We examined whether the early learning environment predicts children's 5th grade skills in
2,204 families from ethnically diverse, low-income backgrounds; tested the mediating roles …

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging introduction to 11 major theories about
human development that continue to guide research, intervention, and practice. The theories …

Objectives: To determine if levels of neighbourhood poverty and neighbourhood antisocial
behaviour modify associations between household poverty and child and youth mental …

The foundations of an applied family social systems theory for explaining the multiple
determinants of child well-being, learning, and development, parenting beliefs, behavior and …

Few researchers have examined how Filipino Americans contend with model minority
stereotypes. Thus, the current mixed-methods study explored Filipino American adolescents' …

Using the Developmental Niche for Emergent Participatory Citizenship (Torney-Purta and
Amadeo, 2011) as a framework, we examined differences between immigrant and native …

The intersections of early years curriculum, pedagogy, policy and their research must now
confront two seemingly intractable but mutually constitutive global problems within their …

Para la mayoría de niños, niñas y adolescentes, la escuela representa el espacio donde
pasarán el mayor tiempo de su vida cotidiana, y donde desarrollará un conjunto de …

This chapter provides one promising approach for understanding and addressing complex
social problems: the pursuit of transformative systems change. Systems change refers to a …

The nature and measurement of school contexts have been the foci of interest in community,
developmental, and school psychology for decades. In this paper, we tested the stability of …