Developmental links between ethnic and racial discrimination and sleep
AbstractA robust literature is developing around how the stress of discrimination is implicated in individual- and group-level sleep disturbances, and how these disturbances contribute to the development of population-level sleep disparities over time. Although discrimination can be based on many individual and intersecting biases, like gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and education, in this article, we focus on discrimination rooted in ethnicity and race because of the well-founded documentation of disparities in sleep by race. Focusing primarily on adolescence and young adulthood, we integrate research linking et...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - April 24, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Tiffany Yip,
Jinjin Yan,
Shadane Johnson,
Jiwoon Bae,
Kyle Lorenzo,
Nidia Ruedas ‐Gracia,
Zhenqiang Zhao Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - April 18, 2024 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
The role of Afrocultural ethos in African American youth's emotion skill development
AbstractResearch on African American youth's emotional development provides an incomplete understanding of the cultural influences that shape emotion-related skills such as emotion expression, regulation, and understanding. In this article, I propose the multiple cultural frameworks of triple quandary theory to characterize the nature of mainstream cultural experiences and minority cultural experiences in current research on emotional development in African American youth. I also discuss Afrocultural ethos as an aspect of African American cultural experiences that shapes African American emotional development, using affect...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 23, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Fantasy T. Lozada Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Importance of cultural context in the study of children's executive functions: Advances in Latin America research
AbstractAlthough executive functions (EFs) have been identified as a cornerstone of cognitive development, knowledge of this fundamental ability in children is based primarily on research with North American and Western European samples of middle to high socioeconomic status (SES). In this article, we highlight advances in research on developmental EFs from Latin American regions, an understudied area that provides a unique context important to understanding EFs. Our narrative review suggests the potential for both universality (e.g., increasing cohesion and longitudinal stability among EFs' task performance, general posit...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 20, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Lucas G. Gago ‐Galvagno,
Stephanie E. Miller,
Natalia A. Mancini,
Ailin C. Simaes,
Angel M. Elgier,
Susana C. Azzollini Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Supporting Latinx immigrant children and families in the transition to elementary school
AbstractCurrent approaches to supporting students in the transition to elementary school fail to meet the needs of Latinx immigrant children and their families in the United States. Typical approaches place the responsibility on families to help their children adapt to the expectations of their teacher, classroom, and school without recognizing the specific barriers to participation faced by Latinx immigrant parents. In this article, we describe these barriers and consider the ways community-based practice can support and prioritize co-constructed partnerships among teachers, schools, parents, and communities. (Source: Chi...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 16, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Natalia Palacios,
Judy Paulick Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Familism attitudes, behaviors, and adjustment during adolescence
AbstractIn the past two decades in the United States, research has surged onfamilism, a multidimensional construct encompassing attitudes and behaviors related to strong attachment, identification, and obligation to the family. In this article, we define familism and argue that it is a crucial way for adolescents to contribute to their social world and achieve a sense of role fulfillment. We also present examples from key studies highlighting the advantages and potential challenges of familism for adolescent adjustment. Lastly, we discuss conceptual and methodological issues to advance the study of familism. (Source: Child...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 14, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Xochitl Arlene Smola,
Andrew J. Fuligni Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Educational identity processes in adolescence: An analysis of longitudinal evidence and the role of educational systems
AbstractEducational identity has been studied increasingly in the past decades since school is a structured context that shapes adolescent identity formation. Across the academic years, adolescents learn to position themselves in terms of their education and schooling, perceiving these entities as more or less relevant for their self-formation. In this article, I analyze educational identity in the context of personal identity formation in adolescence through longitudinal studies from Japan, the Netherlands, and Romania that used the identity process approach. I also examine the role educational systems play in educational...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 13, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Oana Negru ‐Subtirica Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Hasta la Raiz: Cultivating racial ‐ethnic socialization in Latine families
