Marlon Goering, Amanda Moore, Malcolm Barker-Kamps, Amit Patki, Hemant K Tiwari, Sylvie Mrug
{"title":"Adolescent empathy and epigenetic aging in adulthood: Substance use as a mediator.","authors":"Marlon Goering, Amanda Moore, Malcolm Barker-Kamps, Amit Patki, Hemant K Tiwari, Sylvie Mrug","doi":"10.1037/dev0001893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001893","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prosocial behavior during adolescence has been associated with better physical health, including slower epigenetic aging. However, little is known about the specific role of empathy in epigenetic aging and the mechanisms explaining this relationship. One such mechanism may be substance use, which is predicted by low empathy and contributes to accelerated epigenetic aging. Thus, the present study examined whether empathy during early adolescence predicts epigenetic aging in young adulthood and whether substance use in late adolescence and young adulthood mediates this effect. Participants included 343 individuals (58% female, 81% Black, 19% White) who were interviewed at mean ages of 13, 17, and 27 years. Participants self-reported their empathy at Time 1 and their alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use at Times 2 and 3. At Time 3, epigenetic aging was assessed from salivary DNA using the GrimAge, DunedinPACE, and PhenoAge clocks. A regression analysis demonstrated that higher empathy in early adolescence uniquely predicted lower epigenetic aging on the GrimAge clock in young adulthood even after adjusting for environmental and sociodemographic risk factors. Mediation models revealed that the link between empathy and lower epigenetic aging on all three clocks was mediated by lower tobacco use. These results suggest that higher empathy during early adolescence may contribute to better health throughout the lifespan due to lower tobacco use and slower epigenetic aging. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630806","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}
Elena J Tenenbaum, Caitlin Stone, My H Vu, Madeleine Hare, Kristen R Gilyard, Sudha Arunachalam, Elika Bergelson, Somer L Bishop, Michael C Frank, J Kiley Hamlin, Melissa Kline Struhl, Rebecca J Landa, Casey Lew-Williams, Melissa E Libertus, Rhiannon J Luyster, Julie Markant, Maura Sabatos-DeVito, Stephen J Sheinkopf, Jennifer B Wagner, Kayle Park, Anna I Soderling, Ashleigh K Waterman, Jordan N Grapel, Amit Bermano, Yotam Erel, Shafali Jeste
{"title":"Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE): Scalable online replications of key findings in infant cognitive development.","authors":"Elena J Tenenbaum, Caitlin Stone, My H Vu, Madeleine Hare, Kristen R Gilyard, Sudha Arunachalam, Elika Bergelson, Somer L Bishop, Michael C Frank, J Kiley Hamlin, Melissa Kline Struhl, Rebecca J Landa, Casey Lew-Williams, Melissa E Libertus, Rhiannon J Luyster, Julie Markant, Maura Sabatos-DeVito, Stephen J Sheinkopf, Jennifer B Wagner, Kayle Park, Anna I Soderling, Ashleigh K Waterman, Jordan N Grapel, Amit Bermano, Yotam Erel, Shafali Jeste","doi":"10.1037/dev0001849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current article describes the Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning, a battery intended to provide robust looking time measures of cognitive development that can be administered remotely to inform our understanding of individual developmental trajectories in typical and atypical populations, particularly infant siblings of autistic children. This battery was developed to inform our understanding of early cognitive and language development in infants who will later receive a diagnosis of autism. Using tasks that have been successfully implemented in lab-based paradigms, we included assessments of attention, memory, prediction, word recognition, numeracy, multimodal processing, and social evaluation. This study reports results on the feasibility and validity of administration of this task battery in 55 infants who were recruited from the general population at age 6 months (<i>n</i> = 29; 14 female, 15 male) or 12 months (<i>n</i> = 26; 14 female, 12 male; 62% White, 13% Asian, 1% Black, 1% Pacific Islander, 22% more than one race; 6% Hispanic). Infant looking behavior was recorded during at-home administration of the battery on the family's home computer and automatically coded for attention to stimuli using iCatcher+, an open-access software that assesses infant gaze direction. Results indicate that while some tasks replicated lab-based findings (attention, memory, prediction, and numeracy), others did not (word recognition, multimodal processing, and social evaluation). These findings will inform efforts to refine the battery as we continue to develop a robust set of tasks to improve the understanding of early cognitive development at the individual level in general and clinical populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630816","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":"The child's history of early stance toward parental socialization as a context for emerging moral self: A cascade from infancy to toddlerhood to preschool age.","authors":"Juyoung Kim, Grazyna