Pei-Jung Yang, Meredith McGinley
This study examined commonalities and specificities of the Five Cs Model of positive youth development (PYD) in 15-year-old youth samples across the U.S. and Taiwan. The full battery of the Five Cs measure (78 items) were administered to both samples. The Five Cs model was identified and partial metric and partial scalar measurement invariance was established between the two samples using bi-factor
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Examining heterogeneity among Latino dual language learners' school readiness profiles of English and Spanish at the end of Head Start J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Lisa M. López, Matthew E. Foster
Emerging research shows there is substantial heterogeneity in the English and Spanish language and literacy proficiencies of dual language learners (DLLs) in U.S. preschools. This work is extended in this paper by examining within-group variability in 320 Spanish-English speaking DLLs' cognitive, linguistic, literacy, and mathematics skills at the end of prekindergarten (M = 5.22 years old). Using
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Predictors of initial status and change in self-control during the college transition J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Kristin L. Moilanen, Katy L. DeLong, Shantel K. Spears, Amy L. Gentzler, Nicholas A. Turiano
Although self-control tends to increase through late adolescence, there are individual differences in patterns of growth. Latent growth modeling was used to investigate change in self-control across students’ first year of college (N = 569, Mage = 18.03; 70.3% female; 89.6% White), and whether attachment to parents predicted this change when controlling for personality and demographic variables. Self-control
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Three cultural contrasts in search of specificities and commonalities: Acculturation in Japanese, South American, and South Korean immigrant families J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Linda R. Cote, Marc H. Bornstein
Three cultural comparisons address specificities and commonalities in the acculturation of infant behaviors and maternal parenting practices. Immigrant Japanese, Korean, and South American families were compared to nonmigrant families in their respective cultures of origin (Japan, South Korea, and South America) and their single common culture of destination (United States). Altogether, 13 infant behaviors
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Executive functions and English reading comprehension growth in Spanish-English bilingual adolescents J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Michael J. Kieffer, Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, J. Kenneth Logan
This longitudinal study investigated whether and, if so, how executive functions predict English reading comprehension development among Spanish-English bilingual adolescents. Students (N = 116) were followed from Grade 6 (age 11) through Grade 8 (age 13) and their cognitive (i.e., working memory, inhibitory control, attention shifting), linguistic, and reading skills were assessed annually. Growth
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Understanding child executive functioning through use of the Bornstein specificity principle J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Dian Yu, Pei-Jung Yang, Laura E. Michaelson, G. John Geldhof, Paul A. Chase, Patricia K. Gansert, David M. Osher, Juliette K. Berg, Corine P. Tyler, Carolina Goncalves, Yerin Park, Michelle J. Boyd-Brown, Whitney Cade, Christina Theokas, Pamela Cantor, Richard M. Lerner
A focus on intraindividual change and person-specific pathways is a necessary starting point for developmental science inquiries. However, research often relies on ergodicity-based assumptions about group averages and other variable-centered approaches. Using ideas associated with relational developmental systems metatheory, such as the Bornstein Specificity Principle, we re-examine the ergodicity
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Adverse childhood experiences and children's development in early care and education programs J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Shannon T. Lipscomb, Bridget Hatfield, Hillary Lewis, Emiko Goka-Dubose, Caitlyn Abshire
Early care and education (ECE) programs can support resilience among children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Yet children impacted by ACEs often experience challenges in ECE. To guide interventions to support school-readiness, a better understanding of engagement and development in ECE among children with ACEs is needed. The current study employed multiple methods (observation, teacher-report
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Disentangling the relations of theory of mind, executive function and conduct problems J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-26 Anna Katharina Holl, Nora C. Vetter, Birgit Elsner
Deficits in inferring others' mental states, that is, theory of mind (ToM), and in regulating one's behavior, relating to executive function (EF), are risk factors for conduct problems in childhood, but these interrelations have scarcely been examined while simultaneously controlling for ADHD symptoms. This study assessed EF (inhibition, working memory updating, set shifting) as well as ToM (affective
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How does a switch work? The relation between adult mechanistic language and children's learning J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Katelyn E. Kurkul, Eleanor Castine, Kathryn Leech, Kathleen H. Corriveau
Two studies explore how explanations that contain mechanistic information can influence 4- and 5-year-old children's subsequent learning. In Study 1 (N = 56) children participated in a science task with their parents across five phases: (a) exploration phase, (b) parent explanation questions, (c) familiar phase, (d) novel extension phase, and (e) child recall. Parents' use of explations containing
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Teaching children to take the best J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Anna Lang
“Take The Best” is a fast and frugal strategy that requires focus upon the most important information dimensions when making decisions, and the ability to ignore other, less crucial factors. Two studies are used to investigate whether children take up the Take The Best heuristic following child-friendly strategy prompting. The results show that children aged nine (Study 1, N = 65) and 12 (Study 2,
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A structural equation model of the etiology and developmental consequences of parent-child role confusion J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Linnea B. Linde-Krieger, Tuppett M. Yates
