Devin Smart
Biographic Data
| ID | 94786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devin Smart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devin |
| FAMILY NAME | Smart |
| SIGNATURE | SMART D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Institute of Family Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3490-2048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Reproduction of Urban Capitalism: Street Food and the Working Day in Colonial Mombasa
This article argues that street food was an essential part of the social reproduction of Mombasa's working class during the colonial period. Like in other expanding capitalist cities, as Mombasa grew, urban workers lived further from their place of employment, which meant they could not return home for their midday meal. Street-food vendors provided them lunch at low prices in convenient locations, and therefore reproduced the working day by prov…
Provisioning the Posho: Labor Migration and Working-Class Food Systems on the Early-Colonial Kenyan Coast
Engaging questions about social reproduction, migrant labor, and food provisioning, this article examines the emergence of a working-class food system on the coast of Kenya during the early decades of the twentieth century. Like elsewhere in Africa, labor migrants in Kenya's port city of Mombasa and on nearby plantations were provisioned with food rations, which were part of what Patrick Harries calls a “racial paternalism” that structured many l…
Safariland: Tourism, Development and the Marketing of Kenya in the Post-Colonial World
This article explores the role of tourism in the development plans of Kenya during the 1960s and 1970s, examining what this reveals about the new opportunities and constrictions that officials encountered as they tried to globally reconfigure the place of their new decolonizing nation in the post-colonial world. These themes are explored by examining the political economy of development and tourism, the marketing infrastructures that Kenyan offic…
Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood
BackgroundReading difficulties (RDs) and behaviour problems (BPs) are two common childhood problems that have a high degree of stability and often negatively affect well-being in both the short and longer terms.AimsThe study aimed to shed light on the unique and joint consequences of these two childhood problems for educational and occupational outcomes in early adulthood.SampleData were drawn from a life-course longitudinal study of psychosocial…
Developing the racial city: Conflict, solidarity and urban traders in late-colonial Mombasa
Much of the scholarly literature on race and decolonization in East Africa focuses on how this period created new and exacerbated existing racial tensions, divisions and conflicts between diverse coastal communities that came to increasingly identify or be identified as "African" or "Arab." While this article will examine such a moment in which these two groups came into conflict, it will also consider the possibility and nature of solidarity bet…
Longitudinal Predictors of Alcohol‐Related Harms During the Transition to Adulthood
While a range of factors have been found to increase the likelihood of alcohol‐related harms among young people, little is known about their relative importance. This article aimed to identify the risks for alcohol‐related harms at an age when alcohol use and problems tend to peak in Australia (19–20 years). A wide range of concurrent and antecedent factors from multiple domains were examined using path analysis, including individual characterist…
How has the relationship between parental education and child outcomes changed in Australia since the 1980s
This paper examines how the relationship between parents' educational achievement (a marker of their socio‐economic status) and children's early developmental outcomes has evolved in Australia since the early 1980s. The specific focus of this paper is whether the gradient in children's early developmental outcomes by parents' education has changed since the 1980s. A comparative analysis of two surveys is undertaken that follows Australian cohorts…
Predictors of Positive Development in Emerging Adulthood
Psychosocial Precursors and Correlates of Differing Internalizing Trajectories from 3 to 15 Years 1
Psychosocial precursors and correlates of parent‐reported internalizing behavior trajectories across the age span of 3–15 years were explored using a community‐based cohort of Australian children. Six internalizing trajectories had previously been identified for both girls (N = 810) and boys (N = 874) in this sample, comprising stable low, high, decreasing, and increasing pathways. Infancy and toddler temperamental traits (inhibition/shyness, irr…
Connections between Temperament and Social Development: A Review
This paper critically reviews the literature on the links between temperament and social development in children and adolescents. Social development is broadly defined to include externalizing and internalizing behaviour problems, prosocial behaviour and social competence. It concludes that there are clear links between specific dimensions of temperament and particular aspects of social development. Examples include the association of negative re…
Civic responsibility among Australian adolescents: Testing two competing models
The development of civic responsibility is considered to be an important component of healthy adolescent development. However, the study of its development has been relatively neglected and few studies have attempted to ground understanding of its development in a theoretical framework. The present study operationalized civic responsibility as attitudes and behaviors relating to political and community issues that are beneficial to society and co…
Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Temperament: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to the Late Teens
