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Intergenerational contact and mediators impact ambivalence towards future selves
Intergenerational contact can promote positive attitudes towards elders. However, contact with older adults often fosters multiple stereotypes, which may contribute to ambivalence about aging and poorer health in late life. Online survey data from 457 young adults (M age = 19.4 years; 74% female) were used to explore the relationship between intergenerational contact and ambivalence about self as a future elder. Multiple mediator path analysis was used to test the hypothesis that anxiety, knowledge, and empathy would mediate the impact of intergenerational contact on aging self-ambivalence. Ratings of intergenerational con...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Jarrott, S. E., Savla, J. Tags: Reports Source Type: research

Parental monitoring and adolescent problem behaviors: How much do we really know?
This article aims to provide a critical analysis of how much we know about the effectiveness of parental monitoring in preventing adolescent delinquency. First, it describes the historical developments in parental monitoring research. Second, it explains why it is uncertain whether causal inferences can be drawn from contemporary research findings on the link of parenting and adolescent problem behaviors. Third, it is empirically demonstrated, using Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Models, how distinguishing between-person and within-person associations may alter or strengthen conclusions regarding the links of parental monit...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Keijsers, L. Tags: Review Source Type: research

Childrens trust and the development of prosocial behavior
This study examined the role of children’s trust beliefs and trustworthiness in the development of prosocial behavior using data from four waves of a longitudinal study in a large, ethnically-diverse sample of children in Switzerland (mean age = 8.11 years at Time 1, N = 1,028). Prosocial behavior directed towards peers was measured at all assessment points by teacher reports. Children’s trust beliefs and their trustworthiness with peers were assessed and calculated by a social relations analysis at the first assessment point using children’s reports of the extent to which classmates kept promises. In add...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Malti, T., Averdijk, M., Zuffiano, A., Ribeaud, D., Betts, L. R., Rotenberg, K. J., Eisner, M. P. Tags: Empirical Paper Source Type: research

Sharing the past and future among adolescents and their parents
This study explored how sharing past and future life events among late adolescents and their parents influenced the quality of their own time perspectives. Triads (N =104) of female students and their parents described three important life events from their past and future. The results showed that adolescents who shared past and future life events predicted a positive impact on their time perspective, whereas parents displayed a more complex dynamism that included the impact of sharing the past on the future and vice versa. It is suggested that the impact of sharing past and future life events varies according to the age g...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Shirai, T., Higata, A. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Looking in the eyes to discriminate: Linking infants habituation speed to looking behaviour using faces
Studies showed that individual differences in encoding speed as well as looking behaviour during the encoding of facial stimuli can relate to differences in subsequent face discrimination. Nevertheless, a direct linkage between encoding speed and looking behaviour during the encoding of facial stimuli and the role of these encoding characteristics for subsequent discrimination has not been investigated yet. In the present habituation study, an eye-tracker was used to investigate how individual differences in encoding speed (number of habituation trials) relate to individual differences in looking behaviour on faces and the...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Bolhuis, J., Kolling, T., Knopf, M. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Links between friends physical aggression and adolescents physical aggression: What happens if gene-environment correlations are controlled?
In this study, we used a cross-lagged design to test whether friends’ physical aggression at age 10 predicts an increase in participants’ physical aggression from age 10 to age 13 years. Participants were 201 pairs of monozygotic twins who are part of the Quebec Longitudinal Twin Study. We performed two sets of analyses. In the first set of analyses, using twins as singletons, we found that teacher-rated friends’ physical aggression predicted an increase in each twin’s self-reported physical aggression from age 10 to age 13, above and beyond auto-regressive and concurrent links. Second, we used with...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Girard, A., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. E., Boivin, M. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Is self-regulation "All in the family"? Testing environmental effects using within-family quasi-experiments
Most of the individual difference variance in the population is found within families, yet studying the processes causing this variation is difficult due to confounds between genetic and nongenetic influences. Quasi-experiments can be used to test hypotheses regarding environment exposure (e.g., timing, duration) while controlling for genetic confounds. To illustrate, two studies of cognitive self-regulation in childhood (i.e., working memory, effortful control, attention span/persistence) are presented. Study 1 utilized an identical twin differences design (N = 85-98 pairs) to control for genetic differences while using r...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Deater-Deckard, K. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Identifying the "truly disadvantaged": A comprehensive biosocial approach
There has been significant interest in examining the developmental factors that predispose individuals to chronic criminal offending. This body of research has identified some social-environmental risk factors as potentially important. At the same time, the research producing these results has generally failed to employ genetically sensitive research designs, thereby potentially generating biased parameter estimates. The current study addresses this gap in the literature by using both a standard social science methodology (SSSM) and two separate genetically informative research designs to examine whether parent, teacher, a...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Barnes, J. C., Beaver, K. M., Connolly, E. J., Schwartz, J. A. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Investigating Unique Environmental Influences of Parenting Practices on Youth Anxiety: A Monozygotic Twin Differences Study
This study indicated that parental warmth-reasoning and harshness-hostility may be unique environmental experiences that influence youth anxiety, and illustrated the necessity of controlling for gene-environment correlations when examining the true environmental effects of parenting on child behavior. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Chen, J., Yu, J., Zhang, J. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Associations between mother-child relationship quality and adolescent adjustment: Using a genetically controlled design to determine the direction and magnitude of effects
This study used a genetically controlled design to examine the direction and the magnitude of effects in the over-time associations between perceived relationship quality with mothers and adolescent maladjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms and delinquency). A total of 163 monozygotic (MZ) twins pairs (85 female pairs, 78 male pairs) completed questionnaires at ages 13 and 14. Non-genetically controlled path analyses models (in which one member of each twin dyad was randomly selected for analyses) were compared with genetically controlled path analyses models (in which MZ-twin difference scores were included in analyses). R...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Guimond, F.-A., Laursen, B., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Dionne, G., Boivin, M. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Introduction to the special section: "Environmental effects on development: Concordance and discrepancies between genetically-controlled and non genetically-controlled studies"
Introduction to the Special Section entitled "Environmental effects on development: Concordance and discrepancies between genetically-controlled and non genetically-controlled studies." (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 17, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M. Tags: Special Section: Environmental Effects on Development Source Type: research

