Journal ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · December 2025
Research suggests that adolescents often perceive parental behaviors-such as expressions of warmth and affection-differently than their parents do. These parent-adolescent discrepancies offer meaningful insight into family functioning during adolescence an ...
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Journal ArticleDev Psychopathol · September 10, 2025
Although depression can be transmitted across generations, less is known about how this cycle can be interrupted. This study examines whether the multilevel Fast Track intervention (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01653535) disrupts intergenerational transmission o ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · September 2025
Prevention of behavioral and emotional problems in early childhood is essential to promote healthy development and reduce risky behaviors, academic failure, delinquency, and social difficulties. Evidence-based parenting interventions, such as the Incredibl ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of applied developmental psychology · September 2025
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture individuals' basic understanding of what sort of world this is and are strongly associated with a wide range of behaviors and outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how primals come to be. This study used a d ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology · August 2025
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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of medical Internet research · August 2025
BackgroundParent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is an evidence-based treatment for child disruptive behavior problems, but access barriers historically limit its reach.ObjectiveThis study examined the reach, effectiveness, adoption, and ...
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Journal ArticleChild development · July 2025
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, T ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of community psychology · July 2025
Behavior problems in young children, especially among families from disadvantaged backgrounds (e.g., facing greater risk of poverty, social exclusion, discrimination, and violence), often result in referrals to mental health clinics. However, low-income fa ...
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Journal ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland) · July 2025
Background Objectives: Parental anxiety and depression demonstrate bidirectional connections with child developmental outcomes (e.g., disruptive behavior). Directly targeting child development through behavioral parent training (BPT) has potential f ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · June 2025
Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk taking, which can benefit adolescent development. So far, research on positive ris ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Med · May 19, 2025
BACKGROUND: Mental health problems commonly persist from childhood to adulthood. This study tested whether young adult life transitions can improve adult mental health symptoms after adjusting for childhood mental health symptoms. METHODS: The analysis use ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · May 2025
Early preventive interventions can improve outcomes in childhood, but the most effective interventions can continue to deliver benefits through the life course. The Fast Track intervention, a randomized controlled trial for children at risk of conduct prob ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · May 2025
This study advances the understanding of risk and protective factors in trajectories of conduct problems in adolescence in seven countries that differ widely on a number of sociodemographic factors as well as norms related to adolescent behavior. Youth- an ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology · February 2025
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 ...
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Journal ArticleParenting · January 1, 2025
SYNOPSIS: Objective. We do not know which specific paternal caregiving practices are associated with more advanced child development in understudied low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The current investigation attempts to identify such caregiving pr ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2025
This chapter examines cognitive and socioemotional caregiving practices of mothers, fathers, and children’s other caregivers in 53,044 families with children 36-59 months of age in 12 Asian countries. Mothers engaged in the most reported cognitive and soci ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Behavioral Development · January 1, 2025
Five issues about three cognitive caregiving practices are addressed in mothers, fathers, and children’s other caregivers in nationally representative samples from 51 low- and middle-income countries with 159,959 36- to 59-month-old children. The five issu ...
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Journal ArticleApplied Developmental Science · January 1, 2025
Primals are beliefs about the world’s character (e.g. good, safe, enticing, or alive) that are associated with well-being and behavioral patterns. But primals’ developmental origins remain mysterious, hampering theoretical understanding and clinical effort ...
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Journal ArticleEvidence Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health · January 1, 2025
Background: Sleep problems in young children are a significant public health concern, disproportionately affecting racial, ethnic, and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Poor sleep health is linked to cognitive, behavioral, and emotional difficulties. ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · January 1, 2025
Introduction: Clinics providing mental health treatment to children and families experience a multitude of barriers shepherding patients from their first clinic contact through to graduation from treatment, including difficulty retaining families, getting ...
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Journal ArticleJ Res Adolesc · December 2024
Can positive transitions into young adulthood at age 25 prevent problematic substance use at age 31, even in the context of childhood adverse family environments, conduct problems, and adolescent substance use? We lean on John Schulenberg's developmental f ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of school psychology · December 2024
Teacher-Child Interaction Training-Universal (TCIT-U) is effective for increasing teachers' use of strategies that promote positive child behavior; however, the exact mechanisms of change are unknown. Using a cluster randomized control trial in a sample of ...
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Journal ArticleHuman development · October 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 i ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention 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 ...
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Journal ArticleAppetite · September 2024
BackgroundPicky eating commonly co-occurs with disruptive behaviors in young children. While feeding interventions exist, it remains unknown whether unmodified behavioral parent training (BPT) improves maladaptive child eating. As coercive feeding ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · September 2024
ObjectiveForty-three percent of children younger than 5 years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at risk of not meeting their developmental potential. This study investigated how 3 aspects of national development (national life expect ...
