Browsing by Author "Dodge, Kenