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Workforce well-being: Personal and workplace contributions to early educators' depression across settings
Publication date: Available online 5 October 2017Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): Amy M. Roberts, Kathleen C. Gallagher, Alexandra M. Daro, Iheoma U. Iruka, Susan L. SarverAbstractBuilding on research demonstrating the importance of teachers' well-being, this study examined personal and contextual factors related to early childhood educators' (n = 1640) depressive symptoms across licensed child care homes, centers, and schools. Aspects of teachers' beliefs, economic status, and work-related stress were explored, and components of each emerged as significant in an OLS regression. After...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Utilizing social-emotional learning supports to address teacher stress and preschool expulsion
Publication date: Available online 20 November 2017Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): Katherine M. Zinsser, Courtney A. Zulauf, Vinoadharen Nair Das, H. Callie SilverAbstractAcross the United States, rates of preschool expulsion exceed those in K-12 and relatively little is known of the antecedents and consequences of such disciplinary decisions for both teachers and children. Interventions to reduce expulsion from public preschool additionally benefit teachers' workplace experiences, including reducing stress. The present study explores associations among supports and resources which promote chi...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The cultural (mis)attribution bias in developmental psychology in the United States
Publication date: Available online 3 February 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): José M. Causadias, Joseph A. Vitriol, Annabelle L. AtkinAbstractIn this article, we provide evidence for the cultural (mis)attribution bias in developmental psychology in the United States: the tendency to see minorities as members of a group whose development is shaped primarily by culture, and to perceive Whites as independent individuals whose development is largely influenced by psychological processes. In two studies, we investigated this bias with a decade of peer reviewed developmental research conducted ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Early childhood teachers' stress and children's social, emotional, and behavioral functioning
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): Lieny Jeon, Cynthia K. Buettner, Ashley A. Grant, Sarah N. LangAbstractEarly childhood teachers play a key role in promoting children's social, emotional, and behavioral functioning. We investigated how preschool lead and assistant teachers' personal and job-related stress are, collectively and separately, associated with their perceptions of children's anger-aggression, anxiety-withdrawal, and social competence. Using a sample of 103 teachers from 54 classrooms serving 329 children, we conducted three-level mul...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Diversity exposure in preschool: Longitudinal implications for cross-race friendships and racial bias
This study examined associations between children's (N = 670) racial biases and cross-race friendships, and whether diverse people and materials in the preschool classroom predicted children's racial biases or cross-race friendships in first or third grades. Results demonstrated weak-moderate stability in racial biases and cross-race friendship across elementary school. First-grade cross-race friendship predicted lower third-grade racial bias, but not vice versa. Exposure to diverse people in preschool was associated with greater odds of having a cross-race friend in first-grade, which predicted the likelihood of havin...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Gender discrimination hinders other-gender friendship formation in diverse youth
Publication date: Available online 7 March 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): Naomi C.Z. Andrews, Carlos E. Santos, Rachel E. Cook, Carol Lynn MartinAbstractIn early adolescence, when forming other-gender friends is developmentally normative, gender-based discrimination may inhibit youth's motivation and ability to form other-gender friends. Our aims were to 1) examine gender discrimination among gender- and racially/ethnically-diverse youth and 2) assess whether gender discrimination was associated with changes in proportion of other-gender friends across middle school. Middle school student...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Immigrant youth acculturation and perceived discrimination: Longitudinal mediation by immigrant peers' acceptance/rejection
This study examined, first, the longitudinal interplay between immigrant youth's acculturation into the host and ethnic cultures and perceived ethnic discrimination, and, second, whether acceptance and rejection by immigrant and non-immigrant peers longitudinally mediated the link between acculturation and discrimination. 1057 students nested in 49 Greek middle-school classrooms took part in the study (Wave 1; age M = 12.7 years). 532 immigrants provided the acculturation and discrimination data. Together with their 525 Greek classmates, they also provided peer nomination data. Immigrant youth's higher acculturation ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Comparing the effectiveness and durability of contact- and skills-based prejudice reduction approaches
