Journal ArticleSocial Development · November 1, 2024
Exposure to diverse peers can expand children's experiences and skillsets, and these positive effects linger beyond childhood. Yet, little is known about the ethnic/racial, gender, and age diversity in children's peer groups and how it may shift over time. ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopmental psychology · May 2021
Most U.S. children grow up with siblings. Theory and prior work suggest that older siblings are important sources of gender-related information and socialization. However, few studies have investigated the patterns of these associations longitudinally acro ...
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Journal ArticleSubst Use Misuse · 2021
Substance use is a major risk factor for negative health and functioning outcomes among middle schoolers. The purpose of this study was to assess whether individual differences in the adolescents' goal orientation are associated with elevated or attenuated ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Applied Developmental Psychology · July 1, 2020
Many U.S. children spend a significant amount of time in center-based care prior to entering preschool. Previous theory and research would suggest center-based care settings offer important opportunities for gender socialization as children here are surrou ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Advanced Academics · November 1, 2019
The present study expanded our current understanding of leadership among academically gifted seventh-grade students by examining peer-identified leaders of naturally occurring social groups in a mixed ability setting. Three consecutive cohorts of seventh-g ...
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Journal ArticleGifted Child Quarterly · July 1, 2019
Peer status is an important indicator and predictor of adjustment. While gifted children tend to enjoy favorable peer status, their social functioning during adolescence is less clear. The current study seeks to enhance this understanding by examining both ...
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Journal ArticleApplied developmental science · January 2019
The current study examined micro-developmental processes related to the socialization of children's gratitude. Specifically, we tested whether parents who engage in more frequent daily socialization practices targeting children's gratitude reported more fr ...
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Journal ArticleThe journal of positive psychology · January 2019
Gratitude is a rich socioemotional construct that emerges over development beginning in early childhood. Existing measures of children's gratitude as a trait or behavior may be limited because they do not capture different aspects of gratitude moments (i.e ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · July 2017
In adolescent social groups, natural peer leaders have been found to engage in more frequent experimentation with substance use and to possess disproportionate power to affect the behavior and social choices of their associated peer followers. In the curre ...
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Journal ArticleApplied developmental science · January 2017
Given that children's exposure to gratitude-related activities may be one way that parents can socialize gratitude in their children, we examined whether parents' niche selection (i.e., tendency to choose perceived gratitude-inducing activities for their c ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
Parent Socialization of Children’s Gratitude Thank-You Note I wanted small pierced earrings (gold), You gave me slippers (gray). My mother said that she would scold Unless I wrote to say How much I like them. Not much. -Judith Viorst The desire to cultivat ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social and Clinical Psychology · September 1, 2016
People regularly monitor and control the impressions others form of them but differ in the degree to which they both convey impressions that are consistent with their private self-views (self-presentational congruence) and present different images of thems ...
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Journal ArticleEarly Childhood Research Quarterly · March 3, 2016
Current definitions of gratitude are based primarily on research with adults about their own experiences of gratitude, yet what children are grateful for, and how they understand, experience, and express gratitude may be very different. To better understan ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopmental psychology · May 2014
In this commentary, the common themes from the interesting articles in this special section of Developmental Psychology are considered as they illuminate the potential ontogenetic sources of the conscientiousness-well-being-longevity interconnections that ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs · September 2013
ObjectivePast research has associated childhood characteristics and experiences with alcohol use at single time points in adolescence. Other work has focused on drinking trajectories across adolescence but with risk factors typically no earlier th ...
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Journal ArticleBasic and Applied Social Psychology · July 1, 2013
The interrelationships among racial discrimination, non race-based rejection, racial identity (RI), and alcohol cognitions and use were assessed in this research. In Study 1, individuals who experienced overt discrimination and who were high in RI were les ...
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Chapter · September 18, 2012
In this chapter, we first consider the historical and conceptual roots of the tripartite, but at times rocky, marriage of the fields of personality, social, and abnormal psychology. After briefly describing the hopes of early 20th-century scholars to array ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Psychol · July 2012
OBJECTIVE: Parenting styles such as authoritarian, disengaged, or permissive are thought to be associated with greater adolescent obesity risk than an authoritative style. This study assessed the relationship between parenting styles and changes in body ma ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · February 2012
The current study involved an examination of the impact of a peer-led substance use intervention program on the peer leaders beyond the substance use-related goals of the intervention. Specifically, unintended consequences of an adult-sanctioned interventi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health · July 2011
BackgroundHeavy drinking in early adulthood among Blacks, but not Whites, has been found to be associated with more deleterious health outcomes, lower labor market success and lower educational attainment at mid-life. This study analysed psychosoc ...
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Journal ArticleThe gifted child quarterly · April 2011
Adolescence is a period of development particularly vulnerable to the effects of alcohol use, with recent studies underscoring alcohol's effects on adolescent brain development. Despite the alarming rates and consequences of adolescent alcohol use, gifted ...
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Journal ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · March 2011
Adolescent alcohol use is common and has serious immediate and long-term ramifications. While concurrent individual and context factors are robustly associated with adolescent alcohol use, the influence of early childhood factors, particularly in interacti ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs · March 2010
ObjectiveThis study examined changes in drinking behavior after age 50 and baseline personal characteristics and subsequent life events associated with different alcohol-consumption trajectories during a 14-year follow-up period.MethodDat ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of early adolescence · December 2009
This study examined associations among early adolescent romantic relationships, peer standing, problem behaviors, and gender as a moderator of these associations, in a sample of 320 seventh-grade students. Popular and controversial status youth were more l ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · December 2009
ObjectivesWe assessed the relationship between alcohol consumption in young adulthood (ages 18-30 years) and occupational success 15 years later among Blacks and Whites.MethodsWe analyzed data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in ...
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Journal ArticleSocial development (Oxford, England) · November 2009
This self-report and observational study explores the relationship between perceptions of different kinds of teasing experiences and psychosocial functioning in an overweight treatment-seeking adolescent population. Participants were 96 adolescents enrolle ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence · September 2009
Sociometric nominations, social cognitive maps, and self-report questionnaires were completed in consecutive years by 327 students (56% girls) followed longitudinally from grade 7 to grade 8 to examine the stability of social standing in peer groups and co ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Behavioral Development · January 1, 2009
In this study we investigated whether mothers' typical expressive style and specific emotional responses to children's behaviors are linked to children's prosocial and competence self-ratings. Eight-to 12-year-old children and their mothers rated how mothe ...
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Journal ArticleMerrill-Palmer quarterly (Wayne State University. Press) · January 2009
Seventh-grade students (N = 324) completed social cognitive maps to identify peer groups and peer group leaders, sociometric nominations to describe their peers' behaviors, and questionnaires to assess their own behaviors. Peer group members resembled one ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Pediatr Obes · 2009
OBJECTIVE: There is good evidence that youth attending weight loss camps in the UK and US are successful at achieving weight loss. Limited research suggests improvement in body image and self-esteem as well. This study evaluated changes in eight psychosoci ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Educ Behav · December 2008
The goals of this study are to evaluate (a) the effectiveness of a stage model in predicting Latinas' self-report of obtaining a Pap test and (b) the unique role of psychosocial/cultural factors in predicting progress toward behavior change. One-on-one str ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social Issues · December 1, 2007
This commentary provides an examination of the articles within this issue with a focus on common themes throughout. Each article is briefly reviewed in the context of how it contributes to four overarching themes of current intergenerational research. The ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of school psychology · October 2007
We examined the relations between group context and self- and other-perceptions of aggressive behavior in an ethnically-diverse sample of 168 male and female grade 7 adolescents. We used self- and peer-reports of aggression in high- and average-aggressive ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs · September 2007
ObjectiveResearch with college populations suggests that elevated levels of heavy drinking do not generally persist into later adulthood for most individuals. The aims of this study were to determine whether this pattern applies to the population ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · April 2007
Using a comprehensive database constructed from the pension files of US Civil War veterans, we explore characteristics and occurrence of type 2 diabetes among older black and white males, living circa 1900. We find that rates of diagnosed diabetes were muc ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · March 2007
Two competing hypotheses were tested concerning the associations between current alcohol and cigarette use and measures of individual, group and network peer standing in an ethnically-diverse sample of 156 male and female adolescents sampled at two time po ...
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Journal ArticleObes Res · May 2005
OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the relation among weight-based stigmatization, ideological beliefs about weight, and psychological functioning in an obese, treatment-seeking sample. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURE: Ninety-three obese, treatment-seeking adu ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Youth and Adolescence · October 1, 2003
This study investigated associations between peer status, peer group social influences, and risk-taking behaviors in an urban sample of 647 African American seventh-grade students. The highest rates of problem behaviors were seen in the controversial peer ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the National Medical Association · July 1, 2003
Background: Cervical cancer screening rates in the United States are sub-optimal. Physician factors likely contribute to these lower rates. Previous studies provide inconclusive evidence about the association between physician characteristics and the likel ...
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Journal ArticleEat Behav · 2002
This study evaluated changes in the self-reported eating behaviors (snacking, binge eating, portion sizes, and meal skipping) of 52 obese adults (33 women and 19 men) attending a residential weight loss facility on two consecutive occasions. For each of th ...
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Journal ArticleObes Res · January 2002
OBJECTIVE: Body image is considered as a potential mediator of the relationship between obesity and psychological distress. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: One hundred ten men and women in a residential weight control facility completed the Multidimension ...
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Journal ArticleEthn Dis · 2002
This study examined racial differences in primary care residents' rates of addressing smoking cessation. We expected residents to have higher rates of addressing cessation with White female patients as compared with African-American or Hispanic female pati ...
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Journal ArticlePrev Med · October 2001
BACKGROUND: Sixty-seven percent of physicians report advising their smoking patients to quit. Primary care residents' priorities for preventive health for a young "high-risk" female are unknown. Factors related to residents addressing smoking also need exa ...
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Journal ArticleEat Behav · 2001
In this study, we tested the proposition that the emotion-based eating of obese individuals is mediated by the effects of emotional arousal tendencies on brittle dieting self-restraint. Our indices of emotion-aroused eating, overeating, and brittle restrai ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Eat Disord · September 1999
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the unique gender correlates of binge eating severity in a diet-seeking population. METHOD: This sample consisted of 288 self-admitted patients enrolled in a residential weight loss program between 1996 and 1997. Subjects ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Eat Disord · January 1998
OBJECTIVE: To explore gender differences in depression vulnerability among an obese, treatment-seeking population and to discern those components of eating-related phenomena that discriminate the depression-comorbid obese from their noncomorbid counterpart ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Development · January 1, 1998
The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the recent efforts by psychologists to explore intergenerational continuities and their influences on children's social development. A primary criterion for inclusion in the review was use ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · August 1997
OBJECTIVE: This investigation evaluated the extent and nature of posttraumatic symptomatology (PTS) in children and adolescents 9 months after an industrial fire at the imperial Foods chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, caused extensive los ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Development · January 1, 1994
The purpose of this study was to examine how mothers view and construct meaning their children's social interactions, and to understand the interpretive frames they bring to filtering the social world and conveying meaning to their children. Maternal narra ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social and Personal Relationships · January 1, 1991
The relations between mothers’ recollections of their childhood peer relationships and their child-rearing intentions, parenting behaviors and their preschoolers’ social competence were examined. Mothers with predominantly anxious/lonely peer recollections ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of consulting and clinical psychology · August 1990
In a recent article, Gottman and Krokoff (1989) presented a fascinating and counterintuitive portrayal of a temporally related dynamic relationship of marital conflict and marital satisfaction. Unfortunately the results from which their conclusions spring ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · January 1989
The body mass of adoptees was compared with the body mass of both biologic and adoptive parents using data from the Danish Adoption Register. Chi-square analyses revealed that biologic heritability is small and is confined to thin, not obese body mass. It ...
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Journal ArticleCognitive Therapy and Research · December 1, 1981
The present study explored the phenomenon of counterregulatory eating in chronic dieters by manipulating taste and caloric-information cues of a preload and taste of subsequent ad lib food. The results replicated the "restraint breaking" phenomenon reporte ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of community psychology · October 1980
A stratified sample (race, sex, and social class) of 469 laymen from two North Carolina communities responded to a 190-item MMPI-based questionnaire with the degree of mental illness concern evoked by each item. The results reflected systematic race and so ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of personality · June 1980
Schachter's externality hypothesis suggests that overweight individuals are more likely to be induced to eat by salient external cues than normal weight individuals. While a range of studies have demonstrated the plausibility of this hypothesis in the case ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of personality and social psychology · December 1979
The developmental sources of the link between stylistic externality and food-related externality found in the obese by Schacter and others were explored by testing whether the externality phenomena that have been found to differentiate obese and normal adu ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of personality · December 1979
A total of 64 male undergraduates were administered a multistage interview which was structured to assess (a) their level of overtly expressed death anxiety, (b) covert (GSR) arousal to death stimuli (c) self-perceived competence, and (d) agreement with or ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Behavioral Development · January 1, 1979
A family-centered view of socialization has dominated child development research literature. Particularly lacking is knowledge of the influences of group participation where it is available and encouraged. The investigators carried out an observational fie ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Experimental Social Psychology · January 1, 1974
One hundred and twenty female children (40 each from the first, third, and sixth grades) were presented with videotaped presentations of a female child choosing between two toys. Depending upon condition, subjects then viewed the actor either playing with ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopmental Psychology · September 1, 1973
90 5-11 yr olds were tested on 2 variations of Piaget's spatial perspective task. The predominance of each of 4 kinds of spatial errors (interposition, aspect, distance, and right-left) was found to be differentially related both to age and overall task pe ...
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Journal ArticlePsychonomic Science · January 1, 1971
The present study replicated and extended Briscoe, Woodyard, & Shaw’s (1967) study of impression formation. The replication yielded overall recency effects and did not find that initially unfavorable first impressions were more resistant to change. This fa ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Counseling Psychology · May 1, 1969
Obtained speech samples by having 23 students read paragraphs indicating anger, contempt, indifference, love, and grief. A "test passage" was embedded in each paragraph. 44 students listened to the test passages and judged which 1 of the 5 emotions was bei ...
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Journal ArticlePsychonomic Science · January 1, 1968
Two levels of minority competence and four levels of majority competence were induced by means of bogus feedback on 10 nonpressure perceptual trials. On the ensuing 15 conformity pressure trials it was found that high competent minority Ss conformed less t ...
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Journal ArticlePsychonomic Science · January 1, 1968
This study investigated the relative strength of verbal association in common verbal associates, semantic space verbal associates, and non-associates. Repetition-satiation inhibition procedures were used in the test period. It was found that common associa ...
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