Kochanska","doi":"10.1037/dev0001891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As interest in early morality has grown, researchers have increasingly focused on young children's moral self, but recent studies have targeted mostly its structure and associations with behavior rather than its developmental origins. Addressing this gap, we followed children, mothers, and fathers in U.S. Midwest from late infancy (16 months old, <i>N</i> = 194, 93 girls, 101 boys), to toddlerhood (3 years old, <i>N</i> = 175, 86 girls, 89 boys), to preschool age (4.5 years old, <i>N</i> = 177, 86 girls, 91 boys). We proposed that moral self at preschool age originates in the second and third years, when the onset of parental control engenders in the child both receptive and adversarial stance toward the parent. In infancy and in toddlerhood, we collected behavioral indications of both stances-positive affect and responsiveness (in toddlerhood, also positive representation of the parent); and defiance and violations of parental prohibition. At preschool age, we measured child moral self in a puppet interview (Kochanska, 2002). For both mother-child and father-child relationships, structural equation modeling supported direct paths from receptive and adversarial stance at age 3 years to higher and lower moral self, respectively, and the expected indirect effects of the child's receptive stance in infancy on moral self, mediated by the receptive or adversarial stance in toddlerhood. The path from toddler-age adversarial stance to lower moral self was present only in father-son relationships. This study highlights the long-term pivotal significance of the child's early stance toward the parent for the formation of moral self. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630817","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":"Mother-infant interactive processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery: Associations at 3, 6, and 9 months of age.","authors":"Yannan Hu, Xiaomei Li, Nancy L McElwain","doi":"10.1037/dev0001878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001878","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mother-infant interactive processes, including matching social behaviors and repairing interactive ruptures, are proposed to foster infant stress functioning. However, little is known about the extent to which the concurrent relations between these dyadic processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery change over the first year of life. In this study, 116 mother-infant dyads (55 girls) from a midwestern city in the United States completed the still-face paradigm at 3, 6, and 9 months. Using microcoding of infant and maternal behaviors (i.e., facial expressions, vocalizations, and gaze directions), we defined two dyadic states (positive match and mismatch) and measured dyadic matching as a composite of (a) the proportion of positive match and (b) latency to interactive repair (i.e., the average duration of mismatches), for the play and reunion episode, separately, at each time point. Infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery were assessed as the proportion of social engagement during the reunion episode and increases in respiratory sinus arrhythmia from the still-face to reunion episodes, respectively. At 6 and 9 months, higher levels of dyadic matching during the play episode were related to better infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery, controlling for matching during the reunion episode. At 3 months, the relation only emerged for infant behavioral stress recovery. These findings suggest that the dynamics of mother-infant interaction may play a key role in infant stress recovery, particularly during the second half of the first year when infants become more actively engaged in social interactions and their vagal systems become more mature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606201","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}
Gorana T González, Tara M Mandalaywala, Katherine McAuliffe
{"title":"The power of prompts: Encouraging children to think about fairness promotes the costly rejection of unfairness.","authors":"Gorana T González, Tara M Mandalaywala, Katherine McAuliffe","doi":"10.1037/dev0001883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children in the United States have an early-emerging understanding that resources should be divided fairly among agents, yet their behavior does not begin to reflect this understanding until later in development. Why does this gap between knowledge and behavior exist, and how can we close it? Here, we tested the role of explicit prompts in closing the gap, asking whether prompting 4- to 9-year-olds to make fair decisions would promote the costly rejection of unfairness in the Inequity Game. Children were presented with either advantageous (more for actor, less for recipient) or disadvantageous (less for actor, more for recipient) allocations and assigned to one of three experimental conditions: Fairness Prompt, Autonomous Prompt, or Baseline. Prompt condition had a strong effect on advantageous but not disadvantageous inequity aversion. Indeed, a simple fairness prompt was enough to reveal advantageous inequity aversion at 5 years of age, roughly 2 years before it was seen in children in the Autonomous Prompt or Baseline conditions. This study points to the promise of simple prompts as a powerful means of encouraging costly fair behavior in childhood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606378","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}