Publication date: Available online 19 April 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyAuthor(s): Rony Berger, Alaina Brenick, Samantha E. Lawrence, Lila Coco, Hisham Abu-RaiyaAbstractThis investigation compared the efficacy and durability of two prejudice reduction approaches: social-emotional skills training and intergroup contact. 148 5th grade Palestinian-Israeli students in the ethnically-mixed city of Jaffa were randomly assigned to one of three conditions. Members of the skills-based classes engaged in activities that aimed to cultivate perspective-taking, empathy, and compassion; members of the contact ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The child-rearing environment and children's mastery motivation as contributors to school readiness
In this study, mastery motivation was examined as a mediator of the relation between preschoolers' home environment—harsh, coercive rearing practices as well as cognitive stimulation—and a later indicator of school readiness. Findings from an ethnically diverse sample of Head Start families (N = 207) showed parent coercion, encouragement of learning, and parent-rated mastery motivation to predict school readiness a year later. Although parent-rated mastery motivation at pretest explained unique variance in later school readiness, tests of mediation were not supported. Notably, model testing found that observed mast...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: May–June 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 56Author(s): (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Peer influence on disruptive classroom behavior depends on teachers' instructional practice
This study investigated whether early adolescents' disruptive classroom behavior is predicted by descriptive classroom norms for such behavior (i.e., mean level of classmates' disruptive behaviors). We further examined whether classmates' influence on a student's disruptive behavior varies based on teacher's instructional practice. Participants were 701 adolescents (M = 13.12 years; 48.8% girls) who were followed across six measurement points from Grades 7 through 9. Multilevel analyses showed that subsequent individual disruptive behavior was predicted by earlier levels of disruptive behavior in the classroom. Peer ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Gay-Straight Alliance involvement and youths' participation in civic engagement, advocacy, and awareness-raising
Publication date: May–June 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 56Author(s): V. Paul Poteat, Jerel P. Calzo, Hirokazu YoshikawaAbstractCivic engagement among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) youth and heterosexual cisgender allies can challenge oppressive systems. Among 295 youth in 33 Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs; 69% LGBQ, 68% cisgender female, 68% white, Mage = 16.07), we examined whether greater GSA involvement was associated with greater general civic engagement, as well as participation in greater LGBTQ-specific advocacy and awareness-raising efforts. Furthe...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Parenting matters: Moderation of biological and community risk for obesity
Publication date: May–June 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 56Author(s): Maria A. Gartstein, Erich Seamon, Stephanie F. Thompson, Liliana J. LenguaAbstractContributions of parental limit setting, negativity, scaffolding, warmth, and responsiveness to Body Mass Index (BMI) were examined. Parenting behaviors were observed in parent-child interactions, and child BMI was assessed at 5 years of age. Mothers provided demographic information and obtained child saliva samples used to derive cortisol concentration indicators (N = 250). Geospatial crime indices were computed based on publically...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Trajectories of self-esteem in extremely low birth weight survivors through adulthood
Publication date: May–June 2018Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 56Author(s): Kristie L. Poole, Louis A. Schmidt, Saroj Saigal, Michael H. Boyle, Katherine M. Morrison, Ryan J. Van LieshoutAbstractAlthough the developmental course of self-esteem has been examined in general population samples, there is a lack of research examining the trajectory of self-esteem in populations who experience unique developmental challenges. We compared the trajectory of self-esteem in extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g) survivors and normal birth weight (NBW) controls from mid-adolescence through thei...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Is there a developmental gap in visual search for children with reported attention problems?
We report an analysis of developmental patterns in visual search for 6 to 12-year-old children. A typically developing sample of 1442 children is compared with two samples (N = 1160 and N = 947) of children with teacher-reported attentional problems. Inclusion criteria for these two groups are low academic achievement and probable attention problems as the reason for the low achievement. The three groups completed DiViSA, a computerized visual search test. Obtained data show two patterns of visual search development. Children with teacher-reported attentional problems show hastiness, inaccuracy and slowness. Childr...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research