Keiffer, who won the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship last year, also received an 2010 Exemplary Dissertation Award for his dissertation, The Development of Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in Adolescent Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates, which examines two specific English skills considered to be important in LM learners» language
development during early adolescence - morphological awareness (i.e., understanding of complex words as combinations of meaningful units) and vocabulary knowledge (i.e., knowledge of word meanings).
Not exact matches
We contend that childhood temperament shapes the manner in which individuals perceive their surroundings, which influences their social interactions in a reciprocal manner and eventual social and mental health outcomes.17 This dynamic is particularly evident in
early adolescence during which the emergence of the peer group as a more salient influence on
development coincides with sharp increases in psychopathology, 16 particularly SAD.6, 15,18 Temperament also shapes vital cognitive processes, such as attention and certain executive processes which provide the foundation from which children perceive and respond to social cues in the environment.
Data are drawn from the Rochester Youth
Development Study, a longitudinal study begun in 1988
during G2's
early adolescence (n = 1,000), which has collected prospective data on G2, their parents (G1), and now their G3 children.
Although there is an abundance of research demonstrating that the
early years are critical for healthy child
development (e.g., Hertzman and Power 2006), it is
during middle childhood that children's personalities, behaviors, and competencies consolidate into forms that persist into
adolescence and adulthood (Collins 1984).
Because negative life events were not assessed
during early adolescence and because offspring reports of maladaptive parenting were not obtained in 1975, it was not possible to investigate whether the model examined in the present report applies to the
development of suicidal behavior
during early and middle
adolescence.
Maltreatment
during infancy and
early childhood has been shown to negatively affect
early brain
development and can have repercussions into
adolescence and adulthood.
Maltreatment (child abuse or neglect)
during infancy and
early childhood has been shown to negatively affect
early brain
development and can have enduring repercussions into
adolescence and adulthood.
The main purpose of Phase IV (seventh grade - ninth grade) is to investigate how
earlier functioning and experiences in concert with contextual and maturational factors in adolescenc, influence social relationships, health, adjustment, and intellectual and academic
development during middle
adolescence.
The influence of concentrative meditation training on the
development of attention networks
during early adolescence.
The first year of life is a period of rapid
development critical to infants» health, emotional well - being and developmental trajectories.1, 2 The first signs of mental health problems are often exhibited
during infancy; however, the symptoms may be overlooked by parents and healthcare providers because they can be less intrusive when a child is young.3 — 8
Early onset of emotional or behavioural problems increases the risk of numerous adverse outcomes that persist into
adolescence and adulthood, such as delinquency, violence, substance abuse, mental health problems, teen pregnancies, school dropout and long - term unemployment.1, 2, 4, 9 — 14
Moreover, our research on Puerto Rican youth documents the role of culture in providing alternative developmental pathways of socio - emotional
development during early and middle
adolescence, which has been lacking in the literature.
There are strong increases in this function
during early childhood followed by a more progressive
development during late childhood and
adolescence, as brain processes related to executive control become progressively more refined and efficient.
The present investigation examines the impact of family, self, and peer systems, evaluated
during early adolescence, on the
development of interpersonal competence in young adulthood.
Rates of substance use and comorbid psychopathology peak
during adolescence, highlighting the need to identify transdiagnostic risk processes that cut across conditions and elucidate
early embedded risk factors for comorbidity across
development.
Parenting interventions that are delivered
during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention
during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in
early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on
Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent
development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.
Moreover, to date few studies have directly examined G × E at different periods in
development, particularly
during early adolescence.
Viding, Fontaine, Oliver, & Plomin [56], in their study on monozygotic twins, found that negative parental discipline operates as a non-shared environmental risk factor for developing CP
during the transition to
early adolescence, but not for the
development of CU traits.
The onset of a chronic illness
during adolescence likely has very different implications for
development than
earlier onset (Spirito, DeLawyer, & Stark, 1991).
A particular research focus has been to understand the
development of smoking
during the transition from
adolescence to
early adulthood [5].
Participants were 152 community - based
early adolescent individuals (72 female, 80 male; mean age 12.6 years, s.d. 0.4 years; range 11.4 — 13.7 years), from a larger sample of 2479 grade 6 students (from 97 separate schools, representative of Victorian school sector type and socioeconomic classification) as part of a broader adolescent
development study conducted at Orygen Youth Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, the aim of which was to investigate risk factors for psychopathology
during adolescence.
For example, using data from 977 participants in the Study of
Early Child Care and Youth
Development, Anderson and colleagues [36] found that lower maternal attachment and sensitivity, assessed objectively
during the preschool years, were associated with higher prevalence of obesity
during adolescence.
Adding to previous evidence on the importance of
early maternal depression, maternal depressive symptoms
during infancy were related to the
development of depressive symptoms in childhood and
adolescence even when other variables of potential relevance were controlled.
Longitudinal studies that span the transition from
early to middle
adolescence can examine whether disturbed eating behavior has implications for metabolic control
during this critical period of
development.