Jessica A. Stern, Natasha A. Bailey, Meghan A. Costello, Amanda F. Hellwig, Jennifer Mitchell, Joseph P. Allen
{"title":"Empathy across three generations: From maternal and peer support in adolescence to adult parenting and child outcomes","authors":"Jessica A. Stern, Natasha A. Bailey, Meghan A. Costello, Amanda F. Hellwig, Jennifer Mitchell, Joseph P. Allen","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14109","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14109","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined the development of empathic care across three generations in a sample of 184 adolescents in the United States (99 female, 85 male; 58% White, 29% African American, 8% mixed race/ethnicity, 5% other groups), followed from their family of origin at age 13 into their parenting years (through their mid-30s). Mothers' empathic support toward adolescents at age 13 predicted teens' empathy for close friends across adolescence (13–19 years). Participants' empathic support for friends in late adolescence predicted more supportive parenting behavior in adulthood, which in turn was associated with their children's empathy at age 3–8 years. Results suggest that individuals “pay forward” the empathic care they receive from parents, and that skills developed in adolescent friendships may inform later parenting.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1628-1640"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141075461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ayse Payir, Gaye Soley, Oya Serbest, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Paul L. Harris
{"title":"Religious polarization and justification of belief in invisible scientific versus religious entities","authors":"Ayse Payir, Gaye Soley, Oya Serbest, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Paul L. Harris","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14118","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14118","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children and adults express greater confidence in the existence of invisible scientific as compared to invisible religious entities. To further examine this differential confidence, 5- to 11-year-old Turkish children and their parents (<i>N</i> = 174, 122 females) from various regions in Türkiye, a country with an ongoing tension between secularism and religion, were tested in 2021 for their belief in invisible entities. Participants expressed more confidence in the existence of scientific than religious entities. For scientific entities, children justified their belief primarily by elaborating on the properties of the entity, rather than referring to the testimonial source of their judgment. This pattern was reversed for religious entities, arguably, highlighting the role of polarization in shaping the testimony children typically hear.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1723-1738"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141075462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anti-phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers","authors":"Meiyun Wu, Yuyang Wang, Xue Zhao, Tianyu Xin, Kun Wu, Haotian Liu, Shinan Wu, Min Liu, Xiaoke Chai, Jinhong Li, Chaogang Wei, Chaozhe Zhu, Yuhe Liu, Yu-Xuan Zhang","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14105","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human brain demonstrates amazing readiness for speech and language learning at birth, but the auditory development preceding such readiness remains unknown. Cochlear implanted (CI) children (<i>n</i> = 67; mean age 2.77 year ± 1.31 SD; 28 females) with prelingual deafness provide a unique opportunity to study this stage. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy, it was revealed that the brain of CI children was irresponsive to sounds at CI hearing onset. With increasing CI experiences up to 32 months, the brain demonstrated function, region and hemisphere specific development. Most strikingly, the left anterior temporal lobe showed an oscillatory trajectory, changing in opposite phases for speech and noise. The study provides the first longitudinal brain imaging evidence for early auditory development preceding speech acquisition.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1693-1708"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140920223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Andrés Delgado-Ron, Thiyaana Jeyabalan, Sarah Watt, Travis Salway
{"title":"Mitigating invalid data bias in the estimation of sexual orientation disparities in a survey of youth in US and Canada","authors":"Jorge Andrés Delgado-Ron, Thiyaana Jeyabalan, Sarah Watt, Travis Salway","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14111","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14111","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current commentary explored the applicability of the methods described in “Mitigating invalid and mischievous survey responses: A registered report examining risk disparities between heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning youth” by Dr. Joseph Cimpian and colleagues to explore sexual orientation disparities in preexisting data from a nonprobability sample. Understanding Affirming Communities, Relationships, and Networks was a study of mostly White (77.4%) 9674 sexual and gender-minoritized youth aged 15–29 from the US and Canada. The influence of invalid data on the prevalence ratios of four health outcomes was assessed. The methods yielded similar effects to the original paper. The accuracy varied by outcome prevalence and was robust to misspecification of the model. Therefore, the applicability of this method to preexisting data seems feasible.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"e373-e376"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140896349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Menendez, Danielle Labotka, Valerie A. Umscheid, Susan A. Gelman
{"title":"The social aspects of illness: Children's and parents' explanations of the relation between social categories and illness in a predominantly white U.S. sample","authors":"David Menendez, Danielle Labotka, Valerie A. Umscheid, Susan A. Gelman","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14110","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has had a disproportionate impact on Black, low-income, and elderly individuals. We recruited 175 predominantly white children ages 5–12 and their parents (<i>N</i> = 112) and asked which of two individuals (differing in age, gender, race, social class, or personality) was more likely to get sick with either COVID-19 or the common cold and why. Children and parents reported that older adults were more likely to get sick than younger adults, but reported few differences based on gender, race, social class, or personality. Children predominantly used behavioral explanations, but older children used more biological and structural explanations. Thus, children have some understanding of health disparities, and their understanding increases with age.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1676-1692"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140907944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amanda S. Haber, Sona C. Kumar, Kathryn A. Leech, Kathleen H. Corriveau
