A5017743592- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Child Therapy and Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
National University of Singapore
2014-2018
Comparisons of cognitive processing in monolinguals and bilinguals have revealed a bilingual advantage inhibitory control. Recent studies demonstrated advantages associated with exposure to two languages infancy. However, the domain specificity scope infant infancy remains unclear. In present study, 114 monolingual infants were compared very basic task information processing—visual habituation—at 6 months age. Bilingual greater efficiency stimulus encoding as well improved recognition memory...
Previous studies revealing that monolingual and bilingual infants learn similar sounding words with comparable success are largely based on prior investigations involving single‐feature changes in the onset consonant of a word. There have been no infants' abilities to differentiated by vowels. In current study, 18‐month‐old ( n = 90) were compared their sensitivity vowel change when learning meanings words. Bilingual learned differing contrast, whereas English‐ Mandarin‐learning did not....
To construct their first lexicon, infants must determine the relationship between native phonological variation and meanings of words. This process is arguably more complex for bilingual learners who are often confronted with conflict: that lexically relevant in one language may be irrelevant other. In a series four experiments, present study investigated English-Mandarin infants' abilities to negotiate conflict introduced by learning both tone non-tone language. novel word task, children...
To succeed at cross-situational word learning, learners must infer word-object mappings by attending to the statistical co-occurrences of novel objects and labels across multiple encounters. While past studies have investigated this as a learning mechanism for infants monolingual adults, bilinguals' abilities yet be tested. Here we compared monolinguals' performance on paradigm that featured phonologically distinct pairs (e.g. BON-DEET) similar varied single consonant or vowel segment...
Child maltreatment is associated with significant negative long-term outcomes. Behaviors considered to be more serious and abusive are likely identified as reported. Therefore, studying child perceptions among professionals the public who regularly work children could inform practice. Existing studies examining professionals' public's of have reported mixed findings, motivating a comprehensive study perceptions. Our compared perceived abusiveness seriousness behaviors (a) across professional...
Despite evidence showing the negative impact of physical punishment and psychological discipline on children’s development, these forms remain accepted normative in many Asian societies. We examined extent to which parents used a combination physical, psychological, non-violent discipline, identified factors contributed choices. Participants were 747 Singaporean (80.7% mothers) with child between age 0 17. The ICAST-P an adapted version Discipline Interview assessed participants’ actual use...
Parents utilize a variety of methods in disciplining children, with some these approaches garnering more research attention than others. For example, the use physical punishment has been widely debated topic though previous studies have consistently found associations between experiences and later adjustment difficulties. However, disciplinary are seldom used isolation thus rendering it challenging to explore how specific discipline strategies employed by parents may affect outcomes...
Tinkle Friend is the national chatline providing support, advice, and information to primary school children in Singapore. Most research has focused on examining service statistics clients’ experiences with using service. However, contents of chats are a valuable resource understanding children’s perspectives. The study aimed explore what contributed mental health distress their related help-seeking from people around them. Fifty-seven (approximately 20%) health-related logged between March...
Background: Physical discipline is a widely-studied parenting practice given its association with numerous negative outcomes, such as increased aggression and poor parent-child relationships. While research on this topic has been steadily growing, most studies have utilised quantitative data obtained from parents’ perspectives the topic. As such, less known about heterogeneous experiences of children who had received physical punishment which may be better represented in qualitative...
Physical punishment is associated with numerous negative child outcomes, including poor adjustment, antisocial behavior and parent-child relationships. Despite the extensively documented consequences, many parents continue to use it. This qualitative study examines parents’ motivations for using physical punishment, which may provide crucial insights facilitate interventions that reduce its use. The addresses a knowledge gap by exploring contextual nuances of punishment. Twenty (six fathers)...
Singapore is known as one of the safest countries in world, where there are low physical crime rates. However, past studies suggest that low-income families – especially those living public rental housing (i.e., social housing) tend to experience more community violence, which associated with poorer developmental outcomes. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, this study investigated factors affecting perceptions neighborhood safety 25 parents their adolescent...