The present meta-analysis integrates research from 1,435 studies on associations of
parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents …

Developmental processes critical to the emergence of executive function (EF) play out
across early childhood—a period of rapid change and neural plasticity. The emergence of …

Social competence refers to the ability to engage in meaningful interactions with others. It is
a crucial skill potentially malleable to interventions. Nevertheless, it remains difficult to select …

In a large-scale (N= 317) prospective 8-year longitudinal multiage, multidomain,
multivariate, multisource study, we tested a conservative three-term model linking parenting …

The type of models we discuss in this chapter fall under the larger heading of structural
equation models (SEMs) for longitudinal data. These models are also related to the …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Empirical studies suggest that psychiatric disorders result from a complex interplay between
genetic and environmental factors. Most evidence for such gene-environment interaction …

This study addresses the extent to which insecure and disorganized attachments increase
risk for externalizing problems using meta‐analysis. From 69 samples (N= 5,947), the …

The development of children's emotion-related self-regulation appears to be related to, and
likely involved in, many aspects of children's development. In this review, the distinction …

Humans differ substantially in how strongly they respond to similar experiences. Theory
suggests that such individual differences in susceptibility to environmental influences have a …