{"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}
Kaitlin M. Flannery, Katherine E Bonafide, Rhiannon L. Smith
{"title":"Unfriended during adolescence: Correlates of continued contact with former friends in school and online","authors":"Kaitlin M. Flannery, Katherine E Bonafide, Rhiannon L. Smith","doi":"10.1177/01650254221132759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221132759","url":null,"abstract":"Friendships frequently dissolve in early adolescence, but youth may continue to encounter ex-friends in their daily lives. The current study aimed to examine how adolescents’ reactions to friendship dissolutions were associated with continued exposure to the former friend both in school and online via social media. Participants were 354 middle school students (Mage = 11.89 years, SD = .86) from the northeast United States who self-reported their experiences following a friendship dissolution. Results indicate that higher frequency of seeing a former friend in school is associated with increased intensity of positive reactions and decreased duration of negative reactions. Greater frequency of seeing the former friend online, however, is associated with increased intensity and duration of negative reactions following the dissolution, as well as decreased intensity of positive reactions. We interpret the current findings through the lens of the transformation framework, which suggests that the online context transforms and intensifies negative peer experiences.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"82 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43753894","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}
L. Badenes-Ribera, Carmen Duro-García, Carmen López-Ibáñez, Manuel Martí-Vilar, J. Sánchez-Meca
{"title":"The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis","authors":"L. Badenes-Ribera, Carmen Duro-García, Carmen López-Ibáñez, Manuel Martí-Vilar, J. Sánchez-Meca","doi":"10.1177/01650254221128280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221128280","url":null,"abstract":"The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale (APBS) is most often used to measure adult prosociality. We conducted a reliability generalization meta-analysis to compute the average APBS reliability and examine the heterogeneity among reliability estimations and the influence of moderator variables. An exhaustive search identified 74 articles that applied the APBS with 16 items assessed on a 5-point Likert-type scale. Of these, 58 had reliability coefficients with the current data, and 76 reliability estimates were provided. Random- and mixed-effects models were used. The average reliability coefficient was .903 for Cronbach’s alpha, .896 for McDonald’s omega, and .674 for test–retest. Moderator analyses were used to create a predictive model in which the target population and study language accounted for 48.7% of the total variability among Cronbach’s alpha coefficients. Although the APBS has shown satisfactory internal consistency, it can vary as a function of several factors.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"59 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42183314","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}
{"title":"Emotion regulation through music and mindfulness are associated with positive solitude differently at the second half of life","authors":"Noa Bachman, Y. Palgi, E. Bodner","doi":"10.1177/01650254221131304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221131304","url":null,"abstract":"Mindfulness and emotion regulation through music listening are skills that share some attributes with the skill of positive solitude (PS; defined as an inner choice to dedicate time to a meaningful, enjoyable activity or experience managed by oneself, with or without the presence of others). Nevertheless, little is known about their relationship with PS in the second half of life. Hence, we recruited a convenience sample of community-dwelling adults in the second half of life (N = 123; M = 68.63, SD = 10.99), who completed self-report measures of demographics, emotion regulation through music, mindfulness, and PS. A hierarchical linear regression demonstrated significant positive associations between emotion regulation through music listening and PS, and between mindfulness and PS. Moreover, age moderated the relationship between mindfulness and PS. This relationship was found to be positive and significant only among older adults. These findings support the study’s hypotheses and emphasize the contribution of the current research to developmental research on PS in the second half of life.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 1","pages":"520 - 527"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47118712","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}
{"title":"Editorial coda","authors":"Brett Laursen","doi":"10.1177/01650254221133294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221133294","url":null,"abstract":"to insist on reor-ganizing and rephrasing to suit personal tastes. Reviewers are invited on the basis of academic expertise, not copyediting skills. And this: Resist the temptation to approach the task as a competition. Journals do not reserve a fixed number of pages for research on a topic. Overly critical reviewing is bad for a topic area because Action Editors are not always in a position to distinguish the important from the mundane. Embrace the opportunity to uplift colleagues and promote a topic. Carefully distinguish fatal flaws from matters that can be fixed. Emphasize the contribu-tions (large and small) of a submission. My experience suggests","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 1","pages":"576 - 577"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41582653","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}
{"title":"Solitude and affect during emerging adulthood: When, and for whom, spending time alone is related to positive and negative affect during social interactions","authors":"Hope I. White, J. Bowker, Ryan E Adams, R. Coplan","doi":"10.1177/01650254221133296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221133296","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines within- and between-person associations between emerging adults’ daily time spent alone and their positive/negative affect during social interactions. We also consider whether motivations for seeking solitude (shyness, unsociability, avoidance) moderate these associations. Participants were 411 emerging adults (ages 18–26 years; 51% female; 52% ethnic minority) who reported on their motivations for solitude and completed daily reports of their time spent alone and positive/negative affect experienced during social interactions for 7 consecutive days. Among the results, multi-level modeling indicated that on days when emerging adults spent more time alone than usual, they experienced increased levels of high and low arousal positive affect when they interacted with others. Interactions between shy and avoidant motivations and change in time spent alone also emerged, with follow-up analyses indicating that for highly and moderately shy and avoidant emerging adults, days with more time spent alone than usual were associated with greater reports of anxious affect during social interactions. Findings suggest that although many emerging adults may find social interactions more enjoyable on days with increased time alone, those who actively seek solitude as an escape from perceived stressful or unpleasant social circumstances may not.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 1","pages":"490 - 499"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41958585","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}
