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Rodrigues, Michelle; Sokolovic, Nina; Madigan, Sheri; Luo, Yiqi; Silva, Victoria; Misra, Shruti; Jenkins, Jennifer – Child Development, 2021
In a series of meta-analyses, paternal sensitivity was associated with children's (age range: 7 months-9 years) overall cognitive functioning (N = 3,193; k = 23; r = 0.19), including language skills (k = 9; r = 0.21), cognitive ability (k = 9; r = 0.18), and executive function (k = 8; r = 0.19). Paternal sensitivity was not associated with…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Cognitive Development, Social Development, Emotional Development
Seltzer, Leslie J.; Ziegler, Toni; Connolly, Michael J.; Prososki, Ashley R.; Pollak, Seth D. – Child Development, 2014
Child maltreatment often has a negative impact on the development of social behavior and health. The biobehavioral mechanisms through which these adverse outcomes emerge, however, are not clear. To better understand the ways in which early life adversity affects subsequent social behavior, changes in the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) in children…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Child Abuse, Child Development, Metabolism
Raby, K. Lee; Roisman, Glenn I.; Fraley, R. Chris; Simpson, Jeffry A. – Child Development, 2015
This study leveraged data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (N = 243) to investigate the predictive significance of maternal sensitivity during the first 3 years of life for social and academic competence through age 32 years. Structural model comparisons replicated previous findings that early maternal sensitivity…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mothers, Social Development, Academic Ability
Recchia, Holly; Wainryb, Cecilia; Pasupathi, Monisha – Child Development, 2013
This study investigated differences in children's and adolescents' experiences of harming their siblings and friends. Participants ("N" = 101; 7-, 11-, and 16-year-olds) provided accounts of events when they hurt a younger sibling and a friend. Harm against friends was described as unusual, unforeseeable, and circumstantial. By contrast,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Sibling Relationship, Friendship
Connolly, John J.; Glessner, Joseph T.; Hakonarson, Hakon – Child Development, 2013
Efforts to understand the causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been hampered by genetic complexity and heterogeneity among individuals. One strategy for reducing complexity is to target endophenotypes, simpler biologically based measures that may involve fewer genes and constitute a more homogenous sample. A genome-wide association…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Genetics, Genetic Disorders
Weller, Drika; Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Child Development, 2013
Five- to 13-year-old European American children ("N" = 76) predicted characters' decisions, emotions, and obligations in prosocial moral dilemmas. Across age, children judged that characters would feel more positive emotions helping an unfamiliar child from the racial in-group versus out-group (African American), happier ignoring the…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Whites, Prosocial Behavior, Moral Values
Card, Noel A.; Stucky, Brian D.; Sawalani, Gita M.; Little, Todd D. – Child Development, 2008
This meta-analytic review of 148 studies on child and adolescent direct and indirect aggression examined the magnitude of gender differences, intercorrelations between forms, and associations with maladjustment. Results confirmed prior findings of gender differences (favoring boys) in direct aggression and trivial gender differences in indirect…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Adjustment (to Environment), Effect Size
Child Development, 2005
Relations of duration and developmental timing of poverty to children's development from birth to age 9 were examined by comparing children from families who were never poor, poor only during the child's infancy (03 years of age), poor only after infancy (49 years of age), and chronically poor. Chronically poor families provided lower quality…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 3, Infants, Behavior Problems

Buhrmester, Duane; Furman, Wyndol – Child Development, 1987
Children in the second, fifth, and eighth grades rated the importance and extent of companionship and intimate disclosure experiences in social life in general and in each of eight types of relationships. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Friendship, Parent Child Relationship

Crano, William D.; Mendoza, Jorge L. – Child Development, 1987
An analysis using data drawn from Nancy Bayley's Berkeley Growth Study is performed for didactic purposes to illustrate the use of structural equation modeling on a child development data set. Alternatives to standard latent factor approaches are demonstrated for use in research situations in which the subject-to-variable ratio is less than…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers

Wintre, Maxine Gallander; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Investigates 8-, 11-, 14- and 17-year-old students' choices of either a familiar adult or peer, or an adult or peer expert to provide counsel. The findings support the conceptualization that adult-child relations are transformed from unilateral dependence in childhood to increasing mutuality in adolescence. (RJC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Children, Elementary Secondary Education

Bullock, Daniel; Merrill, Laura – Child Development, 1980
Tests the hypothesis that a child's activity preferences may predict subsequent changes in the child's aggression, insofar as activity preferences partly determine how much time the child spends in aggression-conducive situations. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Elementary School Students, Individual Activities

Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined relationship of emotion regulation and emotionality to social functioning in 77 children followed from age 4 to age 10. Found that high-quality social functioning was predicted by high emotion regulation and low nonconstructive coping, negative emotionality, and emotional intensity. Measures of regulation and emotionality frequently…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Coping, Emotional Development

Larson, Reed W. – Child Development, 1997
Studied developmental changes in the experience of solitude between late childhood and early adolescence. Fifth through ninth graders (N=483) provided experience-sampling reports on their companionship and subjective states at random times over a week. Found that in early adolescence solitude comes to have a more constructive role in daily life as…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Developmental Continuity, Developmental Stages
Fivush, Robyn; Haden, Catherine A.; Reese, Elaine – Child Development, 2006
Initial research on maternal reminiscing style established clear and consistent individual differences that vary along a dimension of maternal elaboration and that are related to children's developing autobiographical skills. More recent research has linked maternal elaborative reminiscing to strategic memory development, language and literacy…
Descriptors: Mothers, Children, Social Development, Emotional Development