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Journal ArticleInternational 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 ...
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Journal ArticleInternational 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · March 2024
OBJECTIVE: A natural experiment that provided income supplements to families has been associated with beneficial outcomes for children that persisted into adulthood. The children in this study are now adults, and many are parents. METHOD: The study builds ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · March 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to determine whether the Fast Track mental health intervention delivered to individuals in childhood decreased mental health problems and the need for health services among the children of these individuals. METHODS: The autho ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention 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 ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in psychology · January 2024
IntroductionChildcare center closures during COVID-19 impacted education for approximately 40 million children nationwide. Unfortunately, COVID-19 restrictions significantly limited the extent that outside personnel could provide in-person support ...
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Journal ArticleMarriage & family review · January 2024
This study examined children's mothers', fathers' and other caregivers' socioemotional parenting practices in 159,959 families with 3- to 4-year-olds from 51 low-and-middle income countries. Mothers engaged in the most socioemotional caregiving practices, ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleChild 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Child Psychol Psychiatry · May 2023
BACKGROUND: Maladaptive family environments harm child development and are passed across generations. Childhood interventions may break this intergenerational cycle by improving the family environments children form as adults. The present study investigate ...
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Journal ArticleAggressive 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · May 2023
ObjectiveParent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) is an effective intervention to address child externalizing behaviors. However, disparities in access and retention are pervasive, which relate to the availability of PCIT in low-income communities, ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of school psychology · April 2023
Growing evidence suggests that Teacher-Child Interaction Training-Universal (TCIT-U) is effective for increasing teachers' use of strategies that promote positive child behavior, but more rigorous research with larger, diverse samples is needed to understa ...
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Journal ArticleJ Fam Psychol · February 2023
The present study examines whether the Fast Track (FT) intervention, a 10-year randomized controlled trial with children at risk for conduct problems, affects family formation in adulthood, as indexed by partnerships, parenthood, and family structure, and ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Assess · January 2023
For decades, the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) has been the most widely used measure of children's home environments. This report provides a revised version of the HOME-Short Form, the HOME-21, reflecting historical changes in ...
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Journal ArticleEvidence Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health · January 1, 2023
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a complex, rare genetic disorder often comorbid with severe autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with language and cognitive deficits. Despite the combination of TSC and ASD often leading to significant disruptive child behavi ...
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Journal ArticleParenting · January 1, 2023
SYNOPSIS: Objective. Cognitive and socioemotional caregiving practices are both important for child development, but little is known about the extent to which children’s different caregivers engage in the two types of practices or their relative effects on ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in psychology · January 2023
IntroductionDisruptive behavior disorders are among the most prevalent pediatric mental health referrals for young children. However, families from historically minoritized social identities have experienced disparities in treatment access, retent ...
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Journal ArticleChild 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · November 2022
ObjectiveThe degree to which adolescent social media use is associated with depressive symptoms has been the source of considerable debate. Prior studies have been limited by a reliance on cross-sectional data and measures of overall "screen time. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Child and Family Studies · November 1, 2022
Caregivers of children with disruptive behavior problems often experience elevated parenting stress. Parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT), an evidence-based treatment for disruptive behavior problems, teaches caregivers behavior management strategies th ...
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Journal ArticleJ Psychopathol Clin Sci · October 2022
Parents' depressive symptoms vary across days, but factors predicting this fluctuation are not well understood. The present study utilized ecological momentary assessments to capture 1620 days of parents' lived experience in a diverse sample of 146 mothers ...
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Book · September 9, 2022
This compelling volume advances the understanding of what parenting and related sociodemographic, demographic, and environmental variables look like and how they are associated with child development in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Sp ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs · May 2022
ObjectiveThe relationship between smoking and adolescents' peer relationships is complex, with studies showing increased risk of smoking for adolescents of both very high and very low social position. A key question is whether the impact of social ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health · February 2022
This study examines associations between parents' rejection and control, adolescents' self-efficacy in their regulation of negative emotions, and maladjustment. Path analyses were employed to test (a) whether adolescents' dysregulation and self-efficacy re ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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, ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleBehavior therapy · November 2021
Disruptive behavior in young children is one of the most common referrals to behavioral health providers. While numerous effective parenting programs, such as parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), exist for improving children's behaviors, challenges wit ...
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Journal ArticleChild 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of behavioral education · November 2021
Measuring classroom behavior among young children is important to guide assessment and intervention decisions, yet there is limited literature on appropriate direct observation tools for this purpose. This article describes the psychometric properties of t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleChild 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 ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · April 2021
Health agencies call for the immediate mobilization of existing interventions in response to numerous child and family mental health concerns that have arisen as result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Answering this call, this pilot study describes the rapid, fu ...
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Journal ArticleTranslational behavioral medicine · March 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting communities worldwide, with direct effects of illness and mortality, and indirect effects on economies, workplaces, schools/daycares, and social life. However, we understand very little about the effects of this pandemic ...
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Book · February 25, 2021
This vital volume advances understanding of how parenting from childhood to adolescence changes or remains the same in a variety of sociodemographic, psychological, and cultural contexts, providing a truly global understanding of parenting across cultures. ...
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ConferenceProceedings 2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science Iri 2021 · January 1, 2021
The affordance of Augmented Reality (AR) allows users to view the virtual objects along with real world simultaneously, which provides more realistic and immersive experiences to interact with them. In this paper, we propose to integrate data with differen ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · December 2020
Adolescent cannabis use is common, has been associated with several deleterious outcomes, and is often associated with previous parent cannabis use. Therefore, identifying protective factors that prevent this intergenerational transmission of cannabis use ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment 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 ...
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Journal ArticleAddictive behaviors · August 2020
The focus of this special section of Addictive Behaviors is on how new trends in substance use have a broader impact on youth development, most notably on the use of other substances or psychosocial functioning. These eight articles focus on recent changes ...
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Journal ArticleAggressive 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology · May 2020
The current study examined whether social status and social integration, two related but distinct indicators of an adolescent's standing within a peer network, mediate the association between risky symptoms (depressive symptoms and deviant behavior) and su ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopmental 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 ...
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Journal ArticleBehavior modification · March 2020
Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) is the standard of care for early-onset Behavior Disorders (BDs). Preliminary evidence suggests that BPT may also lead to improvement in comorbid symptomatology, particularly internalizing problems, in children with BDs, ye ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · January 2020
In the study of adolescent health, it is useful to derive indices of social dynamics from sociometric data, and to use these indices as predictors of health risk behaviors. In this manuscript, we introduce a flexible latent variable model as a novel way of ...
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Journal ArticleMarriage and Family Review · November 17, 2019
Objective: This review evaluates literature on how parenting behaviors are passed from one generation to the next in families by providing a new definitional framework to organize existing work, utilizing this framework to review literature on intergenerat ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence · November 2019
Nearly half of adolescents experience depressive or aggressive symptoms that impair their functioning at some point in adolescence. Experiencing intense difficult emotions and difficulties regulating such emotions may lead to these depressive and aggressiv ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Child and Family Studies · March 15, 2019
Emotion regulation is a mechanism that, when targeted in treatment, can ameliorate heterogeneous psychopathology across ontogeny. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is one evidence-based intervention hypothesized to improve child emotion regulation. B ...
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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 ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopmental psychology · February 2018
Emerging evidence suggests that family conflict shows continuity across generations and that intergenerational family conflict can be more intense and deleterious than conflict experienced in a single generation. However, few investigations have identified ...
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Chapter · January 18, 2018
This chapter discusses current conceptualizations of heterogeneity in alcohol use disorder (AUD), characterizes developmental pathways that lead to different subtypes of AUDs, and discusses how such pathways can inform preventive program design. Specifical ...
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Journal ArticleStructural equation modeling : a multidisciplinary journal · January 2018
Although it is currently best-practice to directly model latent factors whenever feasible, there remain many situations in which this approach is not tractable. Recent advances in covariate-informed factor score estimation can be used to provide manifest s ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · August 2017
The present study investigated the associations between multigenerational continuity in family conflict and current psychopathology symptoms and social impairment experienced by parents and adolescents. We sampled 246 families from a multigenerational, hig ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · June 2017
PurposeAdolescents' increased use of social networking sites (SNS) coincides with a developmental period of heightened risk for alcohol use initiation. However, little is known regarding associations between adolescents' SNS use and drinking initi ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · May 2017
PurposePrior research has found that the protective effect of parental engagement on adolescent smoking behaviors may be weaker if parents smoke. We examine parental influence on adolescent smoking using a social learning theory framework. We hypo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · March 2017
We evaluated the effects of marital dissatisfaction on adolescent-perceived conflict in 435 families with and without a parental history of alcoholism. On average, family conflict decreased linearly as adolescents aged. Families with an alcoholic parent de ...
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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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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 ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology · February 2016
In the current study, we examined continuity in conflict across generations and explored potential mediators and moderators that could explain this continuity. We followed 246 targets from adolescence to adulthood and examined family conflict as reported b ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · January 2013
This article addresses important future directions for the study of addictions, emphasizing the incorporation of developmental perspectives into how we think about substance use and disorder as unfolding processes over time and context for a heterogeneous ...
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