Moral decision-making and moral development: Toward an integrative framework
Publication date: Available online 11 June 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Beverley Garrigan, Anna L.R. Adlam, Peter E. Langdon How moral decision-making occurs, matures over time and relates to behaviour is complex. To develop a full picture of moral decision-making, moral development and moral behaviour it is necessary to understand: (a) how real-time moral decisions are made (including relevant social and contextual factors), (b) what processes are required to develop to enable mature moral decisions, (c) how these processes develop over time, and (d) how moral decisions relate to behaviour. In this pap...
Source: Developmental Review - June 12, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The importance of understanding children ’s lived experience
We describe a sociocultural theoretical perspective that focuses on children’s participation in the everyday practices and settings of their lives, and examine the field’s efforts over the past half-century to understand children’s lives in context. Several emphases are needed for the field to understand lived experience: It is crucial to examine (rather than assume) generality of findings across populations and situations; to interpret findings based on knowledge of children’s lives rather than researchers’ intuitions; and to study children’s development in the ecologies in which it occurs. We call for researc...
Source: Developmental Review - June 7, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Parenting in context: Revisiting Belsky ’s classic process of parenting model in early childhood
Publication date: June 2018 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 48 Author(s): Lindsay Taraban, Daniel S. Shaw Jay Belsky’s process of parenting model, published in 1984, continues to be widely referenced within the scientific literature. The main premise of this model is that parenting is multiply determined and is influenced by characteristics of the parent, child, and social context. In this review, we survey the theoretical and empirical literature that has accumulated related to the model within the past 30 years, with a focus on interactions among contextual factors and the applicability of the process model t...
Source: Developmental Review - May 26, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Neither antecedent nor consequence: Developmental integration of chronic stress, pubertal timing, and conditionally adapted stress response
Publication date: June 2018 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 48 Author(s): Celina M. Joos, Alaina M. Wodzinski, Martha E. Wadsworth, Lorah D. Dorn Puberty is often implicated in the onset or exacerbation of psychopathology during adolescence, and pubertal timing and tempo have emerged as important predictors of wellbeing. In the psychosocial literature there is a tendency to view individual differences in the nature (timing and tempo) of pubertal development as either determined by stress experienced in childhood or as a determinant of the development of psychopathology; few studies, however, have examined puberty...
Source: Developmental Review - May 26, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Question-asking in childhood: A review of the literature and a framework for understanding its development
Publication date: Available online 24 May 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Samuel Ronfard, Imac M. Zambrana, Tone K. Hermansen, Deborah Kelemen Children’s ability to query others is remarkable because it attests to their coordination of a range of complex cognitive capacities and because it allows them to initiate and redirect pedagogical exchanges. It is therefore a catalyst for their ability to learn from others. However, despite its importance for cognitive developmental theorizing and its implications for educational practice, relative to other aspects of children’s exploratory behavior, research o...
Source: Developmental Review - May 25, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
I can do this! The development and calibration of children ’s expectations for success and competence beliefs
Publication date: Available online 26 April 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Katherine Muenks, Allan Wigfield, Jacquelynne S. Eccles We review work on the development of children and adolescents’ expectancy and competence beliefs for academic achievement domains across the elementary and secondary school years, and how they become calibrated to children’s performance. The work reviewed stems from prominent achievement motivation theories: expectancy-value theory, social cognitive theory, self-worth theory, and self-determination theory. Broadly, research on the development of children’s expectancy and...
Source: Developmental Review - April 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Great expectations? Do mothers ’ and fathers’ prenatal thoughts and feelings about the infant predict parent-infant interaction quality? A meta-analytic review
Publication date: Available online 27 April 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Sarah Foley, Claire Hughes Drawing on data gathered from 14 studies involving a total of 1862 mothers and fathers, this meta-analysis reviews the measures that are used to tap into thoughts and feelings about the unborn infant during pregnancy and examines links between these prenatal measures and parent-child interaction quality. Questionnaire scores for parental-fetal attachment and interview ratings of expectant parents’ representations of their infant showed modest but robust associations with observed parent-child interaction...
Source: Developmental Review - April 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Resilience among immigrant youth: The role of culture, development and acculturation
Publication date: Available online 24 April 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Frosso Motti-Stefanidi The resilient adaptation of immigrant youth in host societies is consequential for their wellbeing and for the prosperity of society. Significant diversity is observed in their adaptation. The key question of this article is “Who among immigrant youth does well and why?”. The adaptation of immigrant youth is examined in a developmental context, through the lens of culture, integrating acculturation and social psychological variables. Culture has been largely neglected in the study of resilience. However, bo...
Source: Developmental Review - April 26, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A meta-analytic review of the event-related potentials (ERN and N2) in childhood and adolescence: Providing a developmental perspective on the conflict monitoring theory
Publication date: Available online 25 April 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Sharon L. Lo Effortful control (EC) is characterized by the ability to effectively inhibit and execute behaviors that are adaptively attuned to a specific context. Two event-related potentials (ERPs) known as the error-related negativity (ERN) and N2 are thought to measure EC, but the nature and function of these neural markers are not well understood in children. The present study provides the first comprehensive meta-analytic review of mean-level amplitude differences in the ERN and N2 from childhood to adolescence to quantify deve...
Source: Developmental Review - April 26, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Culture, temperament, and social and psychological adjustment
Publication date: Available online 27 March 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Xinyin Chen Relative to personality and many behavioral attributes, temperament is believed to be determined to a greater extent by genetic and other biological factors. Nevertheless, personal and social experiences are involved in temperamental development. In this paper, I discuss issues related to culture, temperament, and adjustment mainly from a contextual-developmental perspective, which emphasizes the role of social evaluation processes in bridging culture and temperamental development. The review of the research findings indi...
Source: Developmental Review - March 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Studying cognitive development in cultural context: A multi-level analysis approach
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Qi Wang I discuss a multi-level analysis approach in the study of cognitive development in cultural context. In this approach, culture is conceived of as a system and a process of symbolic mediation, where values, norms, and beliefs manifest in and through customs, rituals, and practices in directing and regulating both intrapersonal and interpersonal psychological functions. To capture the dynamic process in which cognitive development unfolds in cultural context, this approach examines the influence of culture on the developing cog...
Source: Developmental Review - March 24, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Contributions and challenges of cultural research on the development of social cognition
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Joan G. Miller, Matthew Wice, Namrata Goyal Drawing from our cross-cultural research on social attribution, interpersonal morality, and motivation, we identify contributions as well as challenges of cultural research in developmental psychology. Cultural research not only is valuable in enhancing awareness of diversity in developmental outcomes but in providing new conceptual insights into existing psychological claims and greater awareness of culturally variable developmental endpoints and pathways. We argue for the need to conduc...
Source: Developmental Review - March 23, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Rapid infant prefrontal cortex development and sensitivity to early environmental experience
Publication date: Available online 11 March 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Amanda S. Hodel Over the last fifteen years, the emerging field of developmental cognitive neuroscience has described the relatively late development of prefrontal cortex in children and the relation between gradual structural changes and children’s protracted development of prefrontal-dependent skills. Widespread recognition by the broader scientific community of the extended development of prefrontal cortex has led to the overwhelming perception of prefrontal cortex as a “late developing” region of the brain. However, despite...
Source: Developmental Review - March 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Contextual stress and maternal sensitivity: A meta-analytic review of stress associations with the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort in observational studies
Publication date: Available online 6 March 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Anna T. Booth, Jacqui A. Macdonald, George J. Youssef Maternal sensitivity is a modifiable determinant of infant attachment security and a precursor to optimal child development. Contextual stressors undermine sensitivity, but research was yet to be synthesized. We aimed to identify (i) types of stress associations analyzed in studies of maternal sensitivity and (ii) the strength of effects of various stress factors. A systematic search identified all studies that used the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort (MBQS) to code sensitivity in dyadi...
Source: Developmental Review - March 8, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Stigma-based bullying interventions: A systematic review
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Valerie A. Earnshaw, Sari L. Reisner, David D. Menino, V. Paul Poteat, Laura M. Bogart, Tia N. Barnes, Mark A. Schuster Youth living with socially devalued characteristics (e.g., minority sexual orientation, race, and/or ethnicity; disability; obesity) experience frequent bullying. This stigma-based bullying undermines youths’ wellbeing and academic achievement, with lifelong consequences. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based interv...
Source: Developmental Review - February 22, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
