{"title":"Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy","authors":"Kate Luken Raz, Elise M. Kaufman, Melanie Killen","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14197","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present study investigated how Black and White American children, ages 6 to 9.5 years and 9.5 to 12 years (<i>N</i> = 219, <i>M</i><sub>Age</sub> = 9.18 years, SD<sub>Age</sub> = 1.90; 51% female) evaluated vignettes in which peers included a same- or cross-race peer in a high-intimacy or low-intimacy context. These data were collected from 2021 to 2022. Children expected characters to be less likely to include cross-race peers in high- than low-intimacy contexts. They also evaluated cross-race exclusion more negatively in high- and low-intimacy contexts. Black participants evaluated cross-race exclusion more negatively than did White participants. Older participants were more likely to personally include a cross-race peer. This study is a first step toward understanding the role of intimacy in cross-race peer relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"645-661"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142675215","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":"Parents spontaneously scaffold the formation of conversational pacts with their children","authors":"Ashley Leung, Daniel Yurovsky, Robert D. Hawkins","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14186","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14186","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adults readily coordinate on temporary <i>pacts</i> about how to refer to things in conversation. Young children are also capable of forming pacts with peers given appropriate experimenter intervention. Here, we investigate whether parents may <i>spontaneously</i> provide a similar kind of scaffolding with U.S. children in a director–matcher task (<i>N</i> = 201, 49% female; ages 4, 6, 8). In Experiment 1, we show that parents initiate more clarification exchanges with younger children who, in turn, are more likely to adopt labels introduced by the parent. We then examine whether the benefit of such scaffolding acts primarily through childrens' difficulties with comprehension (Experiment 2) or production (Experiment 3). Our findings suggest that parents primarily scaffold pacts by easing children's production difficulties, modeling cooperative communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"546-561"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14186","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142647018","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":"Mother–child collaboration in an Indigenous community: Changing and enduring across generations","authors":"Barbara Rogoff, Itzel Aceves-Azuara","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14181","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14181","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Changes in family life related to globalization may include reduction in the collaborativeness observed in many Indigenous American communities. The present study examined longitudinal changes and continuities in collaboration in a Guatemalan Maya community experiencing rapid globalization. Fluid collaboration was widespread 3 decades ago among triads of mothers and 1- to 6-year-olds in 24 Mayan families exploring novel objects during home visits (Dayton et al., 2022). However, in the “same” situation 30 years later, 22 mother–child triads of their relatives spent half as much time in collaboration among all three people. This aligns with globalizing changes and with the pattern of Dayton et al.'s middle-class European American families. Nonetheless, the Mayan families maintained harmonious interactions, in line with preserving important cultural values.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"1858-1878"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610733","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}
Sawayra Owais, Maria B. Ospina, Camron D. Ford, Troy Hill, Jessica Lai, John Krzeczkowski, Jacob A. Burack, Ryan J. Van Lieshout
{"title":"Determinants of socioemotional and behavioral well-being among First Nations children living off-reserve in Canada: A cross-sectional study","authors":"Sawayra Owais, Maria B. Ospina, Camron D. Ford, Troy Hill, Jessica Lai, John Krzeczkowski, Jacob A. Burack, Ryan J. Van Lieshout","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14192","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14192","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Few studies have focused on off-reserve Indigenous children and families. This nationally representative, cross-sectional study (data collected from 2006 to 2007) examined Indigenous- and non-Indigenous-specific determinants associated with positive socioemotional and behavioral well-being among First Nations children living off-reserve in Canada. The parents or other caregivers of 2990 two-to-five-year-old children (<i>M</i> = 3.65; 50.6% male) reported on their children's socioemotional and behavioral well-being and a range of child, parent, and housing characteristics. Being taught an Indigenous culture, greater community cohesion, caregiver nurturance, good parental/other caregiver health, and fewer household members were associated with better socioemotional and behavioral well-being. These results highlight the importance of leveraging Indigenous-specific determinants and acknowledging non-Indigenous-specific factors, to promote the well-being of First Nations children living off-reserve.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"1879-1893"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142601957","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}
S. V. Wass, C. S. Smith, F. U. Mirza, E. M. G. Greenwood, L. Goupil
{"title":"Needing to shout to be heard? Caregiver under-responsivity and disconnection between vocal signaling and autonomic arousal in infants from chaotic households","authors":"S. V. Wass, C. S. Smith, F. U. Mirza, E. M. G. Greenwood, L. Goupil","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14183","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14183","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children raised in chaotic households show affect dysregulation during later childhood. To understand why, we took day-long home recordings using microphones and autonomic monitors from 74 12-month-old infant–caregiver dyads (40% male, 60% white, data collected between 2018 and 2021). Caregivers in low-Confusion Hubbub And Order Scale (chaos) households responded to negative affect infant vocalizations by changing their own arousal and vocalizing in response; but high-chaos caregivers did not, whereas infants in low-chaos households consistently produced clusters of negative vocalizations around peaks in their own arousal, high-chaos infants did not. Their negative vocalizations were less tied to their own underlying arousal. Our data indicate that, in chaotic households, both communicating and responding are atypical: infants are not expressing their levels of arousal, and caregivers are under-responsive to their infants' behavioral signals.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"527-545"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142596909","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}
