The Israeli –Palestinian conflict: Effects on youth adjustment, available interventions, and future research directions
Publication date: Available online 1 November 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Laura E. Miller-Graff, E. Mark Cummings A large number of children are exposed to on-going political violence around the world. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the longest on-going conflicts in the world and its documented negative effects on the health, development, and well-being of children and youth are profound. The aim of the present manuscript is to provide an updated review of research on children and youth in Israel and Palestine including both basic and treatment research. Results indicated that rates of psy...
Source: Developmental Review - November 1, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Do infants exhibit significant cortisol reactivity to the Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm? A narrative review and meta-analysis
Publication date: Available online 8 August 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Livio Provenzi, Lorenzo Giusti, Rosario Montirosso The Face-to-Face Still-Face (FFSF) paradigm is a widely adopted experimental procedure to assess infants' response to socio-emotional stress during the first months of life. Previous reviews demonstrated that this procedure elicits specific behavioral responses, including an increase in negative emotionality and gaze aversion as well as a decrease in positive emotionality and social engagement. Infants also give evidence of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis reactivity t...
Source: Developmental Review - August 8, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Why the designer's intended function is central for proper function assignment and artifact conceptualization: Essentialist and normative accounts
Publication date: Available online 20 June 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Sergio E. Chaigneau, Guillermo Puebla, Enrique C. Canessa People tend to think that the function intended by an artifact's designer is its real or proper function. Relatedly, people tend to classify artifacts according to their designer's intended function (DIF), as opposed to an alternative opportunistic function. This centrality of DIF has been shown in children from 6 years of age to adults, and it is not restricted to Western societies. We review four different explanations for the centrality of DIF, integrating developmental an...
Source: Developmental Review - August 2, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Ethnic/racial identity and academic achievement: A meta-analytic review
Publication date: Available online 23 June 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Dana Miller-Cotto, James P. Byrnes Over the last 20 years, ethnic/racial identity (ERI) has been regarded as a component central to identity for minority students, and often proposed to be positively associated with academic achievement. However, the findings of individual studies scattered across the literature suggest that the size and direction of the correlation is somewhat inconsistent, prompting the meta-analysis of 47 studies reported herein. The authors gave particular attention to specific moderator variables that might expl...
Source: Developmental Review - August 2, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Measurement invariance conventions and reporting: The state of the art and future directions for psychological research
This report surveys the state of measurement invariance testing and reporting, and details the results of a literature review of studies that tested invariance. Most tests of measurement invariance include configural, metric, and scalar steps; a residual invariance step is reported for fewer tests. Alternative fit indices (AFIs) are reported as model fit criteria for the vast majority of tests; χ2 is reported as the single index in a minority of invariance tests. Reporting AFIs is associated with higher levels of achieved invariance. Partial invariance is reported for about one-third of tests. In general, sample size, num...
Source: Developmental Review - August 2, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Executive function in the first three years of life: Precursors, predictors and patterns
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Alexandra Hendry, Emily J.H. Jones, Tony Charman Executive function (EF) underpins the ability to set goals and work towards those goals by co-ordinating thought and action. Its emergence during the first 3 years of life is under-studied, largely due to the limitations that early social, motor and language skills place on performance on traditional EF tasks. Nevertheless, across the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, social development and temperament research, evidence is amassing of meaningful precursors and predictors o...
Source: Developmental Review - August 2, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Parent –child role-confusion: A critical review of an emerging concept
Publication date: June 2015 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 36 Author(s): Jenny Macfie, Laura E. Brumariu, Karlen Lyons-Ruth We propose that role-confusion or role reversal between parent and child is a major risk factor for a child's development, yet one that has gone largely unnoticed. In the context of an evolutionary tension between parental reproductive needs and child needs for nurturing, parental history and current stressors may affect the ability to invest in parenting a particular child. When adult relationships do not provide adequate emotional and instrumental support to the parent, he or she may ...
Source: Developmental Review - June 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A review of the empirical assessment of processes in ethnic –racial socialization: Examining methodological advances and future areas of development
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 37 Author(s): Miwa Yasui A rapid increase in the empirical literature on ethnic–racial socialization has led to the development of numerous assessments that capture various aspects of the ethnic–racial socialization process. To examine the methodological advances, this paper uses the Process Model of Ethnic–Racial Socialization (PMERS) to systematically review the assessment of ethnic–racial socialization among ethnic minority families in order to review how existing measures assess differential processes of ethnic–racial socialization. Us...
