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Ann Skinner

Ann Skinner

Research Scientist
Center for Child and Family Policy
askinner@duke.edu
Box 90545, Durham, NC 27708
210 Rubenstein Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

My friends made me do it: Peer influences and different types of vaping in adolescence.

Journal Article Addictive behaviors · December 2024 Vaping is one of the most common forms of substance use among adolescents. Social influences play a key role in the decision to use substances and frequency of use during adolescence, and vaping is no exception. Using a sample of 891 adolescents across two ... Full text Cite

Development of Primal World Beliefs

Journal Article Human Development · October 1, 2024 Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture individuals basic understanding of what sort of world this is. How do children develop beliefs about the nature of the world? Is the world a good place? Safe or dangerous? Enticing or dull? Primals were initially in ... Full text Cite

Investigating Longitudinal Trajectories of COVID-19 Disruption: Methodological Challenges and Recommendations.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · October 2024 Relatively few studies have longitudinally investigated how COVID-19 has disrupted the lives and health of youth beyond the first year of the pandemic. This may be because longitudinal researchers face complex challenges in figuring out how to code time, a ... Full text Cite

Attachment security, environmental adversity, and fast life history behavioral profiles in human adolescents.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · September 2024 One species-general life history (LH) principle posits that challenging childhood environments are coupled with a fast or faster LH strategy and associated behaviors, while secure and stable childhood environments foster behaviors conducive to a slow or sl ... Full text Cite

Individualism, collectivism and conformity in nine countries: Relations with parenting and child adjustment.

Journal Article International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · August 2024 This study investigated how individualism, collectivism and conformity are associated with parenting and child adjustment in 1297 families with 10-year-old children from 13 cultural groups in nine countries. With multilevel models disaggregating between- a ... Full text Cite

Cultural values, parenting, and child adjustment in the United States.

Journal Article International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · August 2024 We examined whether cultural values, conformity and parenting behaviours were related to child adjustment in middle childhood in the United States. White, Black and Latino mothers (n = 273), fathers (n = 182) and their children (n = 272) reported on parent ... Full text Cite

Adolescents' relationships with parents and romantic partners in eight countries.

Journal Article Journal of adolescence · July 2024 IntroductionCreating romantic relationships characterized by high-quality, satisfaction, few conflicts, and reasoning strategies to handle conflicts is an important developmental task for adolescents connected to the relational models they receive ... Full text Cite

Developmental Trajectories of Parental Self-Efficacy as Children Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries: Latent Growth Curve Analyses.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · May 2024 Little is known about the developmental trajectories of parental self-efficacy as children transition into adolescence. This study examined parental self-efficacy among mothers and fathers over 3 1/2 years representing this transition, and whether the leve ... Full text Cite

The role of family relationships on adolescents' development and adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · May 2024 In typical times, adolescents' relationships with family members influence changing cognitive, social, and physical aspects of their development. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, impacted the full family system in ways that were unprecedented. Scholars of a ... Full text Cite

Intraindividual variability in parental acceptance-rejection predicts externalizing and internalizing symptoms across childhood/adolescence in nine countries.

Journal Article Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · March 2024 Parenting that is high in rejection and low in acceptance is associated with higher levels of internalizing (INT) and externalizing (EXT) problems in children and adolescents. These symptoms develop and can increase in severity to negatively impact adolesc ... Full text Cite

Compliance with Health Recommendations and Vaccine Hesitancy During the COVID Pandemic in Nine Countries.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · February 2024 Longitudinal data from the Parenting Across Cultures study of children, mothers, and fathers in 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the USA; N = 1331 families) were used to und ... Full text Cite

How adolescents' lives were disrupted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal investigation in 12 cultural groups in 9 nations from March 2020 to July 2022.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · January 2024 It is unclear how much adolescents' lives were disrupted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic or what risk factors predicted such disruption. To answer these questions, 1,080 adolescents in 9 nations were surveyed 5 times from March 2020 to July 2022. Rates of ... Full text Cite

Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries

Journal Article European Journal of Psychology of Education · January 1, 2024 An important question for parents and educators alike is how to promote adolescents’ academic identity and school performance. This study investigated relations among parental education, parents’ attitudes toward their adolescents’ school, parental support ... Full text Cite

Intra- and interpersonal factors and adolescent wellbeing during COVID-19 in three countries

