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Burchinal, Margaret R.; Lowe Vandell, Deborah; Belsky, Jay – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Longitudinal data are used to examine whether effects of early child care are amplified and/or attenuated by later parenting. Analyses tested these interactions using parenting as both a categorical and continuous variable to balance power and flexibility in testing moderation. The most consistent finding was that maternal sensitivity during…
Descriptors: Prediction, Mothers, Child Care, Parent Child Relationship
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Belsky, Jay; Hancox, Robert J.; Sligo, Judith; Poulton, Richie – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Evidence that the transition to parenthood is occurring at older ages in the Western world, that older parents provide more growth-facilitating care than do younger ones, and that most prospective studies of the intergenerational transmission of parenting have focused on relatively young parents led us to evaluate whether parental age might…
Descriptors: Evidence, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Age
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Belsky, Jay; Schlomer, Gabriel L.; Ellis, Bruce J. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Drawing on life history theory, Ellis and associates' (2009) recent across- and within-species analysis of ecological effects on reproductive development highlighted two fundamental dimensions of environmental variation and influence: harshness and unpredictability. To evaluate the unique contributions of these factors, the authors of present…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Biographies
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Pasco Fearon, R. M.; Belsky, Jay – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: Some contend that attachment insecurity increases risk for the development of externalizing behavior problems in children. Method: Latent-growth curve analyses were applied to data on 1,364 children from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care to evaluate the association between early attachment and teacher-rated externalizing problems…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Attachment Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Wichstrøm, Lars; Belsky, Jay; Berg-Nielsen, Turid Suzanne – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Anxiety disorders are often present at preschool age. Research on older children and studies contrasting preschoolers with high versus low behavioral inhibition (BI) highlight several risk factors, but these have not been investigated in community samples of young children. Child, parent, and peer factors at age 4 were therefore…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Anxiety Disorders, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Conger, Rand D.; Belsky, Jay; Capaldi, Deborah M. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The 5 studies in this special section both confirm prior findings regarding the intergenerational transmission of parenting and provide important new evidence regarding the intergenerational transmission of positive parenting and the developmental mediators that seem involved in that transmission. Consistent with earlier research, the findings…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Prediction, Behavior Problems
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Bell, Brian G.; Belsky, Jay – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Longitudinal analysis of data on 658 children/families from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development addressed two issues regarding children's sleep problems (measured by maternal report in third and sixth grades when the child was 8 and 11 years old, respectively) and family…
Descriptors: Conflict, Child Health, Sleep, Parent Child Relationship