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Audun Rosslund; Natalia Kartushina; Nora Serres; Julien Mayor – Child Development, 2025
Growing up with multiple siblings might negatively affect language development. This study examined the associations between birth order, sibling characteristics and parent-reported vocabulary size in 6163 Norwegian 8- to 36-month-old children (51.4% female). Results confirmed that birth order was negatively associated with vocabulary, yet…
Descriptors: Family Size, Birth Order, Siblings, Infants
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Alexis S. Smith-Flores; Gabriel J. Bonamy; Lindsey J. Powell – Child Development, 2025
Children's evaluations of empathizers were examined using vignette-based tasks (N = 159 4- to 7-year-old U.S. children, 82 girls, 52% White) between March 2023 and March 2024. Children typically evaluated empathizers positively compared to less empathic others. They rated empathic responses as more appropriate, selected empathizers as nicer, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Evaluative Thinking, Empathy, Young Children
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Lily Dicken; Thomas Suddendorf; Adam Bulley; Muireann Irish; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Australian children aged 6-9 years (N = 120, 71 females; data collected in 2021-2022) were tasked with remembering the locations of 1, 3, 5, and 7 targets hidden under 25 cups on different trials. In the critical test phase, children were provided with a limited number of tokens to allocate across trials, which they could use to mark target…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Task Analysis
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Bar Levy-Friedman; Tehila Kogut – Child Development, 2025
This study examined children's self-assessment of their prosociality, relative to average peers, in situations where the recipient is described as "needy" versus "not needy" (at a school of average socioeconomic level in south Israel; N = 158; aged 6-12 years; 51% males, December-May 2021). The results show that older children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior
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Hou Xie; Kaylin Ratner; Suzanne G. Fegley; Michael J. Nakkula – Child Development, 2025
This study investigated the development of educational aspirations (EAs) among Chinese youth (n = 2228, 48.61% female, 87.66% Han, M[subscript age_2010] = 11.48 years) for 6 years. Five latent classes of EA trajectories were identified. They varied greatly during early adolescence but converged around an associate degree in middle adolescence and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Academic Achievement
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Zhenliang Wang; Wan Ding; Ruibo Xie; Xinchun Wu; Shiqing Wenren; Yue Xia – Child Development, 2025
Theoretical work has suggested close associations between morphological awareness (MA) and reading skills in Chinese; however, the nature and direction of these time-ordered links are little known. This study examined the interplays of MA and reading skills using a continuous-time modeling approach to three waves of two-year longitudinal data from…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Skills, Chinese, Longitudinal Studies
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Tirill Fjellhaugen Hjuler; Daniel Lee; Simona Ghetti – Child Development, 2025
This longitudinal study examined age- and gender-related differences in autobiographical memory about the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and whether the content of these memories predicted psychological adjustment over time. A sample of 247 students (M[subscript age] = 11.94, range 8-16 years, 51.4% female, 85.4% White) was recruited from public and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Memory, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Nicolette Granata; Chyna Bacchus; Melanie Leguizamon; Jonathan D. Lane – Child Development, 2025
Children with disabilities often receive accommodations, but teachers rarely explain them to typically-developing (TD) classmates. How do TD students reason about these accommodations and evaluate their fairness? Five-, seven-, and nine-year-olds from the United States (N = 122; 50% female; 87.7% white; data collected April 2022-September 2023)…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Students with Disabilities, Student Attitudes