Albert Y H Lo, Harold D Grotevant, Gretchen M Wrobel
{"title":"Birth Family Contact from Childhood to Adulthood: Adjustment and Adoption Outcomes in Adopted Young Adults.","authors":"Albert Y H Lo, Harold D Grotevant, Gretchen M Wrobel","doi":"10.1177/01650254231165839","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01650254231165839","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Experiences of contact between adopted persons and birth family members have implications for psychological adjustment of adopted persons. The current study utilizes four contact trajectory groups, spanning from middle childhood to young adulthood and encompassing three aspects of birth family contact, in predicting psychological adjustment and adoption-related outcomes in adopted young adults. Data come from a longitudinal study of adoptive families in which adopted persons were domestically adopted in infancy by same-race parents in the United States. Adopted young adults in the group characterized by sustained high levels of contact and satisfaction with contact over time ('Extended Contact') displayed lower levels of psychological distress and higher levels of psychological well-being than adopted persons in the group characterized by contact that increased over time but remained limited ('Limited Contact'). Generally, adopted persons within the group characterized by consistent lack of contact ('No Contact') and the group characterized by contact that was initially present but ended ('Stopped Contact') did not differ in distress and well-being from those in the 'Extended Contact' group. No group differences were found on adoption dynamics and identity, however young adults in the 'Extended Contact' group generally reported more positive relationships with their birth mothers than those in the other groups. Findings are discussed in the context of heterogeneity in contact experiences and implications for policy and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 4","pages":"283-293"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10361248/pdf/nihms-1882064.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9885934","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}
Lindsey M Green, Breana G Genaro, Kizzann Ashana Ratcliff, Pamela M Cole, Nilam Ram
{"title":"Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood.","authors":"Lindsey M Green, Breana G Genaro, Kizzann Ashana Ratcliff, Pamela M Cole, Nilam Ram","doi":"10.1177/01650254221111788","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01650254221111788","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-regulation often refers to the executive influence of cognitive resources to alter prepotent responses. The ability to engage cognitive resources as a form of executive process emerges and improves in the preschool-age years while the dominance of prepotent responses, such as emotional reactions, begins to decline from toddlerhood onward. However, little direct empirical evidence addresses the timing of an age-related increase in executive processes and a decrease in age-related prepotent responses over the course of early childhood. To address this gap, we examined children's individual trajectories of change in prepotent responses and executive processes over time. At four age points (24 months, 36 months, 48 months, and 5 years), we observed children (46% female) during a procedure in which mothers were busy with work and told their children they had to wait to open a gift. Prepotent responses included children's interest in and desire for the gift and their anger about the wait. Executive processes included children's use of focused distraction, which is the strategy considered optimal for self-regulation in a waiting task. We examined individual differences in the timing of age-related changes in the proportion of time spent expressing a prepotent response and engaging executive processes using a series of nonlinear (generalized logistic) growth models. As hypothesized, the average proportion of time children expressed prepotent responses decreased with age, and the average proportion of time engaged in executive processes increased with age. Individual differences in the developmental timing of changes in prepotent responses and executive process were correlated <i>r</i> = .35 such that the timing of decrease in proportion of time expressing prepotent responses was coupled with the timing of increase in proportion of time engaging executive processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 2","pages":"101-110"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974174/pdf/nihms-1817852.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10814988","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}
Sophia W Magro, Marissa D Nivison, Michelle M Englund, Glenn I Roisman
{"title":"The Quality of Early Caregiving and Teacher-Student Relationships in Grade School Independently Predict Adolescent Academic Achievement.","authors":"Sophia W Magro, Marissa D Nivison, Michelle M Englund, Glenn I Roisman","doi":"10.1177/01650254221137511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221137511","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior research has demonstrated that teacher-student relationships characterized by high levels of closeness and low levels of conflict are associated with higher levels of academic achievement among children. At the same time: (a) some research suggests that the quality of teacher-student relationships in part reflects the quality of early caregiving; and (b) the observed quality of early care by primary caregivers robustly predicts subsequent academic achievement. Given the potential for associations between the quality of teacher-student relationship quality and academic achievement to thus be confounded by the quality of early parenting experiences, the present study examined to what extent children's experiences in early life with primary caregivers (i.e., ages 3 to 42 months) and relationships with teachers during grade school (i.e., Kindergarten to Grade 6) were uniquely associated with an objective assessment of academic achievement at age 16 years in a sample born into poverty (<i>N</i> = 169; 45% female; 70% White/non-Hispanic; 38% of mothers did not complete high school). Early maternal sensitivity, though a strong predictor of later academic achievement, was not reliably associated with either teacher-reports or interview-based assessments of teacher-student relationship quality in grade school. Nonetheless, early maternal sensitivity and teacher-student relationship quality were each uniquely associated with later academic achievement, above and beyond key demographic variables. Taken together, the present results highlight that the quality of children's relationships with adults at home and at school independently, but not interactively, predicted later academic achievement in a high-risk sample.