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Direct linkBrandon D. Dull; Leoandra Onnie Rogers; Jade Ross – Child Development, 2025
In critical approaches to the study of whiteness, white ignorance refers to systematic and intentional ways of (not) knowing that function to perpetuate racism. The current critical qualitative analysis examines how white ignorance surfaces in the racial identity narratives of white adolescents (N = 69, M[subscript age] = 15.91, SD = 0.49, data…
Descriptors: Whites, Adolescents, Racism, Racial Identification
E. Schreuders; M. Buuren; R. J. Walsh; H. Sijtsma; M. Hollarek; N. C. Lee; L. Krabbendam – Child Development, 2024
Longitudinal changes in trusting behavior across adolescence and their neural correlates were examined. Neural regions of interest (ROIs) included the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), left anterior insula (AI), bilateral ventral striatum (VS), and right dorsal striatum (DS). Participants (wave 1 age: M =…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Age Differences, Trust (Psychology)
Katherine Edler; Sarah Hoegler Dennis; Lijuan Wang; Kristin Valentino; Patrick T. Davies; E. Mark Cummings – Child Development, 2025
Longitudinal study of associations between family-level emotion socialization and adolescent adjustment is limited. When American children (53.5% girls) were in second grade (N = 213; M[subscript age] = 7.98; data collected 2002-2003), mothers and fathers (79.8% of mothers and 74.2% of fathers were White) reported on their reactions to children's…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Socialization, Adolescents, Grade 2
Jasmina Rosic; Lara Schreurs; Sophie H. Janicke-Bowles; Laura Vandenbosch – Child Development, 2024
Digital flourishing refers to the positive perceptions of digital communication use in five dimensions: connectedness, positive social comparison, authentic self-presentation, civil participation, and self-control. This three-wave panel study among 1081 Slovenian adolescents (M[subscript age] = 15.34 years, 53.8% boys, 80.7% ethnic majority)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Dull, Brandon D.; Hoyt, Lindsay Till; Chaku, Natasha – Child Development, 2022
This study takes a person-centered approach to investigate White youths' racial contexts by utilizing a latent profile analysis among a sample of White adolescents (N = 323, ages 16-17; 52% female, 48% male; data collected 1996-1998). Racial contexts were composed of parent, peer, and school influences, which revealed three distinct profiles: a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Whites, Racial Attitudes, Social Action
V. Paul Poteat; Jerel P. Calzo; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Daniel Kellogg; Robert A. Marx; Abigail Richburg; Arthur Lipkin – Child Development, 2025
Experiences in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs) could predict youth's academic engagement through improved social-emotional wellbeing (indicated by school belonging, hope, and positive and negative affect). This study utilized three waves of data, each spaced 2-3 months apart, among 627 youth (87% LGBQ+, 45% trans/nonbinary, 48% youth of color)…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, LGBTQ People, Well Being, Mental Health
Alison E. Calentino; Nathan M. Hager; Elise M. Adams; Aline K. Szenczy; Lindsay Dickey; Autumn Kujawa; Greg Hajcak; Brady D. Nelson; Daniel N. Klein – Child Development, 2025
The late positive potential (LPP), an event-related potential reflecting affective processing, may exhibit developmental shifts in magnitude and scalp location. In the present longitudinal study, 501 youth (47.3% female; 89.4% White; 12.0% Hispanic) completed the emotion interrupt task to elicit the LPP to neutral, positive, and negative images at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Children, Adolescents
Raufelder, Diana; Neumann, Nicola; Domin, Martin; Lorenz, Robert C.; Gleich, Tobias; Golde, Sabrina; Romund, Lydia; Beck, Anne; Hoferichter, Frances – Child Development, 2021
Students' sense of belonging presents an essential resource for academic and health outcomes, whereas social exclusion at school negatively impacts students' well-being and academic performance. Aiming to understand how feelings of school-related belonging and exclusion shape the "structural" brain development, this study applied…
