A second point that requires consideration is that all of the variables that predict
anxiety in middle childhood include maternal report to some extent.
Maternal sensitivity, infant attachment, and temperament in early childhood predict
adjustment in middle childhood: The case of adopted children and their biologically unrelated parents.
It is argued that sex differences in attachment
emerge in middle childhood, have adaptive significance in both children and adults, and are part of sex - specific life history strategies.
Moreover, parent — child dynamics were predictive of chronic behavior problems as rated by
parents in middle childhood, but not emotional problems.
What this means is that genetic factors that contribute to individual differences in
intelligence in middle childhood are to some extent different from genetic factors that affect intelligence in early childhood.
As early maturing girls are particularly at risk for eating disorders, it is important to begin preventative
steps in the middle childhood or elementary school years.
Third, the age range of included children was large, while family drawings are recommended as an assessment of attachment representations
specifically in middle childhood.
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.
Friendship and friendship
quality in middle childhood: links with peer group acceptance and feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction.
However,
children in middle childhood, ages 6 to 12, may be especially vulnerable because of the development of constructive social relationships and self - esteem during this stage of life.
The target article proposes a model to explain the emergence of sex differences in
attachment in middle childhood and their implications for reproductive strategies.
Moreover, both mothers» and fathers» use of psychological control is associated with internalizing problems in children and adolescents [10], [15], [26], [27], [28], and with girls» relational
aggression in middle childhood [29].
In addition, much of the research has focused on early childhood and we know much less about spontaneous strategy use
in middle childhood when children have more advanced cognitive skills and knowledge of self - regulatory strategies relevant to delay gratification (Brown and DeLoache, 1978; Mischel and Mischel, 1983; Canton and Kihlstrom, 1987).
Beck, L., Kumschick, I.R., Eid, M. and Klann - Delius, G. (2012) Relationship between language competence and emotional
competence in middle childhood.
Preventive effects of treatment of disruptive behavior disorder
in middle childhood on substance use and delinquent behavior.
Coming into Their Own: How Developmental Assets Promote Positive
Growth in Middle Childhood, Peter C. Scales, Arturo Sesma Jr, and Brent Bolstrom
In the
study in middle childhood, this procedure resulted in concordances of 62 % for identical twins and 25 % for fraternal twins.
internal representations) with different multiple samples of children in middle childhood through
The study, conducted by McCartney, Boston College Associate Professor Eric Dearing, and Samford University Professor Beck Taylor, looked at reading and math achievement of more than 1,300 children
in middle childhood from economic backgrounds ranging from poor to affluent.
Disorganized attachment (so called «unresolved trauma») has been identified as an important marker for developmental risk (see [50] for review)[51], is associated with higher rates of negative life events, negative teacher - child relationship
experiences in middle childhood, and low early adolescent friendship quality [52].
To date, it appears that the pile - up of family demands may be greater in parents of children in middle childhood [24]; however further research is required to understand this trajectory and its implication of raising children in early adolescence.
Though PLEs and internalising and externalising
psychopathology in middle childhood all constitute replicated antecedents of schizophrenia, our data indicate that internalising and externalising psychopathology experienced only during childhood is not associated with increased risk for PLEs in adolescence, whereas psychopathology that persists from childhood into adolescence or is incident in adolescence confers increased risk for later PLEs [28].