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Children's capacity to remember a novel problem and to secure its future solutionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Much of humans' success rests on foresight, the ability to predict what will happen or what is needed in the future. Surprisingly little is known about how this faculty develops. In three experiments (N = 170), 3- and 4-year-old children were presented with simple puzzles. Fifteen minutes later in a different room they were given the opportunity to secure a solution to take back to the puzzle. Only the older children performed above chance, whereas both age groups could solve the task in an instant condition. The same pattern of results emerged for another task involving selection of something to 'feed ' a puppet whose fav...
Source: Developmental Science - March 20, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Thomas Suddendorf, Mark Nielsen, Rebecca von Gehlen Source Type: journals

Temperament, personality and developmental psychopathology: a review based on the conceptual dimensions underlying childhood traits.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The numerous temperament and personality constructs in childhood impede the systematic integration of findings on how these individual differences relate to developmental psychopathology. This paper reviews the main temperament and personality theories and proposes a theoretical taxonomy representing the common structure of both temperament and personality traditions within one conceptual framework. This integrated lexicon of childhood temperament/personality traits facilitates an overview of the most important research findings on the role of temperament and personality in the development of anxiety, depression, ADHD,...
Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development - March 19, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: De Pauw SS, Mervielde I Tags: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Source Type: journals

Effects of Zinc and Ferritin Levels on Parent and Teacher Reported Symptom Scores in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Results indicated that both low zinc and ferritin levels were associated with higher hyperactivity symptoms. Zinc level was also associated with anxiety and conduct problems. Since both zinc and iron are associated with dopamine metabolism, it can be speculated that low zinc and iron levels might be associated with more significant impairment in dopaminergic transmission in subjects with ADHD. PMID: 20238159 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development)
Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development - March 18, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Oner O, Oner P, Bozkurt OH, Odabas E, Keser N, Karadag H, Kızılgün M Tags: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Source Type: journals

Cyberbullying Among Adolescents: The Role of Affective and Cognitive Empathy, and Gender.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of the study was to examine the association between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and gender on cyberbullying among adolescents. Participants were 396 adolescents from Singapore with age ranging from 12 to 18 years. Adolescents responded to a survey with scales measuring both affective and cognitive empathy, and cyberbullying behavior. A three-step hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used with cyberbullying scores as the dependent variable. Gender was dummy coded and both affective and cognitive empathy were centered using the sample mean prior to creating interaction terms and entering th...
Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development - March 18, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Ang RP, Goh DH Tags: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Source Type: journals

Executive functions and child problem behaviors are sensitive to family disruption: a study of children of mothers working overseasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mothers in Sri Lanka are increasingly seeking overseas employment, resulting in disruption of the childcare environment. The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of maternal migration on executive function (EF) and behavior, thereby also contributing to the scientific understanding of environmental effects [ndash] or more specifically family effects [ndash] on children's neurocognitive functioning. A sample of 60 healthy 11-year-old children whose mothers had been working overseas for more than 1 year formed the study group, and a comparison group was recruited from the same schools. Evaluations were made twi...
Source: Developmental Science - March 18, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Chandana Hewage, Gunilla Bohlin, Kumudu Wijewardena, Gunilla Lindmark Source Type: journals

Executive Cognitive Function as a Correlate and Predictor of Child Food Intake and Physical Activity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Investigated were relations among executive cognitive function (ECF), food intake, and physical activity in 184, fourth grade children. It was hypothesized that self-reported ECF proficiency would predict greater self-reported fruit/vegetable intake and physical activity, but less "snack food" intake. Structural models demonstrated that ECF was significantly correlated with less concurrent snack food intake and greater concurrent fruit/vegetable intake, but not physical activity. Baseline ECF also significantly predicted greater fruit/vegetable intake and physical activity four months later, but not snack food intake. ...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - March 17, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Riggs N, Chou CP, Spruijt-Metz D, Pentz MA Tags: Child Neuropsychol Source Type: journals

Piecing together numerical language: children's use of default units in early counting and quantificationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When asked to 'find three forks', adult speakers of English use the noun 'fork' to identify units for counting. However, when number words (e.g. three) and quantifiers (e.g. more, every) are used with unfamiliar words ('Give me three blickets') noun-specific conceptual criteria are unavailable for picking out units. This poses a problem for young children learning language, who begin to use quantifiers and number words by age 2, despite knowing a relatively small number of nouns. Without knowing how individual nouns pick out units of quantification [ndash] e.g. what counts as a blicket[ndash] how could children decide whet...
Source: Developmental Science - March 12, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Neon Brooks, Amanda Pogue, David Barner Source Type: journals