V. Tsang, Dwight C. K. Tse, L. Chu, H. Fung, C. Mai, Hanyu Zhang
{"title":"The mediating role of loneliness on relations between face-to-face and virtual interactions and psychological well-being across age: A 21-day diary study","authors":"V. Tsang, Dwight C. K. Tse, L. Chu, H. Fung, C. Mai, Hanyu Zhang","doi":"10.1177/01650254221132775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221132775","url":null,"abstract":"Lack of social interaction is associated with a heightened sense of loneliness and, in turn, poorer psychological well-being. Despite the prevalence of communicating with others virtually even when physically alone, whether the social interaction–loneliness–well-being relationship is different between face-to-face and virtual interactions and between younger and older adults is relatively understudied. This 21-day diary study examined this question among younger (n = 91; Mage = 22.87) and older (n = 107; Mage = 64.53) Hong Kong participants during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020). We found significant indirect effects of shorter face-to-face interaction time on poorer psychological well-being via a heightened sense of loneliness at the within-person level only among younger adults and at the between-person level only among older adults. Independent of loneliness, spending more time with others on virtual interactions was associated with better psychological well-being only among older adults. Taken together, while the mechanisms may be different across age groups, face-to-face interaction remains an effective way to reduce loneliness and enhance psychological well-being even at times when it is discouraged (e.g., pandemic). Although virtual interaction does not reduce loneliness, its positive impact on older adults’ well-being sheds light on the utility of promoting technological acceptance in late adulthood.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 1","pages":"500 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43999787","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}
{"title":"A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude","authors":"C. Hoppmann, Theresa Pauly","doi":"10.1177/01650254221130279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221130279","url":null,"abstract":"Solitude occurs from childhood to old age. In this special issue introduction, we offer a lifespan perspective on matters of solitude with the aim to point to pertinent issues in the field. We propose that solitude serves important functions that may vary across different times in life and that solitude needs to be considered in the context in which it occurs. In applying these lifespan developmental notions, we carve out some open questions that will help extend the current knowledge base including a consideration of issues regarding operational definitions of solitude. We also point to methodological challenges such as capturing processes that unfold on different timescales that need to be addressed to advance the field.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 1","pages":"473 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46966941","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}
Marte Olsen, M. Olsson, E. Parks‐Stamm, M. Kvalø, K. Thorsteinsen, M. Steffens, S. Martiny
{"title":"What do I want to be? Predictors of communal occupational aspirations in early to middle childhood","authors":"Marte Olsen, M. Olsson, E. Parks‐Stamm, M. Kvalø, K. Thorsteinsen, M. Steffens, S. Martiny","doi":"10.1177/01650254221121842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221121842","url":null,"abstract":"Research investigating occupational aspirations in childhood is scarce. In addition, most research on occupational aspirations has focused on increasing the number of women in agentic jobs. In the present work, we investigate factors associated with communal occupational aspirations in two studies with young children (Study 1: 159 children [84 boys, 75 girls], Mage = 5.51 years, SD = 0.37; Study 2: 96 children [48 boys, 48 girls]; Mage = 9.44 years, SD = 1.91). We found gender differences in communal aspirations only among the older children. In both samples, as well as when combining the two samples, the stronger the communal occupational gender stereotypes children reported, the less boys (and the more girls) aspired toward communal occupations. In the combined sample, communal self-perceptions mediated the relationship between child gender and occupational aspirations. Finally, the perceived status of the occupations was positively associated with communal aspirations among older children.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"46 1","pages":"528 - 541"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46199006","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}
Tamara Schamberger, Florian Schuberth, J. Henseler
{"title":"Confirmatory composite analysis in human development research","authors":"Tamara Schamberger, Florian Schuberth, J. Henseler","doi":"10.1177/01650254221117506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221117506","url":null,"abstract":"Research in human development often relies on composites, that is, composed variables such as indices. Their composite nature renders these variables inaccessible to conventional factor-centric psychometric validation techniques such as confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In the context of human development research, there is currently no appropriate technique available for assessing composites with the same degree of rigor comparable to that known from CFA. As a remedy, this article presents confirmatory composite analysis (CCA), a statistical approach suitable to assess composites. CCA is a special type of structural equation modeling that consists of model specification, model identification, model estimation, and model assessment. This article explains CCA and its steps. In addition, it illustrates CCA’s use by means of an illustrative example.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"89 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42001224","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}