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C. Bennett; E. M. Westrupp; S. K. Bennetts; J. Love; N. J. Hackworth; D. Berthelsen; J. M. Nicholson – Child Development, 2025
This study examined long-term mediating effects of the "smalltalk" parenting intervention on children's effortful control at school age (7.5 years; 2016-2018). In 2010-2012, parents (96% female) of toddlers (N = 1201; aged 12-36 months; 52% female) were randomly assigned to either: standard playgroup, "smalltalk" playgroup…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Young Children
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Miller, Ann C.; Rumaldo, Nancy; Soplapuco, Guadalupe; Condeso, Alicia; Kammerer, Betsy; Lundy, Shannon; Faiffer, Fabiola; Montañez, Andy; Ramos, Karen; Rojas, Naysha; Contreras, Carmen; Muñoz, Maribel; Valdivia, Hilda; Vilca, Daojing; Córdova, Nandy; Hilario, Patricia; Vibbert, Martha; Lecca, Leonid; Shin, Sonya – Child Development, 2021
This study is a randomized controlled trial of a 12-week community-based group parenting intervention ("CASITA") in Lima, Peru. CASITA improved neurodevelopment in a pilot study of 60 Peruvian children and subsequently scaled to 3,000 households throughout the district. The objective of this study was to assess intervention effectiveness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Infants, Intervention
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Eva Yi Hung Lau; Xiao-yuan Wu; Carrey Tik Sze Siu; Kate E. Williams; Alfredo Bautista – Child Development, 2025
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the "Parent-child Brain Camp," a 4-week video-based executive functions (EFs) training program for children ages 5-6, through a randomized controlled trial with a pre- and post-test design with 173 Hong Kong children (intervention "ni" = 79, 48.7% girls, M[subscript age] = 69.16 months;…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Comparative Analysis, Intervention
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Willard, Aiyana K.; Busch, Justin T. A.; Cullum, Katherine A.; Letourneau, Susan M.; Sobel, David M.; Callanan, Maureen; Legare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2019
Parents visiting a gear exhibit at a children's museum were instructed to encourage their children (N = 65; ages 4-6) to explain, explore, or engage as usual. Instructions led to different patterns of play at the exhibit: Encouragement to explain led to greater discussion of gear mechanisms, whereas encouragement to explore led to more time…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Young Children, Museums
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Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh; Damon E. Jones; D. Max Crowley – Child Development, 2025
This study examined the impact of the Head Start Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) preschool intervention on high school outcomes and explored longitudinal mediation. 356 children (58% White, 25% Black, 17% Latinx; 54% female, 46% male; M[subscript age] = 4.49 years) were recruited from Head Start classrooms which were randomized to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, High School Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Morelli, Gilda; Bard, Kim; Chaudhary, Nandita; Gottlieb, Alma; Keller, Heidi; Murray, Marjorie; Quinn, Naomi; Rosabal-Coto, Mariano; Scheidecker, Gabriel; Takada, Akira; Vicedo, Marga – Child Development, 2018
This article examines the parent intervention program evaluated by Weber et al. (2017) and argues that there are scientific and ethical problems with such intervention efforts in applied developmental science. Scientifically, these programs rely on data from a small and narrow sample of the world's population; assume the existence of fixed…
Descriptors: Intervention, Indigenous Knowledge, Parent Role, Parents as Teachers
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Curtis, Philip R.; Kaiser, Ann P.; Estabrook, Ryne; Roberts, Megan Y. – Child Development, 2019
Researchers examined whether a parent-implemented language intervention improved problem behaviors 1 year after intervention. Ninety-seven children with language delays (mean age at 12-month follow-up = 48.22 months) were randomized to receive Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) language intervention or business as usual treatment. Twelve months after…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems
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Coyle, Emily F.; Liben, Lynn S. – Child Development, 2020
To study effects of the gender-packaging of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) toys, mother-child dyads (31 daughters; 30 sons; M = 5.2 years) were randomly assigned to play with a mechanical toy packaged for girls ("GoldieBlox") or boys ("BobbyBlox"). When familiarizing themselves with the toy to prepare…
Descriptors: Play, STEM Education, Intervention, Toys
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Reynolds, Arthur J.; Ou, Suh-Ruu; Mondi, Christina F.; Hayakawa, Momoko – Child Development, 2017
This article describes the contributions of cognitive-scholastic advantage, family support behavior, and school quality and support as processes through which early childhood interventions promote well-being. Evidence in support of these processes is from longitudinal cohort studies of the Child-Parent Centers and other preventive interventions…
Descriptors: Child Development, Well Being, Prevention, Intervention
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Dowdall, Nicholas; Melendez-Torres, G. J.; Murray, Lynne; Gardner, Frances; Hartford, Leila; Cooper, Peter J. – Child Development, 2020
Interventions that train parents to share picture books with children are seen as a strategy for supporting child language development. We conducted meta-analyses using robust variance estimation modeling on results from 19 RCTs (N[subscript total] = 2,594; M[subscript child age] = 1-6 years). Overall, book-sharing interventions had a small sized…
Descriptors: Intervention, Picture Books, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Dowdall, Nicholas; Murray, Lynne; Skeen, Sarah; Marlow, Marguerite; De Pascalis, Leonardo; Gardner, Frances; Tomlinson, Mark; Cooper, Peter J. – Child Development, 2021
This study evaluated the impact of a parenting intervention on children's cognitive and socioemotional development in a group of caregivers and their 21-to-28-month-old children in a low-income South African township. A randomized controlled trial compared an experimental group (n = 70) receiving training in dialogic book-sharing (8 weekly group…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Books, Parenting Skills, Intervention
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Sommer, Teresa Eckrich; Schneider, William; Chor, Elise; Sabol, Terri J.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Morris, Amanda; King, Christopher – Child Development, 2020
Two-generation human capital programs seek to promote the education of parents and children simultaneously. This study examines relations between family participation in Career"Advance," which recruits parents of Head Start children into a workforce training program, and children's Head Start attendance. The sample included 293 children…
Descriptors: Intervention, Attendance, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Grob, Rachel; Schlesinger, Mark; Pace, Amy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Child Development, 2017
Parental attitudes shape play opportunities afforded to children in home, community, and school settings. This study presents evaluation of an intervention designed to enrich parent's conception of play and its relationship with socially valued skills and capacities. On the basis of data from 291 racially and ethnically diverse parents/caregivers…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Play, Child Development, Intervention
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Timmons, Adela C.; Margolin, Gayla – Child Development, 2015
Using daily diary data, this study examined cross-day associations between family conflict and school problems and tested mediating effects of daily negative mood and moderating effects of psychological symptoms. For 2 weeks, parents and adolescents (N = 106; M[subscript age] = 15.4) reported daily conflict; adolescents reported daily negative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Intervention
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Herman, Keith C.; Hodgson, Caroline G.; Eddy, Colleen L.; Cohen, Daniel R.; Reinke, Wendy M.; Burrell, Lori; Mcfarlane, Elizabeth C.; Duggan, Anne K. – Child Development, 2020
The present study investigated the role of teacher-rated likeability as a mediator of the relation between low academic competence and depressive symptoms in elementary-aged children. Analyses focused on a sample of children at risk for child maltreatment living in Hawaii (n = 380). Structural equation modeling supported the hypothesized negative…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Academic Achievement, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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