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Thiago F. A. França; Sabine Pompeia – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Adolescent risky behaviors are often interpreted as products of self-control failures stemming from a developmental mismatch between reward processing and cognitive control systems. However, adolescents -- much like adults -- may also engage in risky behaviors because of conscious and deliberate (even if objectively poor) decisions. It is not easy…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Risk, Risk Management
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Cuartas, Jorge; McCoy, Dana Charles – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Mediation has played a critical role in developmental theory and research. Yet, developmentalists rarely discuss the methodological challenges of establishing causality in mediation analysis or potential strategies to improve the identification of causal mediation effects. In this article, we discuss the potential outcomes framework from…
Descriptors: Mediation Theory, Behavior Development, Influences, Inferences
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Vitaro, Frank; Brendgen, Mara; Arseneault, Louise – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Twin studies are well known for their value in quantifying the contribution of genes to population variation in behaviors and personality traits. Twin studies also provide a unique opportunity to untangle the contribution of environmental experiences to emotional and behavioral development. This is particularly true when examining monozygotic (MZ)…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Siblings, Children, Emotional Development
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Mahoney, Joseph L.; Stattin, Hakan; Lord, Heather – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study involves a two-year longitudinal investigation of adolescent participation in unstructured youth recreation centres and the development of antisocial behaviour. Participants were 1163 adolescents who represented 92% of all eighth-grade students in the town of Orebro, Sweden, during the fall of 1999. Antisocial young people and those…
Descriptors: School Activities, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Social Environment
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Pratt, Michael W.; Skoe, Eva E.; Arnold, Mary Louise – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Over the past 20 years, care reasoning has been increasingly recognised as an important aspect of moral development. Skoe has developed an interview measure of levels of care reasoning about the needs of self and other in relationships, the Ethic of Care Interview or ECI. In the present longitudinal research, we investigated developmental changes…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Adolescents
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Saltaris, Christina; Serbin, Lisa A.; Stack, Dale M.; Karp, Jennifer A.; Schwartzman, Alex E.; Ledingham, Jane E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
The current investigation was designed to examine the provision of cognitive stimulation to preschool-aged children from high-risk families. Participants were drawn from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, a prospective, longitudinal investigation of individuals recruited in 1976-77 from lower SES neighbourhoods who were rated by childhood…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Stimulation, Investigations, Preschool Children