Katherine Edler, Sarah Hoegler Dennis, Lijuan Wang, Kristin Valentino, Patrick T Davies, E Mark Cummings
{"title":"Family-level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi-informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms.","authors":"Katherine Edler, Sarah Hoegler Dennis, Lijuan Wang, Kristin Valentino, Patrick T Davies, E Mark Cummings","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Longitudinal study of associations between family-level emotion socialization and adolescent adjustment is limited. When American children (53.5% girls) were in second grade (N = 213; M<sub>age</sub> = 7.98; data collected 2002-2003), mothers and fathers (79.8% of mothers and 74.2% of fathers were White) reported on their reactions to children's emotions; in seventh, eighth, and ninth grade (M<sub>age</sub> = 13.03, 14.17, 15.29, respectively; data collected 2007-2010), adolescents, mothers, and fathers reported on adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Four family-level profiles of reactions were identified. Profile differences emerged, suggesting that the emotion dismissing profile was longitudinally associated with elevated adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms and that fathering may especially foster child adjustment for families in a divergence profile.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141916214","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}
Kaitlin P Ward, Andrew C Grogan-Kaylor, Julie Ma, Garrett T Pace, Shawna J Lee, Pamela E Davis-Kean
{"title":"Interactions of gender inequality and parental discipline predicting child aggression in low- and middle-income countries.","authors":"Kaitlin P Ward, Andrew C Grogan-Kaylor, Julie Ma, Garrett T Pace, Shawna J Lee, Pamela E Davis-Kean","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately at risk of not meeting their developmental potential. Parental discipline can promote and hinder child outcomes; however, little research examines how discipline interacts with contextual factors to predict child outcomes in LMICs. Using data from 208,156 households with children between 36 and 59 months (50.5% male) across 63 countries, this study examined whether interactions between gender inequality and discipline (shouting, spanking, beating, and verbal reasoning) predicted child aggression. Results showed aggression was higher in countries with high gender inequality, and associations between discipline and child aggression were weaker in countries where gender inequality was higher. Improvements in country-level gender parity, in addition to parenting, will be necessary to promote positive child outcomes in LMICs.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141916215","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}
Gülseli Baysu, Eva Grew, Jessie Hillekens, Karen Phalet
{"title":"Trajectories of ethnic discrimination and school adjustment of ethnically minoritized adolescents: The role of school diversity climate","authors":"Gülseli Baysu, Eva Grew, Jessie Hillekens, Karen Phalet","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14133","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14133","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated trajectories of ethnic discrimination experiences in school, diversity climates as contextual antecedents, and school adjustment as outcome. Latent-Growth-Mixture-Models of repeated self-reported discrimination over 3 years (2012–2015) by 1445 ethnically-minoritized adolescents of Turkish and Moroccan background in 70 Belgian schools (52.6% boys, <i>M</i>\u0000 <sub>age</sub> = 15.07) revealed four trajectories: low (72.5%), moderate (16.6%), initially-high (6.5%), or increasingly high discrimination (4.4%). Adolescents who attended schools with more minoritized peers, or schools that valued cultural diversity and equality, were more often in low-discrimination trajectories, which predicted better academic outcomes. Overall, school diversity climates can protect minoritized adolescents from experiencing persistent or initially high discrimination over time. Moreover, high discrimination at any point in schooling—initially or later—is harmful to adolescents' school adjustment.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"2215-2231"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141916216","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":"Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health","authors":"Monica Tsethlikai, Kevin Korous, Juyoung Kim","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14149","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14149","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explored whether urban American Indian (AI) caregivers who maintained a strong sense of cultural connectedness buffered their children from the negative effects of stress on mental health. A community sample of 161 urban AI children (91 girls) ages 8–15 years (<i>M</i> = 11.20 years) and their primary caregivers participated between 2016 and 2017. Caregiver cultural connectedness moderated associations among child stressful life events and increased anger (<i>R</i>\u0000 <sup>2</sup> = .13) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms (<i>R</i>\u0000 <sup>2</sup> = .15). For caregivers with greater cultural connectedness, associations were attenuated and not significant. Higher hair cortisol was related to increased depressive (<i>R</i>\u0000 <sup>2</sup> = .11), anxiety (<i>R</i>\u0000 <sup>2</sup> = .10), and PTSD (<i>R</i>\u0000 <sup>2</sup> = .15) symptoms and was not moderated by cultural connectedness.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"1845-1857"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141901098","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 family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood","authors":"Qiong Wu, Soojin Han, Dania Tawfiq, Karina Jalapa, Chorong Lee, Kinsey Pocchio","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14155","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14155","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated familial attachment-based processes in middle childhood, using 788 families (50.6% boys; 84.4% White), assessed six times from 4.5 years old to Grade 6. An adapted Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model revealed between-family associations among couple emotional intimacy, relationships with both parents, and child social skills (<i>β</i> = .18–.66). Within-family increases in child assertion and self-control prospectively predicted relationships with parents (<i>β</i>s = .13), and parent–child relationships predicted various child social skills (<i>β</i>s = .13–.17). Couple emotional intimacy predicted child cooperation, assertion, and responsibility (<i>β</i>s = .12–.24) and father–child relationships in Grade 6 (<i>β</i>s = .20–22) at the within-family level. Findings underscore a systemic consideration of attachment-based processes in the family.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"2195-2214"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141901095","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}
Elizabeth Harvey, Michèle Déry, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Vincent Bégin
