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Hitchcock, Caitlin; Westwell, Martin S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: We explored whether school-based Cogmed Working Memory Training (CWMT) may optimise both academic and psychological outcomes at school. Training of executive control skills may form a novel approach to enhancing processes that predict academic achievement, such as task-related attention, and thereby academic performance, but also has…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Short Term Memory, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Keijsers, Loes; Loeber, Rolf; Branje, Susan; Meeus, Wim – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: This study tested the theoretical assumption that transformations of parent-child relationships in late childhood and adolescence would differ for boys following different offending trajectories. Methods: Using longitudinal multiinformant data of 503 boys (ages 7-19), we conducted Growth Mixture Modeling to extract offending…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Males, Crime
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Dowdney, Linda; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1984
Describes the development of a two-session home observational scheme for the study of the interactions between mothers and their two- and three-year-old children, with the main thrust on socio-emotional development. The tool focuses on parental responsivity and sensitivity, affect, social communication, and social control and has a combination of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Measurement Techniques