Showing papers in "Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology in 2004"

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that adolescents use the Internet for anonymous identity experimentation, motivated by a desire to play a joke on friends more often than to explore a desired or future identity, but participants reported a range of pretending content, contexts and motives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of school-based Tae kwon do training on self-regulatory abilities was examined and a self-regulation framework including three domains (cognitive, affective, and physical) was presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a snapshot investigation of a popular health support website, which utilized a peer-generated bulletin board format to facilitate the discussion of adolescent health and social issues, was conducted on the questions and replies found on 273 topics of mainly anonymous adolescents.

TL;DR: Greenfield et al. as discussed by the authors found that adolescents' online interactions are both a literal and a metaphoric screen for representing major adolescent developmental issues, such as sexuality and identity, in a chat room.

TL;DR: This article examined the independent and joint relations of parental self-efficacy beliefs and parent knowledge of child development to maternal behavioral competence among mothers of high-risk infants, and found that the relation between parental selfefficacy and parenting competence was moderated by parent's knowledge of development.

TL;DR: The authors examined child and maternal predictors of children's social competence in preschool and found that children with greater risk factors were lower on prosocial behavior and higher on externalizing behavior than children with fewer risk factors.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the long-term effects of exposure to community violence on academic achievement and feelings of safety in school among a large sample of urban middle-school students (N = 759).

TL;DR: The model underlying this research program describes how non-screen-and-keyboard-based technologies that listen to children can be used to support their emergent literacy behaviors and have an effect on their subsequent writing skills.

TL;DR: This article found that race and ethnicity were frequently mentioned in teen chat: 37 out of 38 half-hour transcripts had at least one racial or ethnic utterance, while most references had neutral or positive valence in both monitored and unmonitored chat rooms.

TL;DR: A review of the relevant literature led to three major conclusions: (1) pornography and related sexual media can influence sexual violence, sexual attitudes, moral values, and sexual activity of children and youth as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This paper examined individual, marital, and social-contextual factors associated with the length of maternity and paternity leave and the parents' work adaptation at the transition to parenthood, and found that shorter maternity leave (

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the content of school-aged children's responses to a countywide in-class essay assignment in which they described what they are thankful for, and identified the most prominent themes of children's gratitude as well as differences in the themes that emerged before and after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the moderating effect of neighborhood crime and income on associations between parenting and child outcomes was estimated longitudinally for African-American, European-American and Latino-American elementary school-age children.

TL;DR: The present meta-analysis of the predictive validity of visual habituation and visual dishabituation shows that the weighted and normalized average correlation between infant habituation/dishabituation and childhood cognitive performance is .37.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the prevalence of competence and whether the relation of competence to internalizing and positive affect differed for COAs and controls, and found that COAs were less likely to be highly competent in the conduct/rule-abiding and academic domains and more likely than controls to be low competent.

TL;DR: In this article, the development of a parent checklist related to sitting, crawling, and walking is described, and the assessor scoring of the AIMS items is validated against the parent checklist reports during the week prior to the home visit.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relation of the level of preschool children's compliance to child temperament, caregiver-child interaction in the child care setting, child care quality, and contextual chaos.

TL;DR: This article investigated websites that cater to children and adolescents and found that many parents are aware of the problems of making children the targets of commerce; however, they are quite unaware of the kind of social and cultural worlds young people are creating online.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that children's liking for the ingroup was unaffected by age and outgroup ethnicity, whereas liking for an outgroup increased with age and was greater for same than for different ethnicity children.

TL;DR: This article examined the contribution of cognitive and emotion-based factors in predicting school-age children's risk-taking decisions when the social-situational context did, and did not, pressure for risk taking.

TL;DR: A content analysis of interviews with an ethnically diverse group of 202 children aged 6 to 10 describes what children think racism is, and examines associations between age, ethnicity, and children's thinking about racism.

TL;DR: In this article, a yearlong intervention with children in Grades 1 through 3 (N = 177) was undertaken with a classroom-based intervention consisting of 31 brief lessons that emphasized the many ways in which television distorts violence and resulted in a reduction in children's viewing of violent TV and less identification with violent TV characters.

TL;DR: The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) was passed to increase rates of adoptions and other permanent placements for children in foster care as discussed by the authors, which has the potential to reduce the length of time children spend in the foster care as well as the disruptions in placements they experience there, yet still promotes reunification when this can be accomplished expeditiously and safely.

TL;DR: The Thinking Life A Scientist (TLAS) program as mentioned in this paper targets students from groups historically underrepresented in science (i.e., girls, people of color, and people from disadvantaged backgrounds), and trains these individuals to reason scientifically about everyday problems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized trial of the efficacy of psychosocial and injury prevention-based coach training programs for reducing fear of failure among youth swimmers aged 7 to 18 years was conducted.

TL;DR: This article examined possible socioeconomic status (SES) differences in 4-and 5-year-old children's informal mathematical knowledge and found that children from the upper SES group showed higher rates of success on many problems than did the children from lower and middle SES groups.

TL;DR: This article examined how certain ecological factors influence migrant Latino children's academic outcomes following their participation in an after-school program with intensive academic instruction, finding that children who made the greatest academic gains were acculturated in English, were from poorly functioning families, and had families with fewer parent-teacher contacts and less engagement with children's school activities.

TL;DR: The authors examined preschoolers' self-reported coping strategies in response to several stressor contexts, the relations of coping and family environment to children's problem behavior, and the extent to which coping moderates the relation between family environment and preschoolers psychological adjustment.

TL;DR: This paper explored the psychometric properties of a proposed sequence of socioemotional cognitive skills in the domain of intergroup understanding as assessed by interview and questionnaire data from 91 Caucasian and Hispanic adolescents.

TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of educational media use on young children's reading and pre-reading skills in the context of various family stressors (lack of economic resources, family conflict, and maternal depression).