Jennifer E Lansford
Biographic Data
| ID | 80766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer E Lansford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lansford |
| SIGNATURE | LANSFORD J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1956-4917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 144 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 637 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 142 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries
Five issues about three cognitive caregiving practices are addressed in mothers, fathers, and children’s other caregivers in nationally representative samples from 51 low- and middle-income countries with 159,959 36- to 59-month-old children. The five issues include base rates of cognitive caregiving practices of mothers, fathers, and other caregivers of young children; associations of cognitive caregiving practices of the three caregivers with c…
Subtypes of childhood social withdrawal and adult relationship and parenting outcomes
The aims of the current 30 year prospective study were to determine: (1) whether socially withdrawn kindergarten children are less likely than others to enter serious romantic relationships or become parents by age 34, (2) whether socially withdrawn children parent differently than non-withdrawn individuals when they grow up, and (3) whether subtypes of withdrawal are associated with different adult outcomes. Following Harrist et al. (1997), 558 …
A Rapid Review of the Technology Megatrend’s Risks and Benefits for Families: Examining Assisted Reproductive Technology, Communication Technology, Digital Interventions, and Remote Work
In 2020, the United Nations identified four global megatrends shaping how people live. Among these megatrends, technology strongly influences families worldwide, especially through assisted reproductive technology, communication technology, digital interventions, and telecommuting. The current rapid review aimed to synthesize available literature on how, in different ways, these four technology-related areas impact families’ formation and charact…
The randomized controlled trial Fast Track multilevel intervention for children with early‐emerging conduct problems breaks intergenerational transmission of violence across three generations
BACKGROUND: Domestic violence mechanisms are frequently transmitted across generations, representing a global issue demanding particular attention. This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of intimate partner violence (IPV) and parent-to-child violence (PCV) and whether participating in a multilevel preventive intervention (Fast Track) breaks this transmission. METHODS: In high-risk elementary schools located in the United State…
Positive youth development from early adolescence to young adulthood in nine countries: Intercepts, trajectories, and associations with parental warmth and behavioral control
This longitudinal study concerns initial levels, trajectories of growth, and associations of positive youth development (PYD) with parental warmth and behavioral control from early adolescence to young adulthood. Participants included 1338 adolescents (M = 13.25, SD = 1.04, years; 50% girls) from nine countries trichotomized by income level based on World Bank groupings of economies as well as cultural, sociological, and psychological considerati…
Reflections on Past, Present, and Future Parenting Research
A Longitudinal Study of Parental Solicitation, Rule-Setting, and Psychological Control as Predictors of Adolescent Disclosure across More Individualistic and More Collectivistic Countries
Although autonomy-relevant parenting practices (solicitation, rule-setting, and psychological control) have been linked to adolescent disclosure, little is known about how these practices operate across cultural contexts. Existing studies often examined these practices in isolation or relied on cross-sectional designs, limiting understanding of their unique relations over time. This study examined these associations longitudinally across eight co…
Multiple Serial Mediation Modeling of Remembered Parental Acceptance in Childhood Predicts Adults’ Marital Adjustment: The Role of Self-Differentiation, Depression, and Anxiety
Guided by interpersonal acceptance–rejection theory, this study examined whether associations between recollections of parental acceptance in childhood and adults’ marital adjustment were mediated by self-differentiation, depression, and anxiety. A total of 324 married participants from Pakistan (Mean age = 32.99, SD = 8.53, 49.7% men) completed the Adult Parental Acceptance–Rejection Questionnaire, Differentiation of Self Inventory, Dyadic Adjus…
Beyond the individual: Household activity of daily living limitations, urban-rural residence, and mental health
Activity of daily living (ADL) limitations, such as difficulty walking or dressing, are increasing as populations age and experience more chronic conditions. To understand the scope of ADLs and make interventions more effective, it is important to examine ADLs beyond the individual to other levels and contexts, such as the household. Thus, using household and individual level survey data in India, we assess how household ADLs relate to the mental…
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture
Primals are beliefs about the world's basic character (e.g., good, safe, enticing, or alive) that are associated with well-being and behavioral patterns. But primals' developmental origins remain mysterious, hampering theoretical understanding and clinical efforts to change primals. The current preregistered study of 905 families from 11 cultural groups adopts bioecological theory to examine (1) variance in primals accounted for by individual, fa…
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study
The present study explored the bidirectional longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and school performance during adolescence in six countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States). A total sample of 884 adolescents (T1: M age = 10.34 years, SD = 0.69) reported their prosocial behavior, while adolescents' mothers ( N = 871) and fathers ( N = 773) reported their children's school performance over…
Physical activity and two‐year change in adolescent well‐being in nine countries
The benefits of physical activity (PA) for well‐being are well known; however, studies examining longitudinal effects across diverse international samples in late adolescence are limited. This study advances prior work by combining a partial longitudinal design with a multinational sample to assess the predictive effect of PA on biennial change in older adolescents' well‐being, while testing for sex differences. The sample included 903 adolescent…
The impact of Covid‐19 on the peer relationships of adolescents around the world: A rapid systematic review
The main objective of this rapid systematic review was to examine how the COVID‐19 pandemic impacted peer relationships for adolescents (10–25 years of age) around the globe. We focused on four indices of peer relationships: (1) loneliness, (2) social connectedness, (3) social support, and (4) social media use. In addition, we examined gender and age differences. Four databases (APA PsychInfo, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) were searched for…
How does perceived social support relate to human thriving? A systematic review with meta-analyses
21, 95% CI [.047, .454]. Different types and sources of support demonstrated similar associations with mental health and educational functioning, but varying associations with physical health, risk-taking behaviors, and work performance. Associations between support and physical health and risk-taking behaviors were larger in childhood and adolescence than in emerging or later adulthood. Associations between support and educational functioning we…
Shifting school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and other sexual and gender minority students: An impact analysis of Florida’s “don’t say gay” law
The worldwide impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on adolescents' experiences with family, peers, school, and civic engagement
During the early years of the 2020s, adolescents worldwide faced the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This special section includes four review articles examining how the pandemic influenced youth family relationships, peer relationships, experiences at school, and their civic engagement. These reviews are complemented by four insightful commentaries and five contributions from youth reflecting on their personal experiences during this …
Parent–adolescent discrepancies in perceptions of parental warmth: Cross‐cultural differences and longitudinal associations with internalizing symptoms
Research suggests that adolescents often perceive parental behaviors-such as expressions of warmth and affection-differently than their parents do. These parent-adolescent discrepancies offer meaningful insight into family functioning during adolescence and adolescent mental health, though existing findings remain mixed. Grounded in interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (IPARTheory), this study investigates longitudinal, bidirectional associa…
Positive risk taking across the world
Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk taking, which can benefit adolescent development. So far, research on positive risk taking has been limited to Western samples. This study examined a self-report scale of positive risk taking with a sample of 962 adolescents (M age = 18.51 years) from nine diverse countries: …
Precursors of young adults' world beliefs across cultures: A machine learning approach
Future Orientation in Adolescents: Development and the Roles of Parenting in Different Income Countries
Future orientation – the ability to envision and plan for the future – is a crucial task during adolescence. However, little is known about how adolescents’ future orientation develops, how it is influenced by parenting dimensions, and how it varies across countries with different income levels and cultural values. This longitudinal study addresses this gap by exploring how parents’ monitoring, family obligations, individualism, collectivism, and…
The interaction among household chaos, parental rejection, and parental control in predicting adolescent executive function
The present study examines the interaction between household chaos, parental control, and parental rejection/acceptance (i.e., warmth) in predicting adolescent executive function (EF) skills in a diverse sample. We tested a three-way interaction to understand the direct and interactive effects of household chaos, parental control, and parental rejection/acceptance on adolescent EF within a short-term longitudinal study design. Participants were 1…
Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries
Primal world beliefs (“primals”) capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger, socioeconomic status, parental warmth, harsh parenting, psychological control, and autonomy granting from ages 8 to 16 years. At age 22 y…
Theories of parenting and child development in different cultural contexts
Supporting Families Through Policies: Effective and Recommended Policies for Communication Technology, Digital Interventions, and Remote Work
Among the megatrends the United Nations identified in 2020, technology strongly influences how families live. Communication technology, digital interventions, and remote work require families to integrate technology into their activities, use digital tools responsibly, and protect themselves from technology-related risks. Family-oriented policies are needed to guide families in these tasks because the family represents the primary nurturing insti…
Longitudinal associations between positive parenting and youths’ engagement in sexting behaviors: The mediating role of filial self-efficacy beliefs
Romantic relationship patterns in young adulthood and their developmental antecedents
The delayed entry into marriage that characterizes modern society raises questions about young adults' romantic relationship trajectories and whether patterns found to characterize adolescent romantic relationships persist into young adulthood. The current study traced developmental transitions into and out of romantic relationships from age 18 through age 25 in a sample of 511 young adults. The developmental antecedents of these different romant…
Parenting Attributions and Attitudes in Cross-Cultural Perspective
SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS Objective. This article used the Parenting Across Cultures Project to evaluate similarities and differences in mean levels and relative agreement between mothers' and fathers' attributions and attitudes in parenting in 9 countries. Design. Mothers and fathers reported their perceptions of causes of successes and failures in caregiving and their progressive versus authoritarian childrearing attitudes. Gender and cultural similari…
Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were interviewed when children were, on average, 10 years old and again when children were 12 years old. …
Does Family Structure Matter? A Comparison of Adoptive, Two-Parent Biological, Single-Mother, Stepfather, and Stepmother Households
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, we compared quality of family relationships and well-being across five different family structures with a particular focus on adoptive households. Four theoretical perspectives, each emphasizing the importance of different factors in determining relationship quality and well-being, guided this work and led us to compare adoptive families with families that include two biological pare…
Friendship Quality, Peer Group Affiliation, and Peer Antisocial Behavior as Moderators of the Link Between Negative Parenting and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior
Quality of peer relationships and perceived peer antisocial behavior were examined as moderators of the link between negative parenting and externalizing behavior problems in school from middle childhood to early adolescence. Data on negative parenting (i.e., unilateral parental decision making, low supervision and awareness, and harsh discipline) were collected from 362 parents in the summer preceding the adolescents' entry into Grade 6. Adolesc…
Agreement in Mother and Father Acceptance-Rejection, Warmth, and Hostility/Rejection/ Neglect of Children Across Nine Countries
The authors assessed whether mothers’ and fathers’ self-reports of acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect (HRN) of their preadolescent children differ cross-nationally and relative to the gender of the parent and child in 10 communities in 9 countries, including China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States ( N = 998 families). Mothers and fathers in all countries reported a…
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
The Interactive Effects of Marital Conflict and Divorce on Parent - Adult Children's Relationships
This study examines main effect and interactive models of the relations between marital conflict, divorce, and parent - adult child relationships and gender differences in these relations. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of a community sample (N = 585). Parental marital conflict and divorce were measured from age 5 through age 17 years. Mother-child and father-child relationship quality at age 22 years was assessed in terms of closeness…
Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross-cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are bidirectionally related to externalizing and internalizing behaviors from childhood to early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8-13. Multipl…
Deep Structure of the Human Affectional System: Introduction to Interpersonal Acceptance–Rejection Theory
Interpersonal acceptance–rejection theory (IPARTheory) proposes that across cultures and other sociodemographic groups, interpersonal acceptance and rejection consistently predict the psychological and behavioral adjustment of children and adults (Rohner, 1986, 2004). The goals of this article are to provide a description of the major tenets of IPARTheory, summarize findings from empirical tests of the theory, and suggest future directions tied t…
Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of…
Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries
Distinguishing between relational and physical aggression has become a key feature of many developmental studies in N orth A merica and W estern E urope, but very little information is available on relational and physical aggression in more diverse cultural contexts. This study examined the factor structure of, associations between, and gender differences in relational and physical aggression in C hina, C olombia, I taly, J ordan, K enya, the P h…
Developmental Precursors of Number of Sexual Partners From Ages 16 to 22: Risky Sexual Behavior
This study examines family and child characteristics, parent and peer relationships, and early adolescent behavior as statistical predictors of trajectories of number of sexual partners from mid-adolescence through early adulthood using data from 527 participants in the Child Development Project. Early adolescent developmental antecedents accounted for modest variance in number of sexual partners. Latent growth models revealed that African Americ…
Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures
We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing and internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents from 12 cultural groups. We did not find that single universal trajectories characterized adolescent externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures, but instead found significant heterogeneity in starting points and rates of change in both externalizing and internalizing sym…
Children's interactions in triads: Behavioral profiles and effects of gender and patterns of friendships among members
In all, 56 triads of same-sex 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade children were observed during an intimate discussion, a cooperative puzzle task, a competitive game, and free play. Observers coded triadic interaction using a Q sort and individual process ratings. Of particular interest was how gender and the pattern of friendship ties among group members related to children's behavior. Triads of girls were more intimate, exchanged more information, and we…
Early Adolescent Romantic Partner Status, Peer Standing, and Problem Behaviors
This study examined associations among early adolescent romantic relationships, peer standing, problem behaviors, and gender as a moderator of these associations, in a sample of 320 seventh-grade students. Popular and controversial status youth were more likely to have a romantic partner, whereas neglected status youth were less likely to have a romantic partner. Similarly, youth perceived as conventional and unconventional leaders were also more…
Mothers’ and Fathers’ Autonomy-Relevant Parenting: Longitudinal Links with Adolescents’ Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior
Parental acceptance–rejection and child prosocial behavior: Developmental transactions across the transition to adolescence in nine countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys
Promoting children's prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relations between parenting and prosocial behavior have to date been studied only in a narrow band of countries, mostly with mothers and not fathers, and child gender has infrequently been explored a…
Peer Rejection, Affiliation with Deviant Peers, Delinquency, and Risky Sexual Behavior
Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety conditions. The present study tested LH hypotheses concerning safety based on a 6-year longitudinal s…
Cultural Norms for Adult Corporal Punishment of Children and Societal Rates of Endorsement and Use of Violence
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that societal rates of corporal punishment of children predict societal levels of violence, using "culture" as the unit of analysis. DESIGN: Data were retrieved from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of anthropological records, which includes 186 cultural groups, to represent the world's 200 provinces based on diversity of language, economy, political organization, descent, and historical time. Independent coder…
Adolescence Amid a Pandemic: Short‐ and Long‐Term Implications
Members of the Society for Research on Adolescents COVID-19 Response Team offer this commentary to accompany this special issue of the Journal of Research on Adolescence regarding the impact of the pandemic on adolescents' social, emotional, and academic functioning. In addition to outlining the critical need for scholarly collaboration to address the global impact of this crisis on adolescent development, we argue that a broad investigative lens…
Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between Covid-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented families around the world with extraordinary challenges related to physical and mental health, economic security, social support, and education. The current study capitalizes on a longitudinal, cross-national study of parenting, adolescent development, and young adult competence to document the association between personal disruption during the pandemic and reported changes in internalizing and externalizing be…
Longitudinal associations between mothers’ and fathers’ anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents’ socioemotional functioning in nine countries
The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and …
Parenting Attributions and Attitudes in Diverse Cultural Contexts: Introduction to the Special Issue
SYNOPSIS This Introduction describes the conceptual rationale, the general methods of the Parenting Across Cultures Project, and the analytic plan adopted in the articles in this special issue. Each article that follows this Introduction describes the parenting context and mothers' and fathers' attributions for successes and failures in caregiving and progressive versus authoritarian childrearing attitudes in each of nine countries: China, Colomb…
Influences of Family Structure and Parental Conflict on Children's Well-Being
Elizabeth A. Vandewater, Jennifer E. Lansford, Influences of Family Structure and Parental Conflict on Children's Well-Being, Family Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, The Family as a Context for Health and Well-Being (Oct., 1998), pp. 323-330
Negative Effects of Close Social Relations
Toni C. Antonucci, Hiroko Akiyama, Jennifer E. Lansford, Negative Effects of Close Social Relations, Family Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, The Family as a Context for Health and Well-Being (Oct., 1998), pp. 379-384
Children's interactions in triads: Behavioral profiles and effects of gender and patterns of friendships among members