Monica Tsethlikai, Ashley Cole, Adam J. Hoffman, Megan Bang, Florrie Fei-Yin Ng
{"title":"To heal, grow, and thrive: Engaging Indigenous paradigms and perspectives in developmental science","authors":"Monica Tsethlikai, Ashley Cole, Adam J. Hoffman, Megan Bang, Florrie Fei-Yin Ng","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14194","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A focus on positive child development among Indigenous children has largely been absent from developmental science. In this special section of <i>Child Development</i>, we sought to address continuing inequity in representation and valuing Indigenous knowledge and voices by soliciting articles that identified cultural and strengths-based factors Indigenous children, youth, and families cultivate and leverage to promote positive development. In this introduction to the special section, we provide an overview of the four empirical articles included, with attention to the ways these articles advance Indigenous paradigms and methodologies by focusing on the unique histories and strengths of four distinct Indigenous communities. We end with a discussion of how to promote continued growth and inclusiveness in developmental science with Indigenous communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"1817-1828"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142567533","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}
Alissa L. Ferry, Mia G. Corcoran, Emily Williams, Sheila M. Curtis, Cathryn J. Gale, Katherine E. Twomey
{"title":"Bigger versus smaller: Children's understanding of size comparison words becomes more precise with age","authors":"Alissa L. Ferry, Mia G. Corcoran, Emily Williams, Sheila M. Curtis, Cathryn J. Gale, Katherine E. Twomey","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14182","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ability to compare plays a key role in how humans learn, but words that describe relations between objects, like comparisons, are difficult to learn. We examined how children learn size comparison words, and how their interpretations of these change across development. One-hundred-and-forty children in England (36–107 months; 68 girls; majority White) were asked to build block structures that were <i>bigger</i>, <i>longer</i>, <i>smaller</i>, <i>shorter</i>, or <i>taller</i> than an experimenter's. Children were most successful with words that refer to size increases. Younger children were less accurate with <i>smaller</i> and <i>shorter</i>, often building bigger structures. The dimensional aspect of <i>taller</i> emerged gradually. These findings suggest that children's interpretation of the meaning of size comparison words changes and becomes more precise across development.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"492-507"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142557291","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":"Overcoming human exceptionalism: The role of ethical nature-culture relations in the developmental contexts of indigenous children","authors":"Emma Elliott, Jillian Fish","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14195","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14195","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Indigenous populations, including American Indians, Alaska Natives, First Nations, and other first peoples worldwide, have been largely overlooked in child development research. This commentary examines how Indigenous relationality intersects with developmental science, advocating for a shift from human exceptionalism to an interconnected relationality among people, land, and more-than-human beings. Drawing from diverse Indigenous knowledge and practices, <i>The Six Pillars to Advance Indigenous Relationality among Children</i> provides frameworks for integrating Indigenous worldviews emphasizing interconnected responsibilities and sustainability. Embracing Indigenous relationality—grounded in respect and reciprocity—dismantles inequitable systems, enhances socioecological well-being, and supports healthy Indigenous child development, fostering responsible relationships with the land and ensuring a sustainable future for generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"1894-1905"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142541558","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":"“Oh, the places you'll go”: The psychological consequences of omission and misrepresentation for Native children","authors":"Stephanie A. Fryberg, Arianne E. Eason","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14193","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>All children navigate the world by searching for information in their sociocultural contexts (e.g., schools, media, laws) to make sense of their experiences and potential futures. In doing so, Native children, however, must contend with the legacy and ongoing oppression of their Peoples, communities, and ways of being. In this manuscript, we highlight how sociocultural contexts stemming from settler colonialism undermine Native futures. We detail how settler colonialism, specifically its manifestation in acts of omission and misrepresentation, impacts children's self and identity development, and intergroup relations. We close by acknowledging the importance of understanding development in context, and the power that the representational landscape can have for promoting paths toward positive child development and greater equity.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"95 6","pages":"1906-1914"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142541556","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}
Katherine B. Ehrlich, Julie M. Brisson, Elizabeth R. Wiggins, Sarah M. Lyle, Manuela Celia-Sanchez, Daisy Gallegos, Anna Langer, Kharah M. Ross, Mary A. Gerend
{"title":"Experiences of discrimination and snacking behavior in Black and Latinx children","authors":"Katherine B. Ehrlich, Julie M. Brisson, Elizabeth R. Wiggins, Sarah M. Lyle, Manuela Celia-Sanchez, Daisy Gallegos, Anna Langer, Kharah M. Ross, Mary A. Gerend","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14191","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14191","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Little is known about how discrimination contributes to health behaviors in childhood. We examined the association between children's exposure to discrimination and their snacking behavior in a sample of youth of color (<i>N</i> = 164, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 11.5 years, 49% female, 60% Black, 40% Hispanic/Latinx). We also explored whether children's body mass index (BMI) or sleepiness moderated the association between discrimination and calorie consumption. The significant link between discrimination and calorie consumption was moderated by children's BMI, such that discrimination was associated with calorie consumption for children with BMI percentiles above 79%. Children's sleepiness did not serve as an additional moderator. Efforts to promote health should consider children's broader socio-contextual experiences, including discrimination, as factors that may shape eating patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":"96 2","pages":"635-644"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142521139","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}