OBJECTIVE: To replicate an earlier Finnish study by Keltikangas-Järvinen et al. (5) reporting that the APOE genotype is associated with temperamental traits involving increased activity. METHODS: DNA was collected from 683 Australian children who had participated in a longitudinal study of childhood temperament from 4 to 8 months up to 17 to 18 years. Associations were examined between APOE genotype and a range of measures of activity and hyperac…
Gender differences in aggression in childhood: Implications for a peaceful world
Seven waves of data on 300 families from a large-scale longitudinal study were analysed to assess gender differences from infancy to 8 years of age. Parental ratings of temperament, behaviour, and development were available at each sampling point. Information from Maternal and Child Health nurses, primary school teachers and psychometric test data were also available. Analyses of each wave of data revealed few gender differences in infancy and th…
Civic responsibility among Australian adolescents: Testing two competing models
The development of civic responsibility is considered to be an important component of healthy adolescent development. However, the study of its development has been relatively neglected and few studies have attempted to ground understanding of its development in a theoretical framework. The present study operationalized civic responsibility as attitudes and behaviors relating to political and community issues that are beneficial to society and co…
Psychosocial Precursors and Correlates of Differing Internalizing Trajectories from 3 to 15 Years 1
Psychosocial precursors and correlates of parent‐reported internalizing behavior trajectories across the age span of 3–15 years were explored using a community‐based cohort of Australian children. Six internalizing trajectories had previously been identified for both girls (N = 810) and boys (N = 874) in this sample, comprising stable low, high, decreasing, and increasing pathways. Infancy and toddler temperamental traits (inhibition/shyness, irr…
Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood
BackgroundReading difficulties (RDs) and behaviour problems (BPs) are two common childhood problems that have a high degree of stability and often negatively affect well-being in both the short and longer terms.AimsThe study aimed to shed light on the unique and joint consequences of these two childhood problems for educational and occupational outcomes in early adulthood.SampleData were drawn from a life-course longitudinal study of psychosocial…
Provisioning the Posho: Labor Migration and Working-Class Food Systems on the Early-Colonial Kenyan Coast
Engaging questions about social reproduction, migrant labor, and food provisioning, this article examines the emergence of a working-class food system on the coast of Kenya during the early decades of the twentieth century. Like elsewhere in Africa, labor migrants in Kenya's port city of Mombasa and on nearby plantations were provisioned with food rations, which were part of what Patrick Harries calls a “racial paternalism” that structured many l…
Developing the racial city: Conflict, solidarity and urban traders in late-colonial Mombasa
Much of the scholarly literature on race and decolonization in East Africa focuses on how this period created new and exacerbated existing racial tensions, divisions and conflicts between diverse coastal communities that came to increasingly identify or be identified as "African" or "Arab." While this article will examine such a moment in which these two groups came into conflict, it will also consider the possibility and nature of solidarity bet…
Predictors of Positive Development in Emerging Adulthood
How has the relationship between parental education and child outcomes changed in Australia since the 1980s
This paper examines how the relationship between parents' educational achievement (a marker of their socio‐economic status) and children's early developmental outcomes has evolved in Australia since the early 1980s. The specific focus of this paper is whether the gradient in children's early developmental outcomes by parents' education has changed since the 1980s. A comparative analysis of two surveys is undertaken that follows Australian cohorts…
Safariland: Tourism, Development and the Marketing of Kenya in the Post-Colonial World
This article explores the role of tourism in the development plans of Kenya during the 1960s and 1970s, examining what this reveals about the new opportunities and constrictions that officials encountered as they tried to globally reconfigure the place of their new decolonizing nation in the post-colonial world. These themes are explored by examining the political economy of development and tourism, the marketing infrastructures that Kenyan offic…
Gender differences in aggression in childhood: Implications for a peaceful world
Seven waves of data on 300 families from a large-scale longitudinal study were analysed to assess gender differences from infancy to 8 years of age. Parental ratings of temperament, behaviour, and development were available at each sampling point. Information from Maternal and Child Health nurses, primary school teachers and psychometric test data were also available. Analyses of each wave of data revealed few gender differences in infancy and th…
Gender differences in aggression in childhood: Implications for a peaceful world
Seven waves of data on 300 families from a large-scale longitudinal study were analysed to assess gender differences from infancy to 8 years of age. Parental ratings of temperament, behaviour, and development were available at each sampling point. Information from Maternal and Child Health nurses, primary school teachers and psychometric test data were also available. Analyses of each wave of data revealed few gender differences in infancy and th…
Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Temperament: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to the Late Teens
