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Methods and Measures: Growth mixture modeling: A method for identifying differences in longitudinal change among unobserved groupsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Growth mixture modeling (GMM) is a method for identifying multiple unobserved sub-populations, describing longitudinal change within each unobserved sub-population, and examining differences in change among unobserved sub-populations. We provide a practical primer that may be useful for researchers beginning to incorporate GMM analysis into their research. We briefly review basic elements of the standard latent basis growth curve model, introduce GMM as an extension of multiple-group growth modeling, and describe a four-step approach to conducting a GMM analysis. Example data from a cortisol stress-response paradigm are us...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ram, N., Grimm, K. J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The associations between information and communication technology (ICT) and peer and parent relations in early adolescenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study aims were, first, to examine the associations between the type and intensity of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and peer and parent relationships. Second, the study explored gender- and age-specific ICT usage and their associations with peer and parent relationships. The participants were 478 Finnish 10- and 13-year-old girls and boys. They reported the frequencies of digital game playing, using a computer for information seeking, communication, and Internet surfing, and evaluated the qualities of peer relationships (popularity, loneliness, and friendship) and communication with mother and father (...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Punamaki, R.-L., Wallenius, M., Holtto, H., Nygard, C.-H., Rimpela, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

From implicit to explicit representation in children's response to pictorial humorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two experiments examined pictorial humor as an unusual but legitimate way to approach the study of children’s representational activity and the transition from implicit to explicit knowledge. In both experiments, the participants were 3- and 4-year-old children. Experiment 1 studied the understanding of two pictorial jokes using two conditions, choice and verbal production. Experiment 2 compared the results of Experiment 1 with the comprehension that children had of two versions of three pictorial jokes presented in two different sessions. The results showed three levels of comprehension. Changes in level were analyz...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Puche-Navarro, R. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Older adults' interactive behaviors during collaboration on everyday problems: Linking process and outcomeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Adult collaborative cognition research suggests that working with a partner is generally beneficial to performance; however, little research has investigated the relation between the interactive behaviors and collaborative outcome. The present study examined four interactive behaviors exhibited by familiar (i.e., married spouses) and unfamiliar (i.e., other-sex strangers) older adult dyads during collaborative performance on an everyday problem-solving measure. Results indicated that (a) interactive behaviors were related to partner familiarity and whether dyads first attempted the problems individually or collaboratively,...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Kimbler, K. J., Margrett, J. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Punitive discipline and child behavior problems in Chinese-American immigrant families: The moderating effects of indigenous child-rearing ideologiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a sample of 107 Chinese immigrant families we examined whether cultural child-rearing beliefs moderated the association between parents’ use of punitive discipline and children’s behavioral adjustment. Immigrant parents and their children aged 7 to 17 years completed measures of parental discipline and child behavior problems. Parents also reported on indigenous Chinese child-rearing ideologies regarding shaming and training as strategies for raising competent and moral children. Results of hierarchical regression models conducted with parent-reported data indicated that the negative effects of punitive disc...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Fung, J. J., Lau, A. S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Chinese children's explanations for illnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study explored how Chinese children spontaneously explained the causes of illness. Two groups of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children from different socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds were recruited, with 30 children in each age group. A group of 30 college students were also recruited and their responses compared to those produced by the children. Participants’ responses were coded as belonging to one of five mutually exclusive categories: psychogenic, biological, behavioral, symptomatic, or other. Results indicated that children’s causal explanations were mostly behavioral and symptomatic, with more biolog...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Zhu, L., Liu, G., Tardif, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Consistent patterns of interaction in young children's conflicts with their siblingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigates whether preschool-aged children show consistent patterns of behaviour in conflicts with their siblings. Consistency was assessed at the nomothetic (i.e., group), idiographic (i.e., individual), and idiosyncratic (i.e., consistent patterns that differed from the norm) levels. We examined conflicts between 19 2-year-old and 19 4-year-old children and their siblings. Both age groups showed consistent idiographic and nomothetic patterns of interactions. Two-year-old children used idiosyncratic patterns of responses to the conflict overtures of others (i.e., they deviated from the norm in consistent ways...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Perlman, M., Ross, H. S., Garfinkel, D. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Strong families, tidy houses, and children's values in adult life: Are "chaotic", "crowded" and "unstable" homes really so bad?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chaotic home systems have been linked with children’s adverse psychological and academic outcomes. But, as they represent a departure from the suburban ideal of space, order, and family cohesiveness and stability, they should also be linked with low support for survival values. Using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) this study tested this by examining long-term links between chaotic home systems (assessed when cohort members were aged 0—10 years), and support for survival values (racism and authoritarianism) at age 30. A chaotic home system was operationalized in this study as family...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Flouri, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The New Friends Vignettes: Measuring parental psychological control that confers risk for anxious adjustment in preschoolersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This investigation examined the links between preschoolers’ internalizing problems and anxiety-related social difficulties and two aspects of maternal and paternal psychological control: overprotection and critical control. Some 115 mothers and 92 fathers completed the New Friends Vignettes (NFV), a new measure of psychological control and supportive parenting designed to assess parenting relevant to young children’s internalizing problems and anxiety. Children’s anxious behaviors with peers at daycare or preschool were observed, mothers reported on preschoolers’ internalizing problems, and teachers...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - October 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: McShane, K. E., Hastings, P. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Methods and Measures: The Network of Relationships Inventory: Behavioral Systems VersionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper describes an alternative version of the Network of Relationships Inventory, which was designed to assess how frequently different relationships were used to fulfill the functions of three behavioral systems: attachment, caregiving, and affiliation. Psychometric and validational evidence is presented including: (a) high internal consistency for all scales and composites; (b) a second order factor structure of support and negative interactions for each relationship; (c) moderately high stability over a one year period; (d) moderate convergence among different reporters; (e) theoretically meaningful differences amo...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Furman, W., Buhrmester, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Relation of three mechanisms of working memory to children's complex span performanceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study served to replicate and extend the few extant studies that have examined the issue. In this study, the relative contribution of three mechanisms of working memory — STM storage, processing speed, attentional resource allocation — to children’s complex span was examined. Children (6—12) completed a digit span task, an auditory-visual reaction time task, a task of attentional allocation, and a complex (listening) span task. Correlation analyses revealed that, after controlling for age, storage, processing speed, and attentional allocation significantly correlated with complex span. Regressi...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Magimairaj, B., Montgomery, J., Marinellie, S., McCarthy, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Testing Self-Determination Theory via Nigerian and Indian adolescentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We tested the generalizability of five propositions derived from Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2000) using school-aged adolescents living in India (N = 926) and Nigeria (N = 363). Consistent with past U.S. research, perceived teacher autonomy-support predicted students’ basic need-satisfaction in the classroom and also predicted positive class evaluations. The three basic needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness also predicted positive class evaluations, and furthermore predicted students’ general life-satisfaction. Also, balance among the three needs had positive associations with life...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Sheldon, K. M., Abad, N., Omoile, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Parenting values and parenting stress among impoverished village and middle-class small city mothers in the Dominican RepublicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Poverty is known to influence parenting values, parenting stress, psychological adjustment, and social support according to North American research. The purpose of this study was to determine whether poverty might work in similar ways in a collectivistic Latin culture. The participants were primary caregivers in two distinct communities in the Dominican Republic: the Campos (extremely poor villages) and the middle-class areas of San Cristobal, a small city. As predicted, Campos mothers endorsed conformity and obedience as parenting goals, whereas San Cristobal mothers valued exploration and self-direction in their children...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Foucault, D. C., Schneider, B. H. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Korean mothers' attention regulation and referential speech: Associations with language and play in 1-year-oldsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study investigated the associations of Korean mothers’ attention regulation and referential speech during play with their toddlers’ language and play development. The play interaction between mothers (n = 42) and their toddlers aged between 13 and 23 months was videotaped during home visits. Maternal behavior in regulating their toddlers’ attention was coded from videos as introducing, redirecting, or following. Mothers’ referential speech during joint attention with their toddlers was transcribed and classified as simple, elaborative, or prompting. Toddlers’ expressive and recepti...