Family conflict, chaos, and negative life events predict cortisol activity in low‐income children
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DOI: 10.1002/dev.21602
Abstract: Childhood poverty is hypothesized to increase risk for mental and physical health problems at least in part through dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. However, less is known about the specific psychosocial stressors associated with cortisol… read more here.
Keywords: middle childhood; negative life; life events; family conflict ... See more keywords
Neural sensitivity to natural image statistics changes during middle childhood.
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DOI: 10.1002/dev.22062
Abstract: Natural images have properties that adults' behavioral and neural responses are sensitive to, but the development of this sensitivity is not clear. Behaviorally, children acquire adult-like sensitivity to natural image statistics during middle childhood (Ellemberg… read more here.
Keywords: sensitivity; middle childhood; natural image; image statistics ... See more keywords
Peer Victimization during Middle Childhood as a Marker of Attenuated Risk for Adult Arrest
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DOI: 10.1007/s10802-017-0354-x
Abstract: This longitudinal investigation examined interactions between aggression and peer victimization during middle childhood in the prediction of arrest through the adult years for 388 (198 boys, 190 girls) study participants. As part of an ongoing… read more here.
Keywords: victimization middle; middle childhood; adult; peer victimization ... See more keywords
Testing Children’s Mentalizing in Middle Childhood: Adopting the Child and Adolescent Reflective Functioning Scale with Clinical and Community Children
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DOI: 10.1007/s10826-021-02057-4
Abstract: Beginning with Ensink’s seminal study (2015), the field entered a new era in which we were able to measure mentalizing in school-aged children. The goal of this work is to continue developing the state of… read more here.
Keywords: childhood; clinical community; functioning scale; middle childhood ... See more keywords
HomeStyles-2: Randomized controlled trial protocol for a web-based obesity prevention program for families with children in middle childhood.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106644
Abstract: BACKGROUND Parents are children's primary role models, are food and physical activity gatekeepers, and create the home structure/lifestyle environment. Thus, parents strongly influence children's weight-related behaviors and have the opportunity to cultivate a "culture of… read more here.
Keywords: based obesity; obesity prevention; intervention; weight related ... See more keywords
Episodic Memory in Middle Childhood: Age, Brain Electrical Activity, and Self-Reported Attention.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.03.003
Abstract: Middle childhood is a transitional period for episodic memory (EM) performance, as a result of improvements in strategies that are used to encode and retrieve memories. EM is also a skill continually assessed for testing… read more here.
Keywords: memory; attention; performance; middle childhood ... See more keywords
Facial emotion processing and language during early-to-middle childhood development: An event related potential study
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DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101052
Abstract: Facial emotion processing (FEP) is critical to social cognitive ability. Developmentally, FEP rapidly improves in early childhood and continues to be fine-tuned throughout middle childhood and into adolescence. Previous research has suggested that language plays… read more here.
Keywords: facial emotion; language; middle childhood; emotion ... See more keywords
Development of hot and cool executive functions in middle childhood: Three-year growth curves of decision making and working memory updating.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.04.002
Abstract: Although middle childhood is an important period for the development of hot and cool executive functions (EFs), longitudinal studies investigating trajectories of childhood EF development are still limited and little is known about predictors for… read more here.
Keywords: middle childhood; childhood; hot cool; year ... See more keywords
Measuring insecure attachment in middle childhood: Psychometric evaluation of the short form of the Preoccupied and Avoidant Coping Questionnaire
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DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.038
Abstract: Abstract The short form of the Preoccupied and Avoidant Coping Questionnaire (PACQ; Younger, Corby, Perry, 2005) is a widely used self-report questionnaire measuring insecure attachment toward mother and father in middle childhood. However, its factorial… read more here.
Keywords: insecure attachment; middle childhood; short form;
In utero and postnatal programing of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) in young adult women.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2019.05.062
Abstract: Fetal adrenal-derived OH-DHEAS is the primary precursor for maternal estriol, an abundant, human, placental estrogen. We measured maternal pregnancy estriol as a marker of fetal adrenal function + placenta capacity to synthesize estriol. We hypothesized that maternal… read more here.
Keywords: young adult; dheas young; estriol; adult women ... See more keywords
Early life socioeconomic status moderates associations between objective sleep and weight-related indicators in middle childhood.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.04.002
Abstract: OBJECTIVES This study tested whether early socioeconomic status moderated links between objective and subjective sleep and weight indicators during middle childhood. DESIGN The study design was cross-sectional but included data from earlier assessment points in… read more here.
Keywords: sleep weight; early life; indicators middle; socioeconomic status ... See more keywords