Descriptors: Student School Relationship, Social Isolation, Brain, Adolescents
Hatano, Kai; Sugimura, Kazumi; Crocetti, Elisabetta; Meeus, Wim H. J. – Child Development, 2020
This study aimed to examine the relations between educational and interpersonal identity trajectories and psychosocial functioning based on a three-factor identity process model. A total of 968 Japanese adolescents including 13- and 16-years-olds (49.7% female) participated in a four-wave longitudinal study. Latent class growth analysis extracted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Self Concept
Bayram Özdemir, Sevgi; Yanagida, Takuya; Özdemir, Metin – Child Development, 2022
The study examined how adolescents' individual characteristics and class context are related to bystander behaviors in cases of ethnic victimization. The sample included 1065 adolescents in Sweden (M[subscript age] = 13.12, SD = 0.42; 55% males). Female adolescents, adolescents of immigrant background, and adolescents with positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Audiences, Prosocial Behavior
Safa, M. Dalal; White, Rebecca M. B.; Knight, George P. – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated ethnic-racial identity (ERI) developmental processes (i.e., exploration and resolution) as pathways for adolescents to develop global bicultural competence, or the ability to meet heritage and host cultural demands. The sample included 749 U.S. Mexican-origin youth (30% Mexico-born; 51% male) followed from early-to-late…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Adolescents, Cultural Awareness
May I. Conley; Eda Naz Dinc; Zhuoran Xiang; Arielle Baskin-Sommers – Child Development, 2024
This study used latent transition analysis to examine the stability and change in perceived threats in youth's primary social contexts--neighborhoods, schools, and families--and associations with emotional and behavioral problems when youth transitioned from childhood to adolescence. The sample included 8208 racially and ethnically diverse youth…
Descriptors: Safety, Adolescents, Social Environment, Neighborhoods
Abbondanza, Filippo; Dale, Philip S.; Wang, Carol A.; Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E.; Toseeb, Umar; Koomar, Tanner S.; Wigg, Karen G.; Feng, Yu; Price, Kaitlyn M.; Kerr, Elizabeth N.; Guger, Sharon L.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Strug, Lisa J.; van Bergen, Elsje; Dolan, Conor V.; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Moll, Kristina; Schulte-Körne, Gerd; Neuhoff, Nina; Warnke, Andreas; Fisher, Simon E.; Barr, Cathy L.; Michaelson, Jacob J.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Pennell, Craig E.; Newbury, Dianne F.; Stein, John; Talcott, Joel B.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Paracchini, Silvia – Child Development, 2023
Handedness has been studied for association with language-related disorders because of its link with language hemispheric dominance. No clear pattern has emerged, possibly because of small samples, publication bias, and heterogeneous criteria across studies. Non-right-handedness (NRH) frequency was assessed in N = 2503 cases with reading and/or…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Language Impairments, Reading Difficulties
Brodsky, Jessica E.; Bergson, Zachary; Chen, Ming; Hayward, Elizabeth O.; Plass, Jan L.; Homer, Bruce D. – Child Development, 2023
Executive functions' (EF) role in adolescents' advanced theory of mind (aToM) was examined. In Study 1, adolescents (N = 189 in 2017, M[subscript age] = 13.1 years, 55.6% female from racially/ethnically diverse schools) completed the Flexibility and Automaticity of Social Cognition task (FASC), and shifting and inhibition measures. Study 2…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Theory of Mind, Executive Function, Social Cognition
Kaylin Ratner; Hou Xie; Gaoxia Zhu; Melody Estevez; Anthony L. Burrow – Child Development, 2025
Purpose offers several important benefits to youth. Thus, it is necessary to understand "how" a sense of purpose develops in supportive contexts and "what" psychological resources can help. From 2021 to 2022, this study investigated purpose change among 321 youth (M[subscript age] = 16.4 years; 71% female; 25.9% Black, 33.3%…
Descriptors: Student Educational Objectives, Independent Study, Student Attitudes, Personal Autonomy
