War has a profound emotional impact on military personnel and their families, but little is known about how deployment-related stress impacts the occurrence of child maltreatment in military families.
Child maltreatment may be more likely when a family is experiencing significant distress, and military deployment may be one stressor that increases risk for child maltreatment.
This study followed a sample of 179 children from kindergarten through eighth grade to examine the extent to which kindergarten teachers' perceptions of their relationships with students predict a range of school outcomes.
How a child adjusts to kindergarten can impact their long-term school trajectory. Associations between child behavior, teacher relationship quality, academic skills, and achievement were examined among a cohort of 179 children who were followed from kindergarten through eighth grade.
Relations between nonrelative child care (birth to 4½ years) and functioning at age 15 were examined(N = 1,364). Both quality and quantity of child care were linked to adolescent functioning. Effects were similarin size as those observed at younger ages.
Many families place their children in care outside of the home during early childhood. As such, it is important to know the long-term effects of such care.
Bidirectional theories of social development have been around for over 40 years (Bell, 1968), yet they have been applied primarily to the study of antisocial development.
This longitudinal study evaluated the bidirectional relationships between children’s prosocial behavior and parental sensitivity.
Context: Despite prior evidence supporting crosssectional associations of depression and alcohol use disorders, there is relatively little prospective data on the temporal association between depressed mood and maladaptive drinking, particularly across extended intervals.
Participants were recruited during childhood and interviewed in early adolescence and adulthood to assess the association between childhood depressed mood and adolescent and young adulthood alcohol use.