American Legion Foundation Child Welfare GrantsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Grants to benefit the children of America. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, Inc. (Source: Children funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Children funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Source Type: funding

Adult Age Differences in Covariation of Motivation and Working Memory Performance: Contrasting Between-Person and Within-Person FindingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Research in Human Development)
Source: Research in Human Development - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Brose, AnnetteSchmiedek, FlorianLövdén, MartinMolenaar, Peter C. M.Lindenberger, Ulman Source Type: journals

Evaluating Convergence of Within-Person Change and Between-Person Age Differences in Age-Heterogeneous Longitudinal StudiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Research in Human Development)
Source: Research in Human Development - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Sliwinski, MartinHoffman, LesaHofer, Scott M. Source Type: journals

Aging, Disablement, and Dying: Using Time-as-Process and Time-as-Resources Metrics to Chart Late-Life ChangeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Research in Human Development)
Source: Research in Human Development - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Malmberg, BoZarit, StevenFauth, ElizabethGerstorf, DenisRam, Nilam Source Type: journals

Modeling Change in Skewed Variables Using Mixed Beta Regression ModelsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Research in Human Development)
Source: Research in Human Development - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Zimprich, Daniel Source Type: journals

Sleep Disruption in Young Foster Children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the current study, sleep actigraphy and parent-report measures were used to investigate differences in sleeping behavior among four groups of 3- to 7-year-olds (N = 79): children in regular foster care (n = 15); children receiving a therapeutic intervention in foster care (n = 17); low income community children (n = 18); and upper middle income community children (n = 29). The children in therapeutic foster care exhibited longer sleep latency and increased variability of sleep duration than the upper middle income community children. In addition, there was an indication of a treatment effect: the therapeutic foster ...
Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Tininenko JR, Fisher PA, Bruce J, Pears KC Tags: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Source Type: journals

Child involvement in the paediatric consultation: a qualitative study of children and carers' viewsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Families vary in their views about involvement of children in paediatric consultations in a way that may be unique to each child, family and illness. Moreover, different views were expressed about involvement in each stage of the consultative process and in management of the child's health. The challenge for doctors is to determine the level of involvement and information exchange favoured by a particular parent and child. Good practice recommendations emerging from the analysis are described. (Source: Child: Care, Health and Development)
Source: Child: Care, Health and Development - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: S. Taylor, S. Haase-Casanovas, T. Weaver, J. Kidd, E. M. Garralda Source Type: journals

Facial expressions modulate the ontogenetic trajectory of gaze-following among monkeysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Gaze-following, the tendency to direct one's attention to locations looked at by others, is a crucial aspect of social cognition in human and nonhuman primates. Whereas the development of gaze-following has been intensely studied in human infants, its early ontogeny in nonhuman primates has received little attention. Combining longitudinal and cross-sectional observational data from Barbary macaques at 'La Forêt des Singes', we show here that gaze-following among conspecifics develops within the first year of life with a rapid increase between 5 and 6 months, reaching adult levels at 1 year. Sex, rank, and relatedness of ...
Source: Developmental Science - March 11, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Christoph Teufel, Anke Gutmann, Ralph Pirow, Julia Fischer Source Type: journals

ErratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy)
Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Source Type: journals

A Review of: “Dobson, D., & Dobson, K. (2009). Evidence-Based Practice of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy .”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy)
Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Paul, Howard A. Source Type: journals

A Review of: “Courtois, C. A., & Ford, Julian D. (Eds.). (2009). Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: An Evidence-Based Guide .”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy)
Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Paul, Howard A. Source Type: journals

Additive, Multi-Component Treatment of Emerging Refusal Topographies in a Pediatric Feeding DisorderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy)
Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Morton, Jane F.Bogard, Jennifer D.Jaquess, David L.Sharp, William G. Source Type: journals

Development of a Multi-Disciplinary Intervention for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity Based on Cognitive Behavioral TherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy)
Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Yannakoulia, MaryBathrellou, EiriniPervanidou, PanagiotaKanaka-Gantenbein, ChristinaPehlivanidis, ArtemiosTsiantis, JohnChrousos, George P.Sidossis, Labros S.Papanikolaou, Katerina Source Type: journals

Parenting Wisely: Parent Training via CD-ROM with an Australian SampleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy)
Source: Child and Family Behaviour Therapy - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Pushak, Robert E.Smith, DavidCefai, Josie Source Type: journals

