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Beyond Family-Level Adversities: Exploring the Developmental Timing of Neighborhood Disadvantage Effects on the Brain
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Gard, Arianna M.; Maxwell, Andrea M.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Mitchell, Colter; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; McLanahan, Sara S.; Forbes, Erika E.; Monk, Christopher S.; Hyde, Luke W. – Developmental Science, 2021
A growing literature suggests that adversity is associated with later altered brain function, particularly within the corticolimbic system that supports emotion processing and salience detection (e.g., amygdala, prefrontal cortex [PFC]). Although neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage has been shown to predict maladaptive behavioral outcomes,…
Descriptors: Brain, Disadvantaged Environment, Neighborhoods, Individual Development
Transitions and Turning Points: Navigating the Passage from Childhood through Adolescence.
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on this special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Presents models for predicting and understanding behavioral and affective change at transitions occurring especially from middle childhood through adolescence. Provides examples…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Patterns of Low-Birth-Weight Children's Cognitive Development.
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Liaw, Fong-Ruey; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Investigated developmental patterns of cognitive performance over first 3 years of life in sample of 762 low birthweight premature children. Intelligence test scores were obtained at 12, 24, and 36 months adjusted age. Five developmental patterns were identified. Results reveal patterns of cognitive development can be discriminated by three…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Health, Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences
What Are Good Child Outcomes?
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Moore, Kristin Anderson; Evans, V. Jeffery; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Roth, Jodie – 1998
This paper considers the question "What are good child outcomes?" from the perspectives of developmental psychology, economics, and sociology. Section 1 of the paper examines good child outcomes as characteristics of stage-salient tasks of development. Section 2 emphasizes the acquisition of "human capital," the development of productive traits…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Child Welfare, Children
Models of Development: Understanding Risk in Adolescence.
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1995
Reviews developmental models for understanding adolescence as they might be applied to emerging sexuality and the challenges and risks that may be associated with different sexual orientations and identities. Models have been identified as: cumulative events or simultaneous change, accentuation, or trajectory models. Models have been useful in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Emotional Problems
Maternal Attitudes and Knowledge of Child-Rearing: Associations with Family and Child Outcomes.
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Benasich, April Ann; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Child Development, 1996
Study of a cohort of low birth weight, preterm infants examined effects of maternal knowledge and concepts of child rearing on the home environment and developmental outcomes. Maternal knowledge, measured at 1 year, was found to be associated with quality of the home environment, the number of child behavior problems, and to a small degree, infant…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Birth Weight, Child Rearing, Family Environment