Naomi C.Z. Andrews , Andrew V. Dane , Natalie Spadafora , Elizabeth Al-Jbouri , Anthony A. Volk , Ann H. Farrell
{"title":"A dyadic perspective on evolutionarily relevant aggressive functions: Links to victim characteristics","authors":"Naomi C.Z. Andrews , Andrew V. Dane , Natalie Spadafora , Elizabeth Al-Jbouri , Anthony A. Volk , Ann H. Farrell","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101851","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101851","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research identifies evolutionarily-relevant motives for the use of aggression in adolescence, including: competitive, impression management, reactive, and sadistic functions. We extend prior work by adopting a dyadic perspective and examining features of the perpetrator-target relationship and the characteristics of the target themselves. We used a sample of 278 Canadian adolescents (13–18 years old; 57 % boys; 54 % White) who engaged in aggression and a dyadic sample with their specific aggressive targets. We measured dyadic aggression (the types of aggression present in the dyad), dyadic relationship characteristics (reciprocity of aggression, friendship), target social characteristics (popularity, likability, social network position), and dyadic gender composition. <em>Competitive</em> aggression was related to direct aggression perpetrated by someone with lower or equal power (i.e., not bullying), reciprocal aggression, and male perpetrators. <em>Impression management</em> aggression was related to bullying, non-friend dyads, and targets with lower likability (though more overall friendships). <em>Reactive</em> aggression was related to direct aggression by someone with lower/equal power, and <em>sadistic</em> aggression was related to dyad friendship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101851"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748966","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":"Bidirectional longitudinal associations between Chinese young children's screen use and behavioral difficulties: The protective role of parental mediation","authors":"Wenxiang Lu , Xiaowei Li","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101861","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101861","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A nuanced understanding of the relationships between children's screen use and behavioral difficulties within the Chinese context is needed to guide their screen use. This study investigated bidirectional relationships between screen use and behavioral difficulties using a multi-dimensional measure of screen use (involving time, content, and contexts) and the moderating effects of parental mediation. Data were collected from a sample of 620 Chinese young children (aged 3–6, <em>M</em><sub><em>age</em></sub> = 3.97 years) across two measurement waves. The cross-lagged panel model results found that the predictive path from screen use to behavioral difficulties was not significant, while behavioral difficulties negatively predicted later screen use (<em>β</em> = −0.12, 95 % CI = [−0.21, −0.06], <em>p</em> < 0.01). Moderation analysis showed that active mediation (discussing with children) helped ensure the benefits of proper screen access and content in reducing behavioral difficulties; restrictive mediation (setting rules) alleviated the negative relationship between behavioral difficulties and later screen access. These findings demonstrate the important protective roles of parental mediation, highlighting the need for both parents' active engagement in mediating children's screen use and support from educators and policymakers to promote effective parental mediation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101861"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144908481","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}
Tihitina A. Bekele, Ashley C. Woodman, Jennifer McDermott, Lisa Harvey
{"title":"Moderating effects of autistic traits on the relationship between parenting and child emotion regulation","authors":"Tihitina A. Bekele, Ashley C. Woodman, Jennifer McDermott, Lisa Harvey","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emotion regulation in early childhood is crucial for social-emotional competence. While parenting plays a role in developing these skills, the bidirectional relationships between parenting behavior and emotion regulation over time, particularly involving fathers and neurodivergent children, remain underexplored. This study examined parent-driven and child-driven effects between parenting (warmth, laxness, and overreactivity) and child emotion regulation across four time points in 143 children (52.4 % female) from age 3 to 6, with child gender and family income as covariates. Using four-wave random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM), we conducted separate analyses for mothers and fathers. Initial findings indicated that maternal warmth at age 3 predicted better emotion regulation at age 4, while paternal overreactivity at age 5 predicted worse emotion regulation at age 6. In moderated models, both parent-driven and child-driven effects emerged, varying by children's autistic traits. Among children with higher autistic traits, maternal warmth at age 3 and maternal laxness at age 4 strongly predicted different patterns of emotion regulation. Among children with lower autistic traits, emotion regulation at age 3 predicted higher maternal warmth at age 4. These findings highlight the significance of positive parenting in promoting emotion regulation, especially for children with higher autistic traits. In turn, they also emphasize the role of strong emotion regulation in encouraging positive parenting, particularly for children with lower autistic traits. These findings suggest that interventions should aim to enhance both parenting strategies and children's emotion regulation skills.