Journal Article Social and Personality Psychology Compass · October 1, 2023 COVID-19 has altered adolescents' opportunities for developing and strengthening interpersonal skills and proficiencies. Using data from adolescents in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom, we examined the relation between internalizing symptom ... Full text Cite

Co-development of internalizing symptoms and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in adolescence: Time-varying effects of COVID-19-related stress and social support

Journal Article International Journal of Behavioral Development · September 1, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted opportunities for adolescents to progress through a typical developmental trajectory of adjustment and self-regulation. Adolescents across many contexts have shown an increase in adjustment difficulties during the pandemic c ... Full text Cite

Pre-pandemic psychological and behavioral predictors of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in nine countries.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · August 2023 Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents (N = 1,330; Mages = 15 and 16; 50% female), mothers, and fathers from nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States) reported on adol ... Full text Cite

Predicting Adolescent Mental Health Outcomes Across Cultures: A Machine Learning Approach.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · August 2023 Adolescent mental health problems are rising rapidly around the world. To combat this rise, clinicians and policymakers need to know which risk factors matter most in predicting poor adolescent mental health. Theory-driven research has identified numerous ... Full text Open Access Cite

The Intergenerational Transmission of Maladaptive Parenting and its Impact on Child Mental Health: Examining Cross-Cultural Mediating Pathways and Moderating Protective Factors.

Journal Article Child psychiatry and human development · June 2023 Using a sample of 1338 families from 12 cultural groups in 9 nations, we examined whether retrospectively remembered Generation 1 (G1) parent rejecting behaviors were passed to Generation 2 (G2 parents), whether such intergenerational transmission led to h ... Full text Cite

Parenting, Adolescent Sensation Seeking, and Subsequent Substance Use: Moderation by Adolescent Temperament.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · June 2023 Although previous research has identified links between parenting and adolescent substance use, little is known about the role of adolescent individual processes, such as sensation seeking, and temperamental tendencies for such links. To test tenets from b ... Full text Cite

Predicting child aggression: The role of parent and child endorsement of reactive aggression across 13 cultural groups in 9 nations.

Journal Article Aggressive behavior · May 2023 Parent and child endorsement of reactive aggression both predict the emergence of child aggression, but they are rarely studied together and in longitudinal contexts. The present study does so by examining the unique predictive effects of parent and child ... Full text Cite

Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries.

Journal Article Journal of adolescence · December 2022 IntroductionWe sought to understand the relation between positive parenting and adolescent diet, whether adolescents' internalizing and externalizing behaviors mediate relations between positive parenting and adolescent diet, and whether the same ... Full text Cite

A Longitudinal Examination of the Family Stress Model of Economic Hardship in Seven Countries.

Journal Article Children and youth services review · December 2022 The Family Stress Model of Economic Hardship (FSM) posits that economic situations create differences in psychosocial outcomes for parents and developmental outcomes for their adolescent children. However, prior studies guided by the FSM have been mostly i ... Full text Cite

Change in Caregivers' Attitudes and Use of Corporal Punishment Following a Legal Ban: A Multi-Country Longitudinal Comparison.

Journal Article Child maltreatment · November 2022 We examined whether a policy banning corporal punishment enacted in Kenya in 2010 is associated with changes in Kenyan caregivers' use of corporal punishment and beliefs in its effectiveness and normativeness, and compared to caregivers in six countries wi ... Full text Cite

Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators.

Journal Article Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · October 2022 This study examined gender-specific longitudinal pathways from harsh parenting through rumination to anxiety and depression symptoms among early adolescents from three countries and six subgroups. Participants were 567 mothers, 428 fathers, and 566 childre ... Full text Cite

Development of internalizing symptoms during adolescence in three countries: the role of temperament and parenting behaviors.

Journal Article European child & adolescent psychiatry · June 2022 This longitudinal study examined the unique and joint effects of early adolescent temperament and parenting in predicting the development of adolescent internalizing symptoms in a cross-cultural sample. Participants were 544 early adolescents (T1: Mag ... Full text Cite

Adolescent Positivity and Future Orientation, Parental Psychological Control, and Young Adult Internalising Behaviours during COVID-19 in Nine Countries.

Journal Article Social sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · February 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many young adults' lives educationally, economically, and personally. This study investigated associations between COVID-19-related disruption and perception of increases in internalising symptoms among young adults and whet ... Full text Cite

Dyadic Coping, Parental Warmth, and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior in Four Countries.

