The development of academic coping in children and youth: A comprehensive review and critique
Publication date: September 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 53Author(s): Ellen A. Skinner, Emily A. SaxtonAbstractUsing a developmental motivational framework, this review synthesized findings from 66 studies focusing on the academic coping of children and youth from 2nd to 12th grade. After reviewing 22 measures of academic coping and recoding the ways of coping assessed in each, we used four main questions to organize study findings: (1) Does coping play a role in students’ academic functioning and success, and does this role differ for children and youth of different ages/grades? (2) What strategies do studen...
Source: Developmental Review - August 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Meta-analytic review of infants' preferential attention to familiar and unfamiliar face types based on gender and race
Publication date: September 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 53Author(s): Alexandra R. Marquis, Nicole A. SugdenAbstractInfants’ earliest attention shows prioritization of social and communicative signals – faces. Not all faces receive equal attention; infants show early preferential attention to some face types over others. Although the pattern is not consistent across studies, potentially because infant experience varies, sample sizes and effect sizes are small, and methodological parameters are inconsistent, infants seem to show dynamic preferential attention first to familiar or caregiver-like (e.g., female...
Source: Developmental Review - August 7, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors predicting infant sleep: Moving beyond main effects
Publication date: September 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 53Author(s): Marie Camerota, Cathi B. Propper, Douglas M. TetiAbstractSleep patterns change dramatically across the earliest years of life and play an important role in children’s daytime functioning. As a result, psychological research has taken an increasing interest in unpacking the many intrinsic (i.e., child characteristics) and extrinsic (i.e., environmental input) factors that influence children’s sleep development. Considerably less attention has been given to understanding the transactional relationships among intrinsic and extrinsic factors,...
Source: Developmental Review - July 31, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
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Publication date: June 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 52Author(s): (Source: Developmental Review)
Source: Developmental Review - July 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Familial racial-ethnic socialization of Multiracial American Youth: A systematic review of the literature with MultiCrit
Publication date: September 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 53Author(s): Annabelle L. Atkin, Hyung Chol YooAbstractMultiracial youth are currently the largest demographic group among individuals 18 and under in the United States (Saulny, 2011), and yet there is a dearth of research examining the development of these uniquely racialized individuals. In this article, we systematically review the qualitative and quantitative research available across disciplines regarding how caregivers engage in racial-ethnic socialization with Multiracial American youth to transmit knowledge about race, ethnicity, and culture. We a...
Source: Developmental Review - July 18, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Neural substrates of early executive function development
Publication date: June 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 52Author(s): Abigail Fiske, Karla HolmboeAbstractIn the last decade, advances in neuroimaging technologies have given rise to a large number of research studies that investigate the neural underpinnings of executive function (EF). EF has long been associated with the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and involves both a unified, general element, as well as the distinct, separable elements of working memory, inhibitory control and set shifting. We will highlight the value of utilising advances in neuroimaging techniques to uncover answers to some of the most pressing que...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Disentangling pretend play measurement: Defining the essential elements and developmental progression of pretense
Publication date: June 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 52Author(s): Brittany N. Thompson, Thalia R. GoldsteinAbstractPretend play is a central component of child development, but causal inferences about its effects are difficult to make due to inconsistencies in definitions and measurement. A thorough analysis of how pretense is measured, coherences and disagreements in measurement strategies, and the behaviors involved in pretend play is needed. We review 199 empirical articles where pretend play was measured and propose a new hierarchical developmental progression of pretend play, rooted in developmental theory ...
Source: Developmental Review - June 22, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Interventions targeting working memory in 4–11 year olds within their everyday contexts: A systematic review
Publication date: June 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 52Author(s): Anita Rowe, Jill Titterington, Joni Holmes, Lucy Henry, Laurence TaggartAbstractIt has been suggested that diverse interventions applied within children’s everyday contexts have the potential to improve working memory (WM) and produce transfer to real-world skills but little is known about the effectiveness of these approaches. This review aims to examine systematically the effectiveness of non-computerised interventions with 4–11 year olds to identify: (i) their effects on WM; (ii) whether benefits extend to near- and far-transfer measures;...
