Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2020-08-01Epub Date: 2019-11-05DOI: 10.1111/sode.12425
K Ashana Ramsook, Janet A Welsh, Karen L Bierman
{"title":"What you say, and how you say it: Preschoolers' growth in vocabulary and communication skills differentially predict kindergarten academic achievement and self-regulation.","authors":"K Ashana Ramsook, Janet A Welsh, Karen L Bierman","doi":"10.1111/sode.12425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The idea that language skills support school readiness, predicting later self-regulation and academic success, is widely accepted. Although vocabulary is often emphasized in the developmental literature, the ability to use language appropriately in the classroom, or <i>social communication skills</i>, may also be critical. This paper examined longitudinal contributions of children's vocabulary and social communication skills, from preschool to kindergarten, to kindergarten academic achievement (reading and math) and self-regulation (executive functions and learning behaviors). Participants were 164 children (14% Latinx, 30% Black, 56% White; 57% girls) enrolled in Head Start programs. Results revealed that initial levels and growth in vocabulary and communication skills predicted better academic achievement. Social communication skills uniquely predicted self-regulation, after accounting for vocabulary. We discuss potential mechanisms for these links and recommend that strategies to build social communication skills be incorporated in preschool interventions promoting school readiness.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"29 3","pages":"783-800"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38475469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2020-08-01Epub Date: 2019-12-28DOI: 10.1111/sode.12435
Alyssa R Palmer, Madelyn Labella, Elizabeth J Plowman, Rachel Foster, Ann S Masten
{"title":"Parental Emotion Regulation Strategies and Parenting Quality Predict Child Internalizing Symptoms in Families Experiencing Homelessness.","authors":"Alyssa R Palmer, Madelyn Labella, Elizabeth J Plowman, Rachel Foster, Ann S Masten","doi":"10.1111/sode.12435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12435","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adaptive emotion regulation (ER) in parents has been linked to better parenting quality and social-emotional adjustment in children from middle-income families. In particular, early childhood may represent a sensitive period in which parenting behaviors and functioning have large effects on child social-emotional adjustment. However, little is known about how parent ER and parenting are related to child adjustment in high-risk families. In the context of adversity, parents may struggle to maintain positive parenting behaviors and adaptive self-regulation strategies which could jeopardize their children's adjustment. The current study investigated parents' own cognitive ER strategies and observed parenting quality in relation to young children's internalizing and externalizing problems among families experiencing homelessness. Participants included 108 primary caregivers and their four- to six-year-old children residing in emergency shelters. Using multiple methods, parenting and parent ER were assessed during a shelter stay and teachers subsequently provided ratings of children's internalizing and externalizing difficulties in the classroom. Parenting quality was expected to predict fewer classroom internalizing and externalizing behaviors as well as moderate the association between parent ER strategies and child outcomes. Results suggest that parenting quality buffered the effects of parent maladaptive ER strategies on child internalizing symptoms. The mediating role of parenting quality on that association was also investigated to build on prior empirical work in low-risk samples. Parenting quality did not show expected mediating effects. Findings suggest that parents experiencing homelessness who use fewer maladaptive cognitive ER strategies and more positive parenting behaviors may protect their children against internalizing problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"29 3","pages":"732-749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12435","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38501191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2020-05-01Epub Date: 2019-09-10DOI: 10.1111/sode.12409
Ariana K Ruof, Kit K Elam, Laurie Chassin
{"title":"Maternal Influences on Effortful Control in Adolescence: Developmental Pathways to Externalizing Behaviors.","authors":"Ariana K Ruof, Kit K Elam, Laurie Chassin","doi":"10.1111/sode.12409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12409","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescents' effortful control is subject to numerous maternal influences. Specifically, a mother's own effortful control is associated with her child's effortful control. However, maternal substance use, psychopathology, and stress within the parenting role may also lead to poor effortful control for their child. Poor effortful control during adolescence can subsequently contribute to a variety of negative outcomes, including externalizing behaviors. A sample of 460 adolescents (47% female, 59.3% Non-Hispanic Caucasian) was selected from a longitudinal, multigenerational study. The goal was to examine maternal effortful control, substance use, psychopathology, and stress in their offspring's childhood (<i>M</i>age = 6.27) and their influence on their children's effortful control in early adolescence (<i>M</i>age = 12.21) and the subsequent effect of effortful control on adolescents' externalizing behavior (<i>M</i>age = 13.53). Maternal effortful control (measured via conscientiousness) and psychopathology were associated with adolescent effortful control, which was associated with externalizing behavior a year later. Additionally, there was a significant indirect association between maternal effortful control and adolescent externalizing behaviors via adolescent effortful control. Thus, adolescent effortful control is associated with maternal effortful control but also subject to specific maternal risk factors in childhood. These results inform potential maternal strategies for promoting positive developmental outcomes in adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"29 2","pages":"411-426"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38475468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2019-05-01Epub Date: 2018-11-27DOI: 10.1111/sode.12348
