{"title":"The relationship between socioeconomic status and future orientation: A comprehensive three-level meta-analysis","authors":"Ruijun Song , Nana Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101798","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101798","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extensive research has explored the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and future orientation. However, the strength of this relationship across studies has been inconsistent. This study employs a three-level meta-analysis to synthesize existing research and assess the relationship between SES and future orientation. Moderator analyses were conducted to investigate the sources of research heterogeneity. A systematic literature search identified 38 eligible studies, providing 119 effect sizes and involving 661,697 participants. The results revealed a small positive correlation between SES and future orientation (<em>r</em> = 0.14). Moderator analyses indicated that culture significantly moderated the relationship. Specifically, a stronger correlation was found in high-welfare and low-welfare countries compared to medium-welfare countries. Furthermore, the measurement of SES showed a significant moderating effect, with a stronger correlation in subjective SES than objective SES. Sex demonstrated a significant moderating effect, with the association stronger in studies with a higher proportion of girls in the sample.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101798"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143885993","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}
Sophie S. Havighurst, Christina C. Ambrosi, Ann E. Harley, Christiane E. Kehoe
{"title":"Tuning in to Kids: Theoretical basis, program description, and factors impacting effectiveness","authors":"Sophie S. Havighurst, Christina C. Ambrosi, Ann E. Harley, Christiane E. Kehoe","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101797","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101797","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces Tuning in to Kids (TIK), a suite of parenting programs that take an emotion-focused approach to working with parents and carers to improve parent functioning, the parent-child relationship, and children's emotional, social, and behavioural functioning. A range of theoretical influences have shaped the program including emotion socialisation theory. A proposed theoretical model for the program is outlined that considers ways in which the program might lead to change. TIK program content and delivery methods are outlined. The final section of the paper outlines a socioecological model that explores the layering of factors contributing to program effectiveness, including child, parent, and family factors; the program content; facilitator factors; organisational factors; and finally, the wider social, cultural, and political influences. These factors provide a framework for reflecting on and understanding what can be both enablers and barriers to program effectiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101797"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143895047","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}
Yuan Shen , Chenglong Jia , Kaiyan Yang , Ke Shen , Wenshuo Li , Jinliang Qin
{"title":"Young children's interpersonal trust update based on promise fulfillment: Relationship counts","authors":"Yuan Shen , Chenglong Jia , Kaiyan Yang , Ke Shen , Wenshuo Li , Jinliang Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101801","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101801","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To navigate the ever-changing social world, children need to update trust in response to new experience. Little is known, however, about how young children update trust in interpersonal interactions. The current study investigated how 5–6-year-olds (<em>N</em> = 160) predicted that a protagonist would update their trust for a mother character based on the mother's promise-fulfillment behavior, with unfamiliar others included for comparison. Results showed that 5–6-year-olds predicted that the protagonist would decrease trust for both mother and unfamiliar characters in the promise-breaking condition. However, in the promise-keeping condition, children predicted that the protagonist would increase trust only for the unfamiliar character, not for the mother character. These results suggest that 5–6-year-olds are able to update interpersonal trust based on promise-fulfillment observed from a third-party perspective, and this process is moderated by the relationships between characters in observed interactions. These results underscore the dynamic and relationship nature of children's interpersonal trust, which offers insights into establishing trusting relationships with children in daily caregiving and education settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101801"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935991","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":"Longitudinal impact of child care and home environments on low-income children's development","authors":"Yijie Wang , Nail Hassairi","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101800","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101800","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This longitudinal study investigates how child care quality (CCQ) and home learning environments (HLE) relate to cognitive and social-emotional development among children from low-income