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Jihyun Sung, , Hui-Chin Hsu, Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The relationship between interparental conflict and adolescents' affective well-being: Mediation of cognitive appraisals and moderation of peer statusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the mediation effect of cognitive appraisals and the moderation role of peer status in the association between interparental conflict and adolescents’ affective well-being based on a sample of 549 Chinese adolescents from 7th to 12th grades. Interparental conflict properties, adolescents’ cognitive appraisals of conflict, affective well-being, and peer status were measured through scales and peer nomination surveys. The results of structure equation modeling showed that: cognitive appraisals totally mediated the association between marital conflict and adolescents’ affective well-being...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ziqiang Xin, , Liping Chi, , Guoliang Yu, Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Distal and proximal parenting as alternative parenting strategies during infants' early months of life: A cross-cultural studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study therefore, the relations between the styles and the constituting behaviours were analysed in samples that differ with respect to their preferences of distal and proximal parenting. The hypothesized differences between the samples and the negative relationship between distal and proximal parenting, as well as between the respective behavioural systems can clearly be demonstrated. Furthermore, the impact of the sociodemographic variables with respect to the parenting strategies can be shown. Results were discussed as supporting two alternative parenting strategies that serve different socialization goals. (Sour...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Keller, H., Borke, J., Staufenbiel, T., Yovsi, R. D., Abels, M., Papaligoura, Z., Jensen, H., Lohaus, A., Chaudhary, N., Lo, W., Su, Y. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

An examination of emerging adulthood in Romanian college studentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Little work has been done to examine emerging adulthood in Eastern European countries such as Romania that are making the transition out of communism into the broader free-market economy of Western Europe. The purpose of this study was to (a) examine the criteria that college students in Romania have for adulthood, and (b) explore whether differences in adulthood criteria, achievement of those criteria, and identity development are related to variations in adult status (i.e., perceptions of being an adult coupled with taking on adult responsibilities). Participants included 230 Romanian young people (136 women, 94 men) age...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nelson, L. J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

A four-part model of autonomy during emerging adulthood: Associations with adjustmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We found support for a four-part model of autonomy that links connectedness, separation, detachment, and agency to adjustment during emerging adulthood. Based on self-report surveys of 285 American college students, expected associations among the autonomy variables were found. In addition, agency, as measured by self-reliance, predicted lower psychological and somatic symptoms, as well as stronger self-esteem, college grades, and attitudes towards college. Separation, as measured by a modified Emotional Autonomy Scale score, was associated with lower grades and lower self-esteem, but only for emerging adults who reported ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Lamborn, S. D., Groh, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Examining differences in psychological adjustment problems among children conceived by assisted reproductive technologiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of this study was to examine whether there was variation in levels of psychological adjustment among children conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technologies using the parents’ gametes (homologous), sperm donation, egg donation, embryo donation and surrogacy. Information was provided by parents about the psychological functioning of 769 children aged 5 to 9 years who had been born using ART (from the five groups described). Comparisons were made between the different conception groups, to UK national norms and, for a sub-sample of multiple births, to an age-matched twin sample. No differences were found ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Shelton, K. H., Boivin, J., Hay, D., van den Bree, M. B.M., Rice, F. J., Harold, G. T., Thapar, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The discordant MZ-twin method: One step closer to the holy grail of causalityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents two analytical strategies based on the discordant MZ-twin method. It stresses the power of this method to establish plausible causal pathways between environmental factors and developmental outcomes, and provides examples from the socio-developmental literature to illustrate its application. It also describes the limitations of this method and its requirements for optimal utilization. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Arseneault, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Categorization of regional and foreign accent in 5- to 7-year-old British childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines children's ability to detect accent-related information in connected speech. British English children aged 5 and 7 years old were asked to discriminate between their home accent from an Irish accent or a French accent in a sentence categorization task. Using a preliminary accent rating task with adult listeners, it was first verified that the level of accentedness was similar across the two unfamiliar accents. Results showed that whereas the younger children group behaved just above chance level in this task, the 7-year-old group could reliably distinguish between these variations of their own language,...