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101860"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920173","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 longitudinal study of a museum-based out-of-school time program's impact on STEM career pathways","authors":"C. Aaron Price , Robert H. Tai , Cindy La Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101854","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101854","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We report on a quasi-experimental, 7-year longitudinal study of participants in an out-of-school STEM program at a large, urban science museum. The program, based on principles of positive youth development, was designed to empower youth to take advantage of the skills and initiative they already possess. Data was analyzed to look for differences in the graduate rates of both groups, along with differences in the those who ended up with a STEM major. Through analysis of Sankey diagrams, we also looked at the specific paths the two groups took while in college. In comparison to a control group, we found that youth who participated in the program had higher rates of graduation in general, graduating with a degree in STEM, and ultimately beginning a STEM career. There were important differences in the paths the two groups took. No differences were related to gender or race/ethnic identity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101854"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890382","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}
Katrina R. Abela , Andrea Gonzalez , Krysta Andrews , Xutong Zhang , Marc Jambon , Katholiki Georgiades , Julie Gross , Magdalena Janus , Ellen Lipman , Paulo Pires , Teresa Bennett
{"title":"Examining interparental conflict, parent-child conflict, and child emotion regulation within the Family Check-Up®: A randomized controlled trial","authors":"Katrina R. Abela , Andrea Gonzalez , Krysta Andrews , Xutong Zhang , Marc Jambon , Katholiki Georgiades , Julie Gross , Magdalena Janus , Ellen Lipman , Paulo Pires , Teresa Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101855","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interparental and parent-child conflict are key familial risk factors for emotion regulation (ER) difficulties in early childhood. This study examined the impact of the Family Check-Up® (FCU), a preventative family-centered intervention, on child ER at 12 months post-intervention, and whether the FCU moderated the association between early exposure to family conflicts (interparental and parent-child conflict) and ER outcomes. In a longitudinal randomized controlled trial conducted in Canada, 206 parent-child dyads (children aged 2–4 years) with early indicators of emotional and behavioural risk were assigned to the FCU intervention or a community control group. ER was assessed using an observational task coded into three ER strategy subgroups: behavioural coping, task-oriented, and emotion-oriented. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the models. Results indicated that the FCU intervention significantly reduced the number of behavioural coping ER strategies, such as avoidance and expressing negative affect. Moreover, the FCU buffered the negative association between parent-child conflict and task-oriented ER. However, interparental conflict was not significantly associated with ER outcomes and effects were not observed for emotion-oriented ER. These findings highlight the FCU's potential to reduce contextually maladaptive ER and mitigate the impact of parent-child conflict on child ER.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101855"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144842529","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}
Yunqing Ma , Lu Qiao , Ruoxi Chen , Jing Qiu , Xiuyun Lin
{"title":"Understanding adolescents' externalizing and internalizing comorbidity from A multiple-level family perspective","authors":"Yunqing Ma , Lu Qiao , Ruoxi Chen , Jing Qiu , Xiuyun Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By exploring network analysis, the current study reframed the questions that arise from co-occurring externalizing and internalizing problems and their relationships with multiple-level family risk factors from a developmental perspective, including early, middle, and late adolescence periods. Total 6838 adolescents (early adolescence: 2156; middle adolescence: 2303; late adolescence: 2379) and their parents completed questionnaires regarding externalizing and internalizing problems, and entire, dyadic, and individual level family risk factors. First, anxiety/depression served as a bridging symptom in externalizing and internalizing comorbidity networks. Second, dyadic level family risk factors, particularly parental harsh discipline, were more strongly linked to adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems and even their comorbidity. Third, middle adolescence was a turning points. This study offers a fresh insight into the comorbidity of externalizing and internalizing problems during adolescence, and highlights that benign interactions between parents and adolescents remain key to addressing psychopathology. Interventions should particularly focus on middle adolescence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101852"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772855","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":"Quality intergenerational communication connects personality traits to career and life development agency","authors":"Xiaotian Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101862","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined the associations between personality traits and young adults' career and life development agency, with a focus on the mediating role of intergenerational communication and the moderating effect of internship experience. A total of 362 students from four Chinese universities participated, with data collected at two time points to reduce bias. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the relationships between personality traits, intergenerational communication, and career agency. The results showed that neuroticism was negatively associated with career and life development agency, while conscientiousness and agreeableness showed positive links. Intergenerational communication mediated the relationship between personality traits and career agency. Internship experience was found to moderate these relationships, particularly enhancing communication quality for students high in neuroticism and supporting their life and career development. The findings highlighted the value of targeted interventions and experiential learning for neurotic young adults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101862"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144921710","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}
Jennifer E. Lansford , Andrea Bizzego , Julio Daniel Bermúdez Chinea , Gianluca Esposito , W. Andrew Rothenberg , Jeremy D.W. Clifton , Dario Bacchini , Lei Chang , Kirby Deater-Deckard , Laura Di Giunta , Kenneth A. Dodge , Sevtap Gurdal , Daranee Junla , Paul Oburu , Concetta Pastorelli , Ann T. Skinner , Emma Sorbring , Laurence Steinberg , Marc H. Bornstein , Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado , Suha M. Al-Hassan
{"title":"Precursors of young adults' world beliefs across cultures: A machine learning approach","authors":"Jennifer E. Lansford , Andrea Bizzego , Julio Daniel Bermúdez Chinea , Gianluca Esposito , W. Andrew Rothenberg , Jeremy D.W. Clifton , Dario Bacchini , Lei Chang , Kirby Deater-Deckard , Laura Di Giunta , Kenneth A. Dodge , Sevtap Gurdal , Daranee Junla , Paul Oburu , Concetta Pastorelli , Ann T. Skinner , Emma Sorbring , Laurence Steinberg , Marc H. Bornstein , Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado , Suha M. Al-Hassan","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101858","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101858","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Primal world beliefs (“primals”) capture individuals' basic understanding of what sort of world this is and are strongly associated with a wide range of behaviors and outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how primals come to be. This study used a data-driven machine learning approach to examine what individual, parenting, family, and cultural factors in childhood best predict young adults' beliefs that the world is <em>Abundant, Alive, Enticing</em>, <em>Good</em>, <em>Hierarchical, Progressing</em>, and <em>Safe</em>, contributing a long-term longitudinal perspective to the nascent work in developmental science on primal world beliefs (“primals”). Participants included 770 young adults from eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States). During childhood, participants and parents reported on 76 factors available as potential predictors of primals. Factors at individual, parenting, family, and cultural levels all had some predictive value in relation to specific primals, but no single factor or cluster of factors was predictive of all primals. Developmental pathways to perceiving the world as <em>Abundant, Alive, Enticing</em>, <em>Good</em>, <em>Hierarchical, Progressing</em>, and <em>Safe</em> are not uniform. The current data-driven approach successfully unearthed several promising leads for developmentalists to probe in further research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101858"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144925432","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}
Laura Elenbaas , Kelly Lynn Mulvey , Christia Spears Brown , Jane Singman , Megan N. Norris
{"title":"Direct and indirect intergroup contact are related to American children's attitudes about immigrant groups","authors":"Laura Elenbaas , Kelly Lynn Mulvey , Christia Spears Brown , Jane Singman , Megan N. Norris","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101841","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101841","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study drew on intergroup contact theory to investigate relations between both direct and indirect intergroup contact with immigrants and self-identified American children's (ages: 8 to 12 years; <em>N</em> = 379, 53 % girls, 51 % white) attitudes and intended behavior towards immigrant peers, assessing the role of indirect contact in this context for the first time. Children who experienced more positive indirect contact (e.g., overheard conversations that made immigrants seem nice) liked immigrants more, felt closer to this perceived outgroup, and had stronger intentions to affiliate (e.g., play). Findings were consistent for indirect contact with immigrants from Mexico, China, or Egypt, and emerged over and above the positive effects of direct contact (e.g., classmates). The nature of children's indirect contact matters: positive exposure may positively predispose American children to accept and include immigrant peers, a behavior of increasing importance for the wellbeing of both groups in this increasingly diverse country.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101841"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720746","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}
Lanlan Luo , Yuanfang Guo , Yu Zhou , Chuanjiang Li
{"title":"The influence of teacher and peer relationship subtypes on social competence and problem behaviors of left-behind children in China: Latent transition analysis","authors":"Lanlan Luo , Yuanfang Guo , Yu Zhou , Chuanjiang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study explored the effect of teacher and peer relationship subtypes on social competence and problem behaviors among 240 Chinese left-behind children and their teachers in a longitudinal design. The study found four distinct profiles of children's teacher and peer relationships: teacher-oriented, peer-oriented, adaptive and high closeness/conflict duality. Latent transition analysis revealed a dynamic change in the percentage of participants who were in the profiles of teacher and peer relationships across two years. Specifically, children fell in the teacher-oriented profile decreased, children in the peer-oriented profile increased, and children in the adaptive group was relatively stable. Results also indicated that the types of teacher and peer relationships predicted left-behind children's social competence. Children in the adaptive profile fared the best in all three social-competence outcomes at Wave 1, compared to the peer-oriented and teacher-oriented profiles. At Wave 2, children in the high closeness/conflict duality profile performed best on social competence. Implications on ways to help left-behind children form positive teacher and peer relationships are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101859"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914008","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}