{"title":"Parent–Teacher Conferences: Teachers' Information Provision and Parents' Involvement in Children's Schooling","authors":"D. D. Oh, E. Pomerantz","doi":"10.1353/mpq.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Parent–teacher conferences are considered an important bridge between home and school, but there are little data on what teachers discuss during these conferences and whether it is linked to parents' involvement in children's schooling. Parent–teacher conferences (N = 431) with parents of young elementary school children (mean age 7.68 years) were audio-recorded and coded. A subset of 255 parents reported on their involvement in children's schooling approximately 5 months later. Teachers mainly discussed children in the academic context, with little attention to the curriculum or parents' involvement. Teachers concentrated less on math than literacy and adopted less of a process orientation (e.g., a focus on strategies and motivation) for math. Only teachers' process orientation was associated with parents' involvement: The more teachers adopted such an orientation, the more parents were involved.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42662276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dawn Delay, Ryan D. Field, C. M. Sechler, Carol Lynn Martin
{"title":"The Association Between Young Adolescent Emotional Adjustment and Peer Affiliations: Making a Case for Gender Diversity Within Peer Relationships","authors":"Dawn Delay, Ryan D. Field, C. M. Sechler, Carol Lynn Martin","doi":"10.1353/mpq.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The current investigation uses longitudinal data to begin to understand the correlates of gender integration and youth emotional adjustment. Participants were 207 adolescents (mean age = 11.11 years, 53% female). The results demonstrated that, when compared to only having gender-segregated peer affiliates, gender-integrated peer affiliates, as well as the transition from gender-segregated to gender-integrated peer affiliations from the beginning to the end of the sixth-grade academic year was associated with significantly higher levels of self-esteem. Descriptive data also indicate that gender segregation was associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms, although the effects on depressive symptomology did not reach traditional levels of statistical significance. The findings highlight the important emotional impact of gender-diverse peer relationships among young adolescents.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41523858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noona Kiuru, Anna-Sofia Trög, Marika Pasanen, Anu Tourunen, J. Mikkonen, T. Ahonen, M. Penttonen
{"title":"Associations Between Adolescents' Subjectively Experienced Emotions and Psychophysiological Reactions in Achievement Situations","authors":"Noona Kiuru, Anna-Sofia Trög, Marika Pasanen, Anu Tourunen, J. Mikkonen, T. Ahonen, M. Penttonen","doi":"10.1353/mpq.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study investigated associations of early adolescents' (N=190, median age = 12) subjectively experienced emotions and psychophysiological reactions in achievement situations. Self-reported questions assessed adolescents' experienced emotions. Additionally, adolescents' autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactions were recorded; skin-conductance response (SCR) and heart rate (HR) were used to measure sympathetic nervous system activity, and heart rate variability (HRV) was used to measure parasympathetic nervous system activity. The between-person-level results of multilevel modeling showed that increased HR was associated with higher levels of hope and fear and that decreased SCR was associated with a higher level of hopelessness. In turn, increased HRV was moderately associated with lower surprise at the within-person level. The results also showed that gender, hyperactivity, depressive symptoms, and cognitive ability moderated some of the associations between experienced emotions and physiological reactions. For example, high hyperactivity was related to stronger associations between SCR and hope and high depressive symptoms were related to a stronger association between HR and surprise. These findings enhance current understandings of connections between experienced emotions and psychophysiological reactions in achievement situations.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43301530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kara A. Cochran, G. Bogat, A. Levendosky, Amy K. Nuttall, Georgia Bayerl, C. Martinez-Torteya
{"title":"Mother–Child Language Style Predicts Internalizing Behaviors in Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence","authors":"Kara A. Cochran, G. Bogat, A. Levendosky, Amy K. Nuttall, Georgia Bayerl, C. Martinez-Torteya","doi":"10.1353/mpq.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with children's internalizing and externalizing problems. IPV is thought to impair mothers' ability to scaffold young children's emotion regulation through coregulated interactions. Mother–child language style matching (LSM) is an index of coregulation that has yet to be examined in IPV-exposed samples. We hypothesized that LSM would mediate the association between IPV and children's behavioral problems. Participants were 194 mother–child dyads. IPV was assessed annually when children were ages 1–4. LSM was derived from speech during a free-play interaction at age 4, and children's behavior problems were assessed concurrently and again at age 10. Chronic IPV exposure in early life was associated with lower levels of mother–child LSM. LSM also mediated the association between IPV and later internalizing problems. These findings provide evidence that mother–child LSM may be a useful index of parent–child interaction quality in the context of IPV.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45954307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine L. Bagwell, J. Booker, Sarah K Borowski, Damion Grasso, L. Henkhaus, B. Laursen, Jamie Leach, Elizabeth Kiel Luebbe, Gina C Mireault, Amy Paine, Ryan Persram, M. Prinstein, Zohn Rosen, Carlos Mario Arango-Paternina, Lucía Lema-Gómez, Cleiber Eusse-López, J. Petro, Jose Petro-Petro, Milton López-Sánchez, Willinton Watts-Fernández, Fabio Perea-Velásquez, Dawn Delay, Ryan D. Field, C. M. Sechler, Carol Lynn Martin, Noona Kiuru, Anna-Sofia Trög, Marika Pasanen, Anu Tourunen, J. Mikkonen, T. Ahonen, M. Penttonen, Kara A. Cochran, G. Bogat, A. Levendosky, Amy K. Nuttall, Georgia Bayerl, C. Martinez-Torteya
{"title":"Consulting Editors April 1, 2021, through July 1, 2021","authors":"Catherine L. Bagwell, J. Booker, Sarah K Borowski, Damion Grasso, L. Henkhaus, B. Laursen, Jamie Leach, Elizabeth Kiel Luebbe, Gina C Mireault, Amy Paine, Ryan Persram, M. Prinstein, Zohn Rosen, Carlos Mario Arango-Paternina, Lucía Lema-Gómez, Cleiber Eusse-López, J. Petro, Jose Petro-Petro, Milton López-Sánchez, Willinton Watts-Fernández, Fabio Perea-Velásquez, Dawn Delay, Ryan D. Field, C. M. Sechler, Carol Lynn Martin, Noona Kiuru, Anna-Sofia Trög, Marika Pasanen, Anu Tourunen, J. Mikkonen, T. Ahonen, M. Penttonen, Kara A. Cochran, G. Bogat, A. Levendosky, Amy K. Nuttall, Georgia Bayerl, C. Martinez-Torteya","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.1.viii","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.1.viii","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This is a cross-sectional study conducted to examine the associations between the composition of friendship networks and health-related behaviors of 988 adolescents (11–18 years old) from Colombia. Participants were asked to self-report behaviors and to nominate their best friends. Egocentric network analysis (i.e., analysis of personal networks formed by egos and alters) was conducted to identify network composition (i.e., the proportion of network members with a particular attribute or behavior), and associations were analyzed with logistic regression models. Results show that network composition was associated with individual physical activity by boys and with consumption of fruits and vegetables, smoking, and drug use by girls. Regardless of gender, network composition was associated with screen time, fast-food consumption, excessive alcohol consumption, and having had sexual intercourse. These findings highlight the role of the social and behavioral environment in health-related behaviors in adolescents.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43147626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Mario Arango-Paternina, Lucía Lema-Gómez, Cleiber Eusse-López, J. Petro, Jose Petro-Petro, Milton López-Sánchez, Willinton Watts-Fernández, Fabio Perea-Velásquez
{"title":"Composition of Friendship Networks and Health-Related Behaviors in Adolescents","authors":"Carlos Mario Arango-Paternina, Lucía Lema-Gómez, Cleiber Eusse-López, J. Petro, Jose Petro-Petro, Milton López-Sánchez, Willinton Watts-Fernández, Fabio Perea-Velásquez","doi":"10.1353/mpq.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This is a cross-sectional study conducted to examine the associations between the composition of friendship networks and health-related behaviors of 988 adolescents (11–18 years old) from Colombia. Participants were asked to self-report behaviors and to nominate their best friends. Egocentric network analysis (i.e., analysis of personal networks formed by egos and alters) was conducted to identify network composition (i.e., the proportion of network members with a particular attribute or behavior), and associations were analyzed with logistic regression models. Results show that network composition was associated with individual physical activity by boys and with consumption of fruits and vegetables, smoking, and drug use by girls. Regardless of gender, network composition was associated with screen time, fast-food consumption, excessive alcohol consumption, and having had sexual intercourse. These findings highlight the role of the social and behavioral environment in health-related behaviors in adolescents.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47303143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Humphrey, T. Vaillancourt, Zhuojun Yao, R. Enright, L. Tighe, P. Davis‐Kean, Aviva Segal, Sandra Martin‐Chang, Shaneha Patel