Griselda Martinez, Jennifer L Maggs, Mayra Y Bámaca, Zachary F Fisher, Richard W Robins
{"title":"Prospective associations between stressors and alcohol use from early adolescence to young adulthood in Mexican-origin youth in the United States.","authors":"Griselda Martinez, Jennifer L Maggs, Mayra Y Bámaca, Zachary F Fisher, Richard W Robins","doi":"10.1037/dev0001877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001877","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stressors experienced across multiple domains (e.g., family and peers) may contribute to alcohol use trajectories; however, little is known about the longitudinal links between stressors and alcohol use among Latinx youth. Guided by prior work on stressors and alcohol use, the present study used longitudinal data to examine whether Mexican-origin adolescents' (<i>N</i> = 674; 50% female; 28% Mexico born; 72% U.S. born) experiences of family and peer stressors across early to middle adolescence (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 10.86, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 0.51) predicted trajectories of alcohol use frequency and binge drinking from middle adolescence to young adulthood (Mage = 23.17, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 0.59). Using two strategies for modeling stressors, we report results that showed more support for stressors across early adolescence as predictors of alcohol use trajectories when stressors were modeled as growth trajectories versus modeled as distal and proximal stressors. Findings underscore the need to consider strategies to attenuate the longitudinal links between stressors and alcohol use among Mexican-origin youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606291","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}
Virginia Tompkins, Derek E Montgomery, Rebecca A Dore, Bridget Kiger Lee
{"title":"Theory of mind and text comprehension across the lifespan: A meta-analysis.","authors":"Virginia Tompkins, Derek E Montgomery, Rebecca A Dore, Bridget Kiger Lee","doi":"10.1037/dev0001869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers argue that theory of mind (ToM) abilities are needed for text (listening or reading) comprehension. Although many studies have supported this claim, findings are mixed and researchers have disagreed on how fundamental this relation is-for example, whether ToM and text comprehension are related merely because of shared variance with verbal and executive function skills. To address these issues more definitively, we conducted a meta-analysis examining ToM and text comprehension, which included 47 independent samples with 5,123 participants ranging in age from 3 to 70 years of age (<i>M</i> = 10.53 years). We found a statistically significant association (<i>r</i> = .33) between ToM and text comprehension across 157 effect sizes. This relation did not differ based on whether data were cross-sectional or longitudinal, the age of participants, or most characteristics of the ToM or comprehension tasks (e.g., the degree to which they were narrative or inferential). However, the effect size was stronger in some languages and for listening comprehension rather than reading comprehension tasks. In longitudinal designs, the effect size did not differ depending on whether ToM was assessed before text comprehension or the reverse. Finally, we conducted meta-analyses controlling for verbal and/or executive function abilities and found that the relation between ToM and text comprehension was significant when controlling for each as well as both abilities (<i>r</i> = .22-.32). The current findings provide the strongest evidence to date that there is a fundamental relation between ToM and text comprehension. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606467","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":"Transactional development of science and mathematics knowledge and reading proficiency for multilingual students across languages of instruction.","authors":"Jackie E Relyea, HyeJin Hwang","doi":"10.1037/dev0001858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001858","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This longitudinal study explored the reciprocal relations between students' domain-specific knowledge (science and mathematics) and reading proficiency from kindergarten to Grade 5. We compared these relational trajectories across both domains in the overall sample and examined the domain specificity of these relations within a multilingual subsample with varying language instruction backgrounds. Using latent curve modeling with structured residuals on a nationally representative data set, we identified two key patterns. In the overall sample, higher reading proficiency at kindergarten was associated with greater growth in science