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Direct linkRahel L. van Eickels; Magdalena Siegel; Alice J. Juhasz; Martina Zemp – Child Development, 2025
Empirical findings on the associations of positive and dysfunctional parent--child relationship (PPCR/DPCR) characteristics with child shame, adaptive guilt, and maladaptive guilt were synthesized in six meta-analyses. The 65 included samples yielded 633 effect sizes (N[subscript total] = 19,144; M[subscript age] = 15.24 years; 59.0% female; 67.7%…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Child Development, Meta Analysis
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Delagneau, Garance; Twilhaar, E. Sabrina; Testa, Renee; van Veen, Sarit; Anderson, Peter – Child Development, 2023
This meta-analysis examined the relationship between prenatal maternal stress and/or anxiety and the outcomes of children aged 3 months to 9 years. Of the 8754 studies published before June 2021 that were synthesized, 17 conducted in Western countries were included in the meta-analysis (N[subscript total] = 23,307; M[subscript males] 54%;…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Anxiety, Stress Variables, Cognitive Ability
West, Kelsey L. – Child Development, 2019
Studies of infant motor development in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have increased in recent years. This article synthesized this literature through meta-analysis to assess (a) whether infant motor ability differs in ASD relative to neurotypical controls; and (b) whether motor ability and communication are related in infants with ASD. Study 1…
Descriptors: Infants, Motor Development, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Skene, Kayleigh; O'Farrelly, Christine M.; Byrne, Elizabeth M.; Kirby, Natalie; Stevens, Eloise C.; Ramchandani, Paul G. – Child Development, 2022
This systematic review and meta-analysis considered evidence of guided play compared to direct instruction or free play to support children's learning and development. Interventions from 39 studies were reviewed (published 1977-2020); 17 were included in meta-analysis (N[subscript total] = 3893; M[subscript childage] = 1-8 years; M[subscript…
Descriptors: Guidance, Play, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
Sobel, David M.; Finiasz, Zoe – Child Development, 2020
One way children are remarkable learners is that they learn from others. Critically, children are selective when assessing from whom to learn, particularly in the domain of word learning. We conducted an analysis of children's selective word learning, reviewing 63 papers on 6,525 participants. Children's ability to engage in selective word…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Processes, Vocabulary Development, Metacognition
Jing, Mengguo; Ye, Ting; Kirkorian, Heather L.; Mares, Marie-Louise – Child Development, 2023
This meta-analysis synthesizes research on media use in early childhood (0-6 years), word-learning, and vocabulary size. Multi-level analyses included 266 effect sizes from 63 studies (N[subscript total] = 11,413) published between 1988-2022. Among samples with information about race/ethnicity (51%) and sex/gender (73%), most were majority…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Preschool Children, Race
Nguyen, Vivian; Versyp, Otto; Cox, Christopher; Fusaroli, Riccardo – Child Development, 2022
Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi-level meta-analysis, we map the trajectory of infants' turn-taking abilities over the course of early development (0 to 70 months). We synthesize the evidence from 26 studies (78 estimates from 429 unique…
Descriptors: Child Development, Meta Analysis, Infants, Reaction Time
Cipriano, Christina; Strambler, Michael J.; Naples, Lauren H.; Ha, Cheyeon; Kirk, Megan; Wood, Miranda; Sehgal, Kaveri; Zieher, Almut K.; Eveleigh, Abigail; McCarthy, Michael; Funaro, Melissa; Ponnock, Annett; Chow, Jason C.; Durlak, Joseph – Child Development, 2023
This article provides a systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence for universal school-based (USB) social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions for students in kindergarten through 12th grade available from 2008 through 2020. The sample includes 424 studies from 53 countries, reflecting 252 discrete USB SEL interventions,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Thomas, Tina; Ahmed, Yusra; Tan, Mei; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Child Development, 2021
Orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS (HIV OVC) are at risk for cognitive difficulties and lack of access to education. Interventions addressing cognitive or educational outcomes for HIV OVC worldwide were examined through systematic searches conducted from October 2016 to 2019. We examined the summative effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Children, Institutionalized Persons, Intervention, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Kim, Young-Suk G.; Lee, Hansol; Zuilkowski, Stephanie S. – Child Development, 2020
Reading skills are foundational for daily lives, academic achievement, and careers. In this study, we systematically reviewed literacy interventions in low- and middle-income countries, and estimated their effects on children's reading skills using a meta-analytic approach. A total of 67 studies (N = 213,464) from 32 countries found in various…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Language Skills
Quinn, Jamie M.; Wagner, Richard K. – Child Development, 2018
The purpose of this review was to introduce readers of "Child Development" to the meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) technique. Provided are a background to the MASEM approach, a discussion of its utility in the study of child development, and an application of this technique in the study of reading comprehension (RC)…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Factor Structure
Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Quintana, Stephen M.; Lee, Richard M.; Cross, William E., Jr.; Rivas-Drake, Deborah; Schwartz, Seth J.; Syed, Moin; Yip, Tiffany; Seaton, Eleanor – Child Development, 2014
Although ethnic and racial identity (ERI) are central to the normative development of youth of color, there have been few efforts to bring scholars together to discuss the theoretical complexities of these constructs and provide a synthesis of existing work. The Ethnic and Racial Identity in the 21st Century Study Group was assembled for this…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Minority Group Children, Adolescent Development
Lancy, David F. – Child Development, 2016
Since Margaret Mead's field studies in the South Pacific a century ago, there has been the tacit understanding that as culture varies, so too must the socialization of children to become competent culture users and bearers. More recently, the work of anthropologists has been mined to find broader patterns that may be common to childhood across a…
Descriptors: Socialization, Child Development, Ethnography, Toddlers
Slaughter, Virginia; Imuta, Kana; Peterson, Candida C.; Henry, Julie D. – Child Development, 2015
It has been argued that children who possess an advanced theory of mind (ToM) are viewed positively by their peers, but the empirical findings are mixed. This meta-analysis of 20 studies including 2,096 children (aged from 2 years, 8 months to 10 years) revealed a significant overall association (r = 0.19) indicating that children with higher ToM…
Descriptors: Child Development, Theory of Mind, Meta Analysis, Young Children