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 2","pages":"158-168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9983819/pdf/nihms-1844565.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9100223","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}
Sally B Palmer, Seçil Gönültaş, Ayşe Şule Yüksel, Eirini K Argyri, Luke McGuire, Melanie Killen, Adam Rutland
{"title":"Challenging the Exclusion of Immigrant Peers.","authors":"Sally B Palmer, Seçil Gönültaş, Ayşe Şule Yüksel, Eirini K Argyri, Luke McGuire, Melanie Killen, Adam Rutland","doi":"10.1177/01650254221128275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221128275","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study examined age-related differences in bystander reactions within the context of peer exclusion of national ingroup (British) and immigrant outgroup (Australian or Turkish) peers. The immigrant peers were from nations that varied in terms of their perceived intergroup status in Britain. Participants were British children (<i>n</i> = 110, 8-11 years) and adolescents (<i>n</i> = 193, 13-16 years) who were presented with one of three scenarios in which either a British national, Australian immigrant or Turkish immigrant peer was excluded by a British peer group. Participants indicated their bystander responses. Perceived similarity and bystander self-efficacy were examined as possible correlates of bystander reactions. Findings revealed that children were more likely to directly challenge the social exclusion when the excluded peer was British or Australian compared to when they were Turkish. In contrast, adolescents did not differentiate in their response - they were equally likely to directly challenge the exclusion regardless of the excluded peer's nationality. Importantly, when the excluded peer was Turkish, moderated mediation analysis showed that, with age, there was higher bystander self-efficacy for challenging the exclusions. In turn, higher bystander self-efficacy was related to higher direct challenging. These novel findings demonstrate the importance of intergroup relations, perceived similarity and bystander self-efficacy in the emergence of age-related differences in bystander reactions to the exclusion of immigrant peers [219 words].</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"9-20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10104514/pdf/nihms-1835130.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9321874","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}
Ayelet Lahat, Michal Perlman, Nina Howe, Holly E Recchia, William M Bukowski, Jonathan B Santo, Zhangjing Luo, Hildy Ross
{"title":"Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers.","authors":"Ayelet Lahat, Michal Perlman, Nina Howe, Holly E Recchia, William M Bukowski, Jonathan B Santo, Zhangjing Luo, Hildy Ross","doi":"10.1177/01650254221121854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221121854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The frequency and length of games, conflicts, and contingency sequences that took place between toddlers as they got to know one another were studied using archival data. The sample consisted of 28 unfamiliar 20- and 30-month-old toddlers (predominantly White, 16 males) who met separately with each of two other toddlers for 18 play dates. The frequency of games increased over time, while the frequency of conflict and contingency sequences decreased. The length of games increased over time while the length of conflicts and contingency sequences were stable. Age and language ability predicted changes in frequency and length of the different types of sequences. Thus, toddlers engage in less structured interactions when they first meet; their interactions become increasingly more organized and positive as the relationship evolves.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"21-34"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9791325/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10821640","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}
Monica S Lu, Laura Hennefield, Rebecca Tillman, Lori Markson
{"title":"Optimistic Children Engage in More Constructive Risk-Taking Behaviors.","authors":"Monica S Lu, Laura Hennefield, Rebecca Tillman, Lori Markson","doi":"10.1177/01650254221132766","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01650254221132766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"72-81"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079273/pdf/nihms-1839586.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9641667","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":"Adolescents suppress emotional expression more with peers compared to parents and less when they feel close to others.","authors":"Megan S Wylie, Kalee De France, Tom Hollenstein","doi":"10.1177/01650254221132777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221132777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescence is characterized by frequent emotional challenges, intense emotions, and higher levels of expressive suppression use than found in older populations. While evidence suggests that contingent expressive suppression use based on context is the most functional, it remains unclear whether adolescents use expressive suppression differentially based on social context. Because the peer relationship is highly salient in adolescence, the current study was designed to assess whether adolescents use expressive suppression differentially based on their social context. Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 179, <i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 13.94, 49.2% female) reported emotional events using experience sampling via a smartphone application for 14 days. Multilevel modeling revealed that adolescents used less expressive suppression when they were alone compared with when they were with people, and used more expressive suppression when they were with their peers compared with when they were with family. In addition, more closeness with family predicted less overall expressive suppression use, while closeness with peers did not influence the level of expressive suppression use within the peer context. We discuss the importance of peer relations in adolescence and the relationship between closeness and emotional expression.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9791326/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10821641","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}
Kristina L McDonald, Salma Siddiqui, Sunmi Seo, Carolyn E Gibson
{"title":"Interpretations and revenge goals in response to peer provocations: Comparing adolescents in the United States and Pakistan.","authors":"Kristina L McDonald, Salma Siddiqui, Sunmi Seo, Carolyn E Gibson","doi":"10.1177/01650254221121840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221121840","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined cultural specificity in how interpretations about peer provocation are associated with revenge goals and aggression. The sample consisted of young adolescents from the United States (369 seventh-graders; 54.7% male; 77.2% identified as White) and from Pakistan (358 seventh-graders; 39.2% male). Participants rated their interpretations and revenge goals in response to six peer provocation vignettes and completed peer nominations of aggressive behavior. Multi-group SEM models indicated cultural specificity in how interpretations were related to revenge goals. Interpretations that a friendship with the provocateur was unlikely were uniquely related to revenge goals for Pakistani adolescents. For U.S adolescents positive interpretations were negatively related to revenge but self-blame interpretations were positively related to vengeance goals. Revenge goals were related to aggression similarly across groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 6","pages":"555-561"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977067/pdf/nihms-1827820.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9136265","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":"Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems.","authors":"Yu Hao, Kalee De France, Gary W Evans","doi":"10.1177/01650254221116870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221116870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Childhood disadvantage is associated with psychological distress throughout the lifespan. Poor children are alleged to give up more often than their more privileged peers when facing challenges. Yet little research has examined the role of task persistence in poverty and mental health. We test whether poverty-related deficits in persistence contribute to the well-documented link between childhood disadvantage and mental health. We used growth curve modeling to analyze three waves (age 9, 13, and 17) of data assessing the trajectories of persistence on challenging tasks and mental health. Childhood poverty is the proportion of time participants lived in poverty from birth to age 9. We found that individuals experiencing more poverty in early childhood demonstrate less persistence and deteriorated mental health from ages 9 to 17. As expected, task persistence accounts for a portion of the robust childhood poverty - worsening mental health association. Clinical research on childhood disadvantage is in the early stages of unpacking underlying reasons why childhood poverty is bad for psychological well-being throughout life, revealing potential points of intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 6","pages":"562-567"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9928164/pdf/nihms-1823928.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10748459","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}
Thaddaeus Egondi, Caroline Kabiru, Donatien Beguy, Muindi Kanyiva, Richard Jessor
{"title":"Adolescent home-leaving and the transition to adulthood: A psychosocial and behavioural study in the slums of Nairobi.","authors":"Thaddaeus Egondi, Caroline Kabiru, Donatien Beguy, Muindi Kanyiva, Richard Jessor","doi":"10.1177/0165025413479299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025413479299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Home-leaving is considered an important marker of the transition to adulthood and is usually framed as an individual decision. We move beyond this limited assumption to examine a broader conceptualization that might better illuminate home-leaving among youth in impoverished circumstances. We adopt the Problem Behavior Theory-framework to investigate the association of home-leaving with behavioral and psychosocial variables and with other transitions. We use data on adolescents aged 14-22 years from a three-wave study conducted between 2007 and 2010. We used variable- and person-centered cross-sectional analyses, as well as predictive analysis of home-leaving by subsequent waves. Parental controls protection predicted home-leaving by subsequent waves. Overall, protective factors moderated the association of problem behavior involvement with leaving home in Nairobi's slums.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"37 4","pages":"298-308"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0165025413479299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9658527","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}