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Flensborg-Madsen, Trine; Mortensen, Erik Lykke – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Few studies have investigated associations of milestone development in early childhood with intelligence in adulthood in typically developing children. The current study is an extension of 2 previous studies on smaller samples and investigated associations of age at attainment of 32 developmental milestones attained between 0 and 3 years of age…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Adults, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests
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McWayne, Christine M.; Melzi, Gigliana; Limlingan, Maria Cristina; Schick, Adina – Developmental Psychology, 2016
For the 5 million low-income Latino children in the United States who are disproportionately impacted by the numerous risk factors associated with poverty, it is essential to identify proximal protective factors that mitigate these risks and bolster the academic and social skills that are foundational to a successful transition into formal…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students, Family Involvement
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Tavernier, Royette; Willoughby, Teena – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite extensive research on sleep and psychosocial functioning, an important gap within the literature is the lack of inquiry into the direction of effects between these 2 constructs. The purpose of the present 3-year longitudinal study was to examine bidirectional associations between sleep (quality and duration) and 3 indices of psychosocial…
Descriptors: Sleep, Gender Differences, College Students, Student Surveys
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Ferguson, Christopher J.; Donnellan, M. Brent – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Zimmerman, Christakis, and Meltzoff (2007) reported that exposure to Baby Einstein videos was negatively associated with language development. The current study uses the Zimmerman et al. (2007) data set to replicate and extend the original analyses. Caregivers of 392 children aged 6 to 16 months and 358 children aged 17 to 27 months reported on…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Replication (Evaluation), Caregivers, Predictor Variables
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Lengua, Liliana J. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The author examined relations among demographic risk (income, maternal education, single-parent status), growth in temperament (fear, irritability, effortful control), and parenting (rejection, inconsistent discipline) across 3 years and the prediction of children's adjustment problems in a community sample (N=190; ages 8-12 years at Time 1).…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Child Rearing, Predictor Variables, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Greenberg, Mark T.; Lengua, Liliana J.; Coie, John D.; Pinderhughes, Ellen E. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined contributions of different risk factors to predicting children's psychological and academic outcomes at end of first grade. Found that each analysis level contributed to prediction of most outcomes; 18 to 29% of outcome variance was predicted; a common set of predictors predicted numerous outcomes; ethnicity showed little unique…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Child Development