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Direct linkKarolina Wieczorek; Megan DeGroot; Heather Ganshorn; Susan A. Graham – Child Development, 2025
Research examining relations between language skills and social competence has yielded mixed findings. Three meta-analyses investigated links between language skills (overall, receptive, and expressive) and social competence in 2- to 12-year-old children. Data from 130 studies representing 62,120 children (M age at language assessment = 4.70…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Children, Receptive Language
Peer reviewedBelsky, Jay; And Others – Child Development, 1980
The influence of maternal stimulation on infant exploratory behavior was examined in both a cross-sectional/ correlational study and an experimental study, in order to overcome the limitations on making causal claims that attend most research into maternal influence on infant development. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Correlation, Cross Sectional Studies, Infants, Mothers
Peer reviewedPlomin, Robert; DeFries, J. C. – Child Development, 1983
Provides an overview of a longitudinal, prospective, multivariate adoption study of behavioral development and discusses the results of analyses of cognitive measures and environmental assessments as examples of the types of information that can emerge from a design of this sort. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adoption, Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Children
Peer reviewedBurchinal, Margaret; Appelbaum, Mark I. – Child Development, 1991
Quantitative growth curve models for estimating individual developmental functions from various types of longitudinal data are discussed in the context of investigator assumptions and research design characteristics. Linear and nonlinear models that estimate growth curves are illustrated, and contrasted when they are fit to speech development…
Descriptors: Children, Individual Development, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition
