Michael T. Morrow, Julie A. Hubbard, Megan K Bookhout, S. Grassetti, M. Docimo, Lauren E. Swift
{"title":"Development and Validation of the Forms of Peer Victimization Scale","authors":"Michael T. Morrow, Julie A. Hubbard, Megan K Bookhout, S. Grassetti, M. Docimo, Lauren E. Swift","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.67.1.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.67.1.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Childhood peer victimization is prevalent and harmful; thus, it is critical to carefully assess this construct. We extended an existing measure to create the Forms of Peer Victimization Scale (FPVS), which assesses multiple forms of peer victimization via self and teacher report. Participants included 1,440 fourth-and fifth-grade children (50% girls; M age = 10.1 years) and their teachers. They completed the FPVS in the fall and spring of one school year, as well as additional measures of peer victimization and psychosocial functioning. Results supported identical four-factor models for the self-and teacher-report scales. The four factors, aggregated as subscales (physical victimization, verbal victimization, social victimization, and property attacks), demonstrated internal consistency, temporal stability, and concurrent and convergent validity. The FPVS evidenced promising psychometric properties and stands out from other measures by assessing peer victimization (not bullying), including experiences of social rebuff, demonstrating temporal stability, and offering self-and teacher-report scales.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"67 1","pages":"23 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41754739","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}
Angela D. Evans, Victoria W. Dykstra, Kaila C. Bruer, Heather L. Price
{"title":"Lying to Conceal a Group Transgression in Middle to Late Childhood","authors":"Angela D. Evans, Victoria W. Dykstra, Kaila C. Bruer, Heather L. Price","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.67.1.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.67.1.0075","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Lies to benefit the collective are common in adult contexts; however, less is known about children’s willingness to lie for the collective. The present study examined 7-to 11-year-old children’s tendency to lie to conceal a group transgression. Children (N = 408) participated in a competition in small groups during which the group leaders encouraged children to cheat by falsely inflating their group’s score. Groups were randomly assigned to Active or Passive Transgression conditions, where children in the Active condition were more involved in cheating compared to those in the Passive condition. Children were interviewed about the event individually, and 83% lied to conceal their group’s transgression. Children who truthfully disclosed cheating were most likely to place blame on others rather than take the blame themselves. Results indicate that children are highly motivated to lie for their group.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"67 1","pages":"75 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48625766","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":"Five Priorities for Future Research on Child and Adolescent Peer Influence","authors":"M. Prinstein, M. Giletta","doi":"10.31234/OSF.IO/QHST4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/OSF.IO/QHST4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over the past 50 years, a large body of work has demonstrated that during childhood and adolescence peers are strong socialization agents influencing youth development across a wide array of behavioral domains. In this report, we highlight how this long-standing research focus on peer influence may benefit from undertaking new directions that have been largely neglected in prior work. Specifically, we propose and discuss five main issues that we believe future peer influence studies should aim to address: (1) extending the examination of peer influence to multiple potential sources of socialization beyond close friends; (2) examining peer influence effects over shorter time frames and in real time; (3) testing indirect forms of peer influence; (4) extending the conceptualization and measurement of peer influence susceptibility; and (5) examining positive and adaptive forms of peer influence. The integration of recent theoretical and methodological advances from other disciplines will enable peer influence researchers to answer these and other exciting questions to better elucidate how and when peers are more likely to influence youth development.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"67 1","pages":"367 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44738933","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":"Investigating the Development of Prosociality Through the Lens of Refusals: Children’s Prosocial Refusals With Siblings and Friends","authors":"Nasim Tavassoli, Nina Howe, Ganie Dehart","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0421","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This 3-year longitudinal study examined children’s engagement and refusals to be prosocial between siblings and friends from early to middle childhood. At each of two time points, 44 children (M age = 4.56 years at Time 1 [T1]) were video-recorded in one play session with a sibling and one with a friend. Children’s helping or refusals to help and sharing or refusals to share and their strategies to refuse prosociality were coded. Findings revealed that prosocial refusals were as frequent as prosocial actions between siblings and friends. Children were more likely to refuse to be prosocial with their sibling especially for sharing and through verbal refusals. Children used verbal refusals more at T1, whereas they used passive refusal more at T2. Verbal and nonverbal refusals were used more to refuse sharing, whereas passive refusal was used more to refuse helping. This study highlighted the importance of prosocial refusals in the development of prosociality in the context of close relationships.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"421 - 446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46404001","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":"Parents’ School Involvement in Kindergarten Predicting Child Outcomes at First Grade and Third Grade","authors":"Christine Meng","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0366","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010–11 (ECLS-K:2011; N = 18,170), the present study aimed to identify latent classes of parents’ school involvement in kindergarten and whether the latent classes of parents’ school involvement would be differentially related to children’s academic achievement and social-emotional behavioral outcomes at first grade and third grade. Latent class analysis showed three classes: School Involvement, Low Involvement, and School Contact. Parents classified as School Involvement had higher probabilities in attending school events, such as back-to-school nights and parent–teacher conferences, but not school governance. Parents classified as Low Involvement had lower probabilities in all the indicators of school involvement. Parents classified as School Contact had higher probabilities in being contacted by teachers regarding their children’s behaviors and school performance. Few significant differences in child outcomes across the three classes persisted throughout first grade and third grade. Future research and implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"366 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48221634","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}
