{"title":"Psychometric Characteristics of Children's Character.","authors":"Zahra Khosrojerdi, Shahriar Shahidi","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2544576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2544576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the present research was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Children's Character Strengths Inventory in an Iranian elementary school population. 464 elementary school-aged children were selected randomly. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a statistically suitable structure for the questions of the inventory. Confirmatory factor analysis was compared with two 'four-factor and six-factor models.' The results showed that the proposed structure of the inventory is confirmed by the data obtained from the sample of Iranian children. The significant correlation of children's character strengths inventory with parents' opinion about their children's character strengths is a confirmation of convergent reliability. Based on the results, it can be argued that the 89-item Children's Character Strengths Inventory is a valid and reliable tool for Iranian elementary school children and it can be used to identify children's character strengths.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144979354","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":"Children's Future-Oriented Cognition and Family Characteristics: How Similar are Children's and Parents' Future-Oriented Cognition?","authors":"Ege Kamber, Caitlin E V Mahy, Gema Martin-Ordas","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2546947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2546947","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Future-oriented cognition involves several domains that are critical to daily functioning, such as planning, prospective memory, episodic foresight, saving, and delay of gratification. The current study investigated the role of family characteristics in the development of future-oriented cognition, specifically whether parents' future-oriented cognition (i.e. planning, prospective memory, episodic foresight, saving, and delay of gratification) and socioeconomic status were related to their child's future-oriented cognition. In Study 1, 146 parents of 3- to 5-year-olds completed several measures assessing their own and their child's future-oriented cognition, cognitive skills, and behavioral tendencies. Parents' future-oriented cognition, parent education, and family income were related to children's future-oriented cognition. However, only parents' saving, prospective memory, and episodic foresight (but not planning or delay of gratification) were related to the corresponding domains of children's future-oriented cognition after controlling for children's age, executive function, delay aversion, delay discounting, and future orientation. Study 2 focused on prospective memory as a specific domain of future-oriented cognition: Parents of 2- to 6-year-olds (<i>N </i>= 179) completed measures of their own and their child's prospective memory and executive function. Family income, parents' prospective memory, and their executive function were related to children's prospective memory. However, none of these relations remained significant after controlling for children's age and executive function. Children's family characteristics seem to influence the development of future-oriented cognition in early childhood alongside age and cognitive abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144979399","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":"Academic Engagement as a Mediator Between the Sense of School Belonging and Academic Achievement.","authors":"Hamideh Yazdi, Abbas Abdollahi, Maryam Mohsenpour","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2544580","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2544580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the increase in enrollment of Iranian females in secondary educational settings and the diverse experience of women in education in Iran examining the contributing factors that relate to academic outcomes for female students is essential. Yet while the importance of school belonging has been established, the potential mediating role of academic engagement has yet to be explored in an Iranian context. The present study aims to examine the mediating role of academic engagement in the relationship between school belonging and academic achievement. among female high school students in Iran. A sample of 241 female high school students (<i>M</i> age = 16.18, <i>SD</i> = 0.74) from a single school in Qazvin, Iran, participated in the study. Participants completed online questionnaires to assess their sense of school belonging and academic engagement. Academic achievement was measured by calculating the cumulative grade point averages based on transcripts of the participants for the academic year 2021-2022. Structural equation modeling indicated that both school belonging (β = 0.418, <i>p</i> < .01) and academic engagement (β = 0.241, <i>p</i> < .01) significantly and positively predicted academic achievement among high school students. Bootstrapping analysis revealed that academic engagement partially mediates the relationship between school belonging and academic achievement. These results emphasize the importance of promoting a sense of belonging and cultivating academic engagement to improve academic outcomes for female high school students in Iran.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144876897","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":"Enhancing the Symbolic Abilities of Preschoolers: Do Non-Symbolic Representations Outweigh Visual Features?","authors":"Gisella Decarli, Laura Franchin","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2545498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2545498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Approximate Number System allows individuals to approximately perceive large quantities and is usually tested by comparing different dots array. However, during non-symbolic comparisons, performance can be impacted by visual and non-numerical attributes of the stimuli. Our study aims to explore the role of the quantities and size perception in preschoolers' in a double-digit numbers task. Different groups of participants were trained with a non-symbolic training involving pairing each two-digit coupling with the corresponding numerosities, with a size training pairing each coupling with a single dot of varying size or with a memory training. The results showed significant improvements in the non-symbolic and memory training groups but not in the size training group. This suggests that associating double-digit numbers with quantities, as in non-symbolic training, enhances early preschoolers' numerical abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859951","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":"Maternal Influence on Infants' Head-Orienting Preferences for Unfair Distributors.","authors":"Alessandra Geraci, Alessandra Simonelli, Bianca Filippi, Donata Maria Amato, Emanuela Borzì, Paola Venuti, Paola Rigo","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2545487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2545487","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infants show a personal preference for fair over unfair distributors from the first months of life, demonstrating an early sense of distributive fairness. However, there is a lack of knowledge on how such infants' preferences can be influenced by maternal factors. This study explored the role of maternal social referencing on the development of fairness by presenting 11-month-old infants with familiarization events and a test trial performed by their mothers. Mothers assessed their infants' preferences by using a forced-choice task, showing specific visual cues (i.e. gaze shift and head turn) to motivate infants to choose unfair over fair distributors (Experiment 1), and without visual cues (Experiment 2). Infants manifested a head-orienting preference for unfair over fair distributors only when their mothers used visual cues. These results provided evidence for the potential influence of maternal visual cues on infants' orienting preferences for unfair distributors, thereby supporting the role of early social interactions in shifting infants' attention towards distributors.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144823248","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}
