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Nikitin, Jana; Freund, Alexandra M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
With increasing age, the ratio of gains to losses becomes more negative, which is reflected in expectations that positive events occur with a high likelihood in young adulthood, whereas negative events occur with a high likelihood in old age. Little is known about expectations of social events. Given that younger adults are motivated to establish…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Psychological Patterns, Young Adults, Older Adults
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Fang, Haolei; Gagne, Jeffrey Robert – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Employing a multi-method approach, we investigated observed and parent-rated child behavioral inhibition (BI) and maternal reports of their own negative affectivity (NA) as predictors of young children's internalizing problems. Participants were 201 children who were siblings between 2.5 and 5.5 years of age (mean = 3.86, standard deviation =…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Inhibition, Child Behavior, Mothers
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Shulman, Shmuel; Barr, Tamuz; Livneh, Yaara; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Vasalampi, Kati; Pratt, Michael – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
The present study examined career pursuit pathways in 100 Israeli emerging adults (54 men) who were followed from age 22 to 29. Employing a semi-structured interview at the age of 29, participants were asked about current work and educational status, work and educational goals and status changes in recent years, and to reflect on the meaning of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Career Development, Semi Structured Interviews
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Wang, Meiping; Liu, Siwei; Belsky, Jay – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Most family-system research on triangulation processes has been undertaken in the West, with little known about this family dynamic in the East. The present cross-sectional study analysed 1,073 Chinese 3rd-12th-graders' self-reported exposure to three kinds of triangulation--cross-generation coalition, scapegoating, and parentification--in…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Social Adjustment
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Xiao, Wen S.; Xiao, Naiqi G.; Quinn, Paul C.; Anzures, Gizelle; Lee, Kang – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The present study investigated whether infants visually scan own- and other-race faces differently as well as how these differences in face scanning develop with age. A multi-method approach was used to analyze the eye-tracking data of 6- and 9-month-old Caucasian infants scanning dynamically displayed own- and other-race faces. We found that…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Racial Differences, Age Differences
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Akcinar, Berna; Baydar, Nazli – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The association of three different strategies of maternal control (behavioral, psychological, and physical), and maternal warmth with children's externalizing behaviors were analyzed in an observational study of 3-year-old children in Turkey ("N" = 123). The results indicated that (i) mothers exercised all three types of control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems
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Zhong, Juan; Arnett, Jeffrey J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The experiences of emerging adulthood may vary in different historical and cultural contexts. Little research has been dedicated to how non college students view adulthood in developing countries. Currently, millions of young people are migrating from rural villages to industrial cities in China. The purpose of this study was to investigate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Workers, Adults, Females