Peer-Victimization and Mental Health Problems in Adolescents: Are Parental and School Support Protective?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and effects of peer-victimization on mental health problems among adolescents. Parental and school support were assumed as protective factors that might interact with one another in acting as buffers for adolescents against the risk of peer-victimization. Besides these protective factors, age and gender were additionally considered as moderating factors. The Social and Health Assessment survey was conducted among 986 students aged 11-18 years in order to assess peer-victimization, risk and protective factors and mental health problems. For mental health problems, t...
Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Stadler C, Feifel J, Rohrmann S, Vermeiren R, Poustka F Tags: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Source Type: journals

Investigating the Relationship Between Attention and Working Memory in Clinical and Community Samples.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The first aim of the present study was to investigate whether differences in core deficits in ADHD subtypes lead to dissociable working memory profiles. The second aim was to compare the working memory profiles of inattentive students with those identified as having poor working memory, as they exhibit very similar behavioral profiles. Finally, the relationship between working memory and academic attainment in these groups were also of interest. Four groups of 9-year-olds were recruited: a community sample of children with inattentive symptoms, a clinically diagnosed group of children with ADHD-Combined, children with ...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Alloway TP, Elliott J, Place M Tags: Child Neuropsychol Source Type: journals

Visuospatial Short-Term Memory Explains Deficits in Tower Task Planning in High-Functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous findings on planning abilities in individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFA) are inconsistent. Exploring possible reasons for these mixed findings, the current study investigated the involvement of memory in planning performance in 15 children with HFA and 17 typically developing controls. In addition to planning abilities (measured with the Tower of London), short-term memory and delayed recall for verbal as well as visuospatial material were assessed. Findings suggest that particularly reduced efficiency in visuospatial short-term memory is associated with Tower task planning deficits i...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Zinke K, Fries E, Altgassen M, Kirschbaum C, Dettenborn L, Kliegel M Tags: Child Neuropsychol Source Type: journals

Three-month-olds show a negativity bias in their social evaluationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous research has shown that 6-month-olds evaluate others on the basis of their social behaviors [ndash] they are attracted to prosocial individuals, and avoid antisocial individuals (Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom, 2007). The current studies investigate these capacities prior to 6 months of age. Results from two experiments indicate that even 3-month-old infants evaluate others based on their social behavior towards third parties, and that negative social information is developmentally privileged. (Source: Developmental Science)
Source: Developmental Science - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: J. Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, Paul Bloom Source Type: journals

Different social motives in the gestural communication of chimpanzees and human childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Both chimpanzees and human infants use the pointing gesture with human adults, but it is not clear if they are doing so for the same social motives. In two studies, we presented chimpanzees and human 25-month-olds with the opportunity to point for a hidden tool (in the presence of a non-functional distractor). In one condition it was clear that the tool would be used to retrieve a reward for the pointing subject (so the pointing was selfish or 'for-me'), whereas in the other condition it was clear that the tool would be used to retrieve the reward for the experimenter (so the pointing was helpful or 'for-you'). The chimpan...
Source: Developmental Science - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Anke F. Bullinger, Felizitas Zimmermann, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello Source Type: journals

Rise time and formant transition duration in the discrimination of speech sounds: the Ba–Wa distinction in developmental dyslexiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Across languages, children with developmental dyslexia have a specific difficulty with the neural representation of the sound structure (phonological structure) of speech. One likely cause of their difficulties with phonology is a perceptual difficulty in auditory temporal processing (Tallal, 1980). Tallal (1980) proposed that basic auditory processing of brief, rapidly successive acoustic changes is compromised in dyslexia, thereby affecting phonetic discrimination (e.g. discriminating /b/ from /d/) via impaired discrimination of formant transitions (rapid acoustic changes in frequency and intensity). However, an alternat...
Source: Developmental Science - March 10, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Usha Goswami, Tim Fosker, Martina Huss, Natasha Mead, Dénes Szűcs Source Type: journals