D. Aram, Lori E. Skibbe, Annemarie H. Hindman, S. Bindman, Yael Harpaz Atlas, F. Morrison
{"title":"Parents’ Early Writing Support and Its Associations With Parenting Practices in the United States and Israel","authors":"D. Aram, Lori E. Skibbe, Annemarie H. Hindman, S. Bindman, Yael Harpaz Atlas, F. Morrison","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0392","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:We observed the nature of parents’ writing support and studied their reports about their parenting practices. Participants were 130 middle socioeconomic status parent–preschooler dyads in the United States and Israel (69 American). Parents were videotaped while helping their children write an invitation to a birthday party in English in the United States and in Hebrew in Israel. We analyzed the degree to which parents helped children segment words into their respective sounds (graphophonemic support) and print letters independently (printing support). Parents also filled out a parenting-practices questionnaire about their home learning environment (HLE); warmth, autonomy support, and expectations (WSE), and management/discipline (MD). Across cultures, parents valued WSE the most, followed by MD and HLE. In both cultures, parents prioritized WSE most, followed by MD and HLE. Across cultures, higher MD related to higher writing (graphophonemic and printing) support. Our findings stress the importance of cross-cultural studies when investigating how parents guide and support young children’s early literacy development.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"392 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42135276","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":"Preschool Anger, Activity Level, Inhibitory Control, and Behavior Problems: A Family Study Approach","authors":"Ogechi K. Jeffrey R. Nwadinobi, Jeffrey R. Gagne","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0339","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The temperament dimensions of anger, activity level (AL), and inhibitory control (IC) are representative of Rothbart’s negative affectivity, surgency, and effortful control factors, and are consistently related to child behavioral problems. Using parent and observer ratings of child temperament, we investigated links between anger, AL, IC, behavior problems (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], aggression, and externalizing) and maternal characteristics in 201 preschoolers and their parents. Anger, AL, and IC were associated with one another and the three behavior problems in the expected directions. Parent-rated temperament was associated with all behavioral problems across analyses. However, in more rigorous regression analyses, observer-rated AL and IC were linked with ADHD, anger was associated with aggression, and hyperactivity was linked with externalizing problems, showing some specificity. Maternal education moderated the relationship between observed anger and externalizing problems. Results indicate that multimethod assessment approaches enable a more contextualized interpretation of early child temperament and behavior-problem research.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"339 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41546039","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":"Peers, Self-Control, Neighborhoods, and Adolescent and Early Adult Tobacco and Alcohol Use: Assessing Invariance","authors":"Adrian M. Jones, R. Adams","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0278","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:We use social learning, self-control, and social disorganization theories to develop hypotheses related to tobacco and alcohol use among a racially diverse sample of Chicago adolescents. Data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods were used to test models that examine relationships between neighborhood-level and individual-level attributes on tobacco-use and alcohol-use frequencies. Our primary goal was to test hypotheses about the invariance of statistical relationships over three waves of data by using equality of regression coefficients tests. We found that the effect of deviant peers decreased over time for alcohol use but was invariant for tobacco use. The effect of self-control on alcohol use was invariant, yet its effect on tobacco use was not invariant and increased significantly by the third wave. Contextual variables were not, for the most part, significantly related to tobacco and alcohol use, and, contrary to our expectations, the effects were invariant over time.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"278 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44519338","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":"Infants React Differently to Adults’ Noncontingent Responding Depending on the Adult’s Activity","authors":"Gunilla Stenberg","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0252","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Two experiments examined 12- to 13-month-old infants’ reactions to noncontingent responding by the parent (Experiment 1, 40 infants) or by an unfamiliar adult (Experiment 2, 40 infants). During the initial play phase, the adult was either reading a book or using his or her mobile phone, resulting in a response delay when the infant would seek the adult’s attention. During the test phase, the infants were shown an ambiguous toy as the adult simultaneously conveyed positive information. The infants in the mobile-phone condition looked for a shorter time at the adult than did the infants in the book condition, regardless of the familiarity of the adult. The findings indicate that the type of activity that caused the adults’ lack of contingent responsiveness differentially influenced the infants’ reactions to the adults’ noncontingent responding.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"252 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43177671","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}