Carolin Ritgens , Petra Warschburger , Rebecca Bondü
{"title":"Predicting adolescent prosocial behavior from self-regulation in middle childhood and justice sensitivity","authors":"Carolin Ritgens , Petra Warschburger , Rebecca Bondü","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101754","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101754","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prosocial behavior and responding to unfair treatment depend on many factors, including effective self-regulation that allows to act against primary self- interests. Furthermore, justice sensitivity (JS) may also promote just behavior. Acting in accordance with JS in the face of own disadvantages may also require self-regulation. The present study investigated the relation between self-regulation in childhood (e.g., inhibition, updating, flexibility, emotion regulation) and distributions in adolescence in the dictator, ultimatum, and third-person game and the mediating role of JS. It used data from a German large-scale study with 501 participants (T1: 6–11 years, <em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 8.36, <em>SD</em> = 0.93, 52 % female; T4: 16–21 years, <em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 18.28, <em>SD</em> = 1.00, 53 % female, 2 % genderqueer/other). Latent mediation analyses showed direct effects of childhood affective decision making and flexibility on adolescent prosocial behavior, with additional effects when considering gender. JS contributed to direct effects, but no indirect effects were found, suggesting independent influences of self-regulation and JS on prosocial behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101754"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160208","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}
Gizem Arikan , Ibrahim H. Acar , Asiye Kumru , Fatma Özge Ünsal
{"title":"Maternal symptoms and emotional availability predicting children's behavior problems: A longitudinal study","authors":"Gizem Arikan , Ibrahim H. Acar , Asiye Kumru , Fatma Özge Ünsal","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101753","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101753","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The longitudinal research focusing on the effects of maternal mental health on parenting capacity and child behavior problems during COVID-19 is still limited. Therefore, we examined how maternal symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, and COVID-19-related stress affect maternal emotional availability at a 2-month follow-up and behavior problems at a 4-month follow-up. The mothers (<em>N</em> = 443) with pre-schoolers (<em>Age Range</em> = 30-80 months) responded to questionnaires at three time points. Maternal depression and stress positively predicted maternal hostility and negatively predicted maternal mutual attunement. Maternal hostility and mutual attunement mediated the associations between maternal depression and child externalization, as well as maternal stress and child externalization. Only hostility mediated the associations between maternal depression and stress with child internalization. We highlighted the role of maternal depression and stress in both positive and negative aspects of emotional availability that could possibly shape child externalization. For internalization, maternal hostility adopted the mediator role.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101753"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160203","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}
Zehua Cui , Erinn B. Duprey , Landry G. Huffman , Sihong Liu , Emilie P. Smith , Margaret O. Caughy , Assaf Oshri
{"title":"Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and physical disorder, parenting strategies, and youths' future orientation","authors":"Zehua Cui , Erinn B. Duprey , Landry G. Huffman , Sihong Liu , Emilie P. Smith , Margaret O. Caughy , Assaf Oshri","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neighborhood disadvantage has been linked to youths' diminished future orientation, defined as the degree to which one thinks about, anticipates, and plans for the future. Yet, parenting behaviors may moderate this link. Using longitudinal data from parent-child dyads (<em>n</em> = 101, 51.5 % females; 75.2 % African American) collected across two years, one year apart, this study examined whether parental support, behavioral, and psychological control moderated the links between neighborhood socioeconomic [SES] disadvantage and physical disorder and youths' future orientation. Results showed that 1) both observed and parent-reported support at Year 1 mitigated the negative impact of neighborhood SES disadvantage on future orientation; 2) parent-reported support at Year 1, however, intensified the negative effect of neighborhood physical disorder; 3) parent-reported psychological control at Year 1 protected against the negative impact of neighborhood physical disorder. Our findings highlight the importance of understanding how neighborhood adversity and parenting interact to shape youths' future orientation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 101730"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047830","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}
Xinyun Cao , Yunyi Wu , Mark Nielsen , Fuxing Wang
{"title":"Does appearance affect children's selective trust in robots' social and emotional testimony?","authors":"Xinyun Cao , Yunyi Wu , Mark Nielsen , Fuxing Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101739","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101739","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Robots are increasingly influencing young children's lives. However, little is known about their human-like appearance affects children's trust in robot-provided information. Study 1 used a conflict information source paradigm with 107 Chinese children aged 4–7 years to compare reactions to a humanoid robot, a non-humanoid robot, and a human. Study 2 increased ecological validity by using a single information source paradigm alongside justification and memory tasks in 92 Chinese children aged 4–7 years. The two studies showed that the humanoid appearance of the robot only affected children's selective trust of the robot in comparison situations. When the informant was alone, the robot's appearance did not affect children's endorsement. Further, children aged 6–7 years were less likely to choose the humanoid robot than 4–5 year olds and across age groups children remembered the answers to the knowledge provided by robots and humans equally well.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 101739"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131751","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}
Ellen Demurie , Hanna Van de Vyver , Edmund Sonuga-Barke , Herbert Roeyers
{"title":"Age-related differences in temporal discounting of different types of reward","authors":"Ellen Demurie , Hanna Van de Vyver , Edmund Sonuga-Barke , Herbert Roeyers","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101751","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101751","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Young children discount the value of delayed monetary rewards more steeply than older children and adolescents. We tested the prediction that age-related differences in temporal discounting (TD) would be dependent on reward characteristics, such as reward magnitude and permanent versus transient reinforcing properties. 178 typically developing children and adolescents (8–16 years old) participated in computerized hypothetical TD-tasks, comparing TD of money with TD of an alternative reward (material rewards, desired edible rewards, social rewards, rewarding activities). Discounting was observed for all reward types although money and material rewards were discounted less. Against expectations, age-related reductions in degree of discounting were seen for all types of reward, and reductions in degree of discounting were not related to IQ.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160205","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}
Diana Fusha , Maria T. Corkin , Elizabeth R. Peterson , Annette M.E. Henderson
{"title":"Calls over cuddles: Is technoference associated with lower parental warmth?","authors":"Diana Fusha , Maria T. Corkin , Elizabeth R. Peterson , Annette M.E. Henderson","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101740","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101740","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on past research showing negative associations between parents' use of mobile technologies whilst parenting (so-called “technoference”) and parental responsiveness and attachment, we hypothesised negative associations of technoference and parental warmth for parents of infants. Linear regression with bootstrapping was used to test the associations of several forms of mobile phone use and self-rated parental warmth in a sample of 64 predominantly White parents of 20-month-olds. Surprisingly, higher frequencies of receiving audible notifications and checking mobile devices by parents when with their infants were statistically significantly associated with higher parental warmth. Our findings may be due to higher levels of connectedness to the outside world “spilling-over” into more positive perceptions of time spent with the child. While our novel findings suggest some potential benefits of phone use whilst parenting, this must be interpreted in the context of a range of negative developmental outcomes now associated with technoference.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101740"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160206","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}
Kristin L. Moilanen , Judith A. Richman , Kathleen M. Rospenda , Timothy P. Johnson
{"title":"Economic stressors, alcohol use, and health-related quality of life in middle-aged adults","authors":"Kristin L. Moilanen , Judith A. Richman , Kathleen M. Rospenda , Timothy P. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101752","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101752","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study explored associations between individual economic stressors, community disadvantage, alcohol use, and physical and mental health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in middle adulthood. We analyzed two waves of survey and census tract data from a national sample of <em>N</em> = 1359 adults ages 40–61 (65.0 % women). High economic stress was associated with poor physical and mental HRQoL, and high community disadvantage was linked to poor physical HRQoL only. High alcohol use predicted high physical and mental HRQoL, and low misuse predicted high mental HRQoL only. There was no evidence of mediation, and gender, age, and race moderated a subset of model paths. The discussion considers future directions for research and implications for social policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101752"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160207","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":"The longitudinal relations between traditional victimization and adolescent cyberbullying perpetration","authors":"Xiaochun Xie , Roufei Yan , Pengyun Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cyberbullying perpetration is an intentionally and repeatedly online aggression against a person who cannot easily defend. The present study aimed to investigate the longitudinal relations between traditional victimization and adolescent cyberbullying perpetration as well as the mediating role of revenge motivation and moderating role of school connection. A sample of 1792 middle school students took part in current 4-wave longitudinal survey across 10 months. Participants completed self-report scales on traditional victimization, cyberbullying perpetration, revenge motivation, and school connection. Structural equation models were used to test the longitudinal mediation and moderation effects. Results revealed that traditional victimization increases adolescent cyberbullying perpetration and revenge motivation played a mediator role in the relations. School connection moderated the indirect effects. Among students in high school connection campus, compared with students in low school connection campus, traditional victimization increased cyberbullying perpetration through revenge motivation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101741"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159097","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}
Shiqing Wenren , Wan Ding , Ruibo Xie , Zhenliang Wang , Xiangyu Wu , Xinchun Wu
{"title":"An investigation of the bidirectional relationship between reading comprehension and internalizing and externalizing problems","authors":"Shiqing Wenren , Wan Ding , Ruibo Xie , Zhenliang Wang , Xiangyu Wu , Xinchun Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101729","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reading comprehension problems and internalizing and externalizing problems have a high co-occurrence in middle elementary (grades 3–5) children. This study adopted a three-wave longitudinal design to explore the bidirectional relationship between reading comprehension and internalizing/externalizing problems in a sample of 754 middle-grade elementary children (<em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 8.54, <em>SD</em> = 0.68; 273 girls) from three elementary schools in China. After controlling for gender, age, and family SES, and the autoregressive effects, the cross-lagged model results showed that (1) reading comprehension and externalizing problems were significantly related to each other in grades 3 to 5; while (2) there was only a unidirectional predictive effect of reading comprehension on internalizing problems in grades 3 to 5; and (3) there were also bidirectional effects between reading comprehension and externalizing problems. Our findings highlight the dynamic nature of the relationships between reading comprehension, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems in middle elementary school children.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 101729"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142757623","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}
Siri Steffensen Bratlie , Vibeke Grøver , Ratib Lekhal , Si Chen , Veslemøy Rydland
{"title":"Home literacy environment, language use, and proficiency: Bilingual profiles in young learners","authors":"Siri Steffensen Bratlie , Vibeke Grøver , Ratib Lekhal , Si Chen , Veslemøy Rydland","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Expanded research is needed on how the home environment shapes bilingual proficiency in young children exposed to a different language at home than in early childhood education and care settings. This study examined whether variation in language use with parents, language proficiency, and home literacy environments reflect bilingual profiles. Participants included 320 Norwegian dual language learners (aged 22–68 months) with diverse language backgrounds. Parental surveys assessed language use, first language (L1) proficiency and home literacy environment. Standardized tests assessed second language (L2) proficiency. Latent profile analysis revealed three profiles: (1) more L2 use, higher L2 proficiency and higher L2 home literacy environment; (2) more L1 use, higher L1 proficiency and lower home literacy environments for both languages; and (3) more L1 use, higher proficiency in L1 and L2, and higher home literacy environments for both languages. Profiles differed in L1 distribution, maternal residency length in Norway, and maternal education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 101728"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744972","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}