Jeroen Pronk, Tjeert Olthof, Frits A Goossens, Lydia Krabbendam
{"title":"Differences in adolescents' motivations for indirect, direct, and hybrid peer defending.","authors":"Jeroen Pronk, Tjeert Olthof, Frits A Goossens, Lydia Krabbendam","doi":"10.1111/sode.12348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12348","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Adolescents’ defending of peers who are being bullied—or peer defending—was recently found to be a heterogeneous behavioral construct. The present study investigated individual differences in adolescents’ motivations for executing these indirect, direct, and hybrid defending behaviors. In line with the literature on bullying as goal‐directed strategic behavior, we adopted a social evolution theory framework to investigate whether these peer‐defending behaviors could qualify as goal‐directed strategic prosocial behaviors. A sample of 549 Dutch adolescents (49.4% boys; M age = 12.5 years, SD = 0.6 years) participated in this study. Their peer reported defending behaviors (including bullying behavior as a control variable) and the following behavioral motivations were assessed: (a) agentic and communal goals (self‐report), (b) prosocial and coercive social strategies (peer report), and (c) altruistic and egocentric motivations for prosocial behavior (self‐report). The outcomes of hierarchical linear regression analyses suggest that adolescents’ motivations for executing the different subtypes of peer defending partially overlap but are also different. While indirect defending was fostered by genuine concerns for victims’ well‐being, direct defending was more motivated by personal gains. Hybrid defending combined favorable aspects of both indirect and direct defending as a goal‐directed, strategic, and altruistically motivated prosocial behavior. The implications of these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"28 2","pages":"414-429"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41216356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2019-02-01Epub Date: 2018-08-07DOI: 10.1111/sode.12319
Marc H Bornstein, Diane L Putnick, Joan T D Suwalsky
{"title":"Continuity, Stability, and Concordance of Socioemotional Functioning in Mothers and their Sibling Children.","authors":"Marc H Bornstein, Diane L Putnick, Joan T D Suwalsky","doi":"10.1111/sode.12319","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sode.12319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This within-family longitudinal study accomplishes a novel multivariate assessment of socioemotional parenting cognitions and practices in mothers and their sibling children's socioemotional behaviors. Mothers participated with their 20-month-old firstborns and again, an average of 3 years later, with their 20-month-old secondborns (55 families, 165 participants). Continuity and stability in maternal cognitions and practices between the two times, and similarities, differences, and correspondences in siblings' behaviors, are assessed and compared. Maternal socioemotional parenting cognitions were continuous in mean level and stable in individual differences across siblings; maternal socioemotional practices were continuous in mean level but unstable in individual differences. Firstborns were more sociable and emotionally available to mothers than secondborns; first- and secondborns' socioemotional behaviors were largely unrelated. This study contributes to understanding socioemotional domains of parenting and child development, birth order effects, and the shared and nonshared contexts of siblings' environments within the family.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"28 1","pages":"90-105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349259/pdf/nihms984539.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36907626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2018-11-01Epub Date: 2018-07-19DOI: 10.1111/sode.12313
Melissa K Peckins, Daniel S Shaw, Rebecca Waller, Luke W Hyde
{"title":"Intimate partner violence exposure predicts antisocial behavior via pro-violence attitudes among males with elevated levels of cortisol.","authors":"Melissa K Peckins, Daniel S Shaw, Rebecca Waller, Luke W Hyde","doi":"10.1111/sode.12313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12313","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study tested whether attitudes toward violence mediate the association between intimate partner violence exposure and antisocial behavior across adolescence, and whether cortisol level moderates these pathways in an ethnically diverse sample of 190 boys from low-income, urban families. Results suggest that a pathway from intimate partner violence exposure at age 12 to antisocial behavior at age 17 is explained by pro-violence attitudes at age 15. Boys with greater exposure to intimate partner violence endorsed stronger pro-violence attitudes, which predicted increases in antisocial behavior. Further, the pro-violence attitudes to antisocial behavior pathway was stronger among boys with heightened versus dampened cortisol levels. Results suggest that violent attitudes are important for understanding the cognitive underpinnings of antisocial behavior following intimate partner violence exposure, particularly in youth with high cortisol levels. Implications for prevention and intervention are discussed with respect to targeting malleable child behavior linked to later antisocial behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"27 4","pages":"761-776"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36803816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2018-08-01Epub Date: 2018-02-05DOI: 10.1111/sode.12285
Margaret Wolan Sullivan, Dennis P Carmody
{"title":"Approach-related emotion, toddlers' persistence, and negative reactions to failure.","authors":"Margaret Wolan Sullivan, Dennis P Carmody","doi":"10.1111/sode.12285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Approach behavior, defined as differences in behavior to an incentive event and anger at its removal, was assessed during contingency learning in 87 5-month-olds was related to maternal ratings of mastery behaviors at two years. Mothers reported on infants' concurrent temperament, as well as the occurrence of anger and tantrums, and their own anger at 12 months. Approach behavior was expected to predict persistence with objects and persistent motor behavior, but not negative reactions to failure. Negative reactions to failure were expected to be mediated by a distress-prone temperament. The moderating effect of maternal anger on these relations was also explored using conditional process regression models. Controlling for soothability, early approach behavior predicted toddlers' persistence, especially gross motor persistence, moderated by maternal anger. With more maternal anger, approach behavior and toddler's persistence were more strongly related. Distress to limits, infant anger at 12 months, and maternal anger were significantly correlated, but only infant anger was related to negative reactions to failure. Prior to six months, goal-directed behavior is related to later behavioral persistence, but maternal responses to child anger are an important contributor to this relation and by 12 months, infant anger directly predicts mastery frustration at two years.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"27 3","pages":"586-600"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36431394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2018-08-01Epub Date: 2018-03-13DOI: 10.1111/sode.12292
Matthew R J Vandermeer, Haroon I Sheikh, Shiva S Singh, Daniel N Klein, Thomas M Olino, Margaret W Dyson, Sara J Bufferd, Elizabeth P Hayden
{"title":"The BDNF gene val66met polymorphism and behavioral inhibition in early childhood.","authors":"Matthew R J Vandermeer, Haroon I Sheikh, Shiva S Singh, Daniel N Klein, Thomas M Olino, Margaret W Dyson, Sara J Bufferd, Elizabeth P Hayden","doi":"10.1111/sode.12292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stably elevated behavioural inhibition (BI) is an established risk factor for internalizing disorders. This stability may be related to genetic factors, including a valine-to-methionine substitution on codon 66 (<i>val66met</i>) of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene. Past work on the BDNF <i>met</i> variant has inconsistently linked it to vulnerability to internalizing problems; some of this inconsistency may stem from the failure to consider gene-trait interactions in shaping the course of early BI. Toward elucidating early pathways to anxiety vulnerability, we examined gene-by-trait interactions in predicting the course of BI over time in 476 children, assessed for BI using standardized laboratory methods. We found that children with the <i>met</i> allele showed lower stability of BI between ages 3 and 6 than those without this allele. While the mechanisms that underlie this effect are unclear, our findings are consistent with the notion that the <i>met</i> variant, in the context of early BI, influences the stability of this trait in early development.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"27 3","pages":"543-554"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12292","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36514981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2018-08-01Epub Date: 2018-02-14DOI: 10.1111/sode.12286
Sara S Nozadi, Lauren K White, Kathryn A Degnan, Nathan A Fox
{"title":"Longitudinal Relations between Behavioral Inhibition and Social Information Processing: Moderating Role of Maternal Supportive Reactions to Children's Emotions.","authors":"Sara S Nozadi, Lauren K White, Kathryn A Degnan, Nathan A Fox","doi":"10.1111/sode.12286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Utilizing multiple measures of interpretive biases, the current study examined the roles of toddlers' behavioral inhibition (BI) and maternal supportive reactions to children's negative emotions in relation to children's interpretive biases across middle to late childhood. Toddlers' BI was measured during several laboratory tasks (<i>n</i> = 248) at 2 and 3 years of age. Mothers reported on their reactions to children's negative emotional expressions when children were 7 years old (<i>n</i> = 203), and children's interpretations of social cues were assessed at 7 and 10 years of age (<i>ns</i> = 179 and 161, respectively). Toddlers with high levels of BI expressed less positivity towards social engagement with unfamiliar peers during discussion of ambiguous social situations. Further, children with high BI were less likely to attribute the cause of negative social situations to external factors, particularly when mothers were less accepting of children's negative emotional displays. Findings are discussed in terms of cognition related to the interpretation of ambiguous and threat-related social situations among temperamentally at-risk children.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"27 3","pages":"571-585"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12286","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36431393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2018-05-01Epub Date: 2017-10-20DOI: 10.1111/sode.12269
Elizabeth B Raposa, Constance Hammen
{"title":"A Daily Diary Investigation of the Influence of Early Family Adversity on Social Functioning during the Transition to Adulthood.","authors":"Elizabeth B Raposa, Constance Hammen","doi":"10.1111/sode.12269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early life stressors are associated with maladaptive social functioning in childhood and adolescence, but it is unclear whether and how the negative interpersonal effects of stress persist into adulthood. Daily diary surveys were used to examine young adults' social behavior and mood reactivity to social stressors as a function of experiences of early family adversity. Stressful early family environments predicted more daily reassurance seeking, but not aggression, withdrawal, or positive social behavior. Early family adversity also moderated the within-person effects of social stressors on next-day mood, such that individuals with high levels of adversity had elevated next-day negative affect in response to higher than average social stress. Findings highlight the enduring impact of early adversity on social development, with implications for developing targeted policies and interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"27 2","pages":"431-446"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36334994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}