This longitudinal investigation tested a theoretically-specified model of the etiology and developmental consequences of parent-child role confusion, wherein there is a deterioration of generational boundaries such that the parent looks to their child to meet the parent's own needs for comfort or support. Employing a diverse sample of 250 female caregiver-child dyads (50% female and 46% Latinx children)
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Chinese children's in-group favoritism is affected by age and gender J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Kangning Du, John A. Hunter, Damian Scarf, Ted Ruffman
This study used a story-telling task to examine 112 Chinese children's (M = 8.37 years, range: 5 to 13.25 years) prosocial behavior toward Chinese and White members harmed intentionally by another story character or accidentally. Children rewarded story characters with stickers following each story. Overall, there was an in-group bias such that children were more prosocial (awarded more stickers) with
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Maternal personality predicts insensitive parenting: Effects through causal attributions about infant distress J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Lauren G. Bailes, Esther M. Leerkes
The association between parent personality and parenting has been established in the literature; however, the mechanisms explaining this relationship remain poorly understood. In the current study, we examined associations between maternal personality and maternal insensitive behaviors through causal attributions about infant distress. Primiparous mothers (N = 259) reported maternal personality during
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Consistency is key: Understanding academic socialization among high-achieving Black boys J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Trenel E. Francis, Diane L. Hughes, J. Alexander Watford, Niobe Way
Despite the racial achievement gap, many Black adolescent boys excel in school. Academic socialization is one way that parents can contribute to these youths' success. However, only a few studies have examined the specific ways that Black parents support their sons' high achievement. To address this gap, we used a multi-wave, multi-informant, mixed-method design to examine the conversations, rules
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Coping and adaptation in challenging environments: Introduction to the special issue on development of boys and young men of color J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Noni K. Gaylord-Harden, Sandra Graham, Oscar Barbarin, Patrick H. Tolan, Velma McBride Murry
The current article presents an introduction to the special issue on the development of boys and young men of color in challenging environments. The articles in this special issue, collectively, highlight how boys and young men of color successfully adapt to adverse environments, and in particular, how the unique demands of various inhibiting contexts may shape adaptive behaviors. By exploring conditional
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Generativity and shared agency with foster youth for education J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Esther S. Chang, Gary Germo
This cross-sectional study is based on the survey responses of 134 volunteer court-appointed advocates (M = 52.44 years) who have been assigned a foster youth in middle or high school. The study aimed to (1) explore advocates' life goals for foster youth, (2) validate a scale of informal mentoring practices by adapting scales of shared and non-shared agency, and (3) test a model by which generative
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Adolescent exposure to violence and intimate-partner violence mediated by mental distress J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Justin E. Heinze, Hsing-Fang Hsieh, Elyse J. Thulin, Kathleen Howe, Alison L. Miller, Marc A. Zimmerman
Adolescent exposure to violence (ETV) is associated with multiple negative health outcomes. Despite evidence linking adolescent ETV with later experiences of physical, sexual and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization, more longitudinal evidence is needed, and potential explanatory mechanisms should be tested. We examine data collected over 17 years to analyze the mediating effects
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Decontextualized language use during Chinese and American caregiver-child interactions J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Ran Wei, Kathryn A. Leech, Meredith L. Rowe
Caregivers' use of decontextualized language (DL), language that is abstract or removed from the here and now, supports preschool-aged children's language, cognitive, and social-cognitive development. Studies comparing caregiver-child DL across cultures have focused primarily on one type of DL—past narratives. Very few studies have examined cross-cultural similarities and differences in talk about
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“Remain calm, negotiate or defer but by all means, call me”: Father-son communication to keep sons safe from violence involvement and victimization J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Waldo E. Johnson, Marquitta S. Dorsey, Lauren M. Rich, LaShaun L. Brooks
The role of fathers in the lives of young men has been explored extensively in the literature (Perry, 2017; Alleyne-Green, Grinnell-Davis, Clark, & Cryer-Coupet, 2015; Coley & Medeiros, 2007). However, Black fathers, and particularly those of boys who live in adverse circumstances, are often perceived as being uninvolved or without direct influence on the day-to-day functioning of their sons. As Black
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Stability and change in partisan political identification: Implications for lowering the voting age J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Daniel Hart, Robert Atkins, Sarah Allred
Around the globe, governments are experimenting with lowering the voting age to 16-years-old as a way to turn around recent declines in civic participation. However, one concern is that younger voters will be more susceptible to parental and community influence. We used voter records from two U.S. states to explore stability and change in partisan identifications as a function of age in order to assess
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Themes in political development: Considering the potential of an intersectionality lens J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Carlos E. Santos