and mathematics knowledge, with a particularly pronounced effect in science. The predictive power of science knowledge on reading proficiency strengthened significantly from Grades 2 to 5, while reciprocal relations in mathematics intensified over time. For multilingual students, outcomes varied by the language of instruction. Those receiving English-only instruction showed early correlations between science and mathematics knowledge and reading proficiency; however, initial science and mathematics knowledge did not predict long-term growth in reading proficiency. Conversely, multilingual students who received instruction in their native language showed no immediate correlations at kindergarten. Nonetheless, their early science and mathematics knowledge significantly predicted later growth in reading proficiency. The findings underscore the critical role of native-language instruction in providing an accessible, vital cognitive and linguistic foundation that supports deeper domain knowledge building, highlighting the enduring benefits of native-language scaffolding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606476","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}
Khushboo S Patel, Judith H Danovitch, Nicholaus S Noles
{"title":"Children's beliefs about Black and White men's and women's scientific knowledge: An intersectional approach.","authors":"Khushboo S Patel, Judith H Danovitch, Nicholaus S Noles","doi":"10.1037/dev0001854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children are sensitive to other's knowledge and social characteristics when seeking out information, but little is known about how adults' gender and race interact to influence children's beliefs about adults' knowledge. In two studies, 5-8-year-olds (<i>N</i> = 257; 127 girls; 130 boys; 73% White) saw photos of Black and White men and women and rated each adults' science knowledge. In Study 1, children then viewed four adult faces together (one from each gender and race) and chose who knew the most and second-most about the answer to a scientific question. In Study 2, the selection task was modified so that children saw two faces from different categories and chose one, and children were then asked to identify one of four individuals as a scientist. In both studies, children also chose which of four individuals they would want to learn about science from. Children gave similar knowledge ratings to men and women and to Black and White individuals when they rated one adult at a time. However, when children selected the most knowledgeable adult, they showed an ingroup gender-based preference whose strength varied with child age. In both studies, children also showed an ingroup gender-based learning preference, but showed no preferences based on adult race. Children referred to adults' appearance most often when justifying their learning preference and which individual they believed to be a scientist. Together, these findings suggest that, for primarily White American children, a potential adult informant's gender may be more salient than race when evaluating science knowledge. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142605573","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 K Soter, Martha K Berg, Ethan Kross, Susan A Gelman
{"title":"How peer relationships influence adolescents' reasoning about theft-based moral transgressions.","authors":"Laura K Soter, Martha K Berg, Ethan Kross, Susan A Gelman","doi":"10.1037/dev0001863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001863","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two studies (<i>N</i><sub>total</sub> = 1,153) investigated how adolescents reason about whether to report a transgression committed by a close friend versus distant classmate. In Study 1, sixth-ninth graders (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.36 years, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 1.14 years; 55% girls, 44% boys; 2% Asian, 63% Black, 13% Latino, 7% multiracial, 7% White; low-income urban schools) were less willing to report close friends than distant classmates, for both high- and low-severity thefts. In Study 2, seventh-eighth graders (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.87 years, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 0.07 years; 48% girls, 45% boys; 2% Asian, 2% Black, 3% Latino, 85% White, 2% multiracial; 29% free/reduced lunch) said they both <i>actually would</i> and <i>morally should</i> report close others less than distant others, but relationship affected \"would\" judgments more than \"should\" ones. In their explanations, participants most often appealed to practical outcomes, morality, and relationship to the transgressor-but frequency of these varied based on relationship to the transgressor and judgment type. These studies provide evidence that relational closeness influences both how adolescents reason about peers' transgressions and what they think is morally right to do-and that their reasoning involves both practical and moral considerations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48464,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606173","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}