{"title":"Developmental cascades of daily living skills matter for adult outcomes in autism.","authors":"Elaine Clarke, Hannah Singer, Catherine Lord","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579426101874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Daily living skills (DLS) predict adult success for autistic individuals. However, most research on DLS in autism relies on cross-sectional data and DLS summary scores, limiting understanding of how specific skills across development relate to adult outcomes. Using longitudinal data from autistic adults (<i>n</i> = 232, 19% female, 69% White) followed from early childhood into their early thirties (m<sub>age</sub> = 32.6 years, SD = 7.58, range 19-35), this study used machine learning techniques to identify item-level DLS from ages 5 (<i>n</i> = 123), 9 (<i>n</i> = 152), 14 (<i>n</i> = 154), and 18 (<i>n</i> = 143) that predicted adult employment, residential status, social relationships, and well-being. DLS items demonstrated predictive utility for employment (age 9 model <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = .557) and social relationships (age 14 model ROC AUC = .839). Notably, DLS measured at age 5 explained a large proportion of variance in adult vocational outcomes (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = .507). Predictive strength for residential status increased across development (age 18 model ROC AUC = .906), whereas DLS showed limited association with subjective well-being (age 14 model <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = .096). Community-based skills (e.g., money use, telephone skills) consistently emerged as top predictors. Findings are interpreted within a developmental cascade framework, highlighting how DLS competencies in childhood and adolescence may inform experiences for autistic adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148976134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bailey Holt-Gosselin, Fabian Adri, Kathryn L Humphreys, Charles Alexander Nelson
{"title":"Resilience following severe early life neglect: A review of longitudinal evidence from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.","authors":"Bailey Holt-Gosselin, Fabian Adri, Kathryn L Humphreys, Charles Alexander Nelson","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579426101837","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early institutional care is associated with long-lasting adverse outcomes across neurodevelopmental, cognitive, socioemotional, and physical health domains. However, less is known about how resilience emerges following this type of severe neglect. In this review, we define resilience as a descriptive inference reflected in better-than-expected adaptation following adversity among individuals exposed to comparable adversity, and we argue that progress in resilience science requires designs that can test causal mechanisms. We highlight how the randomized foster care intervention in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) provides rare causal evidence on modifiable processes that support resilience following early institutional rearing. Drawing on BEIP findings, we synthesize evidence that improving early caregiving environments leads to more favorable developmental outcomes during childhood and adolescence in multiple domains, while also illustrating that recovery is partial and not uniform across domains. We conclude with key lessons learned about resilience from the BEIP and outline future directions leveraging adult and intergenerational follow-up data to refine how resilience is defined, measured, and mechanistically explained in the context of severe early neglect. By leveraging rare experimental evidence, the BEIP provides a blueprint for identifying modifiable mechanisms through which early intervention can shape resilience across the lifespan following early adversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148711697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esther Calvete, Izaskun Orue, Nerea Cortazar-Enciondo, Maite Larrucea, Todd D Little
{"title":"Testosterone, cortisol, and bullying perpetration in adolescents: The moderating role of peer victimization.","authors":"Esther Calvete, Izaskun Orue, Nerea Cortazar-Enciondo, Maite Larrucea, Todd D Little","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579426101503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on the joint role of testosterone and cortisol in aggression has produced inconsistent results, with limited attention to adolescence, a stage characterized by considerable hormonal changes, and to the distinction between within-and between-person effects. This study examined whether peer victimization moderates testosterone-cortisol associations with bullying perpetration in adolescents. Assessed at three 3-month intervals, participants (471 adolescents, <i>Mage</i> = 14.97, <i>SD</i> = 0.70; 47.1% female) reported bullying perpetration and victimization and provided saliva samples for the analysis of hormones. Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models revealed a three-way interaction (testosterone × cortisol × victimization). Increases in testosterone predicted changes in bullying perpetration when cortisol decreased. These effects were moderated by victimization. When victimization was below average, testosterone increases predicted more bullying perpetration; when it was above average, testosterone increases predicted less perpetration. These findings highlight that peer victimization shapes how testosterone-cortisol interactions influence adolescent aggression, underscoring the interplay of biological and contextual factors in adolescent adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147765352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karen L Bierman, Janet A Welsh, Brenda S Heinrichs, Damon E Jones
{"title":"Preschool home visits promote adolescent adjustment: Follow-up of a randomized-controlled trial.","authors":"Karen L Bierman, Janet A Welsh, Brenda S Heinrichs, Damon E Jones","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579426101497","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research suggests that well-developed parent engagement programs can boost early learning and reduce socioeconomic disparities in subsequent school adjustment. Yet few follow-up studies exist. To address this gap, we followed participants in the Research-based, Developmentally Informed-Parent [REDI-P] intervention study for 8 years to evaluate adolescent outcomes. Participants included 200 4-year-old children (55% White, 26% Black, 19% Latinx; 56% male, 44% female; <i>M</i> <sub><i>age</i></sub> at study entry = 4.45 years) attending Head Start. Families were randomly assigned to REDI-P home learning materials and coaching or an attention control group. Multi-method measures tracked child literacy skills, learning behaviors, social competence, and conduct problems through grade 7. GLM analyses revealed significant preschool intervention effects on grade 7 working memory, <i>β</i> = 0.35, 95% CI 0.08, 0.62, <i>p</i> = .01; perceived social competence, <i>β</i> = 0.30, 95% CI 0.02, .58, <i>p</i> = .04; deviant peer affiliation, <i>β</i> = -0.33, 95% CI -0.60, -0.06, <i>p</i> = .02; and teacher-rated conduct problems, <i>β</i> = -0.30, 95% CI -0.58, -0.01, <i>p</i> = .04. Serial path models identified developmental progressions linking initial intervention effects to adolescent outcomes. Results highlight the long-term value of empowering parents to support the early social-emotional and pre-academic learning of their preschool children.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147765299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph P Allen, Gabrielle L Hunt, Meghan A Costello, Bert Uchino