This commentary summarizes themes in a special issue published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology on political development. Papers range in method and disciplinary lens, offering unique insight on diverse youth's political development, and the role that diverse contexts play in shaping these processes. Building on a tradition of youth development research that challenges deficit frameworks
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Joint implications of teachers and classroom peers for adolescents' aggression and engagement J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Joy Huanhuan Wang, Sarah M. Kiefer
This study investigated the mediation and moderation roles of classroom peer norms (CPNs) on the associations of teacher support with student aggression and academic engagement across the first year of middle school (fall and spring of sixth grade). Students (N = 312; 49% females) were from 32 classrooms in three schools. Data included peer-nominated aggression (overt, relational) and self-reported
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Maternal working memory, emotion regulation, and responsivity to infant distress J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Rachel C.B. Martin, David J. Bridgett, Linda C. Mayes, Helena J.V. Rutherford
Maternal responsivity is important to caregiving, reflecting a mother's capacity to initiate prompt behavioural responses to infant's cues, supporting the infant's own regulatory development. There is limited research examining cognitive and affective processes, including working memory and emotion regulation, in the context of maternal responsivity to infant distress. Therefore, we examined associations
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Political engagement and wellbeing among college students J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Parissa J. Ballard, Xinyu Ni, Nicole Brocato
Political engagement may be associated with wellbeing among college students in complex ways. The present study examines the associations between six forms of political engagement (activism, expressive political behaviors, traditional political behaviors, political groups, student leadership, and cultural/ethnic organizations) and multiple wellbeing outcomes among college students (N = 10,824) across
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Contextual factors shaping diverse political action: A commentary on the special issue on adolescent political development J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Aixa D. Marchand, Nkemka U. Anyiwo
This timely special issue on political development broadens the empirical conversation around how adolescents are engaging politically and civically, what factors shape their involvement, how their involvement impacts their wellbeing, and how to engage diverse populations of youth in the political system. From the perspectives of critical consciousness and sociopolitical development, we reflect on
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How can a relevance intervention in math support students' career choices? J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Heide Piesch, Hanna Gaspard, Cora Parrisius, Eike Wille, Benjamin Nagengast
Career choice is an important challenge in adolescence. Relevance interventions may be an option for promoting career choices because students reflect on the usefulness of the learning content for their future careers. We investigated whether a relevance intervention focusing on the usefulness of math for students' lives and careers could promote several precursors of their career choices. Seventy-eight
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Children's emotion regulation repertoire and problem behavior: A latent cross-lagged panel study J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Tamara Thomsen, Nora Lessing
The ability to regulate negative emotions plays a central role in children's psychosocial (mal-)adjustment. As different contextual demands require the utilization of different strategies, the development of a large and diverse repertoire of emotion regulation (ER) strategies is an important developmental task. This two-wave longitudinal study with 101 preschoolers (wave 1: 3–6 years, M = 5.19, SD = 0
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Teacher-student relationships across the first seven years of education and adolescent outcomes J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Arya Ansari, Tara L. Hofkens, Robert C. Pianta
Despite the significance of teacher–student relationships during the early years of school, questions remain about its long-term importance and whether the timing and variability of relationship quality matter. To address these gaps, data from the NICHD SECCYD were used to determine whether teacher-student relationships between kindergarten and sixth grade were associated with the achievement, social-behavior
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Emotion socialization by parents and friends: Links with adolescent emotional adjustment J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Rachel L. Miller-Slough, Julie C. Dunsmore
Emotion socialization influences adolescent emotional adjustment. Friendships provide a venue for emotion socialization, yet little research has compared emotion socialization processes with parents versus friends and how they correspond to adolescent outcomes. The present study examined parent and friend socialization of negative emotions in relation to adolescents' emotional coherence, emotion regulation
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Academic implications of insensitive parenting: A mediating path through children's relational representations J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Jessie M. Bridgewater, Tuppett M. Yates
Despite evidence that insensitive parenting is associated with later academic achievement, few studies have evaluated mechanisms that may account for these effects. This study utilized a diverse sample of child-caregiver dyads (N = 245, 50.2% male, 46.5% Latinx) to evaluate a sequential mediation model from observations of female caregivers' insensitive parenting behaviors at age 4 to children's maternal
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Preschool executive control predicts social information processing in early elementary school J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Anna Johnson, Jennifer Mize Nelson, Cara C. Tomaso, Tiffany James, Kimberly Andrews Espy, Timothy D. Nelson
Social-information processing (SIP) theory is a well-established framework for understanding the cognitive processes that underlie children’s social competence and has been linked to maladaptive outcomes, especially aggression. The current study examines preschool executive control, higher-order cognitive functions controlling attention and goal-oriented behavior, as a predictor of subsequent SIP abilities
