A5085128900- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Family Support in Illness
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Stanford University
2015-2024
Graduate School USA
2018-2022
University of Novi Sad
2021
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2021
Institute of Economic Sciences
2021
Palo Alto University
2019
Oakland University
2011
Stanford Medicine
2011
Lewis & Clark College
2010
University of British Columbia
2008-2009
A developmental cascade model linking competence and symptoms was tested in a study of normative, urban school sample 205 children (initially 8 to 12 years old). Internalizing externalizing academic were assessed by multiple methods at the outset after 7, 10, 20 years. series nested models through structural equation modeling. The final indicated 2 hypothesized effects: Externalizing problems evident childhood appeared undermine adolescence, which subsequently showed negative effect on...
Masten, A. S., and J. Obradović. 2008. Disaster preparation recovery: lessons from research on resilience in human development. Ecology Society 13(1): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02282-130109
This study examined the direct and interactive effects of stress reactivity family adversity on socioemotional cognitive development in three hundred thirty‐eight 5‐ to 6‐year‐old children. Neurobiological was measured as respiratory sinus arrhythmia salivary cortisol responses social, cognitive, sensory, emotional challenges. Adaptation assessed using child, parent, teacher reports externalizing symptoms, prosocial behaviors, school engagement, academic competence. Results revealed...
Patterns of continuity and change in competence resilience over the transition to adulthood were examined relation adversity psychosocial resources, with a focus on adaptive resources that may be particularly important for this transition. Variable-focused person-focused analyses drew data from Project Competence longitudinal study school cohort followed 20 years childhood through emerging (EA) into young (YA) excellent retention (90%). Success age-salient developmental tasks EA YA was...
Associations among internalizing, externalizing, and social competence were examined in a longitudinal cohort ( N = 205) of 8‐ to 12‐year‐old children reassessed after 7, 10, 20 years. Theoretically informed nested structural equation models tested interconnections broad multi‐informant constructs across four developmental periods. Follow‐up analyses gender invariance, measurement age effects, putative common causes. Key model comparisons indicated robust negative paths from internalizing...
BackgroundA previous study in Pakistan assessed the effectiveness of delivering responsive stimulation and enhanced nutrition interventions to young children. Responsive significantly improved children's cognitive, language, motor development at 2 years age. Both parenting skills, with showing larger effects. In this follow-up study, we investigated whether had benefits on healthy care 4 age.MethodsWe implemented a initial, community-based cluster-randomised trial, which was conducted...
Abstract It has become increasingly apparent that publishing research on child development from certain countries is especially challenging. These have been referred to collectively as the Majority World, Global South, non‐WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic), or low‐ middle‐income countries. The aim of this paper draw attention these persistent challenges, provide constructive recommendations contribute better representation children in research. In paper, we outline...
Abstract Longitudinal growth trajectories of reading and math achievement were studied in four primary school grade cohorts (GCs) a large urban district to examine academic risk resilience homeless highly mobile (H/HM) students. Initial was assessed when student the second, third, fourth, fifth grades, again 12 18 months later. Achievement H/HM students compared low-income but nonmobile all other tested district, controlling for well-established covariates achievement: sex, ethnicity,...
Growing evidence supports the biological sensitivity to context theory, which posits that physiologically reactive children, as indexed by autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity laboratory stressors, are more susceptible both negative and positive environmental influences than their low peers. High is a risk factor for behavioral health problems in of high adversity, whereas contexts adversity it has been found promote adaptation. However, several studies have shown opposite effect,...
Abstract Studies show interpersonal callousness (IC) plays an important role in understanding persistent antisocial behaviors; however, it remains unclear whether IC is a unidimensional construct, represented by invariant behavioral indexes and stable across different developmental periods. This study explores the structure stability of using parent teacher reports behaviors cohort 506 inner-city boys assessed annually from ages 8 to 16. Results support unidimensionality construct childhood...
This study examined the unique longitudinal effects linking academic competence, social and internalizing symptoms from childhood to adulthood. A multimethod multi-informant approach was used assess psychopathology competence in 205 participants during four developmental periods. Social had a cascading effect on adolescence, whereas emerging adulthood dual young Results suggested cascade beginning with externalizing childhood, which contributed lower achievement turn influenced
This study investigates the dynamic interplay between teacher–child relationship quality and children's behaviors across kindergarten first grade to predict academic competence in grade. Using a sample of 338 ethnically diverse 5‐year‐old children, nested path analytic models were conducted examine bidirectional pathways quality. Low self‐regulation fall, as indexed by inattention impulsive behaviors, predicted more conflict with teachers spring this effect persisted into Conflict low...
This study contributes to the understanding of how early parenting interventions implemented in low- and middle-income countries during first 2 years children's lives are sustained longitudinally promote cognitive skills preschoolers. We employed path analytic procedures examine family processes-the quality home stimulation maternal scaffolding behaviors-as underlying mechanisms through which a responsive intervention uniquely predicted verbal intelligence, performance executive functioning....
Parenting is a cognitive, emotional, and behavioral endeavor, yet limited research investigates parents' executive functions emotion regulation as predictors of how parents interact with their children. The current study multimethod investigation parental self-regulation in relation to the quality parenting behavior parent-child interactions diverse sample kindergarten-age Using path analyses, we tested parent (inhibitory control) lack strategies uniquely relate both sensitive/responsive...
Direct assessments of executive functions (EFs) are increasingly used in research and clinical settings, with a central assumption that they assess “universal” underlying skills. Their use is spreading globally, raising questions about the cultural appropriateness devised Western industrialized countries. We selectively reviewed multidisciplinary evidence theory to identify sets preferences may be at odds implicit assumptions EF assessments. These relate motivation compliance; expectations...
Boys who exhibit interpersonal callousness (IC), hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), inattention (IN), and conduct problems (CP) may be at risk for exhibiting persistent delinquent behavior. However, few studies have established the distinctiveness of these constructs or examined their relative contributions to prediction behavior across different developmental periods. This study explores issues using boys from youngest (1st grade, N = 849), middle (4th 868), oldest (7th 856) cohorts Pittsburgh...
Abstract Civic engagement was studied in relation to overall development adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young adulthood examine how earlier activity involvement success prior concurrent age-salient domains of competence may contribute 2 forms civic (citizenship volunteering). Data on 163 youth were drawn from a longitudinal study normative, urban school sample. Results indicate that adolescence predict citizenship volunteering 10 15 years later. As hypothesized, however, the level...
To examine associations between autonomic nervous system and adrenocortical reactivity to laboratory stressors buccal cell telomere length (BTL) in children.
Research Findings: Effects of parenting quality on the academic functioning young homeless children were examined using data from 58 ages 4 to 7 and their parents during stay at an emergency shelter. Parenting quality, child executive function, intellectual functioning, risk status assessed in shelter, teacher reports obtained when began kindergarten or 1st grade. As hypothesized, was associated with children's success, this effect mediated by function skills child. also had a moderating...