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Francis Vergunst; Frank Vitaro; Mara Brendgen; Marie-Pier Larose; Alain Girard; Richard E. Tremblay; Sylvana M. Côté – Child Development, 2024
Childhood behavior problems are associated with reduced labor market participation and lower earnings in adulthood, but little is known about the pathways and mechanisms that explain these associations. Drawing on a 33-year prospective birth cohort of White males from low-income backgrounds (n = 1040), we conducted a path analysis linking…
Descriptors: Males, Low Income, Whites, Child Behavior
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Smith, Karen E.; Pollak, Seth D. – Child Development, 2022
Learning the value of environmental signals and using that information to guide behavior is critical for survival. Stress in childhood may influence these processes, but how it does so is still unclear. This study examined how stressful event exposures and perceived social isolation affect the ability to learn value signals and use that…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Anxiety, Social Isolation, Child Behavior
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Xu, Xiaoye; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Xiao, Sonya Xinyue; Xu, Jingyi; Eisenberg, Nancy; Laible, Deborah J.; Berger, Rebecca H.; Carlo, Gustavo – Child Development, 2023
White children's effortful control (EC), parents' implicit racial attitudes, and their interaction were examined as predictors of children's prosocial behavior toward White versus Black recipients. Data were collected from 171 White children (55% male, M[subscript age] = 7.13 years, SD = 0.92) and their parent in 2017. Prosocial behavior toward…
Descriptors: Whites, Blacks, Prosocial Behavior, Racial Attitudes
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Eales, Lauren; Gillespie, Sarah; Alstat, Reece A.; Ferguson, Gail M.; Carlson, Stephanie M. – Child Development, 2021
This mixed methods study examined parent-reported child screen media use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by examining 2019-2020 changes in parent perceptions of media, screen media use (SMU), and problematic media use (PMU) in children aged 2-13 years (N = 129; 64 boys, 64 girls, 1 nonbinary; 90.7% White, 4.6% Hispanic/Latino, 0.8% Black,…
Descriptors: Children, Early Adolescents, Mass Media Use, COVID-19
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Martin, Alia; Lin, Kelsey; Olson, Kristina R. – Child Development, 2016
Children help others to complete their goals. Yet adults are sometimes motivated to help others in a "paternalistic" way, overriding a recipient's desires if they conflict with the recipient's best interests. Experiments investigated whether 5-year-olds (n = 100) consider a recipient's desire, and the consequences of fulfilling this…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Children, Child Behavior, Child Development
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Bassok, Daphna; Gibbs, Chloe R.; Latham, Scott – Child Development, 2019
This study employs data from both kindergarten cohorts of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (n ~ 12,450 in 1998; n ~ 11,000 in 2010) to assess whether associations between preschool participation and children's academic and behavioral outcomes--both at school entry (Mean age = 5.6 years in both cohorts) and through third grade--have changed…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Preschool Education, Academic Achievement
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Chevalier, Nicolas; Blaye, Agnès – Child Development, 2016
Emerging executive control supports greater autonomy and increasingly adaptive behavior during childhood. The present study addressed whether children's greater monitoring of how they engage control drives executive control development. Gaze position was recorded while twenty-five 6-year-olds and twenty-eight 10-year-olds performed a self-paced…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Executive Function, Child Behavior, Children
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Chudek, Maciej; Baron, Andrew S.; Birch, Susan – Child Development, 2016
Children are both shrewd about whom to copy--they selectively learn from certain adults--and overimitators--they copy adults' obviously superfluous actions. Is overimitation also selective? Does selectivity change with age? In two experiments, 161 two- to seven-year-old children saw videos of one adult receiving better payoffs or more bystander…
Descriptors: Children, Imitation, Modeling (Psychology), Experiments
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Ellis, Wendy; Zarbatany, Lynne; Chen, Xinyin; Kinal, Megan; Boyko, Lisa – Child Development, 2018
Peer group interactional style was examined as a moderator of the relation between peer group school misconduct and group members' school misconduct. Participants were 705 students (M[subscript age] = 11.59 years, SD = 1.37) in 148 peer groups. Children reported on their school misconduct in fall and spring. In the winter, group members were…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Task Analysis, Group Membership, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Morgan, Paul L.; Farkas, George; Hillemeier, Marianne M.; Pun, Wik Hung; Maczuga, Steve – Child Development, 2019
Whether and to what extent kindergarten children's executive functions (EF) constitute promising targets of early intervention is currently unclear. This study examined whether kindergarten children's EF predicted their second-grade academic achievement and behavior. This was done using (a) a longitudinal and nationally representative sample (N =…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Executive Function, Grade 2, Academic Achievement
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Leman, Patrick J.; Skipper, Yvonne; Watling, Dawn; Rutland, Adam – Child Development, 2016
Three hundred and forty-one children (M[subscript age] = 9,0 years) engaged in a series of science tasks in collaborative, same-sex pairs or did not interact. All children who collaborated on the science tasks advanced in basic-level understanding of the relevant task (motion down an incline). However, only boys advanced in their conceptual…
Descriptors: Child Development, Gender Differences, Science Activities, Task Analysis
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Chaplin, Lan Nguyen; Norton, Michael I. – Child Development, 2015
Theory of mind (ToM) allows children to achieve success in the social world by understanding others' minds. A study with 3- to 12-year-olds, however, demonstrates that gains in ToM are linked to decreases in children's desire to engage in performative behaviors associated with health and well-being, such as singing and dancing. One hundred and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Self Esteem, Predictor Variables, Performance Factors
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Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Bates, John E.; Goodnight, Jackson A.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Pettit, Gregory S. – Child Development, 2013
The interaction between a temperament profile (four groups determined by high vs. low resistance to control [unmanageability] and unadaptability [novelty distress]) and family stress in predicting externalizing problems at school in children followed from kindergarten through eighth grade (ages 5-13) was investigated. The sample consisted of 556…
Descriptors: Personality, Anxiety, Antisocial Behavior, Children
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Gassman-Pines, Anna; Godfrey, Erin B.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Child Development, 2013
Grounded in person-environment fit theory, this study examined whether low-income mothers' preferences for education moderated the effects of employment- and education-focused welfare programs on children's positive and problem behaviors. The sample included 1,365 families with children between ages 3 and 5 years at study entry. Results 5 years…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preferences, Low Income Groups, Welfare Services
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Kim, Sanghag – Child Development, 2013
Links between children's attachment security with mothers and fathers, assessed in Strange Situation with each parent at 15 months ("N" = 101), and their future behavior problems were examined. Mothers and fathers rated children's behavior problems, and children reported their own behavior problems at age 8 ("N" = 86). Teachers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Young Children, Children
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