Epistemic Beliefs and Achievement Motivation in Early AdolescenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study seeks to establish the relevance of middle school students’ naïve beliefs about knowledge and learning in science to their achievement motivation in this domain. A predominantly Hispanic and lower-income sample of 459 middle school students (sixth through eighth grades) completed measures of epistemic beliefs along with several measures of motivation. Results indicated that a belief that scientific knowledge develops and that justification is necessary to valid knowledge in science were positively related to mastery goals, task value, and self-efficacy. Epistemic beliefs were also found to predict sci...
Source: The Journal of Early Adolescence - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Ricco, R., Schuyten Pierce, S., Medinilla, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Youth Assets and Delayed Coitarche Across Developmental Age GroupsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cross-sectional studies suggest that assets are associated with youth abstinence, but whether these relationships are constant across developmental age groups has not been shown. Data for this study were obtained from two independent datasets collected across a 2-year period using in-person, in-home interviews of youth (52% female; 44% Caucasian, 23% Hispanic, 23% African-American, 10% other) and their parents (N = 2163 youth/parent pairs). Eighty-eight percent of teens aged 12-14 and 58% of teens aged 15-17 reported no sexual intercourse. Individual logistic regression models for assets and abstinence found 5 youth assets...
Source: The Journal of Early Adolescence - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Aspy, C. B., Vesely, S. K., Tolma, E. L., Oman, R. F., Rodine, S., Marshall, L., Fluhr, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Why Try? Achievement Motivation and Perceived Academic Climate Among Latino YouthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Elliot and McGregor’s (2001) 2 x 2 model of achievement motivation (mastery approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach and performance-avoidance) was used among 143 Latino adolescents to examine how achievement motivation changes over time, and whether perception of academic climate influences eventual academic outcomes. A series of hierarchical regressions revealed that perception of a task-focused academic climate moderated the association between mastery-approach achievement motivation and teacher-rated academic outcomes. A Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (RM-ANOVA) also revealed that eighth graders ...
Source: The Journal of Early Adolescence - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Wilkins, N. J., Kuperminc, G. P. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Interplay of Network Position and Peer Substance Use in Early Adolescent Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana UseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Network position (isolate , member, liaison), peer-group substance use, and their interaction were examined as predictors of cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use in a sample of 163 urban sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.Two measures of peer substance use were compared: one based on social network analysis (SNA), the other on perceptions of use. Results varied by substance. For cigarettes, network position and the interaction between position and peer-group use predicted use in the model using SNA to measure peer use. Liaisons were most likely to smoke, but isolates’ and members’ smoking was significantly ass...
Source: The Journal of Early Adolescence - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Kobus, K., Henry, D. B. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Global Self-Esteem, Appearance Satisfaction, and Self-Reported Dieting in Early AdolescenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines the temporal ordering of global self-esteem and appearance satisfaction across the early adolescence transition, from age 10 to age 14, as well as the independent associations of self-esteem and appearance satisfaction on self-reported dieting at age 14. Participants were 130 firstborn European American adolescents (40% girls). Adolescents who were less satisfied with their appearance at age 10 reported declines in self-esteem from age 10 to age 14. Adolescents with lower global self-esteem at age 10 did not decline in appearance satisfaction. Girls, adolescents with higher body mass index scores at age...
Source: The Journal of Early Adolescence - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Barker, E. T., Bornstein, M. H. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

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(Source: The Journal of Early Adolescence)
Source: The Journal of Early Adolescence - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Identifying experiences of physical and psychological violence in childhood that jeopardize mental health in adulthood.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Results provide evidence that frequent experiences of psychological violence from parents-even in the absence of physical violence and regardless of whether such violence is from mothers or fathers-can place individuals' long-term mental health at risk. Moreover, frequent physical violence from fathers-even in the absence of psychological violence-also serves as a risk factor for poorer adult mental health. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Findings provide additional empirical support for the importance of prevention and intervention efforts directed toward children who experience physical and psychological violence fro...
Source: Child Abuse & Neglect - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Greenfield EA, Marks NF Tags: Child Abuse Negl Source Type: journals

Introduction.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20223519 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Child Abuse & Neglect)
Source: Child Abuse & Neglect - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Litrownik AJ, Wolfe DA Tags: Child Abuse Negl Source Type: journals

Concurrent and construct validation of the short form of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and the Movement-ABC when administered under field conditions: implications for screeningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion In general, the agreement between tests, even after adjustment for RIOC, was poor. Children identified with poor motor competence by both tests or by the BOTMP-SF only are at particular risk for poor physical fitness, overweight/obesity and physical inactivity. It appears that each assessment measures different dimensions of motor ability but that under field-based conditions the M-ABC may be less useful when applied by non-clinicians. (Source: Child: Care, Health and Development)
Source: Child: Care, Health and Development - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: C. Spironello, J. Hay, C. Missiuna, B. E. Faught, J. Cairney Source Type: journals