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Children's reactions to inequality: Associations with empathy and parental teaching J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Nicole S. Gevaux, Elizabeth S. Nilsen, D. Ramona Bobocel, Siann F. Gault
While children generally prefer equal distributions of resources, we know little about the contextual and individual variability in these preferences. The present work examined experimental manipulations and associations between individual differences in empathy and parental teaching of “just world beliefs”, and children's perceptions of, and reactions to, unequal distributions. Children (aged 5–8
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Culturally relevant strengths and positive development in high achieving youth of color J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Edmond P. Bowers, Emily N. Winburn, Alexandra M. Sandoval, Thomas Clanton
Critical reflection and spirituality have been linked to the positive development of high achieving youth of color; however, little research has explored how these strengths function in predicting positive youth development (PYD) across adolescence. In addition, scant research has considered how contextual resources such as mentoring might moderate the impact of these strengths. We examined the relations
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Exploring factors that support the kindergarten transition patterns of Latino boys J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Iheoma U. Iruka, Melissa Lucas, Cristina Gillanders, Tobiloba O. Adejumo
Guided by the sociocultural theory of human development, this study aims to mediate the monolithic categorization of young Latino boys' school readiness transition patterns using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) dataset. Three patterns of transitions were unveiled using a person-centered approach: (1) Consistent Learner, (2) Struggling Learner, and (3) Declining High Achiever
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Democratic youth in counter-attitudinal election climates: A test of the conflict-seeking hypothesis J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Michael McDevitt, Toby Hopp
A panel study of high school seniors during the 2006 midterm elections (N = 567) shows a striking pattern of Democratic youth thriving when exposed to counter-attitudinal climates. Democratic adolescents were more likely to disagree and listen to opponents if they lived in conservative counties compared with Democratic youth living in liberal counties. We infer that Democratic identity is distinguished
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Executive functioning as a predictor of children’s mathematics, reading and writing J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Debora S. Valcan, Helen L. Davis, Deborah Pino-Pasternak, Anabela A. Malpique
Executive functioning (EF) in early childhood predicts both concurrent and future academic achievement. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated the potential pathways through which this might occur. The present study compared two models through which EF might plausibly predict academic outcomes 1 year later. Structural equation modelling analyses were conducted on a longitudinal dataset from 176
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Ghosting in safe relational spaces: Young Black men and the search for residence J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Kevin M. Roy, Jocelyn R. Smith Lee
Early adversity and trauma for youth of color may lead to disconnection but also to efforts to heal and to cope. Young Black men in particular can build safe relational spaces while struggling with real daily risks to their health and well-being. In this analysis of thirty life history interviews in two youth development programs, we examined how young Black men searched for safe residence and relational
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Pushing the envelope: The who, what, when, and why of critical consciousness. J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Matthew A Diemer
Deep-seated structural racism in the U.S. has been thrown into bold relief by the racially disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 and a series of highly visible police murders of Black Americans. Longstanding and intergenerational economic inequalities have been laid bare by the ensuing economic recession. This special issue's focus on how people critique, challenge, negotiate and change inequities is
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Adolescent views of civic responsibility and civic efficacy: Differences by rurality and socioeconomic status J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-04 Aaron Metzger, Lauren Alvis, Benjamin Oosterhoff
This study examined differences in civic beliefs and efficacy for youth living in rural or city contexts and from higher or lower socioeconomic homes. Youth (N = 1847; 88.6% White; 56% female; Mage = 15.72) from a rural town (46.1%) and a mid-sized city (53.9%) completed questionnaires assessing civic beliefs (should, obligation, respect judgments) for community service, standard political, and social
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Stressors, resources, and mental health among Latino adolescents: The role of gratitude J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Erinn B. Duprey, Laura G. McKee, Catherine W. O'Neal, Sara B. Algoe, Belinda Campos
The present study aimed to test the direct and moderating roles of gratitude on Latino adolescent mental health (i.e., depressive symptoms and life satisfaction). Further, informed by the stress process framework, the present study tested the direct associations between several social stressors and resources (i.e., perceived discrimination, positive parenting, and peer social support) and Latino adolescent
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The political socialization of Latinx youth in a conservative political context J. Appl. Dev. Psychol. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Veronica Terriquez, Randy Villegas, Roxanna Villalobos, Jiayi Xu
Drawing on semi-structured interviews, participant observations, surveys, and voting records, this mixed-methods study investigates Latinx youths' political socialization and grassroots organizing efforts in a conservative, anti-immigrant regional context. This investigation makes three contributions. First, findings suggest that under hostile political contexts, vertical (adult-to-youth) forms of
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