Editorial Board
Publication date: March 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 47Author(s): (Source: Developmental Review)
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Examination of associations between informal help-seeking behavior, social support, and adolescent psychosocial outcomes: A meta-analysis
This study presents a systematic review and meta-analysis exploring both help-seeking behavior from informal sources and social support in their association with psychosocial outcomes in adolescence. The meta-analysis examines 79 effect sizes from 8 studies, analyzing data on informal help-seeking from 5285 youth aged 12–19 years. For social support, the meta-analysis examines 378 effect sizes from 51 studies, analyzing data from 196,247 youth aged 12–19 years. The results of a series of random effects models showed significant associations between help-seeking from informal sources and each of externalizing behavior (...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The influences of described and experienced information on adolescent risky decision making
Publication date: March 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 47Author(s): Gail M. Rosenbaum, Vinod Venkatraman, Laurence Steinberg, Jason M. CheinAbstractAdolescents are known to take more risks than adults, which can be harmful to their health and well-being. However, despite age differences in real-world risk taking, laboratory risk-taking paradigms often do not evince these developmental patterns. Recent findings in the literature suggest that this inconsistency may be due in part to differences between how adolescents process information about risk when it is described (e.g., in a description-based classroom interv...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences
Publication date: March 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 47Author(s): Jessica A. Stern, Jude CassidyAbstractEmpathy involves understanding and “feeling with” others’ emotions, and is an essential capacity underlying sensitive care in humans and other species. Evidence suggests that the roots of empathy appear early in ontogeny, and that individual differences in empathy bear meaningfully on children’s social behavior and relationships throughout development. Here we draw upon attachment theory to provide a conceptual model of how attachment may contribute to individual differences in empathic development, w...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 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 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Joan G. Miller, Matthew Wice, Namrata GoyalAbstractDrawing 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 condu...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Studying cognitive development in cultural context: A multi-level analysis approach
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Qi WangAbstractI 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 ...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Culture, temperament, and social and psychological adjustment
Publication date: Available online 27 March 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Xinyin ChenAbstractRelative 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 i...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Resilience among immigrant youth: The role of culture, development and acculturation
Publication date: Available online 24 April 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Frosso Motti-StefanidiAbstractThe 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,...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 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 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Samuel Ronfard, Imac M. Zambrana, Tone K. Hermansen, Deborah KelemenAbstractChildren’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 - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Midlife risk factors for late-life cognitive decline
Publication date: June 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 48Author(s): Sarah Carroll, Eric TurkheimerAbstractCognitive aging is a distinct process of gradual change in cognitive function throughout the lifespan, with the most pronounced decline occurring in memory and reaction time during old age (Blazer, Yaffe, & Karlawish, 2015). A multitude of factors in midlife predict subsequent cognitive decline. This paper reviews research from five areas of midlife functioning that are associated with late-life cognitive impairment, ranging from mild decline to clinical manifestations of dementia. Within each area, risk and p...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 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: June 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 48Author(s): Sharon L. LoAbstractEffortful 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 development...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Parenting in context: Revisiting Belsky’s classic process of parenting model in early childhood
Publication date: June 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 48Author(s): Lindsay Taraban, Daniel S. ShawAbstractJay 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...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 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: June 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 48Author(s): Sarah Foley, Claire HughesAbstractDrawing 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 quality...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 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: June 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 48Author(s): Katherine Muenks, Allan Wigfield, Jacquelynne S. EcclesAbstractWe 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 competen...
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: June 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 48Author(s): (Source: Developmental Review)
Source: Developmental Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