{"title":"Calling home: Adolescent-family roots of adult resilience during the COVID pandemic.","authors":"Joseph P Allen, Gabrielle L Hunt, Meghan A Costello, Bert Uchino","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101448","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579426101448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined adolescent-family relationship predictors of adult-era resilience in the face of the COVID pandemic, considering both mental and physical health outcomes. Adolescents (99 female, 85 male; 107 White, 53 African American, 15 mixed race/ethnicity, 9 from other minority groups) were followed from age 18 to 38 utilizing both observational and self-report assessments. After accounting for levels of functioning pre-COVID, adolescents who demonstrated a capacity to handle disagreements without becoming engaged in relatedness-undermining hostile behavior in mother-adolescent dyads went on as adults to experience relatively fewer depressive symptoms and better physical health quality post-COVID onset (Direct β's = 0.28 and -0.17, respectively). Follow-up analyses suggested these effects were potentially mediated by maternal reports of adult-era quality of the mother-participant relationship, by level of ongoing maternal contact, and by lower levels of loneliness. Evidence was also found that maintaining contact with fathers in adulthood predicted better health outcomes post-pandemic. Results are taken as supporting a systems approach to understanding resilience, as Luthar has suggested, and identifying the mother-adolescent relationship as a potential long-term protective factor well into mid-adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13222763/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147765144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: <i>Development and psychopathology</i>, continuity, and change.","authors":"Benjamin Hankin, Glenn Roisman","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101412","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579426101412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147728465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingrun Lin, Jacob Moore, Nathan Field, Jessica Stern, Joseph Allen, James Coan
{"title":"Adolescent empathy predicts reduced neural responses to social rejection in adulthood - CORRIGENDUM.","authors":"Jingrun Lin, Jacob Moore, Nathan Field, Jessica Stern, Joseph Allen, James Coan","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579426101424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147627261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Danni Liu, Anouk van Dijk, Zonglin Tian, Maja Deković, Judith Semon Dubas
{"title":"Differential susceptibility to peer rejection and acceptance: A within-child experiment.","authors":"Danni Liu, Anouk van Dijk, Zonglin Tian, Maja Deković, Judith Semon Dubas","doi":"10.1017/S0954579426101382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579426101382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The differential susceptibility model suggests that the same children who are more susceptible to peer rejection are also more susceptible to peer acceptance. Testing this within-child assumption, we examined whether a subgroup of children exists who are more reactive to both rejection and acceptance, and whether higher levels of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) characterize this subgroup. We randomly assigned 455 preadolescents (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 10.86, 49.5% boys) to receive either counterbalanced rejection and acceptance feedback (experimental group) or neutral feedback (control group) from online fictitious peers, and assessed their emotional, self-esteem, attributional, and behavioral responses. Results revealed two subgroups of children showing elevated emotional or self-esteem reactivity to both rejection and acceptance, supporting within-child differential susceptibility. However, SPS did not distinguish these subgroups or moderate children's responses to peer feedback - suggesting limited support for SPS as a differential susceptibility marker to experimentally manipulated peer acceptance and rejection.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147627256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristine Marceau, Andrew Law, Karen J Derefinko, Olivia C Robertson, Sara S Nozadi, Lijun Li, Chang Liu, Leslie D Leve, Jody M Ganiban, Nicole Bush, Cathi Propper, Briana Moore, Amy J Elliott, Catrina A Calub, Theresa M Bastain, Donghai Liang, Julie B Schweitzer, Ban Al-Sahab, Rebecca J Schmidt, Heather E Volk, Jenae M Neiderhiser
{"title":"Prenatal smoking and child psychopathology associations by age and sex in the ECHO cohort.","authors":"Kristine Marceau, Andrew Law, Karen J Derefinko, Olivia C Robertson, Sara S Nozadi, Lijun Li, Chang Liu, Leslie D Leve, Jody M Ganiban, Nicole Bush, Cathi Propper, Briana Moore, Amy J Elliott, Catrina A Calub, Theresa M Bastain, Donghai Liang, Julie B Schweitzer, Ban Al-Sahab, Rebecca J Schmidt, Heather E Volk, Jenae M Neiderhiser","doi":"10.1017/S095457942610128X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S095457942610128X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maternal tobacco smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) is associated with an increased risk of child externalizing problems. It remains unclear whether these associations are externalizing-specific, or better explained by comorbidity between externalizing and internalizing domains, or vary by age and sex. To address comorbidity and differentiation between domains, we leveraged the severity-directional model of psychopathology. Severity reflects the overall level of psychopathology symptoms across both domains (high levels of severity can only be reached by having symptoms of both types simultaneously), whereas directionality captures the balance/differentiation of internalizing vs. externalizing symptoms regardless of number of total symptoms. Participants included 16,335 children aged 1-19 years old (47.78% female, 58.17% White, 75.46% non-Hispanic) from 55 U.S.-based cohorts within the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium. MSDP predicted differentiation toward externalizing problems in 2-year age bins 1-2 through 7-8 and 13-14 years; remaining (non-significant) age bins had similar magnitudes. MSDP predicted higher symptom severity in all age bins. Findings likely reflect a combination of MSDP associations with comorbid symptom severity and specificity toward externalizing problems, with little evidence of age or sex differences. Additional analyses explored e-cigarette use, other prenatal substance use, and postnatal smoke exposure; associations were sparse and unsystematic.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13321736/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147622119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}