In all, 56 triads of same-sex 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade children were observed during an intimate discussion, a cooperative puzzle task, a competitive game, and free play. Observers coded triadic interaction using a Q sort and individual process ratings. Of particular interest was how gender and the pattern of friendship ties among group members related to children's behavior. Triads of girls were more intimate, exchanged more information, and we…
Impact of Positive and Negative Aspects of Marital Relationships and Friendships on Well-Being of Older Adults
This study examined associations between well-being and positive and negative aspects of social relationships among 128 married older adults with a best friend. Women were more depressed than men if they did not have a friend in whom to confide, but women who did have a friend in whom to confide reported lower levels of depressive symptomatology, closer to levels reported by men. Men's depressive symptomatology was not related to having a friend …
Theoretical Perspectives on Adoptive Families' Well-Being: Which Comparison Groups Are Most Appropriate
In this article, we review alternative approaches to selecting appropriate comparison groups when assessing the well-being of members in adoptive families. We consider four theoretical perspectives, each emphasizing the importance of different features of families in determining relationship quality and well-being. The four theoretical approaches reviewed in relation to adoption research include stigmatization, socialization, biological, and fami…
Does Family Structure Matter? A Comparison of Adoptive, Two-Parent Biological, Single-Mother, Stepfather, and Stepmother Households
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, we compared quality of family relationships and well-being across five different family structures with a particular focus on adoptive households. Four theoretical perspectives, each emphasizing the importance of different factors in determining relationship quality and well-being, guided this work and led us to compare adoptive families with families that include two biological pare…
A 12-Year Prospective Study of the Long-term Effects of Early Child Physical Maltreatment on Psychological, Behavioral, and Academic Problems in Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether child physical maltreatment early in life has long-term effects on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems independent of other characteristics associated with maltreatment. DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal study with data collected annually from 1987 through 1999. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Randomly selected, community-based samples of 585 children from the ongoing Child Development Project were recruited …
Differences Between Men and Women in Social Relations, Resource Deficits, and Depressive Symptomatology During Later Life in Four Nations
This article examines gender differences in social relations and resource deficits in France ( N = 553), Germany ( N = 516), Japan ( N = 491), and the United States ( N = 514). These data, from regionally representative samples, indicate few gender differences in quantity or quality of social relations, but that women are more likely than men to experience widowhood, illness, and financial strain. In all countries, more deficits and more negative…
Peer Rejection and Social Information-Processing Factors in the Development of Aggressive Behavior Problems in Children
The relation between social rejection and growth in antisocial behavior was investigated. In Study 1, 259 boys and girls (34% African American) were followed from Grades 1 to 3 (ages 6–8 years) to Grades 5 to 7 (ages 10–12 years). Early peer rejection predicted growth in aggression. In Study 2, 585 boys and girls (16% African American) were followed from kindergarten to Grade 3 (ages 5–8 years), and findings were replicated. Furthermore, early ag…
Friendship Quality, Peer Group Affiliation, and Peer Antisocial Behavior as Moderators of the Link Between Negative Parenting and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior
Quality of peer relationships and perceived peer antisocial behavior were examined as moderators of the link between negative parenting and externalizing behavior problems in school from middle childhood to early adolescence. Data on negative parenting (i.e., unilateral parental decision making, low supervision and awareness, and harsh discipline) were collected from 362 parents in the summer preceding the adolescents' entry into Grade 6. Adolesc…
Parent Academic Involvement as Related to School Behavior, Achievement, and Aspirations: Demographic Variations Across Adolescence
A longitudinal model of parent academic involvement, behavioral problems, achievement, and aspirations was examined for 463 adolescents, followed from 7th (approximately 12 years old) through 11th (approximately 16 years old) grades. Parent academic involvement in 7th grade was negatively related to 8th-grade behavioral problems and positively related to 11th-grade aspirations. There were variations across parental education levels and ethnicity:…
Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors
Background: Parents’ use of physical discipline has generated controversy related to concerns that its use is associated with adjustment problems such as aggression and delinquency in children. However, recent evidence suggests that there are ethnic differences in associations between physical discipline and children's adjustment. This study examined race as a moderator of the link between physical discipline and adolescent externalizing behavior…
Physical Discipline and Children's Adjustment: Cultural Normativeness as a Moderator
Interviews were conducted with 336 mother–child dyads (children's ages ranged from 6 to 17 years; mothers' ages ranged from 20 to 59 years) in China, India, Italy, Kenya, the Philippines, and Thailand to examine whether normativeness of physical discipline moderates the link between mothers' use of physical discipline and children's adjustment. Multilevel regression analyses revealed that physical discipline was less strongly associated with adve…
Special Reviewers
A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach to Social Relationships and Well-Being in the United States and Japan
This study examined associations between social relationships and psychological well-being through (a) quantitative analyses of surveys of representative samples ranging in age from 13 to 93 in the United States (N = 1498) and Japan (N = 1641) and (b) qualitative content analyses of 12 focus group discussions conducted separately with American and Japanese participants. Survey results revealed that having a spouse or a best friend was related mor…
A family process model of problem behaviors in adolescents
This study examines the ways in which different family processes and personal experiences of social contexts are related to the adjustment of adolescents in a subsample of 755 mother-child dyads drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households. Structural equation modeling was employed to examine a model in which joint family contexts (socioeconomic resources), mothers' and adolescents' experiences of outside-family contexts (perceived s…
Sibling relationships and best friendships in young adulthood: Warmth, conflict, and well‐being
Although much work addresses the importance of siblings and friendships in separate investigations, few studies simultaneously examine both relationships. Young adults ( N = 102, M age = 18.7) were surveyed about their friendships, their sibling relationships, and their psychological well‐being (assessed by self‐esteem and loneliness). Participants with harmonious (high warmth, low conflict) sibling relations and same‐gender friends had the highe…
Early Physical Abuse and Later Violent Delinquency: A Prospective Longitudinal Study
In this prospective longitudinal study of 574 children followed from age 5 to age 21, the authors examine the links between early physical abuse and violent delinquency and other socially relevant outcomes during late adolescence or early adulthood and the extent to which the child's race and gender moderate these links. Analyses of covariance indicated that individuals who had been physically abused in the first 5 years of life were at greater r…
Cultural Norms for Adult Corporal Punishment of Children and Societal Rates of Endorsement and Use of Violence
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that societal rates of corporal punishment of children predict societal levels of violence, using "culture" as the unit of analysis. DESIGN: Data were retrieved from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of anthropological records, which includes 186 cultural groups, to represent the world's 200 provinces based on diversity of language, economy, political organization, descent, and historical time. Independent coder…
Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment
This article reviews the research literature on links between parental divorce and children's short-term and long-term adjustment. First, I consider evidence regarding how divorce relates to children's externalizing behaviors, internalizing problems, academic achievement, and social relationships. Second, I examine timing of the divorce, demographic characteristics, children's adjustment prior to the divorce, and stigmatization as moderators of t…
Early Adolescent Romantic Partner Status, Peer Standing, and Problem Behaviors
This study examined associations among early adolescent romantic relationships, peer standing, problem behaviors, and gender as a moderator of these associations, in a sample of 320 seventh-grade students. Popular and controversial status youth were more likely to have a romantic partner, whereas neglected status youth were less likely to have a romantic partner. Similarly, youth perceived as conventional and unconventional leaders were also more…
Early Adolescents’ Social Standing in Peer Groups: Behavioral Correlates of Stability and Change
Parent Discipline Practices in an International Sample: Associations With Child Behaviors and Moderation by Perceived Normativeness
This study examined the associations of 11 discipline techniques with children’s aggressive and anxious behaviors in an international sample of mothers and children from 6 countries and determined whether any significant associations were moderated by mothers’ and children’s perceived normativeness of the techniques. Participants included 292 mothers and their 8- to 12-year-old children living in China, India, Italy, Kenya, Philippines, and Thail…
Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender
Background . The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a global perspective on corporal punishment by examining differences between mothers' and fathers' use of corporal punishment with daughters and sons in nine countries. Methods . Interviews were conducted with 1398 mothers, 1146 fathers, and 1417 children (age range = 7 to 10 years) in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. Results…
Developmental Precursors of Number of Sexual Partners From Ages 16 to 22: Risky Sexual Behavior
This study examines family and child characteristics, parent and peer relationships, and early adolescent behavior as statistical predictors of trajectories of number of sexual partners from mid-adolescence through early adulthood using data from 527 participants in the Child Development Project. Early adolescent developmental antecedents accounted for modest variance in number of sexual partners. Latent growth models revealed that African Americ…
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