Karolina Wieczorek, Megan DeGroot, Heather Ganshorn, Susan A. Graham
{"title":"Connecting Language Abilities and Social Competence in Children: A Meta‐Analytic Review","authors":"Karolina Wieczorek, Megan DeGroot, Heather Ganshorn, Susan A. Graham","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14218","url":null,"abstract":"Research examining relations between language skills and social competence has yielded mixed findings. Three meta‐analyses investigated links between language skills (overall, receptive, and expressive) and social competence in 2‐ to 12‐year‐old children. Data from 130 studies representing 62,120 children (M age at language assessment = 4.70 years; 52% male), predominantly from North America and Europe, and identifying as White (33%), Black (17%), Hispanic (14%), Asian (2%), Mixed (4%), Indigenous (1%), and Other/Unspecified (29%) were analyzed. Analyses indicated significant medium‐sized associations between social competence and: overall language (<jats:italic>r</jats:italic> = 0.27), receptive language (<jats:italic>r</jats:italic> = 0.23), and expressive language (<jats:italic>r</jats:italic> = 0.20). Exploratory analyses indicated significant moderating effects of study design, publication status, social type, and geographic region. Results and implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987525","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":"Exploring the Dynamic Interplays of Morphological Awareness and Reading Skills in Chinese Children.","authors":"Zhenliang Wang, Wan Ding, Ruibo Xie, Xinchun Wu, Shiqing Wenren, Yue Xia","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14214","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theoretical work has suggested close associations between morphological awareness (MA) and reading skills in Chinese; however, the nature and direction of these time-ordered links are little known. This study examined the interplays of MA and reading skills using a continuous-time modeling approach to three waves of two-year longitudinal data from first- (N = 149; 69 girls) and third-grade (N = 142; 74 girls) Chinese children. Results showed that (a) increases in MA predicted subsequent increases in reading skills (i.e., word-reading accuracy, word-reading fluency, and sentence-reading comprehension) and vice versa, (b) age only moderated the predictive effect of MA on sentence-reading comprehension, and (c) the magnitude of these effects was time-sensitive. The theoretical and educational implications of these findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143000739","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}
Rahel L. van Eickels, Magdalena Siegel, Alice J. Juhasz, Martina Zemp
{"title":"The parent–child relationship and child shame and guilt: A meta-analytic systematic review","authors":"Rahel L. van Eickels, Magdalena Siegel, Alice J. Juhasz, Martina Zemp","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14212","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical findings on the associations of positive and dysfunctional parent–child relationship (PPCR/DPCR) characteristics with child shame, adaptive guilt, and maladaptive guilt were synthesized in six meta-analyses. The 65 included samples yielded 633 effect sizes (<i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 19,144; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.24 years; 59.0% female; 67.7% U.S. samples, <i>n</i> = 12,036 with 65% White, 12.3% Hispanic and Latinx, 10.8% Black, 6.3% mixed race, 5.6% Asian American, 0.3% Native American participants). Small positive correlations were found between DPCR and shame (<i>r</i> = .17), DPCR and maladaptive guilt (<i>r</i> = .15), and PPCR and adaptive guilt (<i>r</i> = .14). A small negative correlation was found between PPCR and shame (<i>r</i> = −.12). Sample and study moderators and sources of bias are investigated and discussed.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987956","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":"Young Children's and Caregivers' Evaluations About Household Helping: Balancing the Interests of Helper and Recipient","authors":"Marie Grace Martinez‐Mora, Audun Dahl","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14216","url":null,"abstract":"Young children's helping can benefit both recipient and helper. This study examined how children and caregivers incorporate helper and recipient interests in evaluations of household helping. Data were collected throughout 2022. US children 4–6 years (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 87; 47 girls, 40 boys; 71% European American, 23% Asian American, 14% Latinx, 3% Black, 2% Native American) and their caregivers were evaluated whether and why a child in hypothetical scenarios should help their parent. Children's judgments and reasoning incorporated both child helper and parent recipient interests, whereas caregivers' evaluations weighed child interests more heavily, ORs > 0.239. Caregiver judgments about obligation predicted children's judgments. Findings suggest that perceptions of whose interests are served shape judgments and decisions around young children's everyday prosocial behaviors.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961235","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}
Joseph R. Cimpian, Jennifer D. Timmer, Taek H. Kim
{"title":"Guidance and Considerations When Performing Data‐Validity Checks","authors":"Joseph R. Cimpian, Jennifer D. Timmer, Taek H. Kim","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14221","url":null,"abstract":"This response to a Commentary by Delgado‐Ron, Jeyabalan, Watt, and Salway (2024) on Cimpian, Timmer, and Kim's (2023) paper discusses and clarifies some key issues in applying the new data‐validity sensitivity analysis proposed by Cimpian et al. (2023). The differences in the applications of the method by Delgado‐Ron et al. (2024) and Cimpian et al. (2023) present an opportunity to recognize the possibilities of this method, while also noting some challenges and limitations. This response‐commentary focuses on five key areas: (1) surmising a set of likely motivations of the survey respondents, (2) selecting the screener items, (3) considering the outcomes examined, (4) reflecting on null results in a sensitivity analysis, and (5) recognizing the advantages and disadvantages of the ease of this new method.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142935194","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}
Adam Omary, Mark Curtis, Theresa W. Cheng, Patrick Mair, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Deanna M. Barch, Leah H. Somerville
