Recently added articles from Merrill - Palmer Quarterly:
Editorial Policies
Jan 01, 2009; ... Principal Objectives The principal objectives for Merrill-Palmer Quarterly are to maintain the standards of excellence established by previous editors and continue to advance the scope and quality of scholarship that appears in the journal. This aim has been at the forefront oí ...
Erratum
Jan 01, 2009; ... Issue: Vol. 54, No. 3 (July, 2008). Article: Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Luijk, M. P. C. M., & Juffer, F. (2008). IQ of children growing up in children's homes: A meta-analysis on IQ delays in orphanages. Merrill- Palmer Quarterly, 54, 341-366. Correction: In table 3 on page 355 ...
Social Network Centrality and Leadership Status: Links with Problem Behaviors and Tests of Gender Differences
Jan 01, 2009; ... Seventh-grade students (N = 324) completed social cognitive maps to identify peer groups and peer group leaders, sociometric nominations to describe their peers' behaviors, and questionnaires to assess their own behaviors. Peer group members resembled one another in levels of direct and indirect ...
"You didn't teach me, you showed me": Variations in Sibling Teaching Strategies in Early and Middle Childhood
Jan 01, 2009; ... This study examined siblings' teaching strategies in 72 dyads (firstborn and second born, M ages = 81.64 and 56.31 months) as a function of dyad age, age gap between siblings, and teacher birth order. One child per dyad was randomly assigned to teach her or his sibling to construct a tractor ...
Associations between Early Childhood Temperament Clusters and Later Psychosocial Adjustment
Jan 01, 2009; ... The study adopted a person-centered approach to examine whether clusters of children could be identified on the basis of temperament profiles assessed on four occasions from infancy to early childhood, and if so whether differing temperament clusters were associated with subsequent differences ...
College Mothers in the Dual Roles of Student and Parent: Implications for Their Children's Attitudes toward School
Jan 01, 2009; ... This study sought to establish the relevance of college mothers' motivational orientation and other student-role attitudes to the parenting of their school-age children and to their children's attitudes toward school. College mothers (N = 89) with a child between the ages of 7 and 14 years ...
Clarifying the Link between Parental Psychological Control and Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms
Oct 01, 2008; ... Reciprocal versus Unidirectional Models Research has demonstrated consistent positive associations between perceived parental psychological control and adolescents' depressive symptoms, but the direction of influence remains unclear. Using a cross-lagged longitudinal design in two ...
Order in the House! Associations among Household Chaos, the Home Literacy Environment, Maternal Reading Ability, and Children's Early Reading
Oct 01, 2008; ... The current study examines whether associations exist between household chaos and children's early reading skills, after controlling for a comprehensive battery of home literacy environment characteristics. Our sample included 455 kindergarten and first-grade children who are enrolled in the ...
Homesickness at Summer Camp: Associations with the Mother-Child Relationship, Social Self-Concept, and Peer Relationships in Middle Childhood
Oct 01, 2008; ... The goal of the present study was to investigate how the quality of the mother-child relationship, social self-concept, and the quality of peer relationships predict girls' feelings of homesickness at a residential summer camp. We expected that children with secure attachments to their mothers, ...
Early Competitive Game Playing in Same- and Mixed-Gender Peer Groups
Oct 01, 2008; ... Sixty-four kindergarten children participated in a bead-collecting game. Their competitive, noncompetitive, and other moves were measured. Gender and gender composition of the group affected competition in the context of playing this game with known peers. The boys were more competitive than the ...
Chinese Children's Conceptions of Shyness: A Prototype Approach
Oct 01, 2008; ... Three studies were conducted to explore Chinese children's understanding of shyness. In Study 1 (N = 174, M age = 10.18) interviews with Chinese children revealed a group of diverse attributes that characterized their conceptions of shyness. In Study 2(N = 273, M age = 10.19) a rating procedure ...
Children's Peer Relations and Their Psychological Adjustment: Differences between Close Friendships and the Larger Peer Group
Apr 01, 2008; ... In a longitudinal study that followed children from fourth through sixth grades, we tested whether problems in children's peer relations preceded psychological maladjustment and whether adjustment difficulties paved the way for poor social relationships. Both close friendships and peer group ...
Predicting Youth Out-of-School Time Participation: Multiple Risks and Developmental Differences
Apr 01, 2008; ... Youth out-of-school time (OST) programs and activities can provide developmental benefits for participating youth. Yet little research has examined the contextual predictors of youth OST participation. To address this issue, we examined a collection of child-, family-, school-, and ...
Peer Contextual Influences on the Growth of Authority-Acceptance Problems in Early Elementary School
Apr 01, 2008; ... This study investigated the effects of the peer social context and child characteristics on the growth of authority-acceptance behavior problems across first, second, and third grades, using data from the normative sample of the Fast Track Project. Three hundred sixty-eight European American and ...
Gender and Mother-Child Interactions during Mathematics Homework: The Importance of Individual Differences
Apr 01, 2008; ... Do contemporary families promote gender-differentiated or egalitarian attitudes and behavior surrounding mathematics? The current study examined mother-child interactions during mathematics homework as a microcosm of contemporary gender socialization. Results revealed individual differences in ...
Migrating from Mexico and Sharing Pretend with Peers in the United States
Apr 01, 2008; ... The intent of this study was to examine the development of peer interaction in low-income Mexican-heritage families in the United States. Eighty-eight children (44 girls) were observed and mothers interviewed when children were 14, 24, 36, and 54 months old. We used the Attachment Q-Set (Waters, ...
Adaptive Emotion Regulation among Low-Income African American Children
Apr 01, 2007; ... This study examined early childhood predictors of adaptive emotion regulation among economically disadvantaged urban African American children. Vagal tone (V^sub NA^), attachment, and regulation capacities were assessed among 69 preschoolers. Two years later, additional indices of child ...
Clique Membership and Social Adjustment in Children's Same-Gender Cliques: The Contribution of the Type of Clique to Children's Self-Reported Adjustment
Apr 01, 2007; ... The effect of the type of a clique to which a child belongs on his or her social and emotional adjustment was examined in a sample of 473 fourth- and fifth-grade elementary school students. A cluster analysis identified five types of cliques based on clique members' aggregated scores on seven ...
Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, Parenting Beliefs, and Adolescent Adjustment: A Comparison of Asian Indian and European American Families
Apr 01, 2007; ... Currently, little is known about how child-rearing beliefs change as immigrant families adapt to the host culture and about the extent to which these beliefs begin to approximate the American mainstream. This study examined how par- ents' child-rearing beliefs were associated with the ...
The Role of Reciprocity in Romantic Relationships in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence
Apr 01, 2007; ... Little is known about romantic involvement in middle childhood. Research involving late-childhood and adolescent youths indicates increasing romantic involvement with age. In the present sample (N = 1,510), though, middle-childhood youths were more likely than adolescents to report having a ...