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Katie Kao; Carlos F. Almeida; Amanda R. Tarullo – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Emotion regulation includes the ability to up-regulate or enhance the emotional reaction and downregulate or suppress the emotional reaction in accordance with situational demands. However, children's use of enhancement strategies has been neglected, as has the examination of whether they can flexibly alternate between enhancement and suppression…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Emotional Development, Emotional Intelligence
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Samantha Burns; Leah Brathwaite; Anne Hepditch; Stephanie Turner; Beth Carson; Helen Bernard-Ward; Michal Perlman – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
High-quality outdoor environments (OEs) are essential for young children's physical, emotional, and intellectual development. The goal of this study was to explore the attributes of high- and low-quality OEs in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings identified by different stakeholder groups. We conducted 41 focus groups/interviews…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Outdoor Education, Educational Quality, Physical Environment
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Daniela V. Chávez; Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri; Christian Berger; Takuya Yanagida; Christina Salmivalli; Claire F. Garandeau – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
The well-known associations of peer status (acceptance and rejection) with prosocial and aggressive behaviors have mostly relied on peer status measures assessed at a single time point. This study adopted a person-oriented approach to examine longitudinal links between stable peer status profiles assessed at two time points and prosocial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Peer Acceptance, Prosocial Behavior
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Jeffrey R. Gagne; Kaelyn Barker; Chi-Ning Chang; Raashi Sangwan; Yingying Zhao; Fanyi Yu; Oi-Man Kwok – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Early emerging executive functioning is associated with important emotional, social, and academic outcomes, including academic competence in elementary school. Employing a family study design, the current study investigated preschoolers' executive functioning and receptive vocabulary knowledge, maternal depression and anxiety measured when the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Mothers, Parent Influence
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Andrew J. Ross; Elizabeth D. Handley; Sheree L. Toth; Dante Cicchetti – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Despite findings that developmental timing of maltreatment is a critical factor in predicting subsequent outcomes, children's developmental stage is understudied in maltreatment research. Moreover, childhood maltreatment is associated with the development of maladaptive peer relationships and psychopathology, with social cognition identified as a…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Peer Relationship, Psychopathology
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Heather A. Yarger; Deena Shariq; Alexandra C. Hickey; Elizabeth Giacobbe; Sarah L. Dziura; Elizabeth Redcay – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current study characterized the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on adolescents' internalizing symptoms and assessed predictors of adolescents' internalizing symptoms during the pandemic. Seventy-nine adolescents (18 autistic, 61 nonautistic) and their parents who participated in a previous study and were at least 10…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kathryn A. Kerns; Logan B. Kochendorfer; Carli A. Obeldobel; Laura E. Brumariu – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Parent-child attachment is robustly associated with typical patterns of emotion regulation but rarely examined in relation to changes in emotion in response to events. We studied how attachment is related to emotion reactivity to positive and negative events and to immediate and delayed emotion recovery from social exclusion. The sample (78%…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Preadolescents
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Megan Conrad; Raghad Hassabelnaby; Stuart Marcovitch; Janet Boseovski – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Animal fears are common, emerging in early childhood and often continuing into adulthood. This study explores the outcomes of positive and negative storybooks about animals on children's attitudes and behaviors. Ninety-six children (ages 4-8 years) were exposed to either negative or positive information about two animals (snakes and frogs) via…
Descriptors: Animals, Fear, Zoology, Young Children
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Weems, Carl F.; McCurdy, Bethany H.; Scozzafava, Mikaela D.; Pina, Armando A.; Varela, R. Enrique – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
This systematic review synthesizes studies that used experimental designs to evaluate techniques theorized to foster the development of antiracism among youth in school settings (19 published reports; 23 independent studies; participant ages 3-19 years old, primarily White). Our goal herein was to identify unique program components, design…
Descriptors: Racism, Children, Adolescents, Whites
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Wesley R. Barnhart; Lauren A. Dial; Mercedes Pratt; Amy K. Jordan; Dara R. Musher-Eizenman – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Parental feeding practices are linked to child disordered eating. Less research has examined these associations in young adult children, particularly college-aged, and studies examining relationships between parent feeding practices and mental health concerns are also limited. Examining these relationships in college students is important because…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Nutrition, Mental Health, Eating Disorders
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Lauren E. Philbrook – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The present study examined children's diurnal cortisol as a moderator of the association between parenting sensitivity at bedtime and young children's executive functioning and emotion regulation. Fifty-one children (M[subscript age] = 4.47 years) and their families participated. Parenting sensitivity was assessed from video recordings of child…
Descriptors: Young Children, Physiology, Parenting Styles, Executive Function
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Dila Nur Yazici; Berrin Akman – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The transition to early childhood education is important for all stakeholders. This study aimed to examine the expectations of teachers and parents whose children were starting school for the first time regarding themselves and each other during the preparation for and transition to school. Sixteen parents and eight teachers participated in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Expectation, Foreign Countries
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Melissa Stoffers; Cara L. Kelly; Anamarie Whitaker; Tia Navalene Barnes – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Consistent evidence points to the importance of the early childhood home environment for children's concurrent and subsequent development. Yet little is known about the long-term association between parental warmth in early childhood and children's social-emotional well-being in late childhood for children with and without disabilities. To explore…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Affective Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Emotional Development
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Christina B. Gee; Sun Young Hwang; Barunie Kim – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current study represents a preliminary validation of the Multidimensional Father Involvement Scale (MFIS), a measure to assess father involvement among cohabiting and non-cohabiting low-income fathers of children (6 months-11 years old). The 43-item scale includes items modified from the Inventory of Father Involvement (A. Hawkins et al.,…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Low Income, Parent Child Relationship
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Ryan J. Persram; Nina Howe; William M. Bukowski – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Adolescents' perceptions of their sibling relationship are important to their wellbeing, yet there is little work on the role of trust as a predictor of their adjustment. The present study investigated the effects of domain-specific facets of sibling trust on adolescent internalized adjustment. Participants included 169 early adolescents (51%…
Descriptors: Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Trust (Psychology), Adjustment (to Environment)
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