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You sound like Mommy: Bilingual and monolingual infants learn words best from speakers typical of their language environments
Previous research indicates that monolingual infants have difficulty learning minimal pairs (i.e., words differing by one phoneme) produced by a speaker uncharacteristic of their language environment and that bilinguals might share this difficulty. To clearly reveal infants’ underlying phonological representations, we minimized task demands by embedding target words in naming phrases, using a fully crossed, between-subjects experimental design. We tested 17-month-old French-English bilinguals’ (N = 30) and English monolinguals’ (N = 31) learning of a minimal pair (/km/ – /gm/) produced by an adult b...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Fennell, C., Byers-Heinlein, K. Tags: Special section: Language development in multilingual environments Source Type: research

Introduction to the special section: Language development in multilingual environments
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Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Hoff, E. Tags: Special section: Language development in multilingual environments Source Type: research

Editorial announcement
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Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Laursen, B. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Daily hassles and coping dispositions as predictors of psychological adjustment: A comparative study of young unaccompanied refugees and youth in the resettlement country
This study examined daily hassles and coping dispositions in relation to life satisfaction and depressive symptoms among resettled unaccompanied refugees and other youth in the resettlement country. A total of 223 unaccompanied refugees (M = 20 years) was compared with 609 ethnic minority and 427 majority youth in Norway. Unaccompanied refugees reported higher levels of depressive symptoms, daily hassles and engagement and disengagement coping than the other two groups, but equal level of life satisfaction. Daily hassles and disengagement coping predicted lower life satisfaction and more depressive symptoms across groups. ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Seglem, K. B., Oppedal, B., Roysamb, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Comparison of diachronic thinking and event ordering in 5- to 10-year-old children
Two main theoretical constructs seek to describe the elaborated sense of time that may be a uniquely human attribute: diachronic thinking (the ability to think about the past and use that information to predict future events) and event ordering (the ability to sequence events in temporal order). Researchers utilize various tasks to measure the emergence and refinement of diachronic thinking and event ordering in children and to document significant development in these skills during middle childhood. The current study investigated the relationship between performance on tasks of diachronic thinking and event ordering in 90...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Moore, B. D., Brooks, P. J., Rabin, L. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The relation between 8- to 17-year-olds' judgments of other's honesty and their own past honest behaviors
The present investigation examined whether school-aged children and adolescents’ own deceptive behavior of cheating and lying influenced their honesty judgments of their same-aged peers. Eighty 8- to 17-year-olds who had previously participated in a study examining cheating and lie-telling behaviors were invited to make honesty judgments of their peers’ denials of having peeked at the answers to a test. While participants’ accuracy rates for making honesty judgments were at chance levels, judgment biases were found based on participants own past cheating and lie-telling behaviors. Specifically, those who ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Evans, A. D., Lee, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

A longitudinal perspective on the association between cognition and temperamental shyness
Moderate, yet relatively consistent, associations between cognitive performance and shyness have been reported throughout the child and adult literatures. The current study assessed longitudinal associations between cognition (i.e., executive functioning) and parent-report temperamental shyness from infancy to early childhood and used temporal order to explore directionality of the relations. Two hundred and eleven children contributed data at multiple ages (5 months, 10 months, 2 years, 3 years, and 4 years). The results indicated a complex pattern of association between cognition and shyness in early development and prov...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Wolfe, C. D., Zhang, J., Kim-Spoon, J., Bell, M. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Conceptions of adulthood among migrant women workers in China
The experiences of emerging adulthood may vary in different historical and cultural contexts. Little research has been dedicated to how non college students view adulthood in developing countries. Currently, millions of young people are migrating from rural villages to industrial cities in China. The purpose of this study was to investigate conceptions of adulthood among Chinese migrant women workers, using mixed methods. One hundred and nineteen women workers (aged 18–29 years) from a factory in Guangdong, China, completed a questionnaire of markers for adulthood. Then, 15 of them were interviewed regarding their un...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Zhong, J., Arnett, J. J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Deferred imitation in 9-month-olds: How do model and task characteristics matter across cultures?
This study assessed deferred imitation in 9-month-old infants from the German middle-class (N = 44) and the ethnic group of Nso in rural Cameroon (N = 43). Infants either received an adult or an older child as a model. Moreover, the test material comprised varying degrees of target action difficulty. Across cultures and target actions infants imitated more when an adult model demonstrated the target actions. However, results revealed that infants did not show an adult model advantage for easier target actions, but only for those that were considered more difficult. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Teiser, J., Lamm, B., Boning, M., Graf, F., Gudi, H., Goertz, C., Fassbender, I., Freitag, C., Spangler, S., Teubert, M., Lohaus, A., Schwarzer, G., Knopf, M., Keller, H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Development of active control within working memory: Active retrieval versus monitoring in children
This study aimed to compare children’s performance on two mnemonic functions that engage the lateral prefrontal cortex. Brain imaging studies in adults have shown that the mid-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex is specifically involved in active controlled retrieval, and the mid-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is specifically involved in monitoring mnemonic information (Petrides, 2005). Eighty-two children aged from 6 years, 8 months to 8 years, 7 months were tested. They showed equivalent success rates in active retrieval and monitoring with color and shape information. However, children were slower in monitoring than i...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Blain-Briere, B., Bouchard, C., Bigras, N., Cadoret, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Preparation for old age in different life domains: Dimensions and age differences
We investigated preparation for age-related changes from a multidimensional, life span perspective and administered a newly developed questionnaire to a large sample aged 30–80 years. Preparing for age-related changes was organized by life domains, with domain-specific types of preparation addressing obstacles and opportunities in the respective domains. Preparing for a third (focusing on activities, leisure, work, fitness, appearance) and a fourth age (focusing on emergencies, dependence/independence, housing, financial arrangements) emerged as superordinate categories of preparation. Different age gradients were ob...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Kornadt, A. E., Rothermund, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Social possible selves, self-regulation, and social goal progress in older adulthood
This study examines how in the social domain, possible selves, a future-oriented self-concept, and self-regulation, including self-regulatory beliefs and intraindividual variability in self-regulatory behavior, relate to differences in overall daily social goal progress. An online older-adult sample worked towards a self-defined meaningful social goal over 100 days. Multilevel analysis showed that participants with social possible selves made higher overall daily goal progress, especially those with both hoped-for and feared possible selves, than those with possible selves in nonsocial domains. Self-regulatory beliefs were...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Ko, H.-J., Mejia, S., Hooker, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

How do children make sense of their experiences? Children's memories of wellbeing and distress from an attachment perspective
Attachment’s role in children’s memories of wellbeing and distress was evaluated through the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task in 30 Italian children, aged 6 years (15 secure and 15 insecure). Their mothers’ coherence of discourse was determined using the Adult Attachment Interview. A mediation model examining whether children’s attachment mediated the relation between mothers’ ability to talk coherently about their past and children’s memories was tested. Children’s attachment was associated with their ability to describe memories of wellbeing and distress and mediated the in...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 9, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Messina, S., Zavattini, G. C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Moving ahead in the study of the development of emotion regulation
This special section on the development of emotion regulation highlights several important new directions for research. Specifically, the findings of these studies indicate that: (1) emotion regulation develops across the lifespan and not just in early childhood and does so in complex ways, (2) it is necessary to distinguish among emotions to fully understand emotion regulation, and (3) at all ages emotion regulation is socially regulated. In addition, the limitations of the studies point to additional new directions, including the (4) need for a sophisticated conceptualization of the role of gender, (5) the acute need to ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Cole, P. M. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research

Selective narrowing of social networks across adulthood is associated with improved emotional experience in daily life
Past research has documented age differences in the size and composition of social networks that suggest that networks grow smaller with age and include an increasingly greater proportion of well-known social partners. According to socioemotional selectivity theory, such changes in social network composition serve an antecedent emotion regulatory function that supports an age-related increase in the priority that people place on emotional well-being. The present study employed a longitudinal design with a sample that spanned the full adult age range to examine whether there is evidence of within-individual (developmental) ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 18, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: English, T., Carstensen, L. L. Tags: Special section: Emotion regulation across the life span Source Type: research