{"title":"Child temperament and trajectories of student–teacher relationships quality","authors":"Elizabeth Harvey, Michèle Déry, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Vincent Bégin","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14150","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aimed to examine the associations between child temperament and trajectories of the three dimensions of the student–teacher relationship (Closeness, Conflict, and Dependency) during elementary school. Latent class growth analyses conducted among 744 French-Canadian students recruited between 2008 and 2010 (46.8% girls; <i>M</i>\u0000 <sub>age</sub> = 8.39; 90.9% White; 49.7% with externalizing behavior problems) revealed four Closeness trajectories and three Conflict trajectories, but no significant variability between children in mean levels of change in Dependency. Surgency-Extraversion and Effortful control were associated with specific trajectories of Closeness and Conflict. Effortful control was also associated with cross-sectional assessments of Dependency. These results suggest that temperament is a useful construct in understanding developmental patterns of the student–teacher relationship across the elementary school years.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"2178-2194"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141901096","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":"Parental autonomy support and psychological control and children's biobehavioral functioning: Historical cohort differences in urban China","authors":"Jianjie Xu, Xinyin Chen, Sihan Liu, Xiaofang Weng, Hanyi Zhang, Zhennan Yi, Mengyu (Miranda) Gao, Zhuo Rachel Han","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14145","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14145","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined parental autonomy support and psychological control and their relations with child biobehavioral functioning. Participants included 238 Chinese parent–child dyads (<i>M</i>\u0000 <sub>age-child</sub> = 8.38 years, 42.0% girls) in two cohorts (2013 and 2021). Parents in the 2021 cohort displayed higher levels of autonomy support and psychological control during the parent–child interaction than in the 2013 cohort. Parental psychological control was positively associated with emotion regulation and negatively associated with externalizing problems in the 2013 cohort, but not in the 2021 cohort. Parental psychological control was also negatively associated with vagal suppression in the 2021 cohort, but not in the 2013 cohort. The result suggests that sociocultural contexts may shape the display of parental behaviors and their significance for child development.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"2166-2177"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141901097","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 I. Conley, Eda Naz Dinc, Zhuoran Xiang, Arielle Baskin-Sommers
{"title":"Using latent transition analysis to evaluate the impact of perceived threats on emotional and behavioral development","authors":"May I. Conley, Eda Naz Dinc, Zhuoran Xiang, Arielle Baskin-Sommers","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14138","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14138","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study used latent transition analysis to examine the stability and change in perceived threats in youth's primary social contexts—neighborhoods, schools, and families—and associations with emotional and behavioral problems when youth transitioned from childhood to adolescence. The sample included 8208 racially and ethnically diverse youth enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (47.4% female, <i>M</i>\u0000 <sub>age_Baseline</sub> = 9.83, <i>M</i>\u0000 <sub>age_Timepoint3</sub> = 11.99). Results revealed that while perceived threats in youth's neighborhoods were considerably stable, perceived threats in youth's families fluctuated in relation to stressful life events. Further, subgroups of youth characterized by elevated perceived threat experiences in different contexts showed differential associations with emotional and behavioral problems. Overall, findings highlight the importance of considering the stability of perceived threats to direct appropriate interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"2150-2165"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141901099","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}
Nataşa Ganea, Caspar Addyman, Jiale Yang, Andrew Bremner
{"title":"Effects of multisensory stimulation on infants' learning of object pattern and trajectory","authors":"Nataşa Ganea, Caspar Addyman, Jiale Yang, Andrew Bremner","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14147","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated whether infants encode better the features of a briefly occluded object if its movements are specified simultaneously by vision and audition than if they are not (data collected: 2017–2019). Experiment 1 showed that 10-month-old infants (<i>N</i> = 39, 22 females, White-English) notice changes in the visual pattern on the object irrespective of the stimulation received (spatiotemporally congruent audio-visual stimulation, incongruent stimulation, or visual-only; <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>η</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>p</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math> = .53). Experiment 2 (<i>N</i> = 72, 36 female) found similar results in 6-month-olds (Test Block 1, <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>η</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>p</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math> = .13), but not 4-month-olds. Experiment 3 replicated this finding with another group of 6-month-olds (<i>N</i> = 42, 21 females) and showed that congruent stimulation enables infants to detect changes in object trajectory (<i>d</i> = 0.56) in addition to object pattern (<i>d</i> = 1.15), whereas incongruent stimulation hinders performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"2133-2149"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141892993","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}
Shaocong Ma, Yixin K. Cui, Shan Wan, Eva E. Chen, Kathleen H. Corriveau
{"title":"Children consider informants' explanation quality with their social dominance in seeking novel explanations","authors":"Shaocong Ma, Yixin K. Cui, Shan Wan, Eva E. Chen, Kathleen H. Corriveau","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14148","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14148","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Identifying high-quality causal explanations is key to scientific understanding. This research (<i>N</i> = 202; 50% girls; <i>M</i>\u0000 <sub>age</sub>: 5.82 years; 64% Asian, 33% White, and 3% multiracial; data collected from 2018 to 2024) examined how explanation circularity and informants' social dominance impact children's learning preferences for causal explanations. Raised in a culture valuing circular logic, Chinese children still preferred non-circular explanations and learning from informants providing non-circular explanations (<i>d</i> ≥ 0.50). When informants with non-circular explanations were subordinate to those with circular explanations, Chinese and American children preferred non-circular over circular explanations (<i>d</i> = 1.10), but did not prefer learning new information from either informant. Although children weigh explanation quality over informant dominance when seeking explanations for given questions, they consider both cues when evaluating informants' credibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"2119-2132"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141888649","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}