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Immigration status and bullying victimization: Associations across national and school contexts
This study examined whether the association between immigration and bullying victimization differed across immigrant generation, age and national and school context. Data were used from the 2013–14 Health Behavior in School-Aged Children study among nationally-representative samples of young people in 26 countries/regions. Multilevel logistic regression analyses showed that first- and second-generation immigrants were more likely to report bullying victimization than non-immigrants. However, differences according to immigration status were more pronounced for first- than second-generation immigrants. For both immigrants ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 21, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Children's school readiness skills across the pre-K year: Associations with teacher-student interactions, teacher practices, and exposure to academic content
Publication date: January–February 2020Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 66Author(s): Robert C. Pianta, Jessica E. Whittaker, Virginia Vitiello, Erik Ruzek, Arya Ansari, Tara Hofkens, Jamie DeCosterAbstractThe present study reports associations between features of directly observed classroom processes and school readiness skills across the academic year for 1498 children enrolled in publicly funded pre-K programs in a large and diverse county. In models adjusting for a range of child and family covariates, evidence was detected for the separate, and on occasion additive, associations of several ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 16, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Sexual orientation, peer relationships, and depressive symptoms: Findings from a sociometric design
Publication date: January–February 2020Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 66Author(s): Chaïm la Roi, Tina Kretschmer, René Veenstra, Henny Bos, Luc Goossens, Karine Verschueren, Hilde Colpin, Karla Van Leeuwen, Wim Van Den Noortgate, Jan Kornelis DijkstraAbstractSexual minority youth report poorer mental health than heterosexual youth. According to the minority stress framework, this results from sexual minority individuals being societally marginalized, which for sexual minority youth may include being poorly integrated in the peer context. A sociometric approach was used to test whether peer ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 16, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Getting under the skin: Maternal social coaching and adolescent peer adjustment
Publication date: January–February 2020Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 66Author(s): Kelly M. Tu, Niyantri RavindranAbstractWe investigated the independent and interactive associations between mother-reported social coaching suggestions and adolescent skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) as predictors of teacher-reported adolescent peer adjustment across the middle school transition among 100 youth (53% boys; Mage = 11.05 years; 43% ethnic minorities). At higher SCLR, maternal engagement suggestions were associated with poorer peer adjustment, whereas self-reliant suggestions were ass...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 16, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

My way or your way? Perspective taking during social problem solving
Publication date: January–February 2020Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 66Author(s): Katharine Bailey, Nancie Im-BolterAbstractThe current study investigated contributors to social perspective taking during social problem solving in younger (M = 8.20, n = 111) and older (M = 12.05, n = 112) school-aged children. Results indicated a developmental progression in social perspective taking for different aspects of social problem solving. The findings suggest that social perspective taking is more difficult for some aspects of social problem solving than others. Moreover, syntactic l...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 13, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Differential associations of school practices with achievement and sense of belonging of immigrant and non-immigrant students
Publication date: January–February 2020Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 66Author(s): Jia He, Jessica FischerAbstractWe are interested in identifying “malleable” school and classroom practices to enhance immigrant students' learning. Using PISA 2015 data from Germany, Italy, and Spain we test the differential associations of school–level practices with achievement and sense of belonging at school for students with and without an immigrant background. We found that (1) in-school ability grouping was invariably, negatively related to achievement of both student groups, and the effects were s...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Analysis of the dynamic relationship between social physique anxiety and depressive symptoms in young adults
This study explored the dynamic relationship between social physique anxiety and depressive symptoms in a sample of young adults over a six-month period. Using a two-wave longitudinal design, data were collected from a sample of 398 undergraduate students (47.70% females, 97.50% white) aged between 18 and 30 years old (M = 20.47, SD = 2.42). Results from the latent change score model showed that initial levels of social physique anxiety significantly predicted changes in depressive symptoms (β = 0.35, p = .002). Conversely, initial levels of depressive symptoms did not significantly predict changes in so...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Are more conscientious seventh- and ninth-graders less likely to be retained? Effects of Big Five personality traits on grade retention in two different age cohorts
