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A developmental model of financial capability: A framework for promoting a successful transition to adulthood 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
This study proposes a developmental model of financial capability to understand the process by which young adults acquire the financial knowledge and behaviors needed to manage full-time adult social ...
Adolescent home-leaving and the transition to adulthood: A psychosocial and behavioural study in the slums of Nairobi 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Home-leaving is considered an important marker of the transition to adulthood and is usually framed as an individual decision. We move beyond this limited assumption to examine a broader conceptualiza...
Does parental psychological control relate to internalizing and externalizing problems in early childhood? An examination using the Berkeley puppet in... 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Parental psychological control has been linked to symptoms of psychopathology in adolescence, yet less is known about its correlates in childhood. The current study is among the first to address wheth...
Finding the roots of adolescent aggressive behaviour: A test of three developmental pathways 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Aggressive behaviours in adolescence often originate in early development. This study tested three longitudinal pathways starting in early childhood, in a sample of 325 Belgian participants (162 girls...
Parental employment and child behaviors: Do parenting practices underlie these relationships? 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
This study examined whether hours of parental employment were associated with child behaviors via parenting practices. The sample included 2,271 Australian children aged 4–5 years at baseline. Two-wav...
The intergenerational congruence of mothers' and preschoolers' narrative affective content and narrative coherence 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Intergenerational congruence of mothers’ and preschoolers’ narratives about the mother–child relationship was examined in a sample of 198 Hispanic (59.1%), Black (19.2%), and White (21.7%) mothers and...
Young Chinese children's anger and distress: Emotion category and intensity identified by the time course of behaviors 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
A hierarchical cluster analysis of the time course of the videotaped reactions of 75 Chinese 2–4-year olds to mothers’ toy-removal identified Distress, Low Anger, and High Anger behavior clusters. Ang...
Female pubertal timing and problem behaviour: The role of culture 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
We tested the peer-socialization/contextual-amplification explanation for the link between early female puberty and problem behaviour. We propose that in cultures with high tolerance for adolescent he...
Measurement and associations of pregnancy risk factors with genetic influences, postnatal environmental influences, and toddler behavior 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
This study demonstrates the unique contributions of perinatal risk and genetic and environmental influences on child behavior using data from 561 domestic US adoption triads (birth mothers, adopted ch...
Age-related differences in evaluating developmental stability 10 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Two studies examined the hypothesis that the evaluation of developmental stability changes across adulthood. Results of Study 1 (N = 119) supported the expectation that older adults (M age = 65.29 yea...
