Sentences with phrase «few developmental studies»

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In fact, the few studies that have looked at the arrangement's developmental effects suggest the opposite.

In her developmental psychology work at Yale University, she studied the role of maternal care in childhood on mothers» brain and changes in brain structure among mothers during the first few months postpartum.

«This model really helped us to reduce the complexity of the PS and the process to a few essential components,» says Björn Hegemann, lead author of a study published in the journal Developmental Cell.

Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games improve classroom performance and academic achievement, says Emma Blakey, PhD researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.

Lead study author Dr Keith Flaherty, director of developmental therapeutics at the MGH Cancer Centre, commented: «Until now, available therapies [for advanced melanoma] were few and unreliable.

There are a few longitudinal findings from structural neuroimaging studies spanning the developmental period discussed in this review.

Thus, it is perhaps surprising that very few fMRI studies have addressed the question of how the brain is functionally organized in childhood ASD, at developmental stages more proximal to the onset of the disorder (Akshoomoff et al., 2002; Amaral, 2010).

In fact, the study came out a few weeks ago that young kids that have monitors as games, infants, they have developmental delays.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

Higher academic achievement was observed in both lower and higher performing students in the few studies that used some form of either cognitive, developmental, or constructivist forms of pedagogical theory coupled with computer technologies.

Until recently, few studies have examined the effectiveness of anticipatory guidance in terms of child developmental outcomes, perhaps because of the bundling of developmental services with all other health promotion services.

The addition of 12 new studies to this review enabled the conduct of meta - analyses of a range of physical (for example, weight, length, head circumference, mid-thigh or leg circumference, salivary cortisol, sleep duration, mean increase in 24 - hour sleep, crying or fussing time, bilirubin), mental (for example, parental stress, infant attachment, parent - infant interaction etc) and developmental (for example, temperament; physical and mental development) outcomes, of which very few achieved statistical significance, or statistical significance was lost at follow - up or following sensitivity analyses.

While associations between exposure to marital conflict and child development have been documented extensively in middle childhood and adolescence, few studies have examined the developmental consequences of conflict exposure in infancy.

16 Parental knowledge is thought to provide a global cognitive organization for adapting to or anticipating developmental changes in children.17 Mothers who are knowledgeable respond more sensitively to their child's initiations, 18 while mothers with inaccurate expectations about their child's development tend to be more harsh.19, 20,21 Studies have indicated that when mothers have higher knowledge of infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development is high.

This study is one of the few prospective studies to examine the long - term effects of PPD on developmental outcomes in the early school period.

However, only very few studies have so far investigated the long - term effects of PPD on child development, and most of them focused on only one or two developmental outcomes.

So far there are few studies on developmental aspects of life satisfaction.

However, few studies have examined how variations in attachment relationships with caregivers may influence later social developmental consequences of early institutionalization (i.e., social deprivation).