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Floccia, C., Butler, J., Girard, F., Goslin, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Timing of parenthood in relation to other life transitions and adult social functioningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The timing of having one's first child, in relation to the timing of other transitions into adulthood and to social functioning, was investigated based on the Finnish Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, conducted from age 8 (173 females and 196 males) to 42. Results showed that in women, relatively early (< 25 years) motherhood was associated with the early timing of all studied transitions (move from parental home, intimate relationship, education, full-time job); in men, early fatherhood was associated only with the early start of an intimate relationship. In women, but not in...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Kokko, K., Pulkkinen, L., Mesiainen, P. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Attachment figures in middle childhoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study suggests that children may, at times, direct secure base behavior towards peers, siblings, grandparents, and teachers. The study also shows that the identity and use of attachment figures may vary with certain child characteristics such as age, gender, and sibling status. Older siblings were more likely than younger siblings to be used as attachment figures, and older children were more likely than younger children to turn to peers to fulfill attachment needs. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Seibert, A. C., Kerns, K. A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Political alienation in adolescence: Associations with parental role models, parenting styles, and classroom climateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined how parental political attitudes, parenting styles, and classroom characteristics predict adolescents' political alienation, as feelings about the individual's ability to affect the political system's performance at the individual level. Participants were 463 families that included mothers, fathers, and their adolescent children in 6th, 8th, and 10th grades. Teachers reported on the classroom context. Multilevel analyses indicated several findings: parental and adolescent political attitudes supported a parent—adolescent transmission process, adolescents' perceptions of parental attitudes m...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Gniewosz, B., Noack, P., Buhl, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

False belief understanding: Children catch it from classmates of different agesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two experiments were conducted to compare the false belief understanding of children who have no siblings, but have classmates of different ages in kindergarten. In Experiment 1, 4- and 5-year-olds completed two unexpected location tasks. We found that 4-year-olds with classmates of different ages performed significantly better than those with classmates of the same age. This result was replicated in a larger sample in Experiment 2 in which the children were asked to complete an unexpected location task and an unexpected content task. The findings suggested that the presence of minds with varied ages stimulates the social ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Wang, Y., Su, Y. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The relationship of aggression and bullying to social preference: Differences in gender and types of aggressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
With 338 fifth-grade students as subjects, this study found the variations in the relation between school bullying and social preference as a function of gender and types of aggressive behavior utilized. Aggressive boys were likely to be rejected by peers, whereas aggressive girls were both rejected and accepted by peers. Children nominated physically aggressive boys and relationally and verbally aggressive girls as bullies. When other forms of aggression were kept constant, verbal aggression was positively related to peer rejection for boys but negatively related for girls. The use of relational aggression contributed to ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Lee, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Independence and interplay between maternal and child risk factors for preschool problem behaviors?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the independence and interplay between cognitive risk factors (poor executive function/emotion understanding) and maternal risk factors (low education/high depression) for preschool problem behaviors, indexed by multi-measure, multi-informant (mother/teacher/ researcher) ratings. A socio-economically diverse sample of 235 children (131 boys, 104 girls; mean age = 4.25 years) completed five executive-function tasks and four emotion-understanding tasks. Controlling for effects of gender, verbal ability and maternal education, individual differences in child problem behavior scores showed significant indep...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Hughes, C., Ensor, R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Peer acceptance and social behavior during childhood and adolescence: How important are appearance, athleticism, and academic competence?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Efforts to identify factors associated with peer acceptance have historically focused on behavioral and social cognitive processes, whereas less empirical attention has focused on the impact of children's other personal attributes and competencies that are not inherently a component of social competence. The current study examined the association of three such nonsocial attributes — physical attractiveness, athleticism, and academic competence — with peer acceptance and whether these associations vary as a function of gender and development. In addition, we examined the extent to which peer perceptions of these...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Vannatta, K., Gartstein, M. A., Zeller, M., Noll, R. B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Old friends and new friends: Their presence at substance-use initiationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study was conducted to test whether the presence of new friends at moments of substance-use initiation differs across substances, and whether individuals tend to initiate substance use, across different substances, either with a new friend or with an old friend. Participants were 419 Italian high school students (41% female). Results showed that the presence of a new friend at the moment of substance-use initiation varied across different substances. New friends were least often present when an individual first tried cigarettes, and were most often present the first time an individual tried marijuana. Substance-use in...