Patricia Bravo, Pauline W Jansen, Manon H J Hillegers, Rodrigo A Cárcamo
{"title":"Children's Mental Health Trajectories Across Cultures and the Buffering Effect of the Early Family Environment: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies in Early Childhood.","authors":"Patricia Bravo, Pauline W Jansen, Manon H J Hillegers, Rodrigo A Cárcamo","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2537420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2537420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developmental trajectories of child mental health problems have often been studied in Western European and North American countries, leaving the Latin American context less explored. Using a growth mixture model (GMM), we aim to explore the variety of emotional and behavioral problems and investigate early home environment factors explaining differentiated developmental patterns in Latin American and European contexts. Two samples were selected: 5,292 children from the Chilean Longitudinal Survey of Early Childhood (ELPI) and 6,523 children from the Generation R Study in the Netherlands. The Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment (HOME) was used to measure emotional support and early stimulation at home. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) was used to measure emotional and behavioral problems in children at three-time points until the age of 10 years. In ELPI, we identified four trajectories: low stable (20.0%), moderate decreasing (58.6%), high stable (18.2%) and high decreasing (2.8%). In Generation R, we found three trajectories: low (50.3%), moderate (25.5%), and high stable (8.7%). In ELPI, the findings indicate that mothers of children in the most problematic categories display markedly lower emotional responses when compared to their counterparts in the low-risk group. Furthermore, these mothers provide fewer learning materials, have a lower educational level, and display higher depressive symptoms. In the Generation R Study, the high stable group was associated with more maternal depressive symptoms and fewer emotional responses. This study underscores the importance of the protective factor of family environment across cultures in promoting positive emotional child development over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776957","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":"The Association Between Emotional Regulation Strategies and Peer Acceptance in Preschool-Age Children: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Yidi Liang, Qi Zhang, Guangming Ran, Xiang Niu","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2532439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2532439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between emotion regulation strategies (positive/negative) and peer acceptance is poorly understood. To resolve this issue, we employed two separate three-level meta-analytic models to synthesize existing research, obtaining reliable estimates of effect sizes and examining moderators. Through a systematic literature search up to May 2023, this study identified 21 eligible studies involving 3837 participants and yielding 90 effect sizes. The results revealed a significant positive association between the positive dimension and peer acceptance. Furthermore, the variables of interest did not moderate the relationship between positive emotion regulation strategies and peer acceptance. Preschooler gender and negative emotion regulation strategies variable were significant moderators of the association between negative emotion regulation and peer acceptance. In summary, emotional regulation strategies predict the development of peer acceptance in preschool children. Future research should examine how children's gender and negative emotion regulation strategies moderate this relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745995","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":"Dancing Bees, Singing Whales: The Impact of Idiosyncratic and Taxonomic Information on Attitudes Toward and Moral Reasoning About Animals.","authors":"Vittoria Sipone, Christopher A Lawson","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2532440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2532440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our willingness to care for the natural world depends, in large part, on our attitudes toward living kinds. In this study, we explored the extent to which learning facts about animals would influence children's and adults' attitudes and moral concerns for the welfare of animals. Participants' (<i>N</i> = 115) attitudes were assessed before and after exposure to different types of information (taxonomic and idiosyncratic) about target animals, and were presented with moral dilemmas about those animals, and an opportunity to donate to animal-related charities. Results showed that idiosyncratic facts led to significantly more positive attitude changes in adults and older children, but not in younger children. Moral judgments against the harm of animals were consistently high across groups, irrespective of information type. Biocentric reasoning was more prevalent than anthropocentric reasoning overall, and younger children showed increased biocentric reasoning, particularly when exposed to taxonomic facts and when they developed more positive attitudes. Donation behavior was also predicted by attitude change across all age groups, with younger children especially influenced by the type of information received. These results have important implications for understanding the psychological processes that underlie how children and adults think about the environment and conditions that threaten the well-being of living kinds.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144661093","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}
Júlia Gisbert-Pérez, Claudio Longobardi, Manuel Martí-Vilar, Sofia Mastrokoukou, Laura Badenes-Ribera
{"title":"Exploring Psychosocial Traits Across Italian Current Gamers, Non-Current Gamers, and Non-Gamers.","authors":"Júlia Gisbert-Pérez, Claudio Longobardi, Manuel Martí-Vilar, Sofia Mastrokoukou, Laura Badenes-Ribera","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2025.2515140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2515140","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increasing prevalence of gaming and the problems associated with it have sparked interest in examining the differences between gamers and non-gamers. This study aims to investigate whether psychological variables, such as prosociality, emotional intelligence, social support, and mental health, differ among current gamers, non-current gamers, and non-gamers. A quantitative study was conducted using a convenience sample of Italian university students (<i>N</i> = 717, Mean<sub>age</sub> = 22.15, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 3.49; 49.4% female). One-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) and multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) were employed to compare the three groups. In addition, two binomial logistic regressions were conducted using statistically significant variables to identify the most important predictors of gaming initiation and gaming maintenance. Results indicate that males, particularly older males, and those exhibiting lower levels of prosociality were more likely to initiate gaming. Furthermore, being male, older, and having greater ability to assess one's own emotions were associated with a higher likelihood of maintaining gaming behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144546232","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}
Alessandro Carollo, Mengyu Lim, Giorgio Vallortigara
{"title":"The Evolution of Developmental Psychology: An Ethologist's Insight.","authors":"Alessandro Carollo, Mengyu Lim, Giorgio Vallortigara","doi":"10.1080/00221325.2024.2390446","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00221325.2024.2390446","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genetic Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"267-270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141918129","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}