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Intergenerational Transmission of Adaptive Functioning: A Test of the Interactionist Model of SES and Human Development
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Schofield, Thomas J; Martin, Monica J.; Conger, Katherine J.; Neppl, Tricia M.; Donnellan, M. Brent; Conger, Rand D. – Child Development, 2011
The interactionist model (IM) of human development (R. D. Conger & M. B. Donellan, 2007) proposes that the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and human development involves a dynamic interplay that includes both social causation (SES influences human development) and social selection (individual characteristics affect SES). Using a…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Individual Development, Models, Individual Characteristics
Genetic Change and Continuity from Fourteen to Twenty Months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study.
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Plomin, Robert; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Investigated genetic change and continuity within the domains of temperament, emotion, and cognition and language for 200 pairs of twins assessed at 14 and 20 months of age. Correlations of measures at the two ages indicated that individual differences in the second year of life showed greater change than continuity on most measures. (MDM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Genetics, Heredity
Consistency and Development of Prosocial Dispositions: A Longitudinal Study.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Guthrie, Ivanna K.; Murphy, Bridget C.; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Cumberland, Amanda; Carol, Gustavo – Child Development, 1999
Examined consistency in prosocial dispositions, using longitudinal data from preschool through early adulthood. Found that spontaneous prosocial behavior observed in preschools predicted actual prosocial behavior, other- and self-reported prosocial behavior, self-reported sympathy, and perspective taking in childhood to early adulthood. Prosocial…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Altruism, Child Development, Children
Prosocial Behavior and Caring in Adolescence: Relations to Self-Understanding and Social Judgment.
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Hart, Daniel; Fegley, Suzanne – Child Development, 1995
Examined the self-understanding and moral judgment of 15 African American and Hispanic American adolescents nominated by community leaders for their exemplary caring behavior. These "care exemplars" were more likely than comparison adolescents to describe themselves in terms of moral personality traits and goals and to view themselves as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Individual Development
Minimizing Adverse Effects of Low Birthweight: Four-Year Results of an Early Intervention Program.
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Rauh, Virginia A.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Experimental group mothers reported significantly greater self-confidence and satisfaction with mothering and more favorable perception of infant temperament than did control group mothers. Differences between children on cognitive scores became significant at 36 and 48 months of age, when the experimental group caught up with normal children. (RH)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Birth Weight, Comparative Analysis, Individual Development
Children's Social Goals and Self-Efficacy Perceptions as Influences on their Responses to Ambiguous Provocation.
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Erdley, Cynthia A.; Asher, Steven R. – Child Development, 1996
Examined whether children who vary in their behavioral responses to ambiguous provocation but have similar attributional processes differ in their social goals and self- efficacy perceptions. Subjects were 781 4th and 5th graders. Found that aggressive, withdrawn, and problem-solving responders differed in the social goals and self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Children, Individual Development