AbstractFamilial racial-ethnic socialization (RES) helps youth build tools of cultural resilience by providing messages regarding race and ethnicity that enable them to negotiate and survive the demands of a racialized society. Thus, RES is an important caregiving task for historically minoritized families, including Latine families in the United States. In this article, we review research on RES in Latine families, which has focused primarily on RES processes in middle childhood to adolescence, to provide an evidence-informed conceptual model delineating the youth, parental, dyadic/familial, and sociohistorical factors th...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 13, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Norma J. Perez ‐Brena,
Mayra Y. Bámaca,
Gabriela Livas Stein,
Elisa Gomez Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
How motivation restricts the scalability of universal school ‐based mindfulness interventions for adolescents
AbstractIn this article, I argue that the scalability and effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness interventions for adolescents will always be limited by the high motivational commitment required to meditate. Mindfulness interventions rely on a single and demanding health behavior —namely, meditation—to cultivate mindfulness skills. But unlike traditional mindfulness interventions delivered in clinics to self-selected adults who are motivated to manage personal problems through meditation, universal school-based mindfulness interventions are delivered to all adolescents r egardless of their desire to medita...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 5, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Brian Galla Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
An integrative model of parent ‐infant communication development
AbstractCommunication is commonly viewed as connecting people through conscious symbolic processes. Infants have an immature communication toolbox, raising the question of how they form a sense of connectedness. In this article, we propose a framework for infants' communication, emphasizing the subtle unconscious behaviors and autonomic contingent signals that convey drives, emotions, and a sense of connection, facilitating the formation of primal social bonds. Our developmental model emphasizes the importance of diverse modes of communication and their interplay in social interactions during infancy. The framework leverag...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - February 28, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Or Lipschits,
Ronny Geva Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infants' predictive minds: The role of motor experience
AbstractThe ability to predict upcoming events is essential in infancy because it enables babies to process information optimally and have successful goal-directed interactions with their environment. In this article, we examine how infants generate predictions in perception, cognition, and action, and address whether and how their predictions are motivated and affected by their motor development. Our synthesis of research demonstrates that infants form predictions in the perception, cognition, and action domains based on perceived statistical information, pre-existing and newly generated knowledge, and internal motor mode...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - February 28, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Gudrun Schwarzer,
Bianca Jovanovic Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The developmental consequences of early exposure to climate change ‐related risks
AbstractThe climate crisis encompasses a constellation of risks that threaten human livelihoods, well-being, and survival globally. In this article, we present a new framework based on bioecological and dynamic systems perspectives, and on evidence for conceptualizing how the distinctive dual time frame of both acute (e.g., extreme weather events) and chronic (e.g., ecological degradation) climate change-related risks experienced prenatally and early in life across multiple ecological contexts can threaten human development. We conclude with a call to developmental researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to invest mor...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - February 23, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Jorge Cuartas,
Dana C. McCoy,
Isabella Torres,
Lindsey Burghardt,
Jack P. Shonkoff,
Hirokazu Yoshikawa Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Promoting healthy screen use in children with externalizing behavior
AbstractThe sharp rise over the past decade in young children's access to various forms of screen media (e.g., smartphones, tablets, TVs) has posed new and significant challenges to caregivers in managing children's use of this type of media. For caregivers of young children with externalizing behavior problems, managing children's time with screen media is especially important and challenging. In this article, we summarize evidence of bidirectional links between early externalizing behavior problems and unhealthy screen media use in young children and discuss the extent to which prior interventions have responded to the n...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - February 20, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Shayl F. Griffith,
Daniel M. Bagner,
Katie C. Hart Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Antifascist praxis in developmental science: Possibilities for collective resistance to fascism
AbstractAntifascists have developed action-oriented principles and practices for collective resistance to fascism. In this article, we discuss antifascism aspraxis, which is the nexus of theory and practice through collective reflection and action. Antifascist praxis can inform developmental science at individual and contextual levels of analysis. For the study of individual developmental trajectories, we examine how antifascist praxis can inform research to stop fascist recruitment of youth and counter-recruit youth into liberation movements. For the study of developmental contexts, we use the example of family separation...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - February 6, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Miriam R. Arbeit,
Andrea Negrete,
Natasha Panlilio Berger,
Anne E. Dufault,
Alexandria C. Onuoha,
Sarah L. F. Burnham Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
