submitted by HudsSto 1 year and 5 months ago - Topic: Psychology
This study examined different types of longitudinal associations (i.e., directional links and overlapping developmental changes) between children's delinquency and the quality of parent–child relationships from middle childhood to late adolescence. We used 1-wave interview data of 53 boys, thei...
submitted by DalAng 1 year and 4 months ago - Topic: Psychology
We examine the relationship between children’s kindergarten attention skills and developmental patterns of classroom engagement throughout elementary school in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. Kindergarten measures include teacher ratings of classroom behavior, direct assessments of number k...
submitted by felix4792 4 months ago - Topic: Psychology
School bonding has been identified as a protective factor for a broad range of adolescent outcomes, and it is thus important to identify factors that foster positive relationships with school. The ecological perspective suggests the importance of both individual and contextual antecedents across ...
submitted by jbierzo 4 months ago - Topic: Psychology
Three related hypotheses derived from attachment theory were examined in this multi-informant and multi-method study of 71 postdivorce mothers and their preschool children (40 boys, 31 girls): (1) mother–child interactions observed at home will be related to attachment-related representations b...
submitted by jmgobreil 3 months ago - Topic: Psychology
Category-based reasoning is central to mature cognition; however, the developmental course of this ability remains contested. One strong indicator of category-based reasoning is the propensity to make inferences based on semantically similar labels. Recent evidence indicates that in preschool-age...
submitted by PerrUrie 3 months ago - Topic: Psychology
To examine relations between symptoms of ADHD and reports of marital and coparenting functioning. Method: Parents of 8- to 12-year-old boys with (n = 26) and without (n =38) ADHD participated. Although mothers of children with ADHD had the highest levels of ADHD symptoms, their symptoms were typi...
submitted by ponyombele 10 months ago - Topic: Psychology
The present research employed a prospective, multi-informant design to examine precursors and correlates of differing anxiety profiles from late childhood to late adolescence. The sample consisted of 626 boys and 667 girls who are participants in the Australian Temperament Project, a large, longi...
submitted by daomortenizpo 2 months ago - Topic: Psychology
This study examines the impact of a brief booster treatment administered 3 years after the delivery of an acute treatment in a group (n = 118) of clinically referred boys and girls (ages 6 to 11) originally diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) or Conduct Disorder (CD). At the c...
submitted by jdenh 1 month ago - Topic: Psychology
There is wide agreement on the heterogeneity of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Subgroups with specific comorbid problems, neuropsychological deficits, and developmental trajectories that start in preschool years have been assumed. We analyze whether corresponding subgroups at ri...
submitted by suzanne1970 1 year and 10 months ago - Topic: Psychology
Estimates of genetic and environmental influences on externalizing behavior are markedly inconsistent. In an attempt to refine and extend our knowledge of externalizing behavior, the current study examined the etiology of externalizing behavior using observational data in middle childhood and ado...