{"title":"How smart is my child? The judgment accuracy of parents regarding their children's cognitive ability","authors":"Elena Mack, Vsevolod Scherrer, Franzis Preckel","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14156","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14156","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parents' judgment of their children's cognitive ability is important for providing adequate learning environments. This study examined parents' judgment accuracy with 2346 children (<i>M</i> = 8.94 years; 48.3% girls) and their parents (1283 mothers, 426 fathers, and 637 parental pairs). The data were collected between September 2012 and February 2014 in Germany. Latent regression analyses were conducted for the overall sample and by grade (<i>n</i><sub>Grade1&2</sub> = 830; <i>n</i><sub>Grade3&4</sub> = 1516). Characteristics of the child (gender, birth order) and parents (gender, socioeconomic background) were investigated as moderators. Children's cognitive ability explained 34%/25%/37% (overall sample/Grade1&2/Grade3&4) of the variance in parental judgments. Judgments depended more on children's academic achievement than on cognitive ability. Parents judged their son's intelligence more accurately than their daughter's and first-born children more accurately than last-born children. Higher-educated parents showed higher judgment accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 1","pages":"122-140"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11693832/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142016521","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":"Face perception and social cognitive development in early autism: A prospective longitudinal study from 3 months to 7 years of age","authors":"Xiaomei Zhou, Hasan Siddiqui, M. D. Rutherford","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14144","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14144","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is characterized by atypical attention to eyes and faces, but the onset and impact of these atypicalities remain unclear. This prospective longitudinal study examined face perception in infants who develop ASC (<i>N</i> = 22, female = 5, 100% White) compared with typically developing infants (<i>N</i> = 131, female = 65, 55.6% White), tracking social-cognitive and ASC development through age seven. Reduced interest in direct gaze and eyes during infancy correlated with atypical development of adaptive behavior at age four and theory of mind at age seven. Principal component analyses revealed less integrated processing of facial features and eye-gaze information in ASC infants, potentially impacting their childhood social functioning. These findings highlight the intertwined nature of social-cognitive development and ASC.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 1","pages":"104-121"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11693817/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142016520","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":"Connecting the tots: Strong looking-pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development","authors":"Sarah C. Creel","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14157","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14157","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How does one assess developmental change when the measures themselves change with development? Most developmental studies of word learning use <i>either</i> looking (infants) or pointing (preschoolers and older). With little empirical evidence of the relationship between the two measures, developmental change is difficult to assess. This paper analyzes 914 pointing, looking children (451 female, varied ethnicities, 2.5–6.5 years, dates: 2009–2019) in 36 word- or sound-learning experiments with two-alternative test trials. Looking proportions and pointing accuracy correlated strongly (<i>r</i> = .7). Counter to the “looks first” hypothesis, looks were not sensitive to incipient knowledge that pointing missed: when pointing is at chance, looking proportions are also. Results suggest one possible path forward for assessing continuous developmental change. Methodological best practices are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 1","pages":"87-103"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11693829/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142016519","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":"Dynamic self-regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors","authors":"Longfeng Li, Erika Lunkenheimer","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14153","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14153","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined how proximal and distal familial stressors influenced the real-time, dynamic individual and dyadic regulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in mother–preschooler and father–preschooler interactions in at-risk families (<i>N</i> = 94, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 3.03 years, 47% males, 77% White, 20% Latinx, data collected 2013–2017). Proximal stressors were operationalized as changing task demands (baseline, challenge, recovery) across a dyadic puzzle task. Distal stressors were measured as parent-reported stressful life events. Multilevel models revealed that greater proximal and distal stressors were related to weaker dynamic self-regulation of RSA in mothers, fathers, and children, and more discordant mother–child and father–child coregulation of RSA. Findings affirm that stress is transmitted across levels and persons to compromise real-time regulatory functioning in early, developmentally formative caregiver–child interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 1","pages":"71-86"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141987528","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}
Tirill Fjellhaugen Hjuler, Daniel Lee, Simona Ghetti
{"title":"Remembering history: Autobiographical memory for the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, psychological adjustment, and their relation over time","authors":"Tirill Fjellhaugen Hjuler, Daniel Lee, Simona Ghetti","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14131","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This longitudinal study examined age- and gender-related differences in autobiographical memory about the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and whether the content of these memories predicted psychological adjustment over time. A sample of 247 students (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 11.94, range 8–16 years, 51.4% female, 85.4% White) was recruited from public and private schools in Denmark and assessed three times from June 2020 to June 2021. The findings showed that memories weakened over time in detail and emotional valence. Additionally, psychological well-being decreased over time, with adolescent females faring the worst. Critically, memories including higher levels of negative affect and factual information about COVID-19 and the lockdown predicted worse psychological well-being over time, underscoring aspects of autobiographical memory that might help attenuate the negative consequences of the lockdown.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 1","pages":"55-70"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11693838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141975199","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}
Iris Menu, Lanxin Ji, Tanya Bhatia, Mark Duffy, Cassandra L. Hendrix, Moriah E. Thomason
{"title":"Beyond average outcomes: A latent profile analysis of diverse developmental trajectories in preterm and early term-born children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study","authors":"Iris Menu, Lanxin Ji, Tanya Bhatia, Mark Duffy, Cassandra L. Hendrix, Moriah E. Thomason","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14143","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14143","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Preterm birth poses a major public health challenge, with significant and heterogeneous developmental impacts. Latent profile analysis was applied to the National Institutes of Health Toolbox performance of 1891 healthy prematurely born children from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study (970 boys, 921 girls; 10.00 ± 0.61 years; 1.3% Asian, 13.7% Black, 17.5% Hispanic, 57.0% White, 10.4% Other). Three distinct neurocognitive profiles emerged: consistently performing above the norm (19.7%), mixed scores (41.0%), and consistently performing below the norm (39.3%). These profiles were associated with lasting cognitive, neural, behavioral, and academic differences. These findings underscore the importance of recognizing diverse developmental trajectories in prematurely born children, advocating for personalized diagnosis and intervention to enhance care strategies and long-term outcomes for this heterogeneous population.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 1","pages":"36-54"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970739","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}
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":"10.1111/cdev.14154","url":null,"abstract":"<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 (<i>N</i> = 213; <i>M</i><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 (<i>M</i><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":"96 1","pages":"21-35"},"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":"10.1111/cdev.14152","url":null,"abstract":"<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 <i>weaker</i> in countries where gender inequality was <i>higher</i>. 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":"96 1","pages":"7-20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11693812/pdf/","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":"OA","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}