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Direct linkTekin, Isil; Aydin, Selami – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
School refusal and anxiety are considerable problems among children and adolescents. While numerous studies were published, no review on the issue has been conducted to holistically reveal the current research results. This study uses a systematic scoping review design and aims to synthesize the results of the current studies on seeking an answer…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Student Behavior, Anxiety, Punishment
Larran, Julie; Schuster, Isabell; Hein, Sascha – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Given the significant amount of time that refugee and asylum-seeking children (RASC) spend in schools, these institutions play an important role in their lives and represent an ideal environment in which to help them to adapt to their host society. The present study aimed to draw attention to the possibility of transferring intervention methods…
Descriptors: Intervention, Refugees, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Dagan, Or; Schuengel, Carlo; Verhage, Marije L.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Madigan, Sheri; Duschinsky, Robbie; Roisman, Glenn I.; Bernard, Kristin; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian; Bureau, Jean-François; Volling, Brenda L.; Wong, Maria S.; Colonnesi, Cristina; Brown, Geoffrey L.; Eiden, Rina D.; Fearon, R. M. Pasco; Oosterman, Mirjam; Aviezer, Ora; Cummings, E Mark – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
An unsettled question in attachment theory and research is the extent to which children's attachment patterns with mothers and fathers "jointly" predict developmental outcomes. In this study, we used individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis to assess whether early attachment networks with mothers and fathers are associated with…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Fathers
Deneault, Audrey-Ann; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Groh, Ashley M.; Fearon, Pasco R. M.; Madigan, Sheri – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
This meta-analytic study examined the associations between child-father attachment in early childhood and children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Based on 15 samples (N = 1,304 dyads), the association between child-father attachment insecurity and externalizing behaviors was significant and moderate in magnitude (r = 0.18,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Behavior Problems
Tomaszewska, Paulina; Schuster, Isabell – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Violence in adolescent relationships is a common problem with numerous negative short- and long-term consequences. Because most of the evidence on teen dating violence (TDV) synthesized in reviews comes from North American studies, this review aimed to compile evidence on prevalence rates of TDV based on studies identified for Europe only.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dating (Social), Violence, Incidence
Problematic Cost-Utility Analysis of Interventions for Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Cost-utility analyses are slowly becoming part of randomized control trials evaluating physical and mental health treatments and (preventive) interventions in child and adolescent development. The British National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, for example, insists on the use of gains in Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) to compute the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Children
Penner, Francesca; Sharp, Carla; Marais, Lochner; Shohet, Cilly; Givon, Deborah; Boivin, Michael – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The goal of this paper was to conduct a review of studies from 2008 to 2019 that evaluated community-based caregiver or family interventions to support the mental health of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in sub-Saharan Africa, across four domains: (a) study methodology, (b) cultural adaptation and community participation, (c) intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Caregivers, Family (Sociological Unit), Mental Health
Burenkova, Olga V.; Podturkin, Aleksei A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Under conditions of suboptimal parental care, children with specific temperamental features have been shown to be especially vulnerable to the effects of stress. Most studies of temperamentally vulnerable children have been conducted using parental questionnaires, which are unfortunately not completely objective. An alternative approach, the use…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Children, Child Rearing, At Risk Persons
Zhukova, Marina A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
A number of studies to this day have examined the role of maternal childhood trauma in parenting styles, mental health, and child attachment patterns; however, there are limited data on parenting of mothers who were raised in institutional care (IC) and involved in the child welfare system. The current review focuses on maternal history of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Welfare Services, Child Abuse, Parenting Styles
Grigorenko, Elena L.; Hart, Lesley; Hein, Sascha; Kovalenko, Julia; Naumova, Oxana Yu. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
In this article we present a summary of the literature on the associations between learning difficulties/disabilities and juvenile delinquency. This literature is almost a hundred years old, but, although reportedly demonstrating the low academic achievement-delinquency connection, contains numerous unanswered questions regarding the frequency,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Learning Problems, Juvenile Justice, Learning Disabilities
Cai, Wangchun; Wu, Fuxiang – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
This paper reviews how income inequality at the micro and regional levels influenced the inequality in educational outcomes for children and adolescents in China over the past decades. First, we find that the economic condition of the family influences children's and adolescents' education through home educational resources and parental…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Family Income, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education
Ye, Lin; Posada, Alexandria; Liu, Yangyang – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
The objective of the present study was to review the research on the relationship between Chinese adolescents' stress and their academic achievement in the past 20 years. The reviewed studies revealed a generally negative relationship between Chinese adolescents' academic stress and academic achievement; however, other factors, notably,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Adolescents, Anxiety, Academic Achievement
Efevbera, Yvette; McCoy, Dana C.; Wuermli, Alice J.; Betancourt, Theresa S. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2018
Limited evidence describes promoting development and reducing violence in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a missed opportunity to protect children and promote development and human capital. This study presents a systematic literature review of integrated early childhood development plus violence prevention (ECD+VP) interventions in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Violence, Prevention
Campione-Barr, Nicole – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017
The sibling relationship is unique in that it transforms across development from hierarchical in early childhood, to egalitarian by adulthood. The present article reviews the previous theorizing and research literature regarding how and why power, control, and therefore sibling influence, change over the course of the first couple of decades, and…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Family Characteristics, Power Structure, Family Influence
Berger, Christian; Lisboa, Carolina; Cuadros, Olga; de Tezanos-Pinto, Pablo – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Peer relations constitute a main developmental context for adolescents. Peers offer an instance for identity definition and set the norms of acceptable and valued characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes, representing a societal model that allows and restrains avenues for adolescents' socioemotional development. The present article departs from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Peer Relationship, Emotional Development, Social Development
