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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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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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Arya Ansari; M. Nicole Buckley; S. Colby Woods; Michael Gottfried – Child Development, 2025
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Class of 2011 (n = 14,370; 51% Male; 51% White; 14% Black; 25% Hispanic; 4% Asian; and 6% Other), this study examined the cumulative, timing-specific, and enduring associations between student-teacher relationships in the United States and a broad range of student outcomes.…
Descriptors: Surveys, Children, Longitudinal Studies, Teacher Student Relationship
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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