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Girls Are Good at STEM: Opening Minds and Providing Evidence Reduces Boys' Stereotyping of Girls' STEM Ability
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Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Adolescent Health: Testing the Differential Susceptibility and Diathesis-Stress Hypotheses in African American Youths
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Shakiba, Nila; Gao, Mengyu; Conradt, Elisabeth; Terrell, Sarah; Lester, Barry M. – Child Development, 2022
This study tested two competing models of differential susceptibility and diathesis-stress in a prospective longitudinal study of African American youths (N = 935). It examined whether individual variations in the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis at age 11 interact with middle childhood parent-child relationship…
Descriptors: African Americans, Early Adolescents, Preadolescents, Males
Pathways to Prevention: Improving Nonresident African American Fathers' Parenting Skills and Behaviors to Reduce Sons' Aggression
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Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard; Antonakos, Cathy L.; Assari, Shervin; Kruger, Daniel; De Loney, E. Hill; Njai, Rashid – Child Development, 2014
This study describes a test of the Fathers and Sons Program for increasing intentions to avoid violence and reducing aggressive behaviors in 8-to 12-year-old African American boys by enhancing the parenting skills satisfaction and parenting behaviors of their nonresident fathers. The study included 158 intervention and 129 comparison group…
Descriptors: Fathers, Sons, Males, Parenting Skills
Aggressive Boys' Hostile Perceptual and Response Biases: The Role of Attention and Impulsivity.
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Waldman, Irwin D. – Child Development, 1996
Examined whether aggressive boys, relative to nonaggressive boys, demonstrate hostile biases or general deficits in social perception. Found that aggressive boys demonstrated hostile biases, but not general deficits, in intention-cue detection relative to average-status boys. Aggressive groups proposed aggressive responses much more frequently…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attribution Theory, Emotional Response, Hostility
The Development of Social Cognitive Processes among Juvenile Delinquents and Nondelinquent Peers.
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Hains, Anthony A.; Ryan, Ellen B. – Child Development, 1983
Investigates, among delinquent and nondelinquent subjects ages 10 to 11 and 14 to 15 years, differences exhibited on moral reasoning tasks, social problem solving/metacognition, effects of clues on performance on a social problem-solving task, effects of age, and the interaction of age and delinquency. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Behavior Segmentation by Boys as a Function of Aggressiveness and Prior Information.
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Courtney, Mary Lynne; Cohen, Robert – Child Development, 1996
Examined whether aggressive boys' hostile attribution bias extends to processing incoming information. Subjects were asked to segment videotaped actions based on information conditions about the two boys playing in the film. Aggressiveness predicted change in segmentation after the critical event only in the neutral prior-information condition,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Hostility
Preadolescents' Social-Emotional Adjustment and Selective Attrition in Family Research.
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Weinberger, Daniel A.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
A study of sixth grade boys and their families hypothesized that boys who were prone to high levels of distress but low or moderate levels of self-restraint would be particularly unlikely to agree to make considerable efforts to complete tasks that were not especially enjoyable. Results supported the hypothesis. (RH)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Attrition (Research Studies), Elementary School Students
The Family Ecology of Boys' Peer Relations in Middle Childhood.
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Dishion, Thomas J. – Child Development, 1990
The association between boys' peer relations, antisocial behavior, academic skill deficits, and family ecology was examined. Two cohorts of boys and their families were interviewed, observed in the home, and assessed in school. (PCB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Antisocial Behavior, Discipline, Family Environment
The Interparental Relationship and Family Problem Solving with Preadolescent Males.
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Vuchinich, Samuel; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Examined associations between the quality of the interparental relationship and the success of 68 family triads (mother, father, preadolescent son) in solving family problems. Parental agreement on child rearing issues facilitated problem solving, whereas strong parental coalitions inhibited problem solving. The latter result may be attributed to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Relationship, Grade 4, Interpersonal Relationship