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Kiesner, J., Fassetta, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Outcomes of children adopted from Eastern EuropeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Behavioral problems are frequent among post-institutionalized Eastern European adoptees. However, risk factors related to outcomes have not been fully delineated. We evaluated 50 Eastern European adoptees, age 8—10 years, with their adoptive families for more than five years. Cognitive and behavioral outcomes and parenting stress were evaluated in relation to pre-adoptive risk factors, including arrival age, growth, and facial phenotype related to prenatal alcohol exposure. At follow-up, IQ and achievement scores were ≥ average in most children (≥74%). Behavioral and school problems were common (externalizing 4...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Miller, L., Chan, W., Tirella, L., Perrin, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

METHODS AND MEASURES: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling for Construct Validation of Cognitive AbilitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although factor analysis is the most commonly-used method for examining the structure of cognitive variable interrelations, multidimensional scaling (MDS) can provide visual representations highlighting the continuous nature of interrelations among variables. Using data (N = 8,813; ages 17—97 years) aggregated across 38 separate studies, MDS was applied to 16 cognitive variables representative of five well-established cognitive abilities. Parallel to confirmatory factor analytic solutions, and consistent with past MDS applications, the results for young (18—39 years), middle (40—65 years), and old (66&mda...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tucker-Drob, E. M., Salthouse, T. A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

A longitudinal examination of risky sexual behaviors among Canadian and Italian adolescents: Considering individual, parental, and friend characteristicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, two longitudinal models of early adolescent risky sexual behaviors (RSB) were compared using a pooled sample of 267 Canadian and Italian adolescents (55% females; 53% Canadians) assessed yearly from grade 8 to 10. We focused on parenting practices (monitoring, control, limit setting), adolescent problem behaviors (antisocial behaviors, substance use) and their friends' deviance (antisocial behaviors, substance use) as predictors of condom use frequency and lifetime number of sexual partners. The socialization model postulates that youths' problem behaviors and RSB are behaviors learned within the friendship ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: P., M.-A. B., Poulin, F., Kiesner, J., Dishion, T. J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Mothers' expressive style and emotional responses to children's behavior predict children's prosocial and achievement-related self-ratingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study we investigated whether mothers' typical expressive style and specific emotional responses to children's behaviors are linked to children's prosocial and competence self-ratings. Eight-to 12-year-old children and their mothers rated how mothers had felt when children behaved pro-socially and antisocially, achieved and failed to achieve. Children rated self-descriptiveness of prosocial and achievement-related traits. Mothers' positive expressiveness was associated with children's higher achievement-related self-ratings. Mothers' positive- and negative-dominant expressiveness was associated with children's lowe...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Dunsmore, J. C., Bradburn, I. S., Costanzo, P. R., Fredrickson, B. L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Preschool children's views on emotion regulation: Functional associations and implications for social-emotional adjustmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous studies show that preschool children view negative emotions as susceptible to intentional control. However, the extent of this understanding and links with child social-emotional adjustment are poorly understood. To examine this, 62 3- and 4-year-olds were presented with puppet scenarios in which characters experienced anger, sadness, and fear. Forty-seven adults were presented with a parallel questionnaire. Participants rated the degree to which six emotion-regulation strategies were effective in decreasing negative emotions. Results showed that even the youngest preschoolers viewed cognitive and behavioral distr...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Dennis, T. A., Kelemen, D. A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Examination of the contribution of clique characteristics to children's adjustment: Clique type and perceived cohesionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a sample of 473 4th- and 5th-grade students, we examined the interaction between the type of clique to which a child belongs and the clique's level of perceived cohesion on a clique member's social and emotional adjustment. Perceived cohesion of a clique was operationalized as the degree to which the clique was perceived as an entity and was measured by submitting peers' similarity judgments of same-gender peers to a multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis. Clique types were determined based on clique members' average scores on a wide range of social behaviors. Correlation analyses indicated that the degree to which chi...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Kwon, K., Lease, A. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Maternal socialization of children's anger, sadness, and physical pain in two communities in Gujarat, IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined (a) Gujarati Indian mothers' reports concerning their beliefs, affective and behavioral responses to their children's displays of anger, sadness, and physical pain, and (b) their children's reported decisions to express felt emotion. Eighty mothers and their children (between 5 and 9 years) from two urban communities (suburban and old city) in Gujarat, India participated. Results indicated that Gujarati mothers considered their children's expressions of anger and sadness to be less acceptable than physical pain, and were more likely to convey to the child that the angry or sad expression was unacceptabl...