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Pérez, Isabela E.; Wu, Rachel; Murray, Carolyn B.; Bravo, Diamond – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
With increasing rates of globalization, understanding the cultural factors that promote positive adaptation in migrant children and adolescents is vital. In prior research, acculturation and enculturation frameworks often rely on unidimensional or bidimensional conceptions of culture to study the effects of migration on child and adolescent…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Acculturation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Children
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Tan, Mei; Bowers, Megan; Thuma, Phil; Grigorenko, Elena L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Efavirenz (EFV) is a well-known, effective anti-retroviral drug long used in first-line treatment for children and adults with HIV and HIV/AIDS. Due to its narrow window of effective concentrations, between 1 and 4 µg/mL, and neurological side effects at supratherapeutic levels, several investigations into the pharmacokinetics of the drug and its…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Neurology
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Wang, Ting; Xu, Qinmei; Hu, Jon-Fan – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
Learning constitutes a main developmental context for children everywhere. Learning-related emotions can affect cognition, motivation, and achievement and are associated with parenting. Studies on learning-related emotions and how parenting is associated with a child's emotional development in learning have been less conclusive for Chinese…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Schemata (Cognition), Parenting Styles, Learning Motivation
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McClelland, Megan M.; Cameron, Claire E. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Self-regulation is a key construct in children's healthy and adaptive development. In this chapter, the authors situate self-regulation in a theoretical context that describes its underlying components that are most important for early school success: flexible attention, working memory, and inhibitory control. The authors review evidence that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Short Term Memory, Self Control
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Rubin, Kenneth H.; Root, Amy Kennedy; Bowker, Julie – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
In this chapter, the authors review the history of the Waterloo Longitudinal Project (WLP), the first longitudinal study (1980-1992) dedicated to the study of social withdrawal, its correlates, and consequences. Theories underlying the WLP are described, as are its empirical findings. Recent research from other labs that has extended the findings…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Anxiety Disorders, Withdrawal (Psychology), Children
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Hartup, Willard W. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
Close relationships among children and adolescents are ordinarily considered to encompass friendliness and fun. Recent studies, however, reveal that many friendships have dark sides consisting of competitiveness, hostility, and conflict. Relationships based on aversion and antipathy may turn out to have major developmental implications, but more…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Peer Relationship, Friendship