This study examines to what extent students' Big Five personality traits affect teacher decisions on grade retention, looking at two cohorts of 12,146 ninth-grade and 6002 seventh-grade students from the German National Educational Panel Study. In both grade levels, multilevel logistic mediation models show that students' conscientiousness indirectly predicts grade retention through the assignment of grades by teachers. In the ninth-grade sample, students' conscientiousness was additionally a direct predictor of retention, distinct from teacher-assigned grades. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and explore whether...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: November–December 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 65Author(s): (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Mother's emotion coaching and preschooler's emotionality: Moderation by maternal parenting stress
Publication date: November–December 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 65Author(s): Qiong Wu, Xin Feng, Emma G. Hooper, Micah Gerhardt, Seulki Ku, Meingold Hiu-Ming ChanAbstractThis paper examined the moderating role of maternal parenting stress on the reciprocal relations between maternal emotion coaching and child emotionality. Participants included 126 preschoolers and their mothers, assessed at two time points, when children were three (T1) and four (T2). Mothers' coaching of positive emotion, sadness, fear and anger was observationally assessed in a laboratory task at T1 and T2. Mothers ...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Developmental pathways of perfectionism: Associations with bullying perpetration, peer victimization, and narcissism
We examined these links in a sample of 577 adolescents assessed annually on six occasions (Grades 7–12; mean age 13.02 (SD = 0.38) in Grade 7) using autoregressive cross-lagged path analyses. Results indicated that socially prescribed perfectionism positively predicted peer victimization across multiple time points, and positively predicted bullying perpetration across one time point. Peer victimization negatively predicted narcissism across two time points, whereas narcissism positively predicted bullying perpetration across one time point. Socially prescribed perfectionism also positively predicted narcissism acros...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Effects of training phonological awareness on children's reading skills
Publication date: November–December 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 65Author(s): Maximilian Pfost, Kristine Blatter, Cordula Artelt, Petra Stanat, Wolfgang SchneiderAbstractPhonological awareness and letter knowledge have been shown to be precursors of children's word reading and reading comprehension. As a consequence, promoting children's phonological awareness should result in better reading skills. In order to evaluate this assumption, we trained phonological awareness and letter knowledge of 370 German preschool children and compared their word reading and reading comprehension skills...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Remarkable cognitive catch-up in Chinese Adoptees nine years after adoption
Publication date: November–December 2019Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 65Author(s): Chloë Finet, Harriet J. Vermeer, Femmie Juffer, Patricia Bijttebier, Guy BosmansAbstractWe investigated (1) whether 10-year-old internationally adopted Chinese girls who, on average, showed below-average intellectual functioning two and six months after adoption (Times 1–2, N = 92), showed catch-up in intellectual functioning, school achievement, and executive functioning nine years later (Time 3, N = 87). We tested (2) effects of type of pre-adoption care (institutional versus foster care), and eff...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Modeling academic achievement and self-efficacy as joint developmental processes: Evidence for education, counseling, and policy
In this study, repeated measures of math achievement and self-efficacy are used to fit a variety of latent curve models that jointly estimate growth in both constructs. Results indicate that, while there is a significant association between growth in self-efficacy and growth in math, within-person deviations from those growth trajectories at a given point in time do not appear related across constructs. Implications for education, psychology, and policy are discussed. (Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Participatory arts interventions promote interpersonal and intergroup prosocial intentions in middle childhood
We report the results of two experiments which test the potential of arts engagement for promoting prosocial intentions. Experiment 1 (N = 216) tested the impact of a participatory arts intervention (vs. a control condition) on children's empathy and interpersonal prosocial intentions. Experiment 2 (N = 174) tested the impact of a participatory arts intervention (vs. a control condition) on children's prosocial intentions toward outgroup members under competitive and non-competitive conditions. Experiment 1 showed that the participatory arts intervention significantly increased children's interpersonal prosocial in...
Source: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research