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Vidhatri Raval, V., Martini, T. S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Mean-level change and intraindividual variability in self-esteem and depression among high-risk childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated mean-level changes and intraindividual variability of self-esteem among maltreated ( N = 142) and nonmaltreated (N = 109) school-aged children from low-income families. Longitudinal factor analysis revealed higher temporal stability of self-esteem among maltreated children compared to nonmaltreated children. Cross-domain latent growth curve models indicated that nonmaltreated children showed higher initial levels and greater increases in self-esteem than maltreated children, and that the initial levels of self-esteem were significantly associated with depressive symptoms among maltreated and nonmalt...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Kim, J., Cicchetti, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Social network analyses of positive and negative relationships among Japanese preschool classmatesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study showed that both sex combination of dyads and age affect the quantified properties of social networks among preschoolers. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - April 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Fujisawa, K. K., Kutsukake, N., Hasegawa, T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

METHODS & MEASURES: Psychometric properties of the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task: An Italian multicentre studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The paper describes a multicentre study of the psychometric properties of the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task in a sample of 230 Italian children aged 4 to 8 years. The task's internal consistency and inter-rater reliability were investigated; in addition, multiple discriminant analysis was used to explore the contribution of individual coding system scale scores to overall categorical attachment classification. The instrument showed acceptable psychometric properties, especially with respect to Disorganization and Coherence scales. However, our results also suggest that some subscales of the coding system could be ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Barone, L., Del Giudice, M., Fossati, A., Manaresi, F., Actis Perinetti, B., Colle, L., Veglia, F. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Boys' and girls' motivations for refraining from prompting friends to talk about problemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Girls' and boys' peer relationships are thought to have unique strengths and weaknesses. However, developmentalists have done a better job of identifying strengths of girls' friendships than boys' friendships. The present research was aimed at better understanding boys' friendship strengths. The study focused on the frequency with which youth (N = 514) reported that they would prompt a friend to talk about problems. It was hypothesized that boys would be more likely than girls to refrain from prompting friends to talk about problems due to prosocial motivations (e.g., not wanting to embarrass the friend; wanting to distrac...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Rose, A. J., Swenson, L. P., Robert, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Children's appraisal of moderately stressful situationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated 2 questions: (1) do children show consistent styles of appraisal across a range of moderately stressful events?, and (2) what are the adjustment and parenting correlates of individual differences in children's appraisal style? Ninety-nine 3rd though 5th grade children and their mothers participated. For each of 6 vignettes involving moderately stressful situations, children responded to 10 items assessing children's appraisal of these events. Mothers completed a self-report measure of parenting practices and children reported on their psychological adjustment. Participants showed moderate levels of ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Hood, B., Power, T., Hill, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Links between children's attachment behavior at early school-age, their attachment-related representations, and behavior problems in middle childhoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of the present study was to examine associations between children's attachment behavior at early school-age, dimensions of narrative performance, and behavior problems as assessed in middle childhood. Children's attachment patterns with mother were assessed at age 6 (N = 127) using the Main and Cassidy (1988) separation—reunion classification system. Two years later, these children (N = 109) completed the Narrative Story Stem Battery (Bretherton, Oppenheim, Buchsbaum, Emde, & The MacArthur Narrative Group, 1990), and teachers rated their level of behavior problems using the Social Behavior Questionn...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Moss, E., Bureau, J.-F., Beliveau, M.-J., Zdebik, M., Lepine, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Longitudinal associations between keeping a secret and psychosocial adjustment in adolescenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports on a two-wave longitudinal survey study among 278 adolescents (aged 13—18 years) that examined the associations of keeping and confiding a specific secret with psychosocial adjustment. Results confirmed a hypothesized longitudinal contribution of keeping a secret all to oneself to psychosocial problems, including depressive mood, low self-concept clarity, low self-control, loneliness, and poor relationship quality. Furthermore, confiding versus continuing to keep a secret all to oneself was associated with decreased psychosocial problems after six months, whereas starting to keep a secret versus ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Frijns, T., Finkenauer, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The relationships of personal and ethnic identity exploration to indices of adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Identity exploration has often been associated with maladaptive aspects of psychosocial functioning such as anxiety and depression. It is not known, however, whether maladaptive psychosocial functioning is related to both personal and ethnic identity exploration. In the present study, we examined the relationships of personal and ethnic identity exploration to adaptive (self-esteem, purpose in life, internal locus of control, and ego strength) and maladaptive (depression, anxiety, impulsivity, and tolerance for deviance) psychosocial functioning, as well the extent to which these relationships were mediated by identity con...