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Wu, Yun; Jobson, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Significant research has investigated the relationship between mother--child reminiscing and children's autobiographical memory development. It has been suggested that mothers who adopt a high elaborative reminiscing style tend to have children who provide greater memory elaboration during joint reminiscing, yet the empirical findings are somewhat…
Descriptors: Memory, Personal Narratives, Recall (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship
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Osgood, D. Wayne; Ragan, Daniel T.; Dole, Jenna L.; Kreager, Derek A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
This study examines developmental change across adolescence in the similarity of friends versus nonfriends. This differential in similarity is a key aspect of the organization of the peer context of development: The stronger the correlation between friends for an attribute, the more the attribute delineates clustering and divisions of friendships.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Friendship, Peer Relationship, Social Influences
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Ackert, Elizabeth; Snidal, Matthew; Crosnoe, Robert – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Persistence in high school curricula leading to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers is structured by complex institutional systems, but developmental processes underlie how young people navigate these systems. This study examined differences in the development of STEM identity and efficacy during high school among…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Mexican Americans, Identification (Psychology)
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Troop-Gordon, Wendy; Chambless, Kalie; Brandt, Taylor – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Person × Environment mismatch theory has been applied to understanding how the classroom social ecology moderates associations between peer victimization and socioemotional well-being. In 2004, Bellmore et al. applied this theory to the ethnic composition and social climate of the classroom. The current study tested whether their findings…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Well Being, Classroom Environment
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Wölfer, Ralf; Hewstone, Miles – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Although literature provides strong evidence for the beneficial role of outgroup contact, longitudinal knowledge regarding the formation and change of outgroup contact remains improvable. Using a longitudinal, large-scale data set including 6,726 majority and minority participants (M[subscript age] = 14.98 years at Wave 1; 55% female) from 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
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Smetana, Judith G.; Ahmad, Ikhlas; Wray-Lake, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined within- and between-person variations in parental legitimacy beliefs in a sample of 883 Arab refugee youth (M[subscript age] = 15.01 years, SD = 1.60), 277 Iraqis, 275 Syrians, and 331 Palestinians, in Amman, Jordan. Latent profile analyses of 22 belief items yielded 4 profiles of youth. The "normative" profile (67% of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Arabs, Parenting Styles, Beliefs