The current study sampled military families in the Army (N = 266) that included data from both Active Duty and civilian parents and their adolescent children.
Research Findings: Parental engagement with children has been linked to a number of adaptive characteristics in preschool children, and relationships between families and professionals are an important contributor to school readiness.
Parental engagement is an important contributor to preschool children's school readiness. The effectiveness of the Getting Ready parental intervention program was examined in the study.
Research and policy initiatives are increasingly focused on the role of neighborhood food environment in children's diet and obesity. However, existing evidence relies on observational data that is limited by neighborhood selection bias.
Researchers used previous data from The Military Teenagers' Environments, Exercise, and Nutrition Study (M-TEENS) to determine an association between the neighborhood food environment and children's dietary behaviors, body mass index, and weight gain in Army families.
This study examined whether several aspects of emotion communication in mother-child dyads relate to child anxiety symptoms.
Objectives: To determine the longitudinal and cross-sectional associations between different types of electronic media use (mobile phones, TV, computers, video games, and music) and young adolescents’ depressive symptoms, and to explore the potential for household media rules to reduce young peop
Adolescents currently use electronic media an average of approximately eight hours each day, and some research suggests heavy media use may be linked to depression.
This study examined associations between caregiver sensitivity and responsiveness in child care experienced at age 4 and children's effortful control skills at age 5, among 154 preschoolers who attended community-based child care settings.