Social DevelopmentPub Date : 2017-08-01Epub Date: 2016-07-22DOI: 10.1111/sode.12204
Emily C Merz, Susan H Landry, Janelle J Montroy, Jeffrey M Williams
{"title":"Bidirectional Associations Between Parental Responsiveness and Executive Function During Early Childhood.","authors":"Emily C Merz, Susan H Landry, Janelle J Montroy, Jeffrey M Williams","doi":"10.1111/sode.12204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we examined bidirectional associations between parental responsiveness and executive function (EF) processes in socioeconomically disadvantaged preschoolers. Participants were 534 3- to 5-year-old children (71% Hispanic/Latino; 28% African American; 1% European American) attending Head Start programs. At Time 1 (T1) and 6.5 months later at Time 2 (T2), parents and children participated in a videotaped free play session and children completed delay inhibition (gift delay-wrap, gift delay-bow) and conflict EF (bear/dragon, dimensional change card sort) tasks. Parental warm acceptance, contingent responsiveness, and verbal scaffolding were coded from the free play videos and aggregated to create a parental responsiveness latent variable. A cross-lagged panel structural equation model indicated that higher T1 parental responsiveness significantly predicted more positive gain in delay inhibition and conflict EF from T1 to T2. Higher T1 delay inhibition, but not T1 conflict EF, significantly predicted more positive change in parental responsiveness from T1 to T2. These associations were not explained by several possible confounding variables, including children's age, gender, race/ethnicity, and verbal ability. Findings suggest that parental responsiveness may support EF development in disadvantaged children, with reciprocal effects of delay inhibition on parental responsiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"26 3","pages":"591-609"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35315615","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 : 2017-05-01Epub Date: 2016-03-28DOI: 10.1111/sode.12186
Angela K Henneberger, Donna L Coffman, Scott D Gest
{"title":"The Effect of Having Aggressive Friends on Aggressive Behavior in Childhood: Using Propensity Scores to Strengthen Causal Inference.","authors":"Angela K Henneberger, Donna L Coffman, Scott D Gest","doi":"10.1111/sode.12186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12186","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses propensity scores to statistically approximate the causal effect of having aggressive friends on aggressive behavior in childhood. Participants were 1,355 children (53% girls; 31% minority) in 97 third and fifth grade classrooms enrolled in the Classroom Peer Ecologies Project. Propensity scores were calculated to control for the impact of 21 relevant confounder variables related to having aggressive friendships and aggressive behavior. The 21 variables included demographic, social, and behavioral characteristics measured at the beginning of the school year. Presence/absence of aggressive friends was measured in the middle of the school year, and aggressive behavior was measured at the end of the school year. Results indicate a significant effect of having one or more aggressive friends on children's aggressive behavior above and beyond the effects of the 21 demographic, social, and behavioral variables. The propensity score model is compared to two other models of peer influence. The strengths and practical challenges of using propensity score analysis to study peer influence are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"26 2","pages":"295-309"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12186","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35035401","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 : 2017-05-01Epub Date: 2016-07-28DOI: 10.1111/sode.12203
Darlene A Kertes, Jingwen Liu, Nathan J Hall, Natalie A Hadad, Clive D L Wynne, Samarth S Bhatt
{"title":"Effect of Pet Dogs on Children's Perceived Stress and Cortisol Stress Response.","authors":"Darlene A Kertes, Jingwen Liu, Nathan J Hall, Natalie A Hadad, Clive D L Wynne, Samarth S Bhatt","doi":"10.1111/sode.12203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study tested whether pet dogs have stress-buffering effects for children during a validated laboratory-based protocol, the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C). Participants were 101 children aged 7-12 years with their primary caregivers and pet dogs. Children were randomly assigned in the TSST-C to a pet present condition or one of two comparison conditions: parent present or no support figure present. Baseline, response, and recovery indices of perceived stress and cortisol levels were computed based on children's self-reported feelings of stress and salivary cortisol. Results indicated that in the alone (no social support) condition, children showed the expected rise for both perceived stress and cortisol response to stress. Pet dog presence significantly buffered the perceived stress response in comparison to children in the alone and parent present conditions. No main condition effect was observed for cortisol; however, for children experiencing the stressor with their pet present, lower cortisol response to stress was associated with more child-initiated petting and less dog proximity-seeking behavior. The results support the notion that pet dogs can provide socio-emotional benefits for children via stress buffering.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"26 2","pages":"382-401"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34939409","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 : 2017-02-01Epub Date: 2016-02-16DOI: 10.1111/sode.12179
Maciel M Hernández, Nancy Eisenberg, Carlos Valiente, Tracy L Spinrad, Sarah K VanSchyndel, Anjolii Diaz, Kassondra M Silva, Rebecca H Berger, Jody Southworth