Journal Article Journal of family issues · January 2022 Featured Publication This study examined parental warmth as a mediator of relations between mothers' and fathers' perceptions of dyadic coping and adolescent externalizing outcomes. Data from 472 adolescents, mothers, and fathers were collected over a three-year period from fa ... Full text Cite

Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study.

Journal Article Journal of child and family studies · January 2022 BackgroundGrounded in interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory, this study assessed children's (N=1,315) perceptions of maternal and paternal acceptance-rejection in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, ... Full text Cite

Correction to: Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study (Journal of Child and Family Studies, (2022), 31, 1, (29-47), 10.1007/s10826-021-02072-5)

Journal Article Journal of Child and Family Studies · January 1, 2022 for author Sumbleen Ali should have been. “The State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, USA” and “University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA”; authors Ronald P. Rohner and Preston A. Britner “University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA”. The origin ... Full text Cite

Typicality and trajectories of problematic and positive behaviors over adolescence in eight countries.

Journal Article Frontiers in psychology · January 2022 In this study, we examine the predictions of a storm and stress characterization of adolescence concerning typicality and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and wellbeing from late childhood through late adolescence. Using data from the Parentin ... Full text Cite

Culture and Social Change in Mothers' and Fathers' Individualism, Collectivism and Parenting Attitudes.

Journal Article Social sciences · December 2021 Cultures and families are not static over time but evolve in response to social transformations, such as changing gender roles, urbanization, globalization, and technology uptake. Historically, individualism and collectivism have been widely used heuristic ... Full text Cite

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use among adults without children, parents, and adolescents.

Journal Article Addict Behav Rep · December 2021 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol and illicit substance use among adults without children, parents, and adolescents was investigated through two studies with five samples from independent ongoing U.S. longitudinal studies. In Study 1, 931 adults w ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Cross-Cultural Associations of Four Parenting Behaviors With Child Flourishing: Examining Cultural Specificity and Commonality in Cultural Normativeness and Intergenerational Transmission Processes.

Journal Article Child development · November 2021 Families from nine countries (N = 1,338) were interviewed annually seven times (Mage child = 7-15) to test specificity and commonality in parenting behaviors associated with child flourishing and moderation of associations by normativeness of pa ... Full text Cite

Parent-adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers' and young adults' adjustment in five countries.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · October 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has presented families around the world with extraordinary challenges related to physical and mental health, economic security, social support, and education. The current study capitalizes on a longitudinal, cross-national study of pa ... Full text Cite

Slow Life History Strategies and Increases in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · September 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is but one of many instances of environmental adversities that have recurred in human history. Biobehavioral resource allocation strategies, known as fast (reproduction-focused) versus slow (development-focused) life history (LH) trad ... Full text Cite

Longitudinal Trajectories of Four Domains of Parenting in Relation to Adolescent Age and Puberty in Nine Countries.

Journal Article Child development · July 2021 Children, mothers, and fathers in 12 ethnic and regional groups in nine countries (N = 1,338 families) were interviewed annually for 8 years (Mage child = 8-16 years) to model four domains of parenting as a function of child age, puberty, or bot ... Full text Cite

Lower neural value signaling in the prefrontal cortex is related to childhood family income and depressive symptomatology during adolescence.

Journal Article Developmental cognitive neuroscience · April 2021 Lower family income during childhood is related to increased rates of adolescent depression, though the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Evidence suggests that individuals with depression demonstrate hypoactivation in brain regions involved in ... Full text Cite

Positive Youth Development: Parental Warmth, Values, and Prosocial Behavior in 11 Cultural Groups.

Journal Article Journal of youth development : bridging research and practice · January 2021 The current cross-cultural study aimed to extend research on parenting and children's prosocial behavior by examining relations among parental warmth, values related to family obligations (i.e., children's support to and respect for their parents, siblings ... Full text Cite

Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · December 2020 We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing and internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents from 12 cultural groups. We did not find that single universal trajectories characterized a ... Full text Cite

Individual differences in executive function partially explain the socioeconomic gradient in middle-school academic achievement.