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Schwartz, S. J., Zamboanga, B. L., Weisskirch, R. S., Rodriguez, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Reminiscing in the early years: Patterns of maternal elaborativeness and children's rememberingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study focused on individual differences in maternal style and children's developing recall abilities in early memory conversations. Within a longitudinal design, a sample of 56 mother—child dyads was observed while reminiscing, and the children's language skills were assessed when they were 18, 24, and 30 months old. In contrast to mothers classified as "low-eliciting," mothers in a "high-eliciting" group offered more open-ended elaborative questions, fewer elaborative statements, and more confirmations to their 18-month-olds. Although all mothers increased in their elaborative questioning over time, the stylist...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Haden, C. A., Ornstein, P. A., Rudek, D. J., Cameron, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Autobiographical memory sharing in everyday life: Characteristics of a good storyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Storytelling is a ubiquitous human activity that occurs across the lifespan as part of everyday life. Studies from three disparate literatures suggest that older adults (as compared to younger adults) are (a) less likely to recall story details, (b) more likely to go off-target when sharing stories, and, in contrast, (c) more likely to receive higher global story quality ratings. No previous research has investigated these three related constructs in a single study. In addition, previous work has not examined the type of story most commonly told in everyday life: episodic autobiographical memories. Thus, to investigate sto...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Baron, J. M., Bluck, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

"What makes you shy?": Understanding situational elicitors of shyness in Chinese childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper reports on two exploratory studies of situations that elicit shyness in Mainland Chinese children. In Study 1 (N = 100; Mage = 10.42) interviews with Chinese children identified three kinds of shyness-eliciting situations: social novelty; negative social evaluation; and public attention. In Study 2 (N = 162, Mage = 10.19), children's self-reported shyness in various social situations was found to be differentially associated with three forms of shyness common to Chinese culture: shyness toward strangers; anxious shyness; and regulated shyness. The findings revealed both similarities and differences in the elicit...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - March 2, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Yiyuan Xu, , Farver, J. A. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

On the question of an identity status category order: Rasch model step and scale statistics used to identify category orderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study addressed the prefatory question of whether the identity statuses can be empirically ordered in a theoretically optimal way. This question was addressed via use of Rasch model threshold and scale statistics, which effectively differentiated empirically optimal from suboptimal category orders. All permutations of Marcia's 4 identity statuses were generated in relation to stages from Loevinger's model of ego development and Kegan's model of self—other differentiation. The optimal identity status order found was diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, to achievement in 2 sets of analyses, and diffusion combined w...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Al-Owidha, A., Green, K. E., Kroger, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Compliance, negotiation, and self-assertion in Japanese adolescents' disagreements with parentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the ways in which Japanese adolescents handle disagreements with parents, and the extent to which the cultural values of emotional bonds within the family predict adolescents' reported handling of disagreements. Adolescents (N = 1029), aged 12 to 25 years, reported their projected actions in response to six hypothetical adolescent—parent disagreements, and completed a scale of values of emotional bonds in the family. As hypothesized, self-assertion was the most common action, followed by negotiation and compliance. Although generally self-assertion and negotiation were higher and compliance lower ...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Sugimura, K., Yamazaki, M., Phinney, J. S., Takeo, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Peer group homogeneity in adolescents' school adjustment varies according to peer group type and genderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated whether the members of adolescents' peer groups are similar in terms of their school adjustment and whether this homogeneity varies according to peer group type and gender. A total of 1262 peer group members who had recently moved to post-comprehensive education filled in questionnaires measuring their academic achievement, satisfaction with their educational track, school engagement, and school burnout. They also gave positive peer nominations on the basis of which 360 peer groups were identified and categorized as cliques, loose groups, and isolate dyads. The results showed that the members of ado...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Kiuru, N., Nurmi, J.-E., Aunola, K., Salmela-Aro, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals