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.
We investigated associations between children's representations of mothers in their play narratives and measures of children's and mother socioemotional adaptation, and explored the development of these representations between the ages of 4 and 5 years.
Parenting behaviors and relationships can have a strong impact on children's well-being. Relationships between four and five year old’s behavior, representations of their mothers (i.e., negative, positive, disciplinary), and mother’s psychological health were examined.
Research examining the longer term influences of child care on children’s development has expanded in recent years, but few studies have considered low-income children’s experiences in community care arrangements.
Interview and observational data were utilized to examine the relationship with a sample of low-income children. The results suggest that high-quality childcare was modestly beneficial in terms of reducing problem behaviors in middle childhood.
We evaluated the efficacy of a mindful parenting program for changing parents’ mindfulness, child management practices, and relationships with their early adolescent youth and tested whether changes in parents’ mindfulness mediated changes in other domains.
Mindfulness has emerged as a promising new technique and may be useful in the context of parenting.
One of the most fundamental factors related to psychological well being across the lifespan is whether a person perceives social support from important others in his or her life.
To investigate school transitions, changes in functioning across a 1-year transition period, from the end of the last year of elementary school to the end of the first year of junior high school, were explored.
Establishing positive peer relationships is integral to children's social development and is linked to a variety of long-term outcomes and life skills.