Journal Article Developmental science · September 2020 Children from families with low socioeconomic status (SES) earn lower grades, perform worse on achievement tests, and attain less education on average than their peers from higher-SES families. We evaluated neurocognitive mediators of SES disparities in ac ... Full text Cite

Examining effects of mother and father warmth and control on child externalizing and internalizing problems from age 8 to 13 in nine countries.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · August 2020 This study used data from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States; N = 1,315) to investigate bidirectional associations between parental warmth and control, and child extern ... Full text Cite

Cross-cultural effects of parent warmth and control on aggression and rule-breaking from ages 8 to 13.

Journal Article Aggressive behavior · July 2020 We investigated whether bidirectional associations between parental warmth and behavioral control and child aggression and rule-breaking behavior emerged in 12 cultural groups. Study participants included 1,298 children (M = 8.29 years, standard deviation ... Full text Cite

Opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency during adolescence in nine countries.

Journal Article New directions for child and adolescent development · July 2020 This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in ... Full text Cite

Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · June 2020 Internalizing and externalizing problems increase during adolescence. However, these problems may be mitigated by adequate parenting, including effective parent-adolescent communication. The ways in which parent-driven (i.e., parent behavior control and so ... Full text Cite

Examining effects of parent warmth and control on internalizing behavior clusters from age 8 to 12 in 12 cultural groups in nine countries.

Journal Article Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · April 2020 BackgroundStudies of U.S. and European samples demonstrate that parental warmth and behavioral control predict child internalizing behaviors and vice versa. However, these patterns have not been researched in other cultures. This study investigate ... Full text Cite

Examining the internalizing pathway to substance use frequency in 10 cultural groups.

Journal Article Addictive behaviors · March 2020 Use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs (i.e., substance use) is a leading cause of global health burden for 10-to-24-year-olds, according to the World Health Organization's index of number of years of life lost, leading international health organizations to pr ... Full text Cite

Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · March 2020 The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and ... Full text Cite

Associations Between Perceived Material Deprivation, Parents' Discipline Practices, and Children's Behavior Problems: An International Perspective.

Journal Article Child development · January 2020 This study investigated the association between perceived material deprivation, children's behavior problems, and parents' disciplinary practices. The sample included 1,418 8- to 12-year-old children and their parents in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Ken ... Full text Open Access Cite

External environment and internal state in relation to life-history behavioural profiles of adolescents in nine countries.

Journal Article Proceedings. Biological sciences · December 2019 The external environment has traditionally been considered as the primary driver of animal life history (LH). Recent research suggests that animals' internal state is also involved, especially in forming LH behavioural phenotypes. The present study investi ... Full text Cite

Education and Parenting in the United States

Chapter · November 14, 2019 (2018) show in their meta-analysis that parents' excessively controlling behavior in relation to homework, academic pressure, and academic work, has a negative effect on adolescents' academic achievement. Interestingly, parents'... ... Link to item Cite

Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families: Links with adolescent adjustment in low- and middle-income countries.

Journal Article Developmental science · September 2019 The current longitudinal study is the first comparative investigation across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to test the hypothesis that harsher and less affectionate maternal parenting (child age 14 years, on average) statistically mediates the p ... Full text Cite

Resting state coupling between the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex is related to household income in childhood and indexes future psychological vulnerability to stress.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · August 2019 While child poverty is a significant risk factor for poor mental health, the developmental pathways involved with these associations are poorly understood. To advance knowledge about these important linkages, the present study examined the developmental se ... Full text Cite

Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · April 2019 Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strat ... Full text Cite

Correction to: Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · April 2019 In the original publication, the legends for Figs 4 and 5 were incorrect, such that each regression line was mislabeled with the incorrect country. Below are the correctly labeled countries. The authors apologize for any confusion or misinformation this er ... Full text Cite

Perceived social status and mental health among young adolescents: Evidence from census data to cellphones.

Journal Article Dev Psychol · March 2019 Adolescents in the United States live amid high levels of concentrated poverty and increasing income inequality. Poverty is robustly linked to adolescents' mental health problems; however, less is known about how perceptions of their social status and expo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adolescents' cognitive capacity reaches adult levels prior to their psychosocial maturity: Evidence for a "maturity gap" in a multinational, cross-sectional sample.

Journal Article Law and human behavior · February 2019 All countries distinguish between minors and adults for various legal purposes. Recent U.S. Supreme Court cases concerning the legal status of juveniles have consulted psychological science to decide where to draw these boundaries. However, little is known ... Full text Cite

Household Income Predicts Trajectories of Child Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior in High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries.

