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Direct linkMinci Zhang; David Schwartz; Jinsol Chung; Leslie M. Taylor – Child Development, 2025
This meta-analysis examined main effects and heterogeneity in associations between popularity and academic adjustment in the U.S. and China across 41 studies. The aggregated sample included 22,151 children and adolescents (10,934 boys; 11,217 girls) from both countries, with U.S. students from various ethnic backgrounds. Results in the U.S. were…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Social Status, Academic Achievement
Heck, Isobel A.; Bas, Jesús; Kinzler, Katherine D. – Child Development, 2022
Participants (N = 384 three- to ten-year-olds; 51% girls, 49% boys; 73% White, 18% multiracial/other, 5% Asian, and 3% Black; N = 610 adults) saw depictions of 20 individuals split into two social groups (1:19; 2:18; 5:15; or 8:12 per group) and selected which group was "in charge" (Experiment 1), "the leader" (Experiment 2),…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Power Structure, Conflict, Leadership
Sara A. Schmitt; Robert J. Duncan; Tanya M. Paes; Deborah Lowe Vandell – Child Development, 2025
The goal of this study was to identify the onset and magnitude of prediction of early cognition to adult socioeconomic outcomes. Specifically, we were interested in examining which cognitive skills measured at 15, 24, 36, and 54 months predict educational attainment and salary at age 26. Data (N = 1364, 52% male) included a diverse sample (76%…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cognitive Ability, Thinking Skills, Socioeconomic Status
Julia Matthes; Vsevolod Scherrer; Franzis Preckel – Child Development, 2025
Need for cognition (NFC) reflects the tendency to enjoy and engage in cognitive challenges. This study examines the relations between NFC and academic interest among 922 German secondary school students (academic track) assessed four times in Grades 5-7 (initial age M = 10.63, SD = 0.55; 41% female; 90% first language German) in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Cognitive Processes
Hilal Karakus; Prentice Starkey; Berrin Akman – Child Development, 2024
A socioeconomic status (SES)-related achievement gap in mathematics emerges in children from many countries before school entry, persists in primary school, and imposes challenges for education systems worldwide. In response, the United Nations' sustainable development goals include universal access to quality preschool education to support…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Children, Numeracy, Instructional Effectiveness
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
Lindsay Taraban; Daniel S. Shaw; Kristin B. Nordahl; Ane Naerde – Child Development, 2025
Observed parental sensitivity during a parent-child teaching task and free-play task was tested as mediators of the association between family socioeconomic risk and child receptive language at 48 months, consistent with family investment theory. Parents (n = 881 mothers; 624 fathers, data collected between 2006-2008) and their 5-month-old…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Parents as Teachers, Receptive Language
van der Kleij, Sanne W.; Burgess, Adrian P.; Ricketts, Jessie; Shapiro, Laura R. – Child Development, 2023
We examined the relation between socioeconomic status (SES), vocabulary, and reading in middle childhood, during the transition from primary (elementary) to secondary (high) school. Children (N = 279, 163 girls) completed assessments of everyday and curriculum-related vocabulary, (non)word reading, and reading comprehension at five timepoints from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Promotion, Socioeconomic Status, Secondary Education
Finkel, Deborah; Davis, Deborah W.; Giangrande, Evan J.; Womack, Sean; Turkheimer, Eric; Beam, Christopher – Child Development, 2022
The current analysis investigates genetic and environmental influences on the bidirectional relationships between temperament and general cognitive ability (GCA). Measures of GCA and three temperament factors (persistence, approach, and reactivity) were collected from 486 children ages 4-9 years (80% white, 50% female) from the Louisville Twin…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Personality Traits, Cognitive Ability
Stephanie Plenty; Chaïm la Roi – Child Development, 2024
Research shows that peer relationships are associated with students' school adjustment. However, the importance of advantageous and disadvantageous factors for students' educational outcomes may vary by socioeconomic positioning. Drawing on sociometric and register data from a nationally representative sample of Swedish youth (n = 4996, girls 50%;…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Outcomes of Education, Socioeconomic Status
Zheng Zhang; Peng Peng – Child Development, 2023
With a focus on within-person effects, this study investigated mutualism among academic skills (reading, math, science) and between those skills and verbal working memory in a general population sample and groups with high or low skills from Grades 2 to 5 (2010-2016, N = 859-9040, age 6.27-13.13 years, 49% female, ethnically diverse). Mutualism…
Descriptors: Child Development, Reading Skills, Mathematics Skills, Science Process Skills
James-Brabham, Ella; Loveridge, Toni; Sella, Francesco; Wakeling, Paul; Carroll, Daniel J.; Blakey, Emma – Child Development, 2023
Socioeconomic attainment gaps in mathematical ability are evident before children begin school, and widen over time. Little is known about why early attainment gaps emerge. Two cross-sectional correlational studies were conducted in 2018-2019 with socioeconomically diverse preschoolers, to explore four factors that might explain why attainment…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status, Preschool Children
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
Lisa S. Olive; Rohan M. Telford; Elizabeth Westrupp; Richard D. Telford – Child Development, 2024
This study aimed to determine the effects of the Active Early Learning (AEL) childcare center-based physical activity intervention on early childhood executive function and expressive vocabulary via a randomized controlled trial. Three-hundred-and-fourteen preschool children (134 girls) aged 3-5 years from 15 childcare centers were randomly…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Child Development, Executive Function
Loft, Lisbeth; Waldfogel, Jane – Child Development, 2021
This study examines the socioeconomic status gradients in children's well-being at school using data on the total population of Danish public school children age 6-11 (N = 147,994). Children completed the national well-being at school survey, an environment-specific self-report of satisfaction with school, social well-being at school, and…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences, Well Being, Foreign Countries
