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Briah A. Glover; Dawn P. Witherspoon – Infant and Child Development, 2024
The pervasiveness of racism in the U.S. and its negative relations with key development outcomes has led researchers to uncover mediators, of which this article argues efficacy should be considered. Self-efficacy, one's belief in their capability to accomplish a task or goal, can be measured in multiple domains of functioning and contexts to…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Data Analysis, Racism
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Schirmbeck, Katharina; Rao, Nirmala; Maehler, Claudia – Infant and Child Development, 2020
A systematic review was conducted to gain a more nuanced understanding of similarities and distinctions across countries in the development of executive functions (EF). The review includes 26 studies, with child and adolescent participants, that were published between 2006 and 2018. Both similarities and differences within developmental patterns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Cognitive Development, Children
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Todd, Brenda K.; Fischer, Rico A.; Di Costa, Steven; Roestorf, Amanda; Harbour, Kate; Hardiman, Paul; Barry, John A. – Infant and Child Development, 2018
From an early age, most children choose to play with toys typed to their own gender. In order to identify variables that predict toy preference, we conducted a meta-analysis of observational studies of the free selection of toys by boys and girls aged between 1 and 8 years. From an initial pool of 1788 papers, 16 studies (787 boys and 813 girls)…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Young Children, Toys, Preferences