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Self-regulation mitigates the association between household chaos and children's behavior problems
This study examined household chaos as a predictor of externalizing and internalizing problems among young children from low-income families. Additionally, self-regulation was examined as a moderator of the association between chaos and behavior problems. One hundred young adult mother-toddler dyads participated. Moderation analyses indicated that self-regulation buffered the association between household chaos and child behavior problems. Specifically, greater household chaos was associated with more behavior problems, but only among children with poorer self-regulation. Notably, this pattern was observed for both externa...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 3, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Commonality between executive functioning and effortful control related to adjustment
This study examined the association between executive functioning (EF) and effortful control (EC), and tested whether cognitive control as the commonality of EF and EC, predicted competence and internalizing and externalizing symptomatology in children (N = 218, 6–8 years) and adolescents (N = 157, 13–14 years). Confirmatory factor analyses suggested cognitive control—inhibitory control and attentional control—as a significant overlap between EF and EC. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that the cognitive control latent factor was associated with competence and internalizing and externaliz...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The role of teacher emotional support in children's cross-ethnic friendship preferences
This study provides some of the first evidence that the positive effects of teacher warmth and responsiveness may extend to children's cross-ethnic sentiments. (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 24, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

An experimental study of the effects of autonomy support on preschoolers' self-regulation
This study was a short-term experimental investigation of parent autonomy support and its effect on 3-year-old children's self-regulation (N pairs = 128; 50% fathers). Parent and child behavior was measured at baseline. Then parents were randomly assigned to complete a challenging puzzle with their child in either a highly autonomy supportive or highly controlling manner. Child behavior was measured again at posttest. Results showed that parents were able to change their behavior according to the instructions given, with parents who were lower in autonomy support at baseline benefiting most from the autonomy support tr...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 21, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Children's adaptive decision making and the costs of information search
Publication date: January–February 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 60Author(s): Stefanie Lindow, Tilmann BetschAbstractNot all information is equally relevant for making good choices. Do children find it difficult to use information weights for an adaptive information search because of their insensitivity towards search costs? To address this question, we used an information-board game played either with or without search costs to compare decisions of 8- to 10-year-olds, 11- to 12-year-olds, and young adults. To assess the use of weights, we manipulated the weight-structure (high vs. low w...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 21, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Home-literacy environment of low-income rural families: Association with child- and caregiver-level characteristics
Publication date: January–February 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 60Author(s): Maureen J. Myrtil, Laura M. Justice, Hui JiangAbstractThe aim of this study was to examine the nature and interrelatedness of four active dimensions of the home-literacy environment of low-income rural families (parent-child interactions, child interest, library use, and access to books) and to determine the extent to which characteristics of the caregiver and child predict these dimensions. Caregivers of 466 preschool-aged rural children completed a questionnaire regarding the home-literacy environment and dem...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Help or hindrance? Minority versus majority cross-ethnic friendships altering discrimination experiences
We examined the interplay between perceived ethnic discrimination (PED) as a risk factor, and cross-ethnic friendships as a protective factor in culturally diverse classrooms, and how they relate to the socioemotional adjustment of ethnic minority boys and girls. We conducted multi-level analyses of 327 Turkish-heritage ethnic minority early-adolescents in Germany (62 classrooms; Mage = 11.59 years, SDage = 0.76). Higher rates of PED were associated with more depressive symptoms and disruptive behaviors and lower general life satisfaction—though these effects differed by gender. Unexpectedly, cross-ethnic frien...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 18, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Friendship network influence on the development of internalizing symptoms during adolescence
Publication date: Available online 11 October 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): Glen J. Veed, Meredith McGinley, Lisa J. CrockettAbstractThe present study examined the role of the friendship network in the levels of and change in symptoms of internalizing psychopathology among high school students. Social Network Analysis was implemented to examine self-reported anxiety and depression in the friendship network during the fall and spring in one school year for students in a rural high school (M age at T1 = 15.71, 51% female, 91% Caucasian). Depression and anxiety in the friendship network...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 12, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

From external regulation to school achievement: The mediation of self-efficacy at school
Publication date: Available online 9 October 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): Elena Cattelino, Mara Morelli, Roberto Baiocco, Antonio ChirumboloAbstractThe study examines the mediational role of self-efficacy in school achievement and self-efficacy in regulatory learning practice in the relationship between the severity of parental and school rules, and academic achievement during adolescence. School and family help adolescents develop self-efficacy in regulatory learning. Although self-regulation strategies play a central role in the individual's adaptive development, research on how these...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 9, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Mothers' depressive symptoms and responses to preschoolers' emotions: moderated by child expression
This study examined a model of children's emotion expression as a moderator of the links between mothers' depressive symptoms and their responses to children's negative emotions. Participants were 127 mother-preschooler dyads. Children's emotion expressions were assessed both by maternal report and through observational tasks when children were three. Mothers were assessed for their depressive symptoms when children were three, and their responses to their children's negative emotions, when children were four. Results revealed that when children's reported submissive emotion expression was low, maternal depressive symptoms...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 9, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Teacher depression as a dynamic variable: Exploring the nature and predictors of change over the head start year
This study used the Family and Child Experiences Survey, 2009 cohort, to explore the levels of depression among a nationally representative sample of Head Start teachers at the beginning and end of the preschool year. Results showed that one in three Head Start teachers reported some depression either in fall or spring, and that change in depression between fall and spring was commonplace. Characteristics of individuals (initial depression, Hispanic/Latino ethnicity), classrooms (class size, number of DLLs, average child prosocial skills), and the workplace (peer depression, curriculum support, positive workplace climate, ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 9, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Observing children's engagement: Examining factorial validity of the inCLASS across demographic groups
This study examined the comparability of the Individualized Classroom Assessment System (inCLASS), an observation tool that targets individual children's engagement in preschool classrooms with teachers, peers and tasks, within a large diverse sample and across demographic groups (gender, poverty status, ethnicity). The CFA of the hypothesized four-factor model with correlated latent factors suggested good model fit. Criteria for strong measurement invariance were met when making demographic group comparisons (poverty status and ethnicity) with configural invariance found for gender. These findings indicate that the inCLAS...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - October 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: July–September 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - September 20, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Autonomy-supportive parenting and associations with child and parent executive function
Publication date: July–September 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): Rebecca Distefano, Ellen Galinsky, Megan M. McClelland, Philip David Zelazo, Stephanie M. CarlsonAbstractAutonomy-supportive parenting appears to play an important role in children's executive function (EF) development. However, few studies have accounted for parents' EF skills when examining the link between parenting and child EF in families from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. In the current study, parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children (N = 85 dyads) were assessed in the fall of preschool on well-...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - September 18, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Moving toward and away from others: Social orientations in emerging adulthood
This study's consideration of multiple aspects of social orientations not only advances current theoretical models of social interaction, but also has important implications for understanding mechanisms that lead to flourishing and floundering in emerging adulthood. (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - September 13, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research