backgrounds during their first five years. Analyzing data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Study (<em>N</em> = 482), the research found that HLE demonstrated a significant positive association with achievements in cognitive and social-emotional domains. Notably, HLE's influence on cognitive development became increasingly important over time. While CCQ alone did not directly correlate with developmental outcomes in either domain, the interaction between CCQ and HLE over time significantly influenced cognitive growth. As children developed, cognitive development gaps widened in favor of children from high-quality home learning environments, with this advantage notably amplified by high-quality child care. The findings highlight the critical importance of both enriching home environments and nurturing child care settings in supporting optimal cognitive development for children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101800"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902306","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}
Yangdi Chen , Xinqi Li , Mingping Lin , Xiaoqing Li , Xinmei Deng
{"title":"Associations of authoritarian parenting with parent-adolescent interbrain synchrony in emotional co-experiencing situations","authors":"Yangdi Chen , Xinqi Li , Mingping Lin , Xiaoqing Li , Xinmei Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Authoritarian parenting styles could undermine the relationship between parents and their adolescents. Despite the same parenting styles, mothers and fathers tend to play distinct parenting roles, leading to different parent-adolescent interaction patterns. Investigating the differences in effects between authoritarian paternal and maternal parenting styles on the parent-adolescent emotional shared activities provides insight into adolescent parenting. The present study used the electroencephalography hyperscanning technique to examine parent-adolescent interbrain synchrony (IBS) during a video co-viewing task, focusing on the effects of parental overprotection and overinvolvement. The results showed that parent-adolescent IBS in the beta and gamma bands were negatively correlated with authoritarian paternal parenting style levels. However, parent-adolescent IBS in the beta band was positively correlated with authoritarian maternal parenting style levels. These findings expand the neural basis underlying parent-adolescent emotional shared activities under authoritarian paternal and maternal parenting styles, emphasizing the significance of recognizing fathers' and mothers' differences in adolescent parenting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101806"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144125284","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}
Ann H. Farrell , Heather Brittain , Amanda Krygsman , Tracy Vaillancourt
{"title":"Joint trajectories of indirect peer victimization and perfectionism across adolescence","authors":"Ann H. Farrell , Heather Brittain , Amanda Krygsman , Tracy Vaillancourt","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101802","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101802","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Perfectionism has been proposed to be a coping strategy that results from experiencing indirect victimization. However, studies on this topic have predominately been cross-sectional, preventing the understanding of their development. In a sample of 616 youth (<em>M</em><sub><em>age</em></sub> = 13.03 at start of current study; <em>SD</em> = 0.38; 54.2 % girls, 76.1 % White) followed annually, we examined the joint trajectories of indirect peer victimization with socially prescribed perfectionism and self-oriented perfectionism from ages 13 to 18 using latent class growth analyses. As expected, we found two high-risk joint trajectory groups: moderate stable indirect peer victimization/high increasing socially prescribed perfectionism (5.5 %) and moderate stable indirect peer victimization/high increasing self-oriented perfectionism (2.3 %). Indirect peer victimization was a better indicator of perfectionism, particularly socially prescribed perfectionism, than the reverse. Group differences in gender and socioeconomic status were found. Findings suggest that appearing perfect may be one way that individuals attempt to prevent further peer abuse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101802"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935992","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}
Joanna Smogorzewska , Grzegorz Szumski , Paweł Grygiel , Sandra Bosacki
{"title":"Does emotional closeness with the teacher mediate the relationship between children's advanced theory of mind and social functioning at school?","authors":"Joanna Smogorzewska , Grzegorz Szumski , Paweł Grygiel , Sandra Bosacki","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101803","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101803","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study tested the longitudinal (3 waves) relations among children's advanced theory of mind (AToM), emotional closeness with the teacher, and social functioning at school (loneliness and social skills). Seven hundred and fifty-one typically developing Polish children (344 boys and 416 girls, <em>M</em> age = 7.45 years (<em>SD</em> = 0.50 years) at T1) took part in the study. It has been demonstrated that (1) children who had AToM at T1 were able to establish closer, more positive relations with their teacher later on that were beneficial for children's functioning; (2) closeness with the teacher was found to mediate the relations between previous levels of AToM and later social functioning of children; (3) AToM abilities reduced children's levels of dissatisfaction with peer relationships. Overall, the study emphasises the importance of positive contact between children and their teachers for children's social functioning at school.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101803"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941706","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}
Seo Woo Lee , Tae Kyoung Lee , Catherine Walker O'Neal , Seth J. Schwartz
{"title":"Family adversities and substance use: A longitudinal study among Korean adolescents","authors":"Seo Woo Lee , Tae Kyoung Lee , Catherine Walker O'Neal , Seth J. Schwartz","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101799","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101799","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examined the developmental mechanisms linking parental disengagement and parental harshness to alcohol/tobacco use in later adolescence, focusing on the roles of adolescents' own delinquency and their peers' delinquency. Data were drawn from five waves of the nationally representative Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey 2010 (KCYPS 2010). We analyzed data from 2323 adolescents spanning Waves 2–6 (49.5 % female; mean age = 13.90, <em>SD</em> = 0.34). Hypothesized models were evaluated using a longitudinal structural equation modeling (LSEM) framework. Results indicated multiple mediation processes of parental disengagement and parental harshness. That is, parental disengagement predicted adolescents' alcohol/tobacco use via their own delinquency and then peer delinquency, whereas parental harshness predicted alcohol/tobacco use via peer delinquency and then their own delinquency. The findings suggest that preventive intervention efforts for adolescent substance use may benefit from treatment sequence modification based on the types of family adversities to which adolescents are exposed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101799"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143917507","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}
Keren Zhou , Zhe Li , Xinting Zhang , Tingyu Li , Jing Li
{"title":"Epistemic trust in digital voice assistants in conflict situations among 4- to 6-year-olds","authors":"Keren Zhou , Zhe Li , Xinting Zhang , Tingyu Li , Jing Li","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conflicts between digital voice assistant (DVA) testimonies and children's preexisting beliefs have significant implications for children's epistemic trust in DVAs. This study investigated the trust in informants (humans vs. DVAs) among 90 Chinese children (45 girls; aged 4–6 years) in situations under different levels of conflict via the conflicting sources paradigm. Children's trust in the testimonies of DVAs was lower in high-conflict situations than in non-conflict and low-conflict situations. Compared with younger children, older children were more likely to adhere to their preexisting beliefs and refuse to revise their beliefs under conflict situations. These findings suggest that epistemic trust and belief revision in children are influenced by conflict situations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101804"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144070631","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}
Anna Bennet , Rui Yang , Angelica Ferrara , Yana Kuchirko , Niobe Way , Diane Hughes
{"title":"Associations between hegemonic masculine norms and academic outcomes among youth in China and the United States","authors":"Anna Bennet , Rui Yang , Angelica Ferrara , Yana Kuchirko , Niobe Way , Diane Hughes","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101805","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101805","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hegemonic masculine norms are associated with lower adolescent psychological and social well-being for boys and girls across cultural contexts. A growing body of research, primarily focused on Western populations, suggests that adherence to hegemonic masculine norms may also pose a risk to academic achievement. However, the mechanisms underlying this association remain underexplored. This study investigates school engagement as a potential mediator through which greater adherence to hegemonic masculinity influences poorer academic performance. Using data collected in the United States (<em>n</em> = 947) and China (<em>n</em> = 710), we explored whether the influence of hegemonic masculinity on academic outcomes can be observed across national and cultural contexts. Specifically, we examined relations between adherence to hegemonic masculine norms in 7th grade and academic engagement and performance in 8th grade among U.S. and Chinese boys and girls. Results show that higher levels of adherence to hegemonic masculine norms were associated with lower academic performance across gender and nationality. Moreover, school engagement partially mediated the association between adherence to hegemonic masculine norms and academic performance in both U.S. and Chinese samples. Implications for policy makers and educators are discussed in relation to both cultures in which our data is situated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101805"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144130941","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}