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An Assessment of the Validity of the ECERS-R with Implications for Measures of Child Care Quality and Relations to Child Development
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Gordon, Rachel A.; Fujimoto, Ken; Kaestner, Robert; Korenman, Sanders; Abner, Kristin – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) is widely used to associate child care quality with child development, but its validity for this purpose is not well established. We examined the validity of the ECERS-R using the multidimensional Rasch partial credit model (PCM), factor analyses, and regression analyses with data from…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Relationship, Child Care
Additive Contributions of Childhood Adversity and Recent Stressors to Inflammation at Midlife: Findings from the MIDUS Study
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Hostinar, Camelia E.; Lachman, Margie E.; Mroczek, Daniel K.; Seeman, Teresa E.; Miller, Gregory E. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
We examined the joint contributions of self-reported adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and recent life events (RLEs) to inflammation at midlife, by testing 3 competing theoretical models: stress generation, stress accumulation, and early life stress sensitization. We aimed to identify potential mediators between adversity and inflammation.…
Descriptors: Adults, Older Adults, Experience, Anxiety
Integrating Prospective Longitudinal Data: Modeling Personality and Health in the Terman Life Cycle and Hawaii Longitudinal Studies
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Kern, Margaret L.; Hampson, Sarah E.; Goldberg, Lewis R.; Friedman, Howard S. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The present study used a collaborative framework to integrate 2 long-term prospective studies: the Terman Life Cycle Study and the Hawaii Personality and Health Longitudinal Study. Within a 5-factor personality-trait framework, teacher assessments of child personality were rationally and empirically aligned to establish similar factor structures…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Risk, Mortality Rate, Personality
Children's Context Inappropriate Anger and Salivary Cortisol
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Locke, Robin L.; Davidson, Richard J.; Kalin, Ned H.; Goldsmith, H. Hill – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Some children show emotion that is not consistent with normative appraisal of the context and can therefore be defined as context inappropriate (CI). The authors used individual growth curve modeling and hierarchical multiple regression analyses to examine whether CI anger predicts differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity, as…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Young Children, Preadolescents, Gender Differences
Theory-of-Mind Development Influences Suggestibility and Source Monitoring
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Bright-Paul, Alexandra; Jarrold, Christopher; Wright, Daniel B. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
According to the mental-state reasoning model of suggestibility, 2 components of theory of mind mediate reductions in suggestibility across the preschool years. The authors examined whether theory-of-mind performance may be legitimately separated into 2 components and explored the memory processes underlying the associations between theory of mind…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Verbal Ability, Cognitive Development
Differences between Children and Adults in the Recognition of Enjoyment Smiles
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Del Giudice, Marco; Colle, Livia – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors investigated the differences between 8-year-olds (n = 80) and adults (n = 80) in recognition of felt versus faked enjoyment smiles by using a newly developed picture set that is based on the Facial Action Coding System. The authors tested the effect of different facial action units (AUs) on judgments of smile authenticity. Multiple…
Descriptors: Models, Age Differences, Children, Adults