The impact of a complex care clinic in a children's hospitalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion A collaborative medical home focused on integrating community- and hospital-based services for MCFC is a promising service delivery model for future controlled evaluative studies. (Source: Child: Care, Health and Development)
Source: Child: Care, Health and Development - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: E. Cohen, J. N. Friedman, S. Mahant, S. Adams, V. Jovcevska, P. Rosenbaum Source Type: journals

The association of maternal food intake and infants' and toddlers' food intakeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion Even at very young ages, maternal food intake is an important correlate of children's food intake. Taken together with findings documenting significant snack food consumption in this age group, findings suggest that development of prevention and intervention programmes to enhance healthy eating behaviours need to start very early, perhaps just prior to children being introduced to complementary foods. (Source: Child: Care, Health and Development)
Source: Child: Care, Health and Development - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: C. N. Hart, H. A. Raynor, E. Jelalian, D. Drotar Source Type: journals

The Lifestyle Behaviour Checklist: evaluation of the factor structureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Objective Childhood overweight and obesity have been identified as a significant global health problem, and have multiple health and socio-emotional sequelae. The family context and parenting behaviours in particular play an important role in childhood overweight and obesity; however, limited research has explored the relationship between parenting and child obesity. The aim of this research was to refine the content of a tool designed to assess child lifestyle behaviour problems and parents' confidence in managing these behaviours.Design Content revisions of the Lifestyle Behaviour Checklist (LBC) were undertaken, and th...
Source: Child: Care, Health and Development - March 9, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: F. West, A. Morawska, K. Joughin Source Type: journals

Adult attachment security and young adults’ dating relationships over time: Self-reported, observational, and physiological evidence.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the developmental significance of adult attachment security—as measured by the Adult Attachment Interview—for romantic relationship functioning concurrently and approximately 1 year later in a sample of heterosexual dating couples between the ages of 18 and 25 (115 dyads at Time 1 [T1] and 57 dyads at T2, 74% White). The authors assessed romantic relationship functioning at T1 and T2 using observers’ ratings of emotional tone during a laboratory conflict resolution task and via participants’ self-reports about their relationships, yielding evidence that adult attachment security prospectively pr...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Holland, Ashley S.; Roisman, Glenn I. Source Type: journals

Numerical estimation in preschoolers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Children’s sense of numbers before formal education is thought to rely on an approximate number system based on logarithmically compressed analog magnitudes that increases in resolution throughout childhood. School-age children performing a numerical estimation task have been shown to increasingly rely on a formally appropriate, linear representation and decrease their use of an intuitive, logarithmic one. We investigated the development of numerical estimation in a younger population (3.5- to 6.5-year-olds) using 0–100 and 2 novel sets of 1–10 and 1–20 number lines. Children’s estimates shifted from logarithmic ...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Berteletti, Ilaria; Lucangeli, Daniela; Piazza, Manuela; Dehaene, Stanislas; Zorzi, Marco Source Type: journals

Individual differences in executive function and central coherence predict developmental changes in theory of mind in autism.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, the longitudinal relationships among these 3 aspects of cognition in autism were investigated. Thirty-seven cognitively able children with an autism spectrum condition were assessed on tests targeting ToM (false-belief prediction), EF (planning ability, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control), and CC (local processing) at intake and again 3 years later. Time 1 EF and CC skills were longitudinally predictive of change in children’s ToM test performance, independent of age, language, nonverbal intelligence, and early ToM skills. Predictive relations in the opposite direction were not significant, and ...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Pellicano, Elizabeth Source Type: journals

Antipathetic relationships in child and adolescent development: A meta-analytic review and recommendations for an emerging area of study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Antipathetic relationships, or relationships based on mutual dislike, have received less attention than other aspects of children’s peer relations. The present meta-analytic review summarizes the existing literature (26 studies consisting of over 23,000 children and adolescents) to illuminate the prevalence of antipathetic relationships and their associations with maladjustment. Results indicate that 35% of children have an antipathetic relationship and that antipathetic relationships are associated with externalizing and internalizing problems, low academic achievement, low prosocial behavior, victimization and rejectio...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Card, Noel A. Source Type: journals

Enhancing building, conversation, and learning through caregiver–child interactions in a children’s museum.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors adapted an experimental design to examine effects of instruction prior to entry into a children’s museum exhibit on caregiver–child interactions and children’s learning. One hundred twenty-one children (mean age = 6.6 years) and their caregivers were randomly assigned to 1 of 5 conditions that varied according to what, if any, preexhibit instruction the dyads received: (a) building and conversation instruction, (b) building instruction only, (c) conversation instruction only, (d) presentation of models of buildings and conversations without instruction, or (e) no instruction or control. Building instructi...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Benjamin, Nora; Haden, Catherine A.; Wilkerson, Erin Source Type: journals

