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.
Beliefs about parents' legitimate authority and adolescents' obligations to disclose to parents and actual disclosure and secrecy in different domains were examined in 276 ethnically diverse, lower middle-class 9th and 12th graders (Ms=14.62 and 17.40 years) and their parents (n=249).
Adolescents and one of their parents were surveyed regarding adolescent secrecy and disclosure to parents. The findings suggest that beliefs about obligations to disclose issues to parents were associated with actual disclosure.
Developmental trajectories and individual differences in 70 American middle-income 2 ½- to 4-year olds’ moral judgments were examined three times across one year using latent growth modeling.
Children were interviewed three times over the course of a year to explore individual trajectories of change in young children’s understanding of different moral criteria. The influence of age, sex, and temperament on moral development was specifically examined.
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.