Middle Childhood (5-12 years)

This study presents estimates of the effect of parental income on children's cognitive, social, and emotional development.

Servicemembers' family members may experience significant stress related to deployment of their loved ones.

Children of U.S. military personnel have an exceptional experience.

Because most military children will be enrolled in public schools at some point, an understanding of military children can assist educators in working with such children and, more broadly, with mobile childr

This study presents a model of harsh parenting that has an indirect effect, as well as a direct effect, on child aggression in the school environment through the mediating process of child emotion regulation.

325 Chinese kindergartners participated in a study examining the effect of harsh parenting on child behavior. Mothers’ harsh parenting affected child emotion regulation more strongly than did fathers. However, harsh parenting emanating from fathers had a stronger effect on child aggression.

We assessed relations between early temperament and behavior problems across 12 years in an unselected sample of over 800 children.

976 New Zealand children participated in a longitudinal study from ages 3 to 15 to examine the relations between early temperament and later behavior problems. Factor analyses revealed three temperament dimensions at each age: Lack of control, approach, and sluggishness.

Examined cosleeping (i.e., parents and children sleeping in the same bed) habits in military dependents and how these habits change with the absence of their fathers.

Discusses factors that most influence the adjustment of the child to parent absence in military families.