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Family income from birth through adolescence: Implications for positive youth development
This study took a life course approach to examine associations among family income from birth to age 15, and adolescent health and well-being. Utilizing latent growth mixture modeling, we identified four distinct family income trajectories based on changes in low-income status (family income ≤200% of the federal poverty line) over 15 years, which in turn related to their outcomes in adolescence. More specifically, youth living in a consistent state of higher income from birth to age 15 (Consistent Higher Income) reported better health and behavioral outcomes than youth in the Consistent Low Income, Increasing Income, o...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - August 2, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Linking self and society: Identity and the immigrant experience in two macro-contexts
Publication date: July–September 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 64Author(s): Ylva Svensson, Moin SyedAbstractThe purpose of this study was to compare identity processes associated with the immigrant experience in two macro-contexts, the U.S and Sweden. Using a qualitative narrative approach, we explored how immigrant and non-immigrant youth negotiate their identities in the intersection between individual selves and society, by studying how they experience deviations from societal expectations and whether such deviations were associated with alternative group belonging. The sample consist...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - August 2, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Shared reading with preverbal infants and later language development
This study examined features of parents' shared reading with preverbal infants in relation to children's early language development. Forty-four mothers of diverse socioeconomic status and their 10-month-old infants were observed during shared reading. Their interactions were coded for quantity and qualities of maternal speech and gesture, and for children's interest in the activity. The results indicate that maternal questions and child interest during shared reading at 10-months predicted children's expressive, receptive, and pragmatic language skills at 18-months, controlling for children's earlier skills and maternal ed...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 21, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Emotion socialization, social connectedness and internalizing symptoms in emerging adults
Publication date: July–September 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 64Author(s): Alyssa L. Faro, Laura G. McKee, Randi L. Garcia, Jessica L. O'LearyAbstractInternalizing disorders represent a substantial public health burden in the United States, and recent studies have focused on identifying factors related to internalizing symptoms (IS) in emerging adults (EA). The current study utilizes Structural Equation Modeling to examine the associations between parental psychopathology, recalled parent emotion socialization (ES), EA perception of social connectedness (SC), and EA IS in a comprehensiv...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 18, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Virtual reality's effect on children's inhibitory control, social compliance, and sharing
Publication date: July–September 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 64Author(s): Jakki O. Bailey, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Jelena Obradović, Naomi R. AguiarAbstractWe compared the effects of different immersive technologies on four- to six-year-olds' inhibitory control skills, social compliance (i.e., walking upon request), and sharing (i.e., physical stickers) with a children's media character (Grover from Sesame Street©). Children (N = 52) completed an inhibitory control task, Simon Says, with Grover either via TV or VR. Children using VR were less likely to suppress a dominant motoric re...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 63Author(s): (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Financial behaviors and adult identity: Mediating analyses of a college cohort
Publication date: July–September 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 64Author(s): Xiaomin Li, Melissa Curran, Nan Zhou, Joyce Serido, Soyeon Shim, Hongjian CaoAbstractUsing mediating analyses with Latent Change Scores (N = 208), we examined (Aim 1) associations from financial behaviors of emerging adults and romantic partners to adult identity (i.e., feeling like an adult; being recognized by others as adult; obtaining adult status), and (Aim 2) the mediating roles of depressive symptoms and relationship satisfaction in these associations. We included initial levels and over-time changes i...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Narrowing the achievement gap in low-achieving children by targeted executive function training
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 63Author(s): Cuiping Wang, Susanne M. Jaeggi, Ling Yang, Tianshu Zhang, Xiaozhong He, Martin Buschkuehl, Qiong ZhangAbstractBy comparing the performance of two low-achieving (LA) training groups, targeting working memory (WM) or inhibitory control (IC), respectively, with that of a matched LA group and a normal-achieving (NA) group, the present study aimed to test whether cognitive training might be helpful to narrow the gap between the LA children and their (NA) peers. We tested children's Chinese language skills, math and flui...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - June 27, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Interactions between familial risk profiles and preschoolers' emotionality in predicting executive function
This study extends our understanding of how different constellations of familial risks interact with child emotionality to contribute to child EF development. (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - June 22, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Maternal depression and acculturative stress impacts on Mexican-origin children through authoritarian parenting
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 63Author(s): Esther J. Calzada, Adam Sales, Jaimie L. O'GaraAbstractDepression and acculturative stress are common among Latina mothers, yet little is known about how these variables are related to parenting practices and in turn, to the mental health functioning of their young children. The present study used a sample of Mexican-origin mothers of 3- to 6-year-old children (N = 175) to test a model of maternal depression and acculturative stress as predictors of child internalizing and externalizing problems, mediated by aut...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - June 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Children's behavioral self-regulation and conscience: Roles of child temperament, parenting, and parenting context
This study examined longitudinal, temperament-specific relations between parenting qualities in two interactive contexts and behavioral measures of child self-regulation and conscience. Mother-toddler interactions were observed for maternal gentle control and mutual positivity and responsiveness (MPR) when children were 18 months old (sample N = 134, 53% male, 92% non-Hispanic White). Child temperament was also assessed, yielding exuberant, inhibited, and average-approach temperament groups. Children's behavioral self-regulation and conscience were assessed at 4.5 years of age. Mother gentle control in a free play ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - June 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Infants' emotional security: The confluence of parental depression, Interparental conflict, and parenting
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 63Author(s): Tina D. Du Rocher Schudlich, Norman Wells Jessica, Seneca E.A. Erwin, Amber RishorAbstractUtilizing the Emotional Security Theory (EST; Davies & Cummings, 1994) the current study examined links between parent depression, interparental conflict, parenting behavior, and infant emotional security. Seventy-four families with infants 6-14 months old participated. Behavioral observations examined mothers' and fathers' parenting during a triadic task, interparental conflict (i.e., destructive, depressive, and constructiv...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - June 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Let’s Connect: A developmentally-driven emotion-focused parenting intervention
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 63Author(s): Anne Shaffer, Monica M. Fitzgerald, Kimberly Shipman, Marcela TorresAbstractResearch on emotional development and emotion socialization emphasize the importance of supportive parent-child emotion communication, yet most empirically supported parenting interventions omit guidance on emotion communication skills. The primary goal of this paper is to introduce the Let's Connect emotion-focused parenting intervention as an innovative treatment modality for increasing supportive emotion socialization in families, drawing...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - June 5, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Sleep and cognitive development in preschoolers: Stress and autobiographical performance associations
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 63Author(s): Marta Nieto, Jorge J. Ricarte, James W. Griffith, Noël C. Slesinger, Bayley J. Taple, Luz Fernández-Aguilar, Laura Ros, Jose M. LatorreAbstractSleep regulation is an important developmental milestone for children. Although sleep quality has been associated with mental health as a function of negative valence of memories, to our knowledge, there is no information about autobiographical memory specificity and sleep functioning among children ages 3 to 6 years. Because autobiographical memory is consolidated at 4 a...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - May 30, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Longitudinal associations of first-grade teaching with reading in early primary school
Publication date: July–August 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 63Author(s): Xin Tang, Eija Pakarinen, Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen, Joona Muotka, Jari-Erik NurmiAbstractThe present study examined the longitudinal associations between first-grade teaching practices and children's reading skills development from Grade 1 to Grade 3. Using the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure (ECCOM), the teaching practices of 32 Finnish teachers were observed in Grade 1. Students' (N = 359) word recognition and sentence reading skills were assessed yearly from Grade 1 to Grade 3. The person-orien...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - May 30, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research