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Direct linkAndrea Sander-Montant; Rébecca Bissonnette; Krista Byers-Heinlein – Child Development, 2025
Language exposure is an important determiner of language outcomes in bilingual children. Family language strategies (FLS, e.g., one-parent-one-language) were contrasted with parents' individual language use to predict language exposure in 4-31-month-old children (50% female) living in Montreal, Quebec. Two-hundred twenty one children (primarily…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Mothers, Fathers, Language Usage
Elena Maker Castro; Laura Wray-Lake; Jason A. Plummer – Child Development, 2025
This study examined bidirectional changes in adolescents' awareness of inequality and race consciousness between 2017 and 2018 in the USA and whether discriminatory experiences informed developmental pathways. The sample (N = 2645; Mage = 14.6, SD = 2.14; 56.5% female; > 0.01% transgender and gender diverse) was White (35.8%), Latinx (31.4%),…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Racial Discrimination, Racism, Knowledge Level
Xiuyuan Zhang; Brandon A. Carrillo; Ariana Christakis; Julia A. Leonard – Child Development, 2025
Learning takes time: Performance usually starts poorly and improves with practice. Do children intuit this basic phenomenon of skill learning? In preregistered Experiment 1 (n = 125; 54% female; 48% White; collected 2022-2023), US 7- to 8-year-old children predicted improved performance, 5- to 6-year-old children predicted flat performance, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Skill Development, Predictor Variables
Li Zhao; Weihao Yan; Junjie Peng; Paul L. Harris – Child Development, 2025
This research with two studies examined whether young children's moral judgments of honesty and dishonesty predict their actual cheating behavior. Participants were 200 children aged 3-6 years (2021-2022. Study 1: N = 80, M[subscript age] = 4.96, 40 girls; Study 2: N = 120, M[subscript age] = 4.98, 60 girls; all middle-class Han Chinese). Children…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Decision Making, Cheating, Young Children
Hou Xie; Kaylin Ratner; Suzanne G. Fegley; Michael J. Nakkula – Child Development, 2025
This study investigated the development of educational aspirations (EAs) among Chinese youth (n = 2228, 48.61% female, 87.66% Han, M[subscript age_2010] = 11.48 years) for 6 years. Five latent classes of EA trajectories were identified. They varied greatly during early adolescence but converged around an associate degree in middle adolescence and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Academic Achievement
V. Paul Poteat; Jerel P. Calzo; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Daniel Kellogg; Robert A. Marx; Abigail Richburg; Arthur Lipkin – Child Development, 2025
Experiences in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs) could predict youth's academic engagement through improved social-emotional wellbeing (indicated by school belonging, hope, and positive and negative affect). This study utilized three waves of data, each spaced 2-3 months apart, among 627 youth (87% LGBQ+, 45% trans/nonbinary, 48% youth of color)…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, LGBTQ People, Well Being, Mental Health