Validation of the long- and short-form of the Ethical Values Assessment (EVA): A questionnaire measuring the three ethics approach to moral psychology
Discussion focuses on the implications of this measure for moral psychology and important future research directions. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 10, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Padilla-Walker, L. M., Jensen, L. A. Tags: Methods and Measures Source Type: research

The relation between contingency preference and imitation in 6-8-month-old infants
Detecting self-generated actions and imitating other-generated actions are important abilities in order to interact with others. The relationship between these domains was investigated in 6–8-month-old infants. In a contingency-preference task, infants observed their own legs on a real-time and a delayed video display. In an imitation task, the experimenter demonstrated a three-step action directed at a puppet mouse. The Cognitive Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development was administered in order to control for the infants’ cognitive developmental status. A negative correlation was found bet...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 10, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Klein-Radukic, S., Zmyj, N. Tags: Special Section: Motivational Self Regulation Across the Life-Span Source Type: research

Short-term longitudinal relationships between adolescents (cyber)bullying perpetration and bonding to school and teachers
The purpose of this study was to test bidirectional relationships between (cyber)bullying and a) bonding to school and b) bonding to teachers. These relationships were examined while controlling for traditional and cyberbullying victimization, as well as gender and age. The sample consisted of 2,128 Belgian early adolescents, who participated in a two-wave panel study with a 6-month time interval. The data were analysed using cross-lagged panel analyses. The results indicate the robust temporal stability of being bonded to school and teachers, bullying perpetration (traditional and cyber), and bullying victimization (tradi...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 10, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Pabian, S., Vandebosch, H. Tags: Special Section: Motivational Self Regulation Across the Life-Span Source Type: research

Parenting and preschoolers executive functioning: A case of differential susceptibility?
A growing body of theoretical and empirical work has been attempting to answer the questions of how and how much of the effects of children’s early experience may depend on their inner characteristics. Theory and evidence suggest that some children, notably those with difficult temperaments, are more susceptible to both negative and positive aspects of parenting. The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether child temperament moderated the links between the quality of mother-infant interactions, observed when children were 1 year of age, and two components of child executive functioning (EF) at 3 years,...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - February 10, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Rochette, E., Bernier, A. Tags: Special Section: Motivational Self Regulation Across the Life-Span Source Type: research