Joanna Peplak, Marc Jambon, Alyssa Bottoni, T. Malti
{"title":"Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality","authors":"Joanna Peplak, Marc Jambon, Alyssa Bottoni, T. Malti","doi":"10.1177/01650254221137696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221137696","url":null,"abstract":"We examined Canadian host-society children’s prosociality (i.e., emotions and behaviors that reflect care for the welfare of others) toward refugee newcomer peers and the role of parental socialization (i.e., frequency of parent-child conversations about refugee newcomers) in children’s refugee-specific prosociality. The sample included 168 children (ages 6, 9, and 12 years; 51% girls; 58% European ethnicity) and their primary caregivers. We interviewed children to assess their ethical guilt-related emotions (based on emotions and reasoning) in response to a hypothetical vignette depicting prosocial omission involving a refugee newcomer peer or a non-refugee peer (between-subjects manipulation). A donation task was used to assess prosocial behavior wherein children were given the opportunity to donate chocolate coins to a refugee newcomer peer. Parents reported on how often they typically engage in conversations with their children about refugees and about inclusion. Children experienced similar intensities of ethical guilt-related emotions in the refugee compared with the nonrefugee condition, and donations to refugees increased across age groups. Furthermore, children whose parents engaged them in more frequent conversations about refugees expressed stronger ethical guilt-related emotions toward refugee peers (but not toward host-society peers), and donated more to a refugee peer. No significant associations between conversations about inclusion more broadly and refugee-specific prosociality were found. Encouraging parents to have conversations with their children that focus on the experiences of refugees may be important for fostering kindness between refugees and host-society children. Ultimately, these findings may contribute to initiatives that focus on promoting the inclusion of refugee newcomers in their postmigratory societies.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"221 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44212780","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}
J. Bowker, S. Sette, Laura L Ooi, Sevgi Bayram-Ozdemir, Nora Braathu, E. Bølstad, Karen N Castillo, Aysun Doğan, C. Greco, S. Kamble, Hyoun K. Kim, Yunhee Kim, Junsheng Liu, Wonjung Oh, R. Rapee, Quincy J. J. Wong, Bowen Xiao, A. Zuffianò, R. Coplan
{"title":"Cross-cultural measurement of social withdrawal motivations across 10 countries using multiple-group factor analysis alignment","authors":"J. Bowker, S. Sette, Laura L Ooi, Sevgi Bayram-Ozdemir, Nora Braathu, E. Bølstad, Karen N Castillo, Aysun Doğan, C. Greco, S. Kamble, Hyoun K. Kim, Yunhee Kim, Junsheng Liu, Wonjung Oh, R. Rapee, Quincy J. J. Wong, Bowen Xiao, A. Zuffianò, R. Coplan","doi":"10.1177/01650254221132774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221132774","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal (Social Preference Scale–Revised; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; Mage = 20.08 years, SD = 2.96; 66% females) from 10 countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, India, Italy, South Korea, Norway, Turkey, and the United States). With this cross-cultural focus, we illustrate the multiple-group factor analysis alignment method, an approach developed to assess measurement invariance when there are several groups. Results indicated approximate measurement invariance across the 10 country groups. Additional analyses indicated that overall, shyness, avoidance, and unsociability are three related, but distinct factors, with some notable country differences evident (e.g., in China, India, and Turkey). Shyness and avoidance were related positively to loneliness in all countries, but the strength of the association between shyness and loneliness differed in Italy and India relative to the other countries. Results also indicated that unsociability was related positively to loneliness in the United States only. Theoretical and assessment implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"190 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46240451","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}
Robert J Coplan, Alicia McVarnock, Will E Hipson, Julie C Bowker
{"title":"Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence.","authors":"Robert J Coplan, Alicia McVarnock, Will E Hipson, Julie C Bowker","doi":"10.1177/01650254221113460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221113460","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we examined how technology impacts adolescents' perceptions of, and affective responses to solitude, as well as how adolescents' own motivations for solitude (shyness, affinity for aloneness) were related to these reactions. Participants were <i>N</i> = 437 adolescents (297 girls; <i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 16.15 years, standard deviation (<i>SD</i>) = .50) who were presented with a series of hypothetical vignettes asking them to imagine themselves in the context of <i>pure</i> solitude (alone in their room with the door closed), as well as being physically alone but engaged in increasing levels of virtual social engagement, including passive (e.g., watching videos, scrolling, but no direct social engagement), active (e.g., texting), and audio-visual (e.g., Facetime) technology use. Following each vignette, participants reported their perceptions of being alone and positive/negative affective responses. We also measured general motivations for solitude (shyness, affinity for aloneness). Among the results, adolescents perceived themselves as less alone in vignettes depicting increasing virtual social engagement. Affective benefits of increased virtual engagement were also found (e.g., less loneliness/boredom/sadness, greater social connection/contentment). However, these effects were moderated by solitude motivations, with different patterns evident as a function of participant shyness and affinity for aloneness. Findings highlight the importance of considering the nature of adolescents' technology use when alone, as well as motivations for solitude, when considering links between solitude and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":13880,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Behavioral Development","volume":" ","pages":"481-489"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/09/17/10.1177_01650254221113460.PMC9650721.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40483383","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}
{"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}
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}