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Examining Longitudinal Associations between Internalizing Problems, Body Mass Index, and Language during Childhood
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Bryant, Lindsey M.; Duncan, Robert J.; Marceau, Kristine; Schmitt, Sara A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The current study examines the extent to which associations between internalizing problems, body mass index (BMI), and language skills from early (36 months) to late childhood (fifth grade) are due to relatively stable between-child differences, time-specific correlations, or cross-lagged paths. Data from the NICHD study, Early Child Care and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Body Composition, Language Skills
Loneliness in Chinese Children across Contexts
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Chen, Xinyin; Wang, Li; Li, Dan; Liu, Junsheng – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study examined loneliness and its associations with social functioning in children across different historical times and contexts in China. We collected data from urban and rural groups of school-age children (N = 2,588; M age = 10 years) using self-reports and peer assessments. The results indicated that children in 2002 and 2005 urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Social Development, Children
Do Sensitive Parents Foster Kind Children, or Vice Versa? Bidirectional Influences between Children's Prosocial Behavior and Parental Sensitivity
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Newton, Emily K.; Laible, Deborah; Carlo, Gustavo; Steele, Joel S.; McGinley, Meredith – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Bidirectional theories of social development have been around for over 40 years (Bell, 1968), yet they have been applied primarily to the study of antisocial development. In the present study, the reciprocal relationship between parenting behavior and children's socially competent behaviors were examined. Using the National Institute of Child…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Psychological Patterns, Prosocial Behavior, Child Development
Do Children Endorse Psychosocial Factors in the Transmission of Illness and Disgust?
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Raman, Lakshmi; Gelman, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The present studies examined beliefs concerning the impact of psychosocial factors in the transmission of contagious illness, injuries, and disgust. In Studies 1 and 2, participants ranging from preschoolers through adults judged the likelihood that a character would get sick (or injured) after being contaminated by another individual who was…
Descriptors: Injuries, Personality, Emotional Response, Communicable Diseases
Anxious Solitude and Peer Exclusion Predict Social Helplessness, Upset Affect, and Vagal Regulation in Response to Behavioral Rejection by a Friend
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Gazelle, Heidi; Druhen, Madelynn J. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
It was hypothesized that combined individual child vulnerability (anxious solitude) and interpersonal stress (peer exclusion) would predict the strongest responses to experimentally manipulated behavioral peer rejection. Results indicated that in a sample of 3rd graders (N = 160, 59% girls), anxious solitary excluded children displayed more…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Helplessness, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Behavioral Profiles of Anxious Solitary Children and Heterogeneity in Peer Relations
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Gazelle, Heidi – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Consistent with a holistic perspective emphasizing the integration of multiple individual characteristics within child systems, it was hypothesized that subgroups of anxious solitary (AS) children characterized by agreeableness, behavioral normality, attention-seeking-immaturity, and externalizing behaviors would demonstrate heterogeneity in peer…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Peer Relationship, Social Isolation, Anxiety