{"title":"Observed Emotions as Predictors of Quality of Kindergartners' Social Relationships.","authors":"Maciel M Hernández, Nancy Eisenberg, Carlos Valiente, Tracy L Spinrad, Sarah K VanSchyndel, Anjolii Diaz, Kassondra M Silva, Rebecca H Berger, Jody Southworth","doi":"10.1111/sode.12179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study evaluated whether positive and anger emotional frequency (the proportion of instances an emotion was observed) and intensity (the strength of an emotion when it was observed) uniquely predicted social relationships among kindergarteners (<i>N</i> = 301). Emotions were observed as naturally occurring at school in the fall term and multiple reporters (peers and teachers) provided information on quality of relationships with children in the spring term. In structural equation models, positive emotion frequency, but not positive emotion intensity, was positively related to peer acceptance and negatively related to peer rejection. In contrast, the frequency of anger provided unique positive prediction of teacher-student conflict and negative prediction of peer acceptance. Furthermore, anger intensity negatively predicted teacher-student closeness and positively predicted teacher-student conflict. Implications for promoting social relationships in school are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"21-39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12179","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36189467","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 : 2016-11-01Epub Date: 2015-11-06DOI: 10.1111/sode.12170
Amanda R Burkholder, Kalsea J Koss, Camelia E Hostinar, Anna E Johnson, Megan R Gunnar
{"title":"Early Life Stress: Effects on the Regulation of Anxiety Expression in Children and Adolescents.","authors":"Amanda R Burkholder, Kalsea J Koss, Camelia E Hostinar, Anna E Johnson, Megan R Gunnar","doi":"10.1111/sode.12170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined children's (<i>N</i> = 79; 9-10 years) and adolescents' (<i>N</i> = 82; 15-16 years) ability to regulate their emotion expressions of anxiety as they completed a modified version of the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C). Approximately half in each age group were internationally adopted from institutional care (<i>N</i> = 79) and half were non-adopted, age-matched peers (<i>N</i> = 82). Institutional care was viewed as a form of early life stress. Coders who were reliable and blind to group status watched videos of the session to assess anxiety expressions using the Child and Adolescent Stress and Emotion Scale developed for this study. Children exhibited more expressions of anxiety than adolescents, and youth adopted from institutions showed more expressions of anxiety than their non-adopted counterparts. The role of early life stress on observed anxiety expressions remained significant after controlling for differences in age, physiological stress responses measured through salivary cortisol reactivity, and self-reports of stress during the TSST-C. This suggests possible deficits in the regulation of expressive behavior for youth with early life stress histories, which cannot be explained by experiencing the task as more stressful.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"25 4","pages":"777-793"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35062782","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 : 2016-08-01Epub Date: 2015-10-16DOI: 10.1111/sode.12162
Vanessa L Castro, Amy G Halberstadt, Patricia Garrett-Peters
{"title":"A Three-factor Structure of Emotion Understanding in Third-grade Children.","authors":"Vanessa L Castro, Amy G Halberstadt, Patricia Garrett-Peters","doi":"10.1111/sode.12162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12162","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theoretical conceptualizations of emotion understanding generally imply a two-factor structure comprised of recognition of emotional expressions and understanding emotion-eliciting situations. We tested this structure in middle childhood and then explored the unique predictive value of various facets of emotion understanding in explaining children's socioemotional competence. Participants were 201 third-grade children and their mothers. Children completed five different measures, which provided eight distinct indices of emotion understanding. Mothers completed two questionnaires assessing children's socioemotional skills and problems. Results indicated that: (a) emotion understanding in third-grade children was differentiated into three unique factors: Prototypical Emotion Recognition, Prototypical Emotion Knowledge, and Advanced Emotion Understanding, (b) skills within factors were modestly related, (c) factors varied in complexity, supporting theoretical and empirical models detailing developmental sequencing of skills, and (d) skills in Prototypical Emotion Knowledge were uniquely related to mothers' reports of third-grade children's socioemotional competence. Implications regarding elementary-school-age children's social cognitive development are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"25 3","pages":"602-622"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35545948","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}
{"title":"Effortful control mediates relations between children's attachment security and their regard for rules of conduct.","authors":"Jamie Koenig Nordling, Lea J Boldt, Jessica O'Bleness, Grazyna Kochanska","doi":"10.1111/sode.12139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12139","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although attachment security has been associated with children's rule-compatible conduct, the mechanism through which attachment influences early regard for rules is not well established. We hypothesized that effortful control would mediate the link between security and indicators of children's emerging regard for rules (discomfort following rule violations, internalization of parents' and experimenter's rules, few externalizing behaviors). In a longitudinal study, the Attachment Q-Set was completed by parents, effortful control was observed, and Regard for Rules was observed and rated by parents. The proposed model fit the data well: Children's security to mothers predicted their effortful control, which in turn had a direct link to a greater Regard for Rules. Children's security with fathers did not predict effortful control. The mother-child relationship appears particularly important for positive developmental cascades of self-regulation and socialization.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"25 2","pages":"268-284"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12139","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34530274","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 : 2016-05-01Epub Date: 2015-07-14DOI: 10.1111/sode.12143
Mojdeh Motamedi, Karen Bierman, Cynthia L Huang-Pollock
{"title":"Rejection Reactivity, Executive Function Skills, and Social Adjustment Problems of Inattentive and Hyperactive Kindergarteners.","authors":"Mojdeh Motamedi, Karen Bierman, Cynthia L Huang-Pollock","doi":"10.1111/sode.12143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined emotional reactivity to rejection and executive function (EF) skills as potential mediators of the social behavior problems of inattentive and hyperactive kindergarteners. Participants included 171 children, including 107 with clinical levels of ADHD symptoms, 23 with sub-clinical levels of ADHD symptoms, and 41 typically-developing children (63% male; 73% Caucasian, 11% African American, 4% Latino/Hispanic, 1% Asian, and 11% multiracial; M<sub>age</sub> = 5.2 years). Inattention (but not hyperactivity) was uniquely associated with poor EF, social withdrawal, and aggression. In structural equation models, EF skills mediated the associations between inattention and both aggression and social withdrawal. Hyperactivity (but not inattention) was uniquely associated with rejection reactivity and each contributed uniquely to aggression. Findings suggest that difficulties with emotion regulation may warrant more attention in early interventions planned for children with high levels of ADHD symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"25 2","pages":"322-339"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34530275","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 : 2016-05-01Epub Date: 2015-07-24DOI: 10.1111/sode.12145
Elizabeth J Kiel, Julie E Premo, Kristin A Buss
{"title":"Gender Moderates the Progression from Fearful Temperament to Social Withdrawal through Protective Parenting.","authors":"Elizabeth J Kiel, Julie E Premo, Kristin A Buss","doi":"10.1111/sode.12145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Child gender may exert its influence on development, not as a main effect, but as a moderator among predictors and outcomes. We examined this notion in relations among toddler fearful temperament, maternal protective parenting, maternal accuracy in predicting toddler distress to novelty, and child social withdrawal. In two multi-method, longitudinal studies of toddlers (24 months at Time 1; <i>n</i>s = 93 and 117, respectively) and their mothers, few main effect gender differences occurred. Moderation existed in both studies: only for highly accurate mothers of boys, fearful temperament related to protective parenting, which then predicted later social withdrawal. Thus, studying only main-effect gender differences may obscure important differences in how boys and girls develop from fearful temperament to later social withdrawal.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"25 2","pages":"235-255"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34523532","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}
{"title":"Dimensions of Parenting Associated with Child Prekindergarten Emotion Regulation and Attention Control in Low-income Families.","authors":"Erin T B Mathis, Karen L Bierman","doi":"10.1111/sode.12112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Delays in emotion regulation and attention control are common among children growing up in poverty, and they contribute to significant socio-economic gaps in school readiness and later school attainment. In this study, the emotion regulation and attention control skills of 210 prekindergarten Head Start participants were assessed (<i>M</i> age = 4.80 years old). Home interviews and videotaped parent-child interactions were used to evaluate three aspects of parenting (e.g., warm-sensitive, directive-critical, and parenting stress). Structural equation models documented significant, unique associations linking directive-critical parenting and parenting stress with poor child emotion regulation skills. Directive-critical parenting was also uniquely associated with low levels of child attention control. Warm-sensitive parenting was not uniquely related to either emotion regulation or attention control at this age. The findings suggest that, by prekindergarten, parent stress management and reduced directiveness emerge as the primary correlates of child emotion regulation and attention control, whereas warm-sensitive parenting plays a diminished role.</p>","PeriodicalId":48203,"journal":{"name":"Social Development","volume":"24 3","pages":"601-620"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/sode.12112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34304362","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}