{"title":"Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones","authors":"Adam Omary, Mark Curtis, Theresa W. Cheng, Patrick Mair, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Deanna M. Barch, Leah H. Somerville","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14220","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from the Human Connectome Project in Development (<i>N</i> = 1304; ages 5–21 years; 50% male; 59% White, 17% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% Asian), multiple measures (self-report, salivary hormones) and research designs (longitudinal, cross-sectional) were used to characterize age-related changes and sex differences in pubertal development. Both sexes exhibit a sigmoid trajectory of pubertal development; females show earlier pubertal timing and increased tempo ~9–13 years, while males show greater tempo ~14–18 years. All hormones increased with age, with sex differences in testosterone and DHEA levels and in testosterone rates of change. Higher testosterone and DHEA corresponded with earlier pubertal timing in both sexes. These findings characterize typical pubertal and hormonal development and inform best practices for handling puberty data.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"203 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936455","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":"A long-term prospective cross-lagged study of gender-typed play and mental transformation in children","authors":"Wang Ivy Wong, Sylvia Yun Shi, Gu Li, Pak Ho Ng","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14211","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gender-typed play may contribute to gender disparities in spatial skills, but evidence of this link is limited. Gender-typed play and mental transformation, an important spatial skill, were studied using age-appropriate and comprehensive measures. Chinese children were tested at 5–6 years and at 11–14 years (<i>N</i> = 210), creating a long-term data set considering bidirectional associations. Play and mental transformation showed moderate to large gender differences. Importantly, boy-typical play positively predicted mental transformation, while girl-typical play negatively predicted it. Results were largely consistent across gender and socioeconomic status and when play was coded by spatialness. They suggest that play is an important socialization experience and illuminates the developmental origins of gender disparities in spatial skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"812-829"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142871631","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}
{"title":"Maladaptive but malleable: Gender-science stereotypes emerge early but are modifiable by language","authors":"Michelle M. Wang, Amanda Cardarelli, Jonah Brenner, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Marjorie Rhodes","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14213","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14213","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gender-science stereotypes emerge early in childhood, but little is known about the developmental processes by which they arise. The present study tested the hypothesis that language implying scientists are a special and distinct kind of person contributes to the development of gender-science stereotypes, even when it does not communicate stereotypic content. One cross-sectional and two longitudinal studies with racially and geographically diverse children (primarily from the United States; ages 4–5; <i>N</i> = 872, tested 2020–2022) revealed that gender stereotypes about science versus art (a) emerge before elementary school, (b) arise from commonplace identity-emphasizing language, especially among girls, and (c) can be durably disrupted by subtle changes to language. This study identifies a promising way to counteract stereotypes at their roots.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"865-880"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142820733","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}
Kara W. Chung, Kyle Lorenzo, David H. Chae, Mona El-Sheikh, Tiffany Yip
{"title":"Impact of daily neighborhood crime on nightly sleep among adolescents","authors":"Kara W. Chung, Kyle Lorenzo, David H. Chae, Mona El-Sheikh, Tiffany Yip","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14202","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14202","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Crime impacts both the immediate victims and has indirect effects on the community. This study examined associations between daily neighborhood crime and actigraphy-assessed sleep outcomes using multilevel modeling. Data were from a longitudinal (14-day) study of 288 adolescents (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.27; 70.8% girls, 29.2% boys; 38.9% Asian, 36.8% Hispanic or Latinx, 20.5% Black or African American) in the New York City area in 2014. Residential addresses were geocoded to examine police-recorded crime. Daily neighborhood violent crime was associated with nightly sleep efficiency, but not duration, bedtime, or wake time. Non-violent crime was not associated with any sleep outcomes. This suggests that neighborhood violent crimes are detrimental to the quality, but not quantity or timing, of sleep that adolescents receive that evening.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"891-900"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816259","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}
{"title":"Positive well-being and dampened emotional reactivity to daily family conflict and family cohesion","authors":"Danny Rahal, Gregory M. Fosco","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14206","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14206","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conflict and a lack of cohesive daily family relationships can negatively affect adolescent adjustment, although adolescents differ in how they respond (i.e., their emotional reactivity) to these daily experiences. The present study assessed whether adolescents' well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, purpose) was associated with dampened emotional reactivity to daily variability in family conflict and cohesion. Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 150; <i>M</i><sub>Age</sub> = 14.60, SD = 0.83; 61.3% female; 83.4% white) completed a questionnaire regarding well-being and reported family conflict, cohesion, and negative emotion for 21 days between August 2015 and November 2016. Greater life satisfaction was related to dampened negative emotional reactivity to daily conflict, whereas greater purpose was related to dampened negative emotional reactivity to changes in daily family cohesion. Well-being may foster resilience in adolescents' day-to-day emotional processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"797-811"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810159","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}