OBJECTIVE: To replicate an earlier Finnish study by Keltikangas-Järvinen et al. (5) reporting that the APOE genotype is associated with temperamental traits involving increased activity. METHODS: DNA was collected from 683 Australian children who had participated in a longitudinal study of childhood temperament from 4 to 8 months up to 17 to 18 years. Associations were examined between APOE genotype and a range of measures of activity and hyperac…
Connections between Temperament and Social Development: A Review
This paper critically reviews the literature on the links between temperament and social development in children and adolescents. Social development is broadly defined to include externalizing and internalizing behaviour problems, prosocial behaviour and social competence. It concludes that there are clear links between specific dimensions of temperament and particular aspects of social development. Examples include the association of negative re…
Civic responsibility among Australian adolescents: Testing two competing models
The development of civic responsibility is considered to be an important component of healthy adolescent development. However, the study of its development has been relatively neglected and few studies have attempted to ground understanding of its development in a theoretical framework. The present study operationalized civic responsibility as attitudes and behaviors relating to political and community issues that are beneficial to society and co…
Psychosocial Precursors and Correlates of Differing Internalizing Trajectories from 3 to 15 Years 1
Psychosocial precursors and correlates of parent‐reported internalizing behavior trajectories across the age span of 3–15 years were explored using a community‐based cohort of Australian children. Six internalizing trajectories had previously been identified for both girls (N = 810) and boys (N = 874) in this sample, comprising stable low, high, decreasing, and increasing pathways. Infancy and toddler temperamental traits (inhibition/shyness, irr…
Predictors of Positive Development in Emerging Adulthood
Longitudinal Predictors of Alcohol‐Related Harms During the Transition to Adulthood
While a range of factors have been found to increase the likelihood of alcohol‐related harms among young people, little is known about their relative importance. This article aimed to identify the risks for alcohol‐related harms at an age when alcohol use and problems tend to peak in Australia (19–20 years). A wide range of concurrent and antecedent factors from multiple domains were examined using path analysis, including individual characterist…
How has the relationship between parental education and child outcomes changed in Australia since the 1980s
This paper examines how the relationship between parents' educational achievement (a marker of their socio‐economic status) and children's early developmental outcomes has evolved in Australia since the early 1980s. The specific focus of this paper is whether the gradient in children's early developmental outcomes by parents' education has changed since the 1980s. A comparative analysis of two surveys is undertaken that follows Australian cohorts…
Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood
BackgroundReading difficulties (RDs) and behaviour problems (BPs) are two common childhood problems that have a high degree of stability and often negatively affect well-being in both the short and longer terms.AimsThe study aimed to shed light on the unique and joint consequences of these two childhood problems for educational and occupational outcomes in early adulthood.SampleData were drawn from a life-course longitudinal study of psychosocial…
Developing the racial city: Conflict, solidarity and urban traders in late-colonial Mombasa
Much of the scholarly literature on race and decolonization in East Africa focuses on how this period created new and exacerbated existing racial tensions, divisions and conflicts between diverse coastal communities that came to increasingly identify or be identified as "African" or "Arab." While this article will examine such a moment in which these two groups came into conflict, it will also consider the possibility and nature of solidarity bet…
Safariland: Tourism, Development and the Marketing of Kenya in the Post-Colonial World
This article explores the role of tourism in the development plans of Kenya during the 1960s and 1970s, examining what this reveals about the new opportunities and constrictions that officials encountered as they tried to globally reconfigure the place of their new decolonizing nation in the post-colonial world. These themes are explored by examining the political economy of development and tourism, the marketing infrastructures that Kenyan offic…
Provisioning the Posho: Labor Migration and Working-Class Food Systems on the Early-Colonial Kenyan Coast
Engaging questions about social reproduction, migrant labor, and food provisioning, this article examines the emergence of a working-class food system on the coast of Kenya during the early decades of the twentieth century. Like elsewhere in Africa, labor migrants in Kenya's port city of Mombasa and on nearby plantations were provisioned with food rations, which were part of what Patrick Harries calls a “racial paternalism” that structured many l…
The Reproduction of Urban Capitalism: Street Food and the Working Day in Colonial Mombasa
This article argues that street food was an essential part of the social reproduction of Mombasa's working class during the colonial period. Like in other expanding capitalist cities, as Mombasa grew, urban workers lived further from their place of employment, which meant they could not return home for their midday meal. Street-food vendors provided them lunch at low prices in convenient locations, and therefore reproduced the working day by prov…
Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Personality (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Temperament (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works)