{"title":"Consulting Editors October 1, 2020, through January 1, 2021","authors":"T. Humphrey, T. Vaillancourt, Zhuojun Yao, R. Enright, L. Tighe, P. Davis‐Kean, Aviva Segal, Sandra Martin‐Chang, Shaneha Patel","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.3.viii","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.3.viii","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Numerous studies consider competition and jealousy within an evolutionary framework, yet less is known about the relation between aggression vis-à-vis hypercompetitiveness (i.e., competing to win) and jealousy. We investigated the longitudinal relations between hypercompetitiveness, jealousy, and aggression and the moderating role of gender in a sample of 615 Canadian adolescents assessed annually from Grade 7 through Grade 12 using self-reports. A developmental cascade model accounting for within-time correlations, across-time stability, and cross-lag paths was used to analyze the data. Results indicated hypercompetitiveness was positively associated with aggression across several time points (Grades 7→8, Grades 8→9, and Grades 9→10) and was associated with increased jealousy in Grades 11 and 12. Indirect aggression in Grade 12 was positively associated with higher levels of jealousy in Grade 11. Few gender differences were noted. The study provides evidence for a developmental model in which hypercompetitive and jealous youth become more aggressive over time.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43147598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Longitudinal Relations Between Hypercompetitiveness, Jealousy, and Aggression Across Adolescence","authors":"T. Humphrey, T. Vaillancourt","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.3.0237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.3.0237","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Numerous studies consider competition and jealousy within an evolutionary framework, yet less is known about the relation between aggression vis-à-vis hypercompetitiveness (i.e., competing to win) and jealousy. We investigated the longitudinal relations between hypercompetitiveness, jealousy, and aggression and the moderating role of gender in a sample of 615 Canadian adolescents assessed annually from Grade 7 through Grade 12 using self-reports. A developmental cascade model accounting for within-time correlations, across-time stability, and cross-lag paths was used to analyze the data. Results indicated hypercompetitiveness was positively associated with aggression across several time points (Grades 7→8, Grades 8→9, and Grades 9→10) and was associated with increased jealousy in Grades 11 and 12. Indirect aggression in Grade 12 was positively associated with higher levels of jealousy in Grade 11. Few gender differences were noted. The study provides evidence for a developmental model in which hypercompetitive and jealous youth become more aggressive over time.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42950689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Developmental Cascade Model of Prosocial Behavior, Academic Competence, and Peer Exclusion Across Preadolescence","authors":"Zhuojun Yao, R. Enright","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.3.0269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.3.0269","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The current research used longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,103) to examine the developmental autoregressive cascades of prosocial behavior, academic competence, and peer exclusion in Grades 3–6. The cascade paths revealed that Grade 3 prosocial behavior was negatively associated with Grade 4 peer exclusion and positively associated with Grade 4 academic competence; then, Grade 4 peer exclusion in turn negatively influenced Grade 5 prosocial behavior; Grade 4 academic competence in turn positively influenced Grade 5 prosocial behavior; finally, Grade 5 prosocial behavior was negatively associated with Grade 6 peer exclusion and positively associated with Grade 6 academic competence. Implications for developmental cascade models, progressions, and preventive interventions were discussed.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45897753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"You Wrote the Right Letter for the Right Sound!\": Parental Feedback in Writing Contexts","authors":"","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.3.0329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.3.0329","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While research demonstrates the important role parents play in facilitating children's literacy development, little is known about the knowledge that underpins these exchanges. Here, we examined the association between parents' reading-related knowledge (phonological awareness, knowledge of syllable patterns, and identification of regular and irregular word spellings) and feedback across two contexts: responses to an unknown kindergartner's writing vignette (Task 1, N = 75) and mediation of a joint writing activity with the parents' own children (Task 2, n = 70). Parents' reading-related knowledge was positively associated with praise in both tasks. Parents' reading-related knowledge was also positively associated with modeling effective writing techniques in Task 1, but negatively associated with dictation (a lower form of scaffolding) in Task 2. Our findings demonstrate that parents generally display developmentally appropriate practices when helping children; parents with higher reading-related knowledge also appear to offer more supportive feedback when commenting on, or scaffolding, children's writing.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43056488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}