Links between friendship relations and early adolescents’ trajectories of depressed mood.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined to what extent different types of friendship experiences (i.e., friendlessness, having depressed friends, and having nondepressed friends) are associated with early adolescents’ longitudinal trajectories of depressed mood. On the basis of a sample of 201 youths (108 girls, 93 boys), we identified 3 distinct longitudinal profiles of depressed mood from Grade 5 (age 11) through Grade 7 (age 13): one group with consistently low levels of depressed mood, another group showing a sharp increase in depressed mood from late childhood through early adolescence, and a 3rd group with consistently high lev...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Brendgen, Mara; Lamarche, Véronique; Wanner, Brigitte; Vitaro, Frank Source Type: journals

Reflecting on self-relevant experiences: Adult age differences.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A broad array of research findings suggest that older adults, as compared with younger adults, have a more positive sense of self and possibly a clearer and more consistent sense of self. Further, older adults report lower motivation to construct or maintain a sense of self. In the present study, we examined whether such differences in self-views were reflected in features of older and younger adults’ narratives and narrating practices around recent, self-relevant events. Narratives about self-discrepant and self-confirming events were elicited from a sample of younger (18–37 years of age; n = 115) and older (58–90 y...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Rice, Cora; Pasupathi, Monisha Source Type: journals

The behavioral development of Korean children in institutional care and international adoptive families.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, the authors compared the behavioral development of 4- to 8-year-old South Korean children placed in institutional care (n = 230) or adopted internationally (n = 382), with age of entry, parental status, reason for institutionalization, and postinstitutionalization parental contact as risk factors for institutionalized children. There was a placement effect of adoption and support for age of entry and parental status as risk factors. Relinquished children institutionalized before age 2 fared the poorest across groups. Children institutionalized after age 2 with deceased/unknown parents fared best among instit...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Lee, Richard M.; Seol, Kyoung Ok; Sung, Miyoung; Miller, Matthew J.; The Minnesota International Adoption Project Team at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Source Type: journals

Parent–child and triadic antecedents of children’s social competence: Cultural specificity, shared process.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Guided by theories of cultural participation, the authors examined mother–child, father–child, and triadic interactive behaviors in 141 Israeli and Palestinian couples and their firstborn child at 5 and 33 months as antecedents of children’s social competence. Four parent–child measures (parent sensitivity, child social engagement, parental control, dyadic reciprocity) and two family-level measures (cohesion and rigidity) were coded at each age. Children’s social competence was observed at child-care locations. Cultural differences were observed for parent sensitivity and child social engagement, and the large cu...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Feldman, Ruth; Masalha, Shafiq Source Type: journals

The early development of object knowledge: A study of infants’ visual anticipations during action observation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the developing object knowledge of infants through their visual anticipation of action targets during action observation. Infants (6, 8, 12, 14, and 16 months) and adults watched short movies of a person using 3 different everyday objects. Participants were presented with objects being brought either to a correct or to an incorrect target location (e.g., cup to mouth, phone to ear vs. cup to ear, brush to mouth). When observing the action sequences, infants as well as adults showed anticipatory fixations to the target areas of the displayed actions. For all infant age-groups, there were differences in a...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: Hunnius, Sabine; Bekkering, Harold Source Type: journals

Correction to McCartney et al. (2010).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Reports an error in "Testing a series of causal propositions relating time in child care to children’s externalizing behavior" by Kathleen McCartney, Margaret Burchinal, Aliso Clarke-Stewart, Kristen L. Bub, Margaret T. Owen and Jay Belsky (Developmental Psychology, 2010[Jan], Vol 46[1], 1-17). On the first page of the article “Testing a Series of Causal Propositions Relating Time in Child Care to Children’s Externalizing Behavior,” by Kathleen McCartney, Margaret Burchinal, Alison Clarke- Stewart, Kristen L. Bub, Margaret T. Owen, Jay Belsky, and the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (Developmental Psycholog...
Source: Developmental Psychology - March 8, 2010 Category: Child Development Authors: McCartney, Kathleen; Burchinal, Margaret; Clarke-Stewart, Alison; Bub, Kristen L.; Owen, Margaret T.; Belsky, Jay; NICHD Early Child Care Research Network Source Type: journals