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Direct linkQianqian Wan; Olivera Savic; Mengcun Gao; Robby Ralston; Allison P. O'Leary; Vladimir M. Sloutsky – Child Development, 2025
This longitudinal study investigates metacognitive development in children aged four to six (N = 148; 74 girls; 106 White, 21 multiracial, 17 Black, 3 Asian, 1 Latino; collected in 2017-2019) compared to adults (N = 26, 13 women; collected in 2022). We assessed metacognitive monitoring and control using experimenter-elicited and self-generated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Preschool Children
Michaela C. DeBolt; Bess L. Caswell; Matthews George; Kenneth Maleta; Elizabeth L. Prado; Shannon Ross-Sheehy; Christine P. Stewart; Lisa M. Oakes – Child Development, 2025
Research with Western samples has uncovered the rapid development of infants' visual attention. This study evaluated spatial attention in 6- to 9-month-old infants living in rural Malawi (N = 511; n[subscript Boys] = 255, n[subscript Yao] = 427) or suburban California, United States (N = 57, n[subscript Boys] = 29, n[subscript White] = 37) in…
Descriptors: Infants, Spatial Ability, Attention Control, Rural Areas
Cuartas, Jorge – Child Development, 2022
Whether spanking is detrimental for social-emotional (SE) development remains controversial, mostly due to disputes around the internal and external validity of existing evidence. This study examined the effect of spanking on the SE development of Bhutanese children, using a national, longitudinal sample (N = 1377; M[subscript age] = 50.5 months…
Descriptors: Punishment, Social Development, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries
Peterson, Candida C.; Wellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 2019
Longitudinal tracking of 107 three- to-thirteen-year-olds in a cross-sequential design showed a 6-step theory of mind (ToM) sequence identified by a few past cross-sectional studies validly depicted longitudinal ToM development from early to middle childhood for typically developing (TD) children and those with ToM delays owing to deafness or…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Child Development, Longitudinal Studies, Autism
Ophélie A. Collet; Massimiliano Orri; Cédric Galéra; Laura Pryor; Michel Boivin; Richard Tremblay; Sylvana Côté – Child Development, 2024
We investigated whether child temperament (negative emotionality, 5 months) moderated the association between maternal stimulation (5 months--2½ years) and academic readiness and achievement (vocabulary, mathematics, and reading). We applied structural equation modeling to the data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (N =…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Personality, Psychological Patterns, School Readiness
Jennifer E. Lansford; Laura Gorla; W. Andrew Rothenberg; Marc H. Bornstein; Lei Chang; Jeremy D. W. Clifton; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Laurence Steinberg; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini – Child Development, 2025
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is "Good" and "Enticing." Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Mothers
Mix, Kelly S.; Bower, Corinne A.; Hancock, Gregory R.; Yuan, Lei; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 2022
Place value concepts were measured longitudinally from kindergarten (2017) to first grade (2018) in a diverse sample (n = 279; M[subscript age] = 5.76 years, SD = 0.55; 135 females; 41% Black, 38% White, 8% Asian, 12% Latino). Children completed three syntactic tasks that required an explicit understanding of base-10 symbols and three approximate…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Child Development, Number Concepts, Longitudinal Studies
Katherine E. Frye; Christopher J. Anthony; Pui-Wa Lei; Kyle D. Husmann; James C. DiPerna – Child Development, 2025
Social skills are dynamic developmental constructs typically measured using assessments developed via cross-sectional methods. The measurement model of derivatives (MMOD), a factor analytic approach targeting individual growth trajectories, was used to evaluate the longitudinal factor structure of the Social Skills Improvement System--Rating…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Rating Scales, Factor Analysis, Longitudinal Studies
Elif Dede Yildirim; Cynthia A. Frosch; António J. Santos; Manuela Veríssimo; Kristen Bub; Brian E. Vaughn – Child Development, 2024
Preschool teachers' perceptions about relationships with students (teacher-child relationships [TCRs]) predict children's subsequent social competence (SC) and academic progress. Why this is so remains unclear. Do TCRs shape children's development, or do child attributes influence both TCRs and subsequent development? Relations between TCRs and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Child Development, Preschool Teachers
Nguyen, Vivian; Versyp, Otto; Cox, Christopher; Fusaroli, Riccardo – Child Development, 2022
Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi-level meta-analysis, we map the trajectory of infants' turn-taking abilities over the course of early development (0 to 70 months). We synthesize the evidence from 26 studies (78 estimates from 429 unique…
Descriptors: Child Development, Meta Analysis, Infants, Reaction Time
Savopoulos, Priscilla; Brown, Stephanie; Anderson, Peter J.; Gartland, Deirdre; Bryant, Christina; Giallo, Rebecca – Child Development, 2022
The cognitive functioning of children who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) has received less attention than their emotional-behavioral outcomes. Drawing upon data from 615 (48.4% female) 10-year-old Australian-born children and their mothers (9.6% of mothers born in non-English speaking countries) participating in a community-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Children, Family Violence
Austerberry, Chloe; Fearon, Pasco; Ronald, Angelica; Leve, Leslie D.; Ganiban, Jody M.; Natsuaki, Misaki N.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Reiss, David – Child Development, 2022
Intellectual performance is highly heritable and robustly predicts lifelong health and success but the earliest manifestations of genetic effects on this asset are not well understood. This study examined whether early executive function (EF) or verbal performance mediate genetic influences on subsequent intellectual performance, in 561 U.S.-based…
Descriptors: Child Development, Intelligence, Genetics, Executive Function
Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne – Child Development, 2021
This 5-year longitudinal study investigated advanced theory-of-mind (AToM) development in 161 German 5- to 10-year-olds (89 females, 72 males). Core aspects of AToM developed nonlinearly, with children reaching a milestone at the age of 7 years, around when they attained the conceptual insight that mental states can be recursive. In late…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Social Cognition, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Pesce, Caterina; Lakes, Kimberley D.; Stodden, David F.; Marchetti, Rosalba – Child Development, 2021
This study evaluated whether a theory-based intervention in physical education (PE) designed to train self-control may positively impact children's quick-temperedness and disruptiveness and whether changes in executive functions (EFs) may be a correlate or antecedent of such effects. One hundred and sixteen children aged 8-9 years participated in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Control, Physical Education, Elementary School Students
Wellman, Henry M.; Song, Ju-Hyun; Peskin-Shepherd, Hope – Child Development, 2019
A crucial human cognitive goal is to understand and to be understood. But understanding often takes active management. Two studies investigated early developmental processes of understanding management by focusing on young children's comprehension monitoring. We ask: When and how do young children actively monitor their comprehension of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Developmental Stages
