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Exploring children's emotional security as a mediator of the link between marital relations and child adjustment.

Child development

Davies PT, Cummings EM.
PMID: 9499562
Child Dev. 1998 Feb;69(1):124-39.

Guided by the emotional security hypothesis, this study examined whether links between marital relations and children's adjustment were mediated by children's emotional security, as evidenced by their emotional reactivity (e.g., vigilance, distress), regulation of exposure to parent affect (avoidance,...

The life course as developmental theory.

Child development

Elder GH.
PMID: 9499552
Child Dev. 1998 Feb;69(1):1-12.

The pioneering longitudinal studies of child development (all launched in the 1920s and 1930s) were extended well beyond childhood. Indeed, they eventually followed their young study members up to the middle years and later life. In doing so, they...

Children's coping in self- and other-relevant contexts.

Journal of experimental child psychology

Bernzweig J, Eisenberg N, Fabes RA.
PMID: 8501426
J Exp Child Psychol. 1993 Apr;55(2):208-26. doi: 10.1006/jecp.1993.1012.

The purpose of this study was to examine children's coping strategies in situations in which negative events befall the children themselves and contexts in which children observe others in negative situations. Kindergarten and second-grade children and their mothers were...

Trait confirmation and disconfirmation: the development of attribution biases.

Journal of experimental child psychology

Aloise PA.
PMID: 8501425
J Exp Child Psychol. 1993 Apr;55(2):177-93. doi: 10.1006/jecp.1993.1010.

In the present study, a new method for conducting person perception research, the confirmability paradigm, was adapted for use with children. In the confirmability paradigm subjects are asked how many behaviors they require before attributing positive and negative traits...

Children's use of sample size and diversity information within basic-level categories.

Journal of experimental child psychology

Gutheil G, Gelman SA.
PMID: 9120379
J Exp Child Psychol. 1997 Feb;64(2):159-74. doi: 10.1006/jecp.1996.2344.

Category-based induction involves making decisions about some member(s) of a category based on information concerning other category members. Recent studies indicate that although adults make use of information concerning sample size (larger samples are a stronger basis of inference...

Promoting prosocial behavior and self-regulatory skills in preschool children through a mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum.

Developmental psychology

Flook L, Goldberg SB, Pinger L, Davidson RJ.
PMID: 25383689
Dev Psychol. 2015 Jan;51(1):44-51. doi: 10.1037/a0038256. Epub 2014 Nov 10.

Self-regulatory abilities are robust predictors of important outcomes across the life span, yet they are rarely taught explicitly in school. Using a randomized controlled design, the present study investigated the effects of a 12-week mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum (KC) delivered...

Family instability and children's effortful control in the context of poverty: Sometimes a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Development and psychopathology

Sturge-Apple ML, Davies PT, Cicchetti D, Hentges RF, Coe JL.
PMID: 27580955
Dev Psychopathol. 2017 Aug;29(3):685-696. doi: 10.1017/S0954579416000407. Epub 2016 Jun 17.

Effortful control has been demonstrated to have important ramifications for children's self-regulation and social-emotional adjustment. However, there are wide socioeconomic disparities in children's effortful control, with impoverished children displaying heightened difficulties. The current study was designed to demonstrate how...

Shyness and Social Conflict Reduce Young Children's Social Helpfulness.

Child development

Beier JS, Terrizzi BF, Woodward AM, Larson EG.
PMID: 27883191
Child Dev. 2017 Nov;88(6):1922-1929. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12681. Epub 2016 Nov 24.

This study examined social influences on 3-year-old children's decisions to help an experimenter gain another person's attention (N = 32). Children were slower to help the experimenter when the target had previously expressed disinterest in attending to her. Shy...

Studying Children's Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies from the Process Model of Emotion Regulation.

The Journal of genetic psychology

López-Pérez B, Gummerum M, Wilson E, Dellaria G.
PMID: 27739934
J Genet Psychol. 2017 Mar-Apr;178(2):73-88. doi: 10.1080/00221325.2016.1230085. Epub 2016 Oct 14.

The authors relied on the Process Model of Emotion Regulation (PMER; J. J. Gross, 2007 ) to investigate children's abilities to regulate their emotions and to assess how distinct emotion regulation strategies are used by children of different ages....

Using trial-based functional analysis to design effective interventions for students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

School psychology quarterly : the official journal of the Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association

Larkin W, Hawkins RO, Collins T.
PMID: 27929322
Sch Psychol Q. 2016 Dec;31(4):534-547. doi: 10.1037/spq0000158.

Functional behavior assessments and function-based interventions are effective methods for addressing the challenging behaviors of children; however, traditional functional analysis has limitations that impact usability in applied settings. Trial-based functional analysis addresses concerns relating to the length of time,...

Children base their investment on calculated pay-off.

PloS one

Steelandt S, Dufour V, Broihanne MH, Thierry B.
PMID: 22413006
PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33239. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033239. Epub 2012 Mar 08.

To investigate the rise of economic abilities during development we studied children aged between 3 and 10 in an exchange situation requiring them to calculate their investment based on different offers. One experimenter gave back a reward twice the...

Practitioner Review: Parenting interventions for child conduct problems: reconceptualising resistance to change.

Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines

Hawes DJ, Dadds MR.
PMID: 33543502
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2021 Oct;62(10):1166-1174. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13378. Epub 2021 Feb 04.

Parenting interventions based on social learning theory have received extensive empirical support in the treatment of child conduct problems; yet, they fail to produce lasting gains in as many as a third of cases. Perspectives on these poor outcomes...

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