Source: Developmental Review - June 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
How approximate and exact number skills are related to each other across development: A review ☆
Publication date: March 2016 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 39 Author(s): Christophe Mussolin, Julie Nys, Jacqueline Leybaert, Alain Content Human and non-human species possess a mental system of number representations that appears early in the lifespan and that supports approximate number skills, such as numerical estimation or number comparison. With the later acquisition of language and of symbolic numbers, human beings also develop exact number skills that allow using numbers precisely, such as in counting and arithmetic. Whether the exact number skills are built on the approximate number skills or whe...
Source: Developmental Review - June 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A language-based, three-stage, social-interactional model of social pretend play: Acquiring pretend as an epistemic operator, pretending that, and pretending with (the P–PT–PW model)
Publication date: Available online 16 June 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Rachel Karniol I present a language-based, social-interactional, three-stage model of pretend play in which the cornerstone is children's understanding of pretend as an epistemic operator that changes the truth value of others' utterances. First, children crack into language by comparing their own representations of reality with others' utterances regarding reality, and they acquire negation, irrealis, and pretend, epistemic operators that impact the truth value of others' utterances, with pretend (P) indicating transitions from tr...
Source: Developmental Review - June 15, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Intergenerational narratives and identity across development
Publication date: Available online 20 April 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Natalie Merrill, Robyn Fivush Intergenerational narratives are the stories that parents and grandparents share with their children about their own past experiences growing up. We argue from the foundational perspectives of Eriksonsian life-span theory, Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, and the sociocultural model of autobiographical memory that intergenerational narratives, although often overlooked by researchers of narrative identity development, play an important role in the family storytelling process that serves m...
Source: Developmental Review - April 19, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Skin tone bias among African Americans: Antecedents and consequences across the life span
This article is a developmental review of research on skin tone bias and its consequences for African Americans. In the first section of the paper, we summarize research findings on skin tone attitudes, preferences, and stereotypes from childhood through adulthood. Next we summarize literature regarding African Americans as the target of skin tone bias. This section is organized in terms of individual and contextual factors that shape whether and how skin tone bias occurs; factors that moderate the target's reaction to such bias; and consequences of bias, including psychosocial and health outcomes, economic and educational...
Source: Developmental Review - March 28, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The interaction between temperament and the family environment in adolescent substance use and externalizing behaviors: Support for diathesis–stress or differential susceptibility?
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Charlie Rioux, Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, Sophie Parent, Jean R. Séguin Both individual and environmental factors predict externalizing behaviors and substance use (EB-SU); however, different patterns of interaction among these factors may have different implications. This review first examines how temperament and the family environment interact in the prediction of adolescent EB-SU. Second, studies are reviewed according to two theoretical models: (1) diathesis–stress, i.e., certain individual characteristics are linked t...
Source: Developmental Review - March 23, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Measuring the development of inhibitory control: The challenge of heterotypic continuity
Publication date: Available online 10 March 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Isaac T. Petersen, Caroline P. Hoyniak, Maureen E. McQuillan, John E. Bates, Angela D. Staples Inhibitory control is thought to demonstrate heterotypic continuity, in other words, continuity in its purpose or function but changes in its behavioral manifestation over time. This creates major methodological challenges for studying the development of inhibitory control in childhood including construct validity, developmental appropriateness and sensitivity of measures, and longitudinal factorial invariance. We meta-analyzed 1...
Source: Developmental Review - March 12, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Stability of peer victimization: A meta-analysis of longitudinal research
Publication date: Available online 11 March 2016 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): J. Loes Pouwels, Pierre M. Souren, Tessa A.M. Lansu, Antonius H.N. Cillessen A meta-analysis was conducted of 77 longitudinal studies that contained at least one over-time correlation (range 1 to 36) between scores for peer victimization measured at different time points. The overall stability of self-reported peer victimization was determined at centered values (age 10, one-year interval). The effects of interval length, age, and type of informant (self, peer, teacher, other/combined) on the stability of victimization were ...
Source: Developmental Review - March 12, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
