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Glona Lee-Poon; Sandra D. Simpkins – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The heterogeneity in the developmental trajectories of math motivational beliefs (i.e., expectancies for success and subjective task value beliefs) was examined among Asian and Latinx male and female students from Southern California across Grades 8 through 10 (n = 2,710; 50% female; 85% Latinx; 15% Asian; M[subscript age] = 13.77). By conducting…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Asian American Students
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Peets, Kätlin; Hodges, Ernest Van Every – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Youth with greater levels of narcissism face a wide array of difficulties in interactions with others. However, there exists a curious lack of research on their close relationships, such as friendships. In this study, we examined associations between narcissism and friendship features over time. Participants were 261 eighth and ninth graders (112…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Interpersonal Relationship, Friendship
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Xinyin Chen; Jiaxi Zhou; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu; Liying Cui – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study examined relations of affinity for solitude with social-behavioral, academic, and psychological adjustment in Chinese children and adolescents. The participants included 3,417 students (1,714 boys) in fourth, sixth, and eighth grades (M[subscript ages] = 10, 12, and 14 years, respectively) in China. Data on affinity for solitude were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Preferences
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Ferguson, Sharlyn; Brass, Nicole R.; Medina, Michael A.; Ryan, Allison M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
This study examined longitudinal associations between early adolescents' school friendship stability, instability, and network size and their perceived social adjustment. The final sample consisted of 430 early adolescents residing in seven Midwestern schools (52% female, 47% Black, 42% White, 5% Hispanic or Latinx, and 6% Other). School…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Social Networks, Social Adjustment
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Cho, Daniel; Zatto, Brenna R. L.; Hoglund, Wendy L. G. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Peer victimization is a common concern in adolescence that includes both relational (e.g., exclusion, rumor spreading) and overt (e.g., hitting, threatening) forms (Crick & Bigbee, 1998). Relational and overt peer victimization have shown to be differentially associated with depressive symptoms, with relational peer victimization showing a…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Aggression, Bullying
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Wang, Yunqi; Siegler, Robert S. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
We examined the development of numerical magnitude representations of fractions and decimals from fourth to 12th grade. In Experiment 1, we assessed the rational number magnitude knowledge of 200 Chinese fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 12th graders (92 girls and 108 boys) by presenting fraction and decimal magnitude comparison tasks as well as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Daijiazi Tang; Andrew N. Meltzoff; Sapna Cheryan; Weihua Fan; Allison Master – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Gender stereotypes about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are salient for children and adolescents and contribute to achievement-related disparities and inequalities in STEM participation. However, few studies have used a longitudinal design to examine changes in gender stereotypes across a range of STEM fields. In a large,…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, STEM Careers, STEM Education, Grade 2
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Ulmanen, Sanna; Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Effective social support from teachers, peers, and guardians is a key to promoting students' study wellbeing at school. However, little longitudinal research has examined the implications of distinctive combinations of social support for students' study wellbeing. To address this limitation, we measured multiple dimensions of school-related social…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Profiles, Well Being, Teacher Student Relationship
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Zambuto, Valentina; Stefanelli, Federica; Palladino, Benedetta E.; Nocentini, Annalaura; Menesini, Ersilia – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Nowadays, an increasing number of children and adolescents living in Europe have an immigrant background. Because ethnicity is a recognizable characteristic that may become the driver of bullying, these youths are at high risk of victimization. School interventions based on peer-led approaches, assuming all the conditions postulated in contact…
Descriptors: Bullying, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Immigrants
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Geary, David C.; Hoard, Mary K.; Nugent, Lara – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Adolescents' (n = 342, 169 boys) general algebra and algebra word problems performance were assessed in 9th grade as were intelligence, academic achievement, working memory, and spatial abilities in prior grades. The adolescents reported on their academic attitudes and anxiety and their teachers reported on their in-class attentive behavior in 7th…
Descriptors: Males, Algebra, Word Problems (Mathematics), Spatial Ability
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Tran, Dianna; Braungart-Rieker, Julie; Wang, Lijuan – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K; N = 6,420; 67.9% White/non-Hispanic, 15% Hispanic, 13% Black/non-Hispanic, 2% Asian, 3% Native American/Alaska Native; 25% of parents' income <$25,000, 25% = $25,001 to $45,000, 29% = $45,001 to $75,000, 20% = $75,001 or greater) were used to test structural equation models in which…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Discipline, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Fang, Shichen; Fosco, Gregory M.; Redmond, Cleve R.; Feinberg, Mark E. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Guided by the life course perspective, this study investigated the developmental antecedents of contact, closeness/warmth, and negativity in young adults' relationships with their parents. Taking the developmental systems approach, we considered interindividual differences in not only initial levels of parenting quality in early adolescence (Grade…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Young Adults, Adolescents, Developmental Stages
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Brass, Nicole R.; Ryan, Allison M. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study investigated the role of school context in changes in the behaviors associated with having high social status during early adolescence. Three waves of surveys were collected from students (N = 542, 53% girls; 44% Black, 44% White, 5% Hispanic/Latinx, and 7% other; 60% free/reduced-fee lunch) in the middle of their sixth, seventh, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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van den Berg, Yvonne H. M.; Burk, William J.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This study examined associations between perceived popularity trajectories and changes in proactive and reactive aggression in middle adolescence. The sample included 1,374 adolescents from 5 cohorts who were followed from Grade 7 to Grade 9 (49% males, M[subscript age] = 12.67 years, SD = 0.67). Popularity trajectories were identified based on…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Acceptance, Adolescents, Change
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Ladd, Gary W.; Troop-Gordon, Wendy; Ettekal, Idean; Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Tenets of the Boivin et al. (1995) social process model were reexamined with two longitudinal samples using both the original and contemporary analytic strategies. Study goals included reconstructing (e.g., quasireplicating) Boivin et al.'s (1995) original findings and evaluating hypothesized relations across both comparable and longer…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Depression (Psychology), Children, Elementary School Students
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