Journal Article International journal of behavioral development · January 2019 This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents' education and children's trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, fathers, and children. Longitudinal data from 1,190 famili ... Full text Open Access Cite

Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age 7 to 14 in nine countries.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · December 2018 Using multilevel models, we examined mother-, father-, and child-reported (N = 1,336 families) externalizing behavior problem trajectories from age 7 to 14 in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the ... Full text Cite

Parental acceptance-rejection and child prosocial behavior: Developmental transactions across the transition to adolescence in nine countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · October 2018 Promoting children's prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relat ... Full text Cite

Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · September 2018 This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross-cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are ... Full text Open Access Cite

A cross-sectional examination of response inhibition and working memory on the Stroop task

Journal Article Cognitive Development · July 1, 2018 The authors examined the association between working memory and response inhibition on the Stroop task using a cross-sectional, international sample of 5099 individuals (49.3% male) ages 10–30 (M = 17.04 years; SD = 5.9). Response inhibition was measured u ... Full text Open Access Cite

Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · May 2018 Epidemiological data indicate that risk behaviors are among the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality worldwide. Consistent with this, laboratory-based studies of age differences in risk behavior allude to a peak in adolescence, suggesting t ... Full text Open Access Cite

Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.

Journal Article Developmental science · March 2018 The dual systems model of adolescent risk-taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination of heightened sensation seeking and still-maturing self-regulation, but most tests of this model have been conducted in the United States or Western ... Full text Open Access Cite

Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · February 2018 To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (Chin ... Full text Cite

Within- and between-person and group variance in behavior and beliefs in cross-cultural longitudinal data.

Journal Article Journal of adolescence · January 2018 This study grapples with what it means to be part of a cultural group, from a statistical modeling perspective. The method we present compares within- and between-cultural group variability, in behaviors in families. We demonstrate the method using a cross ... Full text Open Access Cite

Psychological Acculturation and Parenting Behaviors in Mexican Immigrant Families.

Journal Article Journal of family issues · January 2018 This study examined the relation between mothers' and fathers' psychological acculturation and parenting behaviors in two samples of Mexican immigrant families. The middle childhood sample included 47 mothers, 38 fathers and 46 children in families with ch ... Full text Cite

Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · December 2017 Using data from 1,177 families in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States), we tested a conceptual model of direct effects of childhood family adversity on subsequent externalizing behaviors ... Full text Open Access Cite

Puberty Predicts Approach But Not Avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a Multinational Sample.

Journal Article Child development · September 2017 According to the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking, sensation seeking and impulse control follow different developmental trajectories across adolescence and are governed by two different brain systems. The authors tested whether different underl ... Full text Cite

'Mixed blessings': parental religiousness, parenting, and child adjustment in global perspective.

Journal Article Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · August 2017 BackgroundMost studies of the effects of parental religiousness on parenting and child development focus on a particular religion or cultural group, which limits generalizations that can be made about the effects of parental religiousness on famil ... Full text Open Access Cite

Severity and Justness Do Not Moderate the Relation Between Corporal Punishment and Negative Child Outcomes: A Multicultural and Longitudinal Study.

Journal Article International journal of behavioral development · July 2017 There is strong evidence of a positive association between corporal punishment and negative child outcomes, but previous studies have suggested that the manner in which parents implement corporal punishment moderates the effects of its use. This study inve ... Full text Open Access Cite

Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries.

Journal Article International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · October 2016 Children's family obligations involve assistance and respect that children are expected to provide to immediate and extended family members and reflect beliefs related to family life that may differ across cultural groups. Mothers, fathers and children (N ... Full text Cite

Early Adolescents' Unique Perspectives of Maternal and Paternal Rejection: Examining Their Across-Dyad Generalizability and Relations with Adjustment 1 Year Later.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · October 2016 Parental rejection is linked to deep and enduring adjustment problems during adolescence. This study aims to further clarify this relation by demonstrating what has long been posited by parental acceptance/rejection theory but never validated empirically-n ... Full text Cite

Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · October 2016 In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation ... Full text Cite

Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries.

Journal Article Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · July 2016 BackgroundResearch supports the beneficial role of prosocial behaviors on children's adjustment and successful youth development. Empirical studies point to reciprocal relations between negative parenting and children's maladjustment, but reciproc ... Full text Cite

Individual, family, and culture level contributions to child physical abuse and neglect: A longitudinal study in nine countries.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · November 2015 This study advances understanding of predictors of child abuse and neglect at multiple levels of influence. Mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,418 families, M age of children = 8.29 years) were interviewed annually in three waves in 13 cultural groups i ... Full text Cite

Perceived mother and father acceptance-rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries.

Journal Article Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · August 2015 BackgroundIt is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have been incomple ... Full text Cite

Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2015 We tested a model that children's tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive behavior and that this mechanism contri ... Full text Open Access Cite

Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self-reports.

Journal Article International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · June 2015 We assessed 2 forms of agreement between mothers' and fathers' socially desirable responding in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States (N = 1110 families). Mothers and fathers in all 9 countries repor ... Full text Cite

A longitudinal examination of mothers' and fathers' social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · August 2014 This study examined whether parents' social information processing was related to their subsequent reports of their harsh discipline. Interviews were conducted with mothers (n = 1,277) and fathers (n = 1,030) of children in 1,297 families in nine countries ... Full text Cite

Childrearing Violence and Child Adjustment Following Exposure to Kenyan Post-election Violence.

Journal Article Psychology of violence · January 2014 ObjectiveThis study examines parents' and children's exposure to short-term political violence and the relation between childrearing violence and child adjustment following widespread violence that erupted in Kisumu, Kenya after the disputed presi ... Full text Cite

Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries.

Journal Article Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · January 2014 Two key tasks facing parents across cultures are managing children's behaviors (and misbehaviors) and conveying love and affection. Previous research has found that corporal punishment generally is related to worse child adjustment, whereas parental warmth ... Full text Cite

Neighborhood Danger, Parental Monitoring, Harsh Parenting, and Child Aggression in Nine Countries.

Journal Article Societies (Basel, Switzerland) · January 2014 Exposure to neighborhood danger during childhood has negative effects that permeate multiple dimensions of childhood. The current study examined whether mothers', fathers', and children's perceptions of neighborhood danger are related to child aggression, ... Full text Cite

Agreement in Mother and Father Acceptance-Rejection, Warmth, and Hostility/Rejection/Neglect of Children across Nine Countries.

Journal Article Cross-cultural research : official journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research · August 2012 We assessed whether mothers' and fathers' self-reports of acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect (HRN) of their pre-adolescent children differ cross-nationally and relative to the gender of the parent and child in 10 communities in 9 ... Full text Cite

Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries.

Journal Article Aggressive behavior · July 2012 Distinguishing between relational and physical aggression has become a key feature of many developmental studies in North America and Western Europe, but very little information is available on relational and physical aggression in more diverse cultural co ... Full text Cite

The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups.

Journal Article Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · October 2011 The goal of the current study was to investigate potential cross-cultural differences in the covariation between two of the major dimensions of parenting behavior: control and warmth. Participants included 1,421 (51% female) 7- to 10-year-old (M = 8.29, SD ... Full text Cite

Attributions and Attitudes of Mothers and Fathers in the United States.

Journal Article Parenting, science and practice · January 2011 OBJECTIVE.: The present study examined mean level similarities and differences as well as correlations between U.S. mothers' and fathers' attributions regarding successes and failures in caregiving situations and progressive versus authoritarian attitudes. ... Full text Cite

Instability in teacher ratings of children's inattentive symptoms: implications for the assessment of ADHD.

Journal Article Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · April 2010 ObjectiveTo examine the cross-grade stability of clinically elevated teacher ratings of inattentive symptoms in 3 samples of elementary schoolchildren.Participants and methodsSamples 1 and 2 included 27 first graders and 24 fourth graders ... Full text Cite

Corporal punishment of children in nine countries as a function of child gender and parent gender.

Journal Article International journal of pediatrics · January 2010 Background. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a global perspective on corporal punishment by examining differences between mothers' and fathers' use of corporal punishment with daughters and sons in nine countries. Methods. Interviews were cond ... Full text Cite

A randomized trial of two promising computer-based interventions for students with attention difficulties.

Journal Article Journal of abnormal child psychology · January 2010 Few studies have examined whether attention can be improved with training, even though attention difficulties adversely affect academic achievement. The present study was a randomized-controlled trial evaluating the impact of Computerized Attention Trainin ... Full text Cite

Externalizing and Internalizing in the Transition to Adolescence: Multiple Risks, One World?

Journal Article The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines Cite