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Temperament matters: Infant negative emotionality moderates the link between infant screen exposure and later difficulties in executive functions. 性情因素：婴儿的消极情绪缓和了婴儿屏幕暴露与后来执行功能困难之间的联系。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1037/dev0002118

Tahl I Frenkel, Tzlil Einziger

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Longitudinal within- and between-person effects of school discrimination on U.S. Latino/a adolescents' prosocial behaviors. 学校歧视对美国拉丁裔青少年亲社会行为的纵向影响。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001989

Roushanac Partovi, Gustavo Carlo, Rebecca M B White, Kathleen M Roche, Todd D Little

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Development of internalizing symptomology in harsh rearing and neighborhood contexts: The role of executive functioning. 在恶劣教养和邻里环境下内化症状的发展：执行功能的作用。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1037/dev0002154

Erinn B Duprey, Victoria M Atzl, Anna Smith, Jody Todd Manly, Michael Lynch

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The moral self in formation: Caregiver emotional availability and early prosocial behavior predict preschoolers' moral self-concept. 道德自我信息：照顾者情绪可得性和早期亲社会行为对学龄前儿童道德自我概念的影响。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001902

Lena Söldner, Markus Paulus

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Perceptions of school climate and depression among Black youth: Do sex and income matter? 黑人青年对学校氛围和抑郁的看法：性别和收入有关系吗？

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1037/dev0002054

Adrian Gale, Lenna Nepomnyaschy

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Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Risk for psychiatric and peer outcomes. 儿童行为抑制和过度控制：精神病学和同伴结果的风险。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-04 DOI: 10.1037/dev0002042

Molly Fennig Steinhoff, Ella Sudit, Nathan A Fox, Rebecca Tillman, Max P Herzberg, Deanna M Barch, Joan L Luby, Kirsten Gilbert

{"title":"Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Risk for psychiatric and peer outcomes.","authors":"Molly Fennig Steinhoff, Ella Sudit, Nathan A Fox, Rebecca Tillman, Max P Herzberg, Deanna M Barch, Joan L Luby, Kirsten Gilbert","doi":"10.1037/dev0002042","DOIUrl":"10.1037/dev0002042","url":null,"abstract":"Behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental trait; the error-related negativity (ERN), a marker of performance monitoring measured via electroencephalogram; and overcontrol, a phenotype characterized by perfectionism and inflexibility, all show associations with childhood anxiety, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and social functioning. However, the independent and combined risk for psychiatric and social functioning of these factors is unknown. The present study examined how childhood BI, ERN, and overcontrol independently predict longitudinal psychiatric symptoms and peer functioning. We then examined how overcontrol may mediate the relationship between BI and longitudinal outcomes, as well as how the ERN may moderate this mediation. Caregivers completed baseline (aged 5-6 years; 48% female; 77% White) measures of BI, overcontrol, and psychiatric and peer functioning (N = 123), and children completed a go/no-go task while an electroencephalogram was collected (n = 86). Two years later, parents completed measures of psychiatric symptoms and peer functioning. Findings demonstrated only overcontrol, not BI or ERN, predicted worsening anxiety and peer relations. Overcontrol mediated the relationship between BI and longitudinal anxiety and between BI and longitudinal peer functioning. The ERN did not moderate these mediations. Findings suggest overcontrol confers risk for worsening childhood psychiatric and peer outcomes and may be an understudied mechanism linking BI to these outcomes. Therefore, early identification of the overcontrolled phenotype may be important given its direct association with an exacerbation of psychiatric and peer functioning difficulties across a 2-year period. Moreover, overcontrol may be a clinically useful and potent target for childhood psychiatric and social problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1250-1262"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12327772/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776655","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}

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Helping infants to help: Cultural variation in maternal scaffolding and the development of prosocial behavior. 帮助婴儿帮助：母体支架的文化差异与亲社会行为的发展。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.1037/dev0002159

Carlo Vreden, Moritz Köster, Lucy Abbit, Prima Ainembabazi, Aileen Cook, Brenda Kakai, Precious Katusiime, Julia Landstedt, Sarah Mazari, Eunice Ndyareeba, Elizabeth Renner, Georgia Tuohy, Zanna Clay

{"title":"Helping infants to help: Cultural variation in maternal scaffolding and the development of prosocial behavior.","authors":"Carlo Vreden, Moritz Köster, Lucy Abbit, Prima Ainembabazi, Aileen Cook, Brenda Kakai, Precious Katusiime, Julia Landstedt, Sarah Mazari, Eunice Ndyareeba, Elizabeth Renner, Georgia Tuohy, Zanna Clay","doi":"10.1037/dev0002159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002159","url":null,"abstract":"Infants engage in a range of prosocial behaviors from a young age. Caregiver scaffolding, through encouragement and requests, plays a key role in shaping these early tendencies. However, how scaffolding practices vary with socialization goals across cultural contexts, and whether their effects on infant behavior are culturally specific, remains unanswered. In this study, we took a longitudinal, cross-cultural approach to examine variation in maternal socialization goals, scaffolding strategies, and infant helping at 16 and 22 months across three distinct sociocultural settings. A total of 273 infants participated in rural Uganda (n = 49; 24 females, 25 males), urban Uganda (n = 162; 76 females, 86 males), and in the United Kingdom (n = 62, 29 females, 33 males). We assessed maternal socialization goals via questionnaires, scaffolding strategies during a requested helping task, and infant prosocial behavior through both requested and spontaneous helping tasks. Scaffolding was more assertive in the Ugandan samples compared with those in the United Kingdom, where scaffolding was more deliberate. Maternal assertiveness positively predicted both spontaneous and requested helping at the individual level. However, at the group level, spontaneous helping rates were higher in Uganda than in the United Kingdom, whereas requested helping was higher in the United Kingdom than Uganda. These findings reveal important cross-cultural variation in how caregivers shape infant helping and point to a nuanced interplay between culturally specific caregiving practices and emerging prosocial behavior. Our study underscores the importance of examining both universal and context-specific pathways in the development of prosociality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844557","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}

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Group-dependent selective forgetting in Arab-Israeli children. 阿拉伯-以色列儿童群体依赖性选择性遗忘。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.1037/dev0002186

Carlos Magzel, Ildiko Kiraly, Sunae Kim, Michal Reifen-Tagar

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From friction to flow: Dyadic affective flexibility during and after conflicts predicts trajectories of mother-adolescent relationships. 从摩擦到流动：冲突期间和冲突后的二元情感灵活性预测母亲-青少年关系的轨迹。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001939

Xiaomei Li, Jessica P Lougheed, Tom Hollenstein

{"title":"From friction to flow: Dyadic affective flexibility during and after conflicts predicts trajectories of mother-adolescent relationships.","authors":"Xiaomei Li, Jessica P Lougheed, Tom Hollenstein","doi":"10.1037/dev0001939","DOIUrl":"10.1037/dev0001939","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time affective dynamics surrounding everyday conflicts are central to the quality of relationships between mothers and their socioemotionally maturing adolescents. In this longitudinal study, we examined whether dyadic affective flexibility in early adolescence predicted trajectories of mother-adolescent relationship closeness and conflicts over time. We focused on flexibility not only in dyads' emotional fluctuations during conflict interactions (i.e., dynamic flexibility) but also in the repair of their affective patterns after conflict interactions (i.e., reactive flexibility). At Wave 1, 201 adolescents (11-12 years old, 46.3% girls) and mothers (87.5% Caucasian) completed two consecutive discussions about everyday conflicts and happy memories, respectively. Dynamic flexibility was derived from second-by-second affect coding via state space grids, and reactive flexibility was assessed as the latent change in dynamic flexibility across discussions. Annually for 5 years, including periods during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., Waves 3-5), mothers reported feelings of closeness with the adolescents, and both dyad members identified and rated the intensity of conflicts with each other. Results revealed that greater dynamic and reactive flexibility predicted greater and increasing closeness particularly from early to mid-adolescence. Greater dynamic and reactive flexibility were also associated with less intense and less diverse conflicts overall but not developmental changes in conflicts. These findings have implications beyond the immediate dyadic interactions around conflicts, suggesting that real-time flexibility within the mother-adolescent emotional system may serve as a resilience factor that buffers against the strains of relationship adjustment during adolescence at a longer timescale. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"915-931"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469604","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}

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Are children more likely to copy parents at home or experimenters in the lab? Developmental changes in overimitation between 4 and 7 years of age. 孩子们更有可能模仿家里的父母还是实验室里的实验者？4 - 7岁过度模仿的发育变化。

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Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1037/dev0002007

Jule Bach, Sabina Pauen

{"title":"Are children more likely to copy parents at home or experimenters in the lab? Developmental changes in overimitation between 4 and 7 years of age.","authors":"Jule Bach, Sabina Pauen","doi":"10.1037/dev0002007","DOIUrl":"10.1037/dev0002007","url":null,"abstract":"Young children imitate not only actions perceived as causally relevant to achieve a given goal but also nonfunctional ones. This phenomenon is called overimitation (OI). Many previous studies tested children's OI in the lab, with the experimenter serving as model. This raises the important question whether findings obtained this way can be generalized to children's social learning in more natural settings. The present study investigates to what extent familiarity of the model and the environment jointly affect OI in children of different ages. Four-to-7-year-old German children from mixed to high socioeconomic backgrounds were asked to retrieve a cookie from a transparent jar after watching a demonstration by either an unfamiliar experimenter in the lab (N = 80, 40 female) or a primary caregiver at home (N = 80, 40 female). The demonstration included the same functional and nonfunctional actions in both groups. Compared with a baseline condition (no previous demonstration, N = 28), nonfunctional actions were found more often in both experimental groups, with only minor differences between the experimenter/lab and the caregiver/home condition. Interestingly, OI scores remained largely constant in the caregiver/home condition but increased substantially with age in the experimenter/lab condition, suggesting that children become more sensitive to contextual factors with age. These findings are discussed in the light of theories on different motives for showing OI and their implications for future OI research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"893-902"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610002","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}

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