Source: Developmental Review - March 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
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Publication date: March 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 51Author(s): (Source: Developmental Review)
Source: Developmental Review - February 13, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Why do infants help? A simple action reveals a complex phenomenon
Publication date: March 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 51Author(s): Moritz Köster, Joscha KärtnerAbstractWhy do infants spontaneously begin to help others early in their second year of life? Building on the seminal work by Warneken and Tomasello, a decade of intense research has revealed several critical developmental processes that contribute to infants’ early helping tendencies. Given the multifaceted nature of this research, here we will review empirical and theoretical advances in the field from a developmental systems perspective. The principal assumption of this perspective is that the development of ea...
Source: Developmental Review - February 7, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Unpacking ‘culture’: Caregiver socialization of emotion and child functioning in diverse families
Publication date: March 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 51Author(s): Vaishali V. Raval, Bethany L. WalkerAbstractSocialization of children’s emotions is implicated in a variety of child outcomes including children’s social and emotional competence, peer relations, self-esteem, and internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Recognizing the importance of culture, an emerging body of literature has examined caregiver socialization of children’s emotions in culturally diverse groups and has shown both similarities and variation in parental emotion-related socialization behaviors. Preliminary findings als...
Source: Developmental Review - January 25, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Social touch, CT touch and massage therapy: A narrative review
Publication date: March 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 51Author(s): Tiffany FieldAbstractThis narrative review summarizes research on three forms of touch that have enhanced development and well-being. These include social touch, CT touch, and massage therapy. The lightest form of touch called CT touch (stimulation of unmyelinated afferents) is important for parent-infant and romantic relationships and for pain syndromes. Social touch including hugging and handholding is also important for those relationships. And the deepest form of touch, i.e. moderate pressure massage therapy, has been important for reducing s...
Source: Developmental Review - January 13, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The neglect–enrichment continuum: Characterizing variation in early caregiving environments
Publication date: March 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 51Author(s): Lucy S. King, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Ian H. GotlibAbstractThe nature and consequences of threat in the caregiving environment have been widely studied and discussed. The construct of psychosocial neglect, however, has received less attention. In this paper, we advance a novel framework for examining the nature and consequences of neglect, which we posit can be represented as variations along a continuum from severe psychosocial neglect to environmental enrichment. Recognizing that caregiving is multi-dimensional, we conceptualize enriching input f...
Source: Developmental Review - January 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
‘Over-imitation’: A review and appraisal of a decade of research
Publication date: March 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 51Author(s): Stefanie Hoehl, Stefanie Keupp, Hanna Schleihauf, Nicola McGuigan, David Buttelmann, Andrew WhitenAbstractAfter seeing an action sequence children and adults tend to copy causally relevant and, more strikingly, even perceivably unnecessary actions in relation to the given goal. This phenomenon, termed “over-imitation”, has inspired much empirical research in the past decade as well as lively theoretical debate on its cognitive underpinnings and putative role in the transmission of cultural knowledge. Here, we offer a comprehensive review of t...
Source: Developmental Review - January 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
How children talk about events: Implications for eliciting and analyzing eyewitness reports
Publication date: March 2019Source: Developmental Review, Volume 51Author(s): Sonja P. Brubacher, Carole Peterson, David La Rooy, Jason J. Dickinson, Debra Ann PooleAbstractLegal and social service professionals often question whether various features of young witnesses’ responses during interviews are characteristic of children’s event reports or whether these features are concerning findings that reflect degraded memory, outside influence, or other phenomena. To assist helping professionals and researchers who collect data through interviews, we aggregated findings from child eyewitness studies and revisited transcri...
Source: Developmental Review - December 28, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