{"title":"How does caregiver–child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children's mindset beliefs and persistence?","authors":"Amanda S. Haber, Sona C. Kumar, Kathryn A. Leech, Kathleen H. Corriveau","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14107","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores how caregiver–child scientific conversation during storybook reading focusing on the challenges or achievements of famous female scientists impacts preschoolers' mindset, beliefs about success, and persistence. Caregiver–child dyads (<i>N</i> = 202, 100 female, 35% non-White, aged 4–5, ƒ = .15) were assigned to one of three storybook conditions, highlighting the female scientist's <i>achievements</i>, <i>effort</i>, or, in a <i>baseline</i> condition, neither. Children were asked about their mindset, presented with a persistence task, and asked about their understanding of effort and success. Findings demonstrate that storybooks highlighting <i>effort</i> are associated with growth mindset, attribution of success to hard work, and increased persistence. Caregiver language echoed language from the assigned storybook, showing the importance of reading storybooks emphasizing hard work.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1739-1753"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140821470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irene J. K. Park, Lijuan Wang, Ruoxuan Li, Tiffany Yip, Kristin Valentino, Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, Kyle Lorenzo, Jenny Zhen-Duan, Kiara Alvarez, Margarita Alegría
{"title":"A daily diary study of discrimination and distress in Mexican-origin adolescents: Testing mediating mechanisms","authors":"Irene J. K. Park, Lijuan Wang, Ruoxuan Li, Tiffany Yip, Kristin Valentino, Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, Kyle Lorenzo, Jenny Zhen-Duan, Kiara Alvarez, Margarita Alegría","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14108","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14108","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present 21-day daily diary study (conducted 2021–2022) tested anger and racism-related vigilance as potential transdiagnostic mediators linking exposure to racial and ethnic discrimination (RED) to distress (negative affect and stress, respectively). The data analytic sample included <i>N</i> = 317 Mexican-origin adolescents (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 13.5 years; 50.8% male, 46.7% female; 2.5% non-binary) from the Midwestern United States. Results from longitudinal mediation models revealed significant mediation effects through anger and racism-related vigilance, respectively, in the association between daily RED and daily distress, both within and across adolescents. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed so that future work can leverage these novel findings toward promoting the well-being of Mexican-origin adolescents, especially those who live in contexts of ethnoracial adversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1754-1769"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140821468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
May Ling D. Halim, Lyric N. Russo, Kaelyn N. Echave, Sachiko Tawa, Dylan J. Sakamoto, Miguel A. Portillo
{"title":"“She's so pretty”: The development of valuing personal attractiveness among young children","authors":"May Ling D. Halim, Lyric N. Russo, Kaelyn N. Echave, Sachiko Tawa, Dylan J. Sakamoto, Miguel A. Portillo","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14104","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study sought to understand gender differences in how much children value personal attractiveness, whether age is associated with valuing personal attractiveness, and the role of gender identity development. Three- to five-year-olds (<i>N</i> = 170; 89 girls, 81 boys, 0 other genders; primarily Latiné, multiethnic, and non-Hispanic White American) were recruited from child centers across the Los Angeles and Orange County metropolitan areas. Across several indicators (e.g., self-report, preference for appearance-related female-typed occupations and fancy gender-typed outfits, memory for fancy gender-typed clothing, and spontaneous reasons for liking a media character), girls highly valued personal attractiveness. Girls also valued personal attractiveness and tied their gender to personal attractiveness to a greater extent than boys. We discuss implications for later well-being and health.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1659-1675"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140651854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline R. O'Brien, Angela H. Lee, Amanda L. Stone, Nathan F. Dieckmann, Maureen Zalewski, Anna C. Wilson
{"title":"Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain","authors":"Jacqueline R. O'Brien, Angela H. Lee, Amanda L. Stone, Nathan F. Dieckmann, Maureen Zalewski, Anna C. Wilson","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14106","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parental chronic pain is associated with adverse outcomes in children, but the mechanisms of transmission are largely untested. Mothers with chronic pain (<i>N</i> = 400, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 40.3 years, 90.5% White) and their children (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 10.33 years, 83.3% White, 50.2% female) were recruited in 2016–2018 to test longitudinal pathways of risk transmission from maternal chronic pain to children's psychological symptoms, examining roles of parenting, maternal depression, and child distress tolerance. Maternal pain was associated with positive (<i>β</i> = .28) and pain-specific (<i>β</i> = .10) parenting behaviors. Maternal depression was associated with lower child distress tolerance (<i>β</i> = −.03), which was associated with greater child psychological symptoms (<i>β</i> = −.62). Parenting and maternal pain were not prospectively associated with child outcomes. When considering the dual-generational impacts of chronic pain, physical and psychological functioning should be examined.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1709-1722"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140651828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging an intensive time series of young children's movement to capture impulsive and inattentive behaviors in a preschool setting","authors":"Andrew E. Koepp, Elizabeth T. Gershoff","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14100","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studying within-person variability in children's behavior is frequently hindered by challenges collecting repeated observations. This study used wearable accelerometers to collect an intensive time series (2.7 million observations) of young children's movement at school (<i>N</i> = 62, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 4.5 years, 54% male, 74% Non-Hispanic White) in 2021. Machine learning analyses indicated that children's typical forward acceleration was strongly correlated with lower teacher-reported inhibitory control and attention (<i>r</i> = −.69). Using forward movement intensity as a proxy for impulsivity, we partitioned the intensive time series and found that (1) children modulated their behavior across periods of the school day, (2) children's impulsivity increased across the school week, and (3) children with greater impulsivity showed greater variability in behavior across days.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 5","pages":"1641-1658"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140643001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}