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A Unified Approach to Demographic Data Collection for Research with Young Children across Diverse Cultures
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Leher Singh; Mihaela D. Barokova; Heidi A. Baumgartner; Diana C. Lopera-Perez; Paul Okyere Omane; Mark Sheskin; Francis L. Yuen; Yang Wu; Katherine J. Alcock; Elena C. Altmann; Marina Bazhydai; Alexandra Carstensen; Kin Chung Jacky Chan; Hu Chuan-Peng; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Laura Franchin; Jessica E. Kosie; Casey Lew-Williams; Asana Okocha; Tilman Reinelt; Tobias Schuwerk; Melanie Soderstrom; Angeline S. M. Tsui; Michael C. Frank – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Culture is a key determinant of children's development both in its own right and as a measure of generalizability of developmental phenomena. Studying the role of culture in development requires information about participants' demographic backgrounds. However, both reporting and treatment of demographic data are limited and inconsistent in child…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Young Children, Demography, Cultural Traits
Trajectories of Parental Engagement in Early Childhood among Dual-Earner Families: Effects on Child Self-Control
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Ferreira, Tiago; Cadima, Joana; Matias, Marisa; Vieira, Joana Marina; Leal, Teresa; Verschueren, Karine; Matos, Paula Mena – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Parental engagement in positive activities with the child may show significant variation across time, assuming a crucial influence on child development. In dual-earner families, work-family conflict can interfere with parental engagement, with negative consequences for children's behavior. The current study examined the change trajectories of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education
The Significance of Event Information for 6- to 16-Month-Old Infants' Perception of Containment
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Smitsman, Ad W.; Dejonckheere, Peter J. N.; De Wit, Tessa C. J. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Four experiments familiarized 6-, 9-, 12-, and 16-month-old infants to a solid block that was repeatedly lowered into a semitransparent container. In test trials the end state, containment, was either compatible or incompatible with the objects' size and position. In Experiment 1, infants saw the block and box successively before they observed the…
Descriptors: Infants, Experiments, Perception Tests, Perceptual Development
Use of Missing Data Methods in Longitudinal Studies: The Persistence of Bad Practices in Developmental Psychology
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Jelicic, Helena; Phelps, Erin; Lerner, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Developmental science rests on describing, explaining, and optimizing intraindividual changes and, hence, empirically requires longitudinal research. Problems of missing data arise in most longitudinal studies, thus creating challenges for interpreting the substance and structure of intraindividual change. Using a sample of reports of longitudinal…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Data Collection, Developmental Psychology, Longitudinal Studies
Age Differences in Affective Decision Making as Indexed by Performance on the Iowa Gambling Task
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Cauffman, Elizabeth; Shulman, Elizabeth P.; Steinberg, Laurence; Claus, Eric; Banich, Marie T.; Graham, Sandra; Woolard, Jennifer – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Contemporary perspectives on age differences in risk taking, informed by advances in developmental neuroscience, have emphasized the need to examine the ways in which emotional and cognitive factors interact to influence decision making. In the present study, a diverse sample of 901 individuals between the ages of 10 and 30 were administered a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Late Adolescents, Adolescents, Adults
The Developmental Relations between Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge: A Multimethod Approach
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Schneider, Michael; Stern, Elsbeth – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Interactions between conceptual and procedural knowledge influence the development of mathematical competencies. However, after decades of research, these interrelations are still under debate, and empirical results are inconclusive. The authors point out a source of these problems. Different kinds of knowledge and competencies only show up…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Arithmetic, Mathematics
Using Technology to Explore Social Networks and Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects in Classrooms
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Guryan, Jonathan; Jacob, Brian; Klopfer, Eric; Groff, Jennifer – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Peer interactions among children have long interested social scientists. Identifying causal peer effects is difficult, and a number of studies have used random assignment to produce evidence that peers affect each other's outcomes. This focus by sociologists and economists on whether peers affect each other has not been matched by direct evidence…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Social Networks, Middle School Students, High School Students
The Three Wishes of Latency Age Children
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Ables, Billie – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Asking a child what he would wish for if he had three wishes formed the basis of this study. (Author/RY)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Psychological Studies, Sex Differences
A General Developmental Model for Interindividual Differences, Intraindividual Differences, and Intraindividual Changes
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Buss, Allan R. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
A general developmental model for interindividual differences, intraindividual differences, and intraindividual changes is described in terms of individuals, variables, and occasions. (ST)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Data Collection, Developmental Psychology, Human Development
Inhelder and Piaget's Pendulum Problem: Teaching Preadolescents to Act as Scientists
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Siegler, Robert S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls were taught to solve Inhelder and Piaget's pendulum problem and the results of the experiment replicated their expectation that unaided 10- and 11-year-olds do not often solve the pendulum problem. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Data Collection, Elementary School Students, Experiments
Identity, Reversibility, Verbal Rule Instruction, and Conservation
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Hamel, B. Remmo; Riksen, Ben O. M. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Sixty children with mean age 5.10 years were studied. Each member of two groups of 20 nonconservers was given a different kind of verbal rule instruction that was focused on the conservation of discontinuous and continuous quantity. (Editor)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Children, Conservation (Concept), Data Collection
A Social Competence Scale and Symptom Checkist for the Preschool Child: Factor Dimensions, Their Cross-Instrument Generality, and Longitudinal Persistence
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Kohn, Martin; Rosman, Bernice L. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Purpose of the present study was the development of two research instruments designed to assess young children's functioning in preschool settings. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Data Collection, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Mothers' Reports of Behavior of Ten-Year-Olds: Relationships with Sex, Ethnicity, and Mother's Education
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Tuddenham, Read S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Reports responses to a 100-item behavior inventory from white, black, Oriental, and Chicano mothers, constituting a nonclinc sample of over 3,000 children, aged 9 to 11 years. Comparisons with seven other American and British studies show agreement in problem prevalence. Data tables are included. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Data Collection
Issues of Cultural Meaningfulness in Emotional Development.
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Saarni, Carolyn – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Asserts that journal's three studies examining cultural influences on emotional development reflect Western cultural model, using Western scripts for how data were collected and meaningfulness attributed. Addresses: (1) search for universals versus cultural specificity; (2) effect of unit of analysis; (3) whose perspective is used when proclaiming…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences