Neither antecedent nor consequence: Developmental integration of chronic stress, pubertal timing, and conditionally adapted stress response
Publication date: June 2018Source: Developmental Review, Volume 48Author(s): Celina M. Joos, Alaina M. Wodzinski, Martha E. Wadsworth, Lorah D. DornAbstractPuberty 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 - July 5, 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 - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Moral decision-making and moral development: Toward an integrative framework
Publication date: Available online 11 June 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Beverley Garrigan, Anna L.R. Adlam, Peter E. LangdonAbstractHow 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 pa...
Source: Developmental Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition: A meta-analytic review
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Sara Quinn, Seamus Donnelly, Evan KiddAbstractA developmental relationship between symbolic play and language has been long proposed, going as far back as the writings of Piaget and Vygotsky. In the current paper we build on recent qualitative reviews of the literature by reporting the first quantitative analysis of the relationship. We conducted a three-level meta-analysis of past studies that have investigated the relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition. Thirty-five studies (N = 6848) met the criteria for inclusi...
Source: Developmental Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Development of cardiac autonomic balance in infancy and early childhood: A possible pathway to mental and physical health outcomes
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Kelsey M. Quigley, Ginger A. MooreAbstractCardiac autonomic balance (CAB), defined as the relative influences of the sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) nervous systems on the heart at rest, is a well-established biomarker of mental and physical health in adulthood (Kemp & Quintana, 2013). SNS and PNS functioning that, jointly, determine CAB, mature and stabilize between gestation and age five (Alkon, Boyce, Davis, & Eskenazi, 2011), co-developing with capacity to regulate distress during challenge and social engagement (Porges & ...
Source: Developmental Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A systematic review of the reliability of children’s event reports after discussing experiences with a naïve, knowledgeable, or misled parent
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Monica Lawson, Lillian Rodriguez-Steen, Kamala LondonAbstractChild maltreatment allegations often initially arise during informal conversations between children and a non-offending parent. Whether and how initial parent-child discussions influence the reliability of children’s subsequent forensic reports are critical contemporary questions regarding child witness testimony. In the current paper, we systematically reviewed the extant empirical literature regarding the effects of parent-child discussions on the accuracy of children’s su...
Source: Developmental Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Education and developmental competencies of ethnic minority children: Recent theoretical and methodological advances
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Amy K. Marks, Cynthia Garcia CollAbstractIn 1996, Garcia Coll and colleagues published a theoretical article detailing the many ways an integrative approach to studying minority child development is necessary. Advances in theory and methods since have pushed forward our thinking about how minority youth develop and achieve educational success in school contexts. This paper reviews research and theory since the 1996 article on ethnic minority children and adolescents in the US school system, attending to how empirical evidence and methods ...
Source: Developmental Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Developmental aspects in cultural neuroscience
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Joan Y. ChiaoAbstractResearch in cultural neuroscience and development examines the processes and mechanisms underlying the interaction of cultural systems with environmental and biological systems with a life course approach. Culture interacts with environmental and biological factors to shape the mind, brain and behavior across stages of development. Theoretical and empirical approaches in cultural neuroscience investigate how culture influences psychological and neurobiological mechanisms during developmental periods. Methodological ap...
Source: Developmental Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Studying social change, culture, and human development: A theoretical framework and methodological guidelines
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018Source: Developmental ReviewAuthor(s): Patricia M. GreenfieldAbstractIn a time of massive social change around the world, a major goal of the present article is to provide interdisciplinary methods for studying social change, culture, and human development and an interdisciplinary theory that can serve as a framework for this research (Greenfield, 2009, 2016). The purpose is to provide developmental researchers with useful theoretical and methodological guidelines to study human development in changing sociodemographic and cultural contexts. Examples of two types of research d...
Source: Developmental Review - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Education and developmental competencies of ethnic minority children: Recent theoretical and methodological advances
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Amy K. Marks, Cynthia Garcia Coll In 1996, Garcia Coll and colleagues published a theoretical article detailing the many ways an integrative approach to studying minority child development is necessary. Advances in theory and methods since have pushed forward our thinking about how minority youth develop and achieve educational success in school contexts. This paper reviews research and theory since the 1996 article on ethnic minority children and adolescents in the US school system, attending to how empirical evidence and methods ha...
Source: Developmental Review - June 29, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Developmental aspects in cultural neuroscience
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Joan Y. Chiao Research in cultural neuroscience and development examines the processes and mechanisms underlying the interaction of cultural systems with environmental and biological systems with a life course approach. Culture interacts with environmental and biological factors to shape the mind, brain and behavior across stages of development. Theoretical and empirical approaches in cultural neuroscience investigate how culture influences psychological and neurobiological mechanisms during developmental periods. Methodological appro...
Source: Developmental Review - June 29, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Studying social change, culture, and human development: A theoretical framework and methodological guidelines
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Patricia M. Greenfield In a time of massive social change around the world, a major goal of the present article is to provide interdisciplinary methods for studying social change, culture, and human development and an interdisciplinary theory that can serve as a framework for this research (Greenfield, 2009, 2016). The purpose is to provide developmental researchers with useful theoretical and methodological guidelines to study human development in changing sociodemographic and cultural contexts. Examples of two types of research desi...
Source: Developmental Review - June 29, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A systematic review of the reliability of children ’s event reports after discussing experiences with a naïve, knowledgeable, or misled parent
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Monica Lawson, Lillian Rodriguez-Steen, Kamala London Child maltreatment allegations often initially arise during informal conversations between children and a non-offending parent. Whether and how initial parent-child discussions influence the reliability of children’s subsequent forensic reports are critical contemporary questions regarding child witness testimony. In the current paper, we systematically reviewed the extant empirical literature regarding the effects of parent-child discussions on the accuracy of children’s sub...
Source: Developmental Review - June 26, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Development of cardiac autonomic balance in infancy and early childhood: A possible pathway to mental and physical health outcomes
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Kelsey M. Quigley, Ginger A. Moore Cardiac autonomic balance (CAB), defined as the relative influences of the sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) nervous systems on the heart at rest, is a well-established biomarker of mental and physical health in adulthood (Kemp & Quintana, 2013). SNS and PNS functioning that, jointly, determine CAB, mature and stabilize between gestation and age five (Alkon, Boyce, Davis, & Eskenazi, 2011), co-developing with capacity to regulate distress during challenge and social engagem...
Source: Developmental Review - June 22, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition: A meta-analytic review
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2018 Source:Developmental Review Author(s): Sara Quinn, Seamus Donnelly, Evan Kidd A developmental relationship between symbolic play and language has been long proposed, going as far back as the writings of Piaget and Vygotsky. In the current paper we build on recent qualitative reviews of the literature by reporting the first quantitative analysis of the relationship. We conducted a three-level meta-analysis of past studies that have investigated the relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition. Thirty-five studies (N = 6848) met the criteria for inclusio...
Source: Developmental Review - June 21, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
