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Prenatal Programming of Developmental Trajectories for Obesity Risk and Early Pubertal Timing
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Robertson, Olivia C.; Marceau, Kristine; Duncan, Robert J.; Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.; Leve, Leslie D.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Natsuaki, Misaki; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Ganiban, Jody M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses are two developmental hypotheses that originated from the "developmental origins of health and disease" (DOHaD) perspective. The DOHaD posits that exposures experienced prenatally and early in life may influence health outcomes through altering form and function of internal organs…
Descriptors: Obesity, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Puberty
Bedroom Media: One Risk Factor for Development
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Gentile, Douglas A.; Berch, Olivia N.; Choo, Hyekyung; Khoo, Angeline; Walsh, David A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Mass media have numerous effects on children, ranging from influencing school performance to increased or reduced aggression. What we do not know, however, is how media availability in the bedroom moderates these effects. Although several researchers have suggested that bedroom media may influence outcomes by displacing other activities (the…
Descriptors: Mass Media Effects, Family Environment, Hypothesis Testing, Age Differences
Competitive versus Cooperative Exergame Play for African American Adolescents' Executive Function Skills: Short-Term Effects in a Long-Term Training Intervention
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Staiano, Amanda E.; Abraham, Anisha A.; Calvert, Sandra L. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Exergames are videogames that require gross motor activity, thereby combining gaming with physical activity. This study examined the role of competitive versus cooperative exergame play on short-term changes in executive function skills, following a 10-week exergame training intervention. Fifty-four low-income overweight and obese African American…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Adolescents, Control Groups
Childhood Obesity, Gender, Actual-Ideal Body Image Discrepancies, and Physical Self-Concept in Hong Kong Children: Cultural Differences in the Value of Moderation
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Hau, K. T.; Sung, R. Y. T.; Yu, C. W. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Childhood obesity is increasingly prevalent in Western and non-Western societies. The authors related multiple dimensions of physical self-concept to body composition for 763 Chinese children aged 8 to 15 and compared the results with Western research. Compared with Western research, gender differences favoring boys were generally much smaller for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Values, Cultural Differences, Obesity
Gender, Ethnic, and Body Type Biases: The Generality of Prejudice in Childhood.
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Powlishta, Kimberly K.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
A total of 254 children in kindergarten through grade 6 participated in a study of the development, consistency, and degree of bias against gender, ethnicity (French- versus English-speaking Canadian), and body type (overweight versus normal weight). Children demonstrated clear biases against groups to which they did not belong, although attitudes…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Elementary Education
Development of Food Acceptance Patterns.
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Birch, Leann L. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Provides a rationale for the significance of the study of early feeding and delineates major issues that require investigation. Includes a list of acquisition processes implicated in the development of food acceptance patterns. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Health, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences, Early Experience
Development of Self-Body-Esteem in Overweight Youngsters.
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Mendelson, Beverley Katz; White, Donna Romano – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Examined development of self-body-esteem and relation between self-esteem and body-esteem in overweight and normal weight boys and girls in three age groups. Results were interpreted in terms of age differences in subjects and possible social influences in development of self-esteem in overweight youngsters. (Author/DST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Body Image, Children