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Exuberant and Inhibited Children: Person-Centered Profiles and Links to Social Adjustment
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Dollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study aimed to substantiate and extend our understanding regarding the existence and developmental pathways of 3 distinct temperament profiles--exuberant, inhibited, and average approach--in a sample of 3.5-year-old children (n = 121). The interactions between temperamental styles and specific types of effortful control, inhibitory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Interaction, Personality Traits
Oxytocin and Parent-Child Interaction in the Development of Empathy among Children at Risk for Autism
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McDonald, Nicole M.; Baker, Jason K.; Messinger, Daniel S. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
This longitudinal study investigated whether variation in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and early parent-child interactions predicted later empathic behavior in 84 toddlers at high or low familial risk for autism spectrum disorder. Two well-studied OXTR single-nucleotide polymorphisms, rs53576 and rs2254298, were examined. Parent-child…
Descriptors: Genetics, Physiology, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Adolescents' Theories about Economic Inequality: Why Are Some People Poor While Others Are Rich?
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Flanagan, Constance A.; Kim, Taehan; Pykett, Alisa; Finlay, Andrea; Gallay, Erin E.; Pancer, Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Open-ended responses of an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 593 12- to 19-year-olds (M = 16 years old, SD = 1.59) were analyzed to explain why some people in the United States are poor and others are rich. Adolescents had more knowledge and a more complex understanding of wealth than of poverty and older adolescents had more…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Economic Factors
The Role of Moral Emotions in the Development of Children's Sharing Behavior
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Ongley, Sophia F.; Malti, Tina – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the role of moral emotions in the development of children's sharing behavior (N = 244 4-, 8-, and 12-year-old children). Children's sympathy was measured with both self- and primary caregiver-reports, and participants anticipated their negatively and positively valenced moral emotions (i.e., feeling guilty, sad, or bad; and…
Descriptors: Role, Moral Values, Prosocial Behavior, Predictor Variables
Individual and Sex Differences in the Consequences of Victimization: Moderation by Approach and Avoidance Motivation
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Llewellyn, Nicole; Rudolph, Karen D. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Peer victimization is a known risk factor for various forms of maladjustment; however, the specific type of maladjustment may depend on individual differences in youth. This 2-wave longitudinal study examined the hypothesis that social approach-avoidance motivation, together with sex, would moderate the contribution of 3rd-grade victimization to…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Peer Relationship, Gender Differences
The Media Do Matter: Comment on Steinberg and Monahan (2011)
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Brown, Jane D. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Steinberg and Monahan's (2011) reanalysis of the Teen Media longitudinal survey of adolescents does not meet prevailing standards for propensity score analysis and therefore does not undermine the original conclusions of the Brown, L'Engle, Pardun, Guo, Kenneavy, and Jackson (2006) analysis. The media do matter in the sexual socialization of…
Descriptors: Socialization, Adolescents, Scores, Sexuality