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Direct linkChen, Xinyin; Zhou, Jiaxi; Liu, Junsheng; Li, Dan; Liu, Shihong – Child Development, 2023
This 1-year longitudinal study examined the effects of academic performance and depression in friendships among elementary school children in China. Participants included 1122 children (44% boys) within 561 stable friendship dyads initially in fourth and fifth grades (initial M[subscript age] = 11 years). Data on academic performance, depression,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Bechtiger, Laura; Steinhoff, Annekatrin; Dollar, Jessica M.; Halliday, Simone E.; Keane, Susan P.; Calkins, Susan D.; Shanahan, Lilly – Child Development, 2022
The pathways through which exposure to maternal depressive symptoms in early childhood are linked to academic performance during adolescence are poorly understood. This study tested pathways from maternal depressive symptoms (age 2-5) to adolescent academic performance (age 15) through cumulative parenting risk (age 7) and subsequent child…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Academic Achievement
Sun, Xiaoran; Haydel, K. Farish; Matheson, Donna; Desai, Manisha; Robinson, Thomas N. – Child Development, 2023
This prospective, longitudinal study examined associations between whether and when children first acquire a mobile phone and their adjustment measures, among low-income Latinx children. Children (N = 263; 55% female; baseline M[subscript age] = 9.5) and their parents were assessed annually for 5 years from 2012. Children first acquired a mobile…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Ownership, Low Income Groups
Peele, Morgan; Wolf, Sharon; Behrman, Jere R.; Aber, J. Lawrence – Child Development, 2023
This study investigated associations between kindergarten teachers' (N = 208) depressive symptoms and students' (Ghanaian nationals, N = 1490, M[subscript age] = 5.8) school-readiness skills (early literacy, early numeracy, social-emotional skills, and executive function) across 208 schools in Ghana over one school year. Teachers' depressive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Kindergarten, Depression (Psychology)
Bell, Ariana; Juvonen, Jaana – Child Development, 2020
The current study examines how gender discrimination by adults in school is linked with depressive symptoms and sleep duration over time in middle school. The main goal is to test one psychological mechanism that can account for such associations: perceived school unfairness. Relying on a racially-ethnically diverse sample of girls (N = 2,718,…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, School Culture, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Michalek, Julia; Lisi, Matteo; Binetti, Nicola; Ozkaya, Sumeyye; Hadfield, Kristin; Dajani, Rana; Mareschal, Isabelle – Child Development, 2022
Experiences of war and displacement can have profound effects on children's affective development and mental health, although the mechanism(s) underlying these effects remain unknown. This study investigated the link between early adversity and attention to affective stimuli using a free-viewing eye-tracking paradigm with Syrian refugee (n = 31,…
Descriptors: War, Trauma, Child Development, Affective Behavior
Qin, Xingna; Laninga-Wijnen, Lydia; Steglich, Christian; Zhang, Yunyun; Ren, Ping; Veenstra, René – Child Development, 2023
This study examined whether having vulnerable friends helps or hurts victimized and depressed (i.e., vulnerable) adolescents and whether this depends on classroom supportive norms. Students (n = 1461, 46.7% girls, 93.4% Han nationality) were surveyed four times from seventh and eighth grade (M[subscript age] = 13 years) in 2015 and 2016 in Central…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 7, Grade 8, At Risk Students
Jeon, Shinyoung; Jeon, Lieny; Lang, Sarah; Newell, Kaitlyn – Child Development, 2021
This study examined the direct and indirect associations of teachers' depressive symptoms with children's math achievement through teachers' reports of family-teacher relationships and children's approaches to learning (ATL) in Head Start. This study included 3- and 4-year-old 1,547 children (49% female; 27% White, 24% Black, 41% Hispanic/Latino,…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement
Shuffrey, Lauren C.; Morales, Santiago; Jacobson, Melanie H.; Bosquet Enlow, Michelle; Ghassabian, Akhgar; Margolis, Amy E.; Lucchini, Maristella; Carroll, Kecia N.; Crum, Rosa M.; Dabelea, Dana; Deutsch, Arielle; Fifer, William P.; Goldson, Brandon; Hockett, Christine W.; Mason, W. Alex; Jacobson, Lisette T.; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Pini, Nicolò; Rayport, Yael; Sania, Ayesha; Trasande, Leonardo; Wright, Rosalind J.; Lee, Seonjoo; Monk, Catherine – Child Development, 2023
This study examined the association of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), prenatal, and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms with externalizing, internalizing, and autism spectrum problems on the Preschool Child Behavior Checklist in 2379 children aged 4.12 ± 0.60 (48% female; 47% White, 32% Black, 15% Mixed Race, 4% Asian, <2% American…
Descriptors: Young Children, Pregnancy, Diabetes, Mothers
Fang, Qi; Liu, Chunqiong; Tang, Yanbo; Shi, Zeyi; Wang, Qian; Helwig, Charles C. – Child Development, 2022
The present study took a differentiated perspective on parental psychological control to examine its impact on adolescent adjustment among urban (n = 349, females: 53%) and rural (n = 293, females: 54%) Chinese adolescents (M[subscript age] = 12.14 years). Four times over the first 2 years of Junior High school (from October, 2016 to April, 2018),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Parenting Styles
Chen, Xinyin; Fu, Rui; Li, Dan; Chen, Huichang; Wang, Zhengyan; Wang, Li – Child Development, 2021
This study examined relations between behavioral inhibition in toddlerhood and social, school, and psychological adjustment in late adolescence in China. Data on behavioral inhibition were collected from a sample of 2-year-olds (initial N = 247). Follow-up data were collected at 7 years for peer relationships and 19 years for adjustment across…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Child Behavior, Young Children, Late Adolescents
Brookman, Ruth; Kalashnikova, Marina; Conti, Janet; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Grant, Kerry-Ann; Demuth, Katherine; Burnham, Denis – Child Development, 2020
This longitudinal study investigated the effects of maternal emotional health concerns, on infants' home language environment, vocalization quantity, and expressive language skills. Mothers and their infants (at 6 and 12 months; 21 mothers with depression and or anxiety and 21 controls) provided day-long home-language recordings. Compared with…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Mothers, Mental Health
McNeil, Shiesha L.; Andrews, Arthur R.; Cohen, Joseph R. – Child Development, 2020
Emotional maltreatment is a risk factor for adolescent depression. Yet, it remains unclear whether commissions and omissions of emotional maltreatment (a) confer vulnerability via distinct mechanisms and (b) demonstrate similar risk across adolescent subpopulations. The present, multiwave study examined whether school engagement and peer…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Child Abuse, Depression (Psychology), At Risk Persons
Wu, Victoria; East, Patricia; Delker, Erin; Blanco, Estela; Caballero, Gabriela; Delva, Jorge; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila – Child Development, 2019
This study examined the associations among maternal depression, mothers' emotional and material investment in their child, and children's cognitive functioning. Middle-class Chilean mothers and children (N = 875; 52% males) were studied when children were 1, 5, 10, and 16 years (1991--2007). Results indicated that highly depressed mothers provided…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Response, Cognitive Ability
Pan, Bin; Li, Tengfei; Ji, Linqin; Malamut, Sarah; Zhang, Wenxin; Salmivalli, Christina – Child Development, 2021
The present longitudinal study examined how and why classroom-level victimization moderates the prospective association between peer victimization and depressive symptoms with 2,643 third- and fourth-graders (M[subscript age] = 10.01 years) in China. Multilevel modeling revealed that peer victimization was more strongly associated with increasing…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Victims, Bullying, Peer Acceptance
