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Callous--Unemotional Traits Moderate the Association between Children's Early Moral Understanding and Aggression: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study
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Jambon, Marc; Smetana, Judith G. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Drawing on the framework of social domain theory, this multi-method, multi-informant longitudinal study examined whether callous-unemotional (CU) tendencies moderated the association between U.S. 4 to 7 year olds' (n = 135; M[subscript age] = 5.65, 50% male; 75% White) ability to differentiate hypothetical, prototypical moral and conventional…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Longitudinal Studies, Psychological Patterns, Young Children
Child Response Processes as Mediators of the Association between Caregiver Intimate Relationship Instability and Children's Externalizing Symptoms
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Davies, Patrick T.; Thompson, Morgan J.; Coe, Jesse L.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Martin, Meredith J. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Guided primarily by life history theory, this study was designed to identify how and why early exposure to caregiver intimate relationship instability uniquely predicts children's externalizing symptoms in the context of other dimensions of unpredictability characterized by residential and parental job transitions. Participants included 243…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models, Interpersonal Relationship, Parent Child Relationship
Interparental Hostility and Children's Externalizing Symptoms: Attention to Anger as a Mediator
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Davies, Patrick T.; Coe, Jesse L.; Hentges, Rochelle F.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Ripple, Michael T. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
This study examined children's attention biases to negative emotional stimuli as mediators of associations between interparental hostility and children's externalizing symptoms. Participants included 243 children (M[subscript age] = 4.60 years) and their parents and teachers across three annual measurement occasions. Cross-lagged latent change…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Prediction, Child Behavior
Antisocial and Human Capital Pathways to Socioeconomic Exclusion: A 42-Year Prospective Study
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Savolainen, Jukka; Mason, W. Alex; Lyyra, Anna-Liisa; Pulkkinen, Lea; Kokko, Katja – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Nordic welfare states have been very successful at reducing poverty and inequality among their citizens. However, the presence of a strong social safety net in these countries has not solved the problem of "socioeconomic exclusion", manifesting in such outcomes as chronic unemployment and welfare dependency. In an effort to understand…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Longitudinal Studies, Socioeconomic Status, Structural Equation Models
Social Goals, Social Behavior, and Social Status in Middle Childhood
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Rodkin, Philip C.; Ryan, Allison M.; Jamison, Rhonda; Wilson, Travis – Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examines motivational precursors of social status and the applicability of a dual-component model of social competence to middle childhood. Concurrent and longitudinal relationships between self-reported social goals (social development, demonstration-approach, demonstration-avoid goal orientations), teacher-rated prosocial and…
Descriptors: Social Status, Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Interpersonal Competence
The Interplay of Externalizing Problems and Physical and Inductive Discipline during Childhood
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Choe, Daniel Ewon; Olson, Sheryl L.; Sameroff, Arnold J. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Children who are physically disciplined are at elevated risk for externalizing problems. Conversely, maternal reasoning and reminding of rules, or inductive discipline, is associated with fewer child externalizing problems. Few studies have simultaneously examined bidirectional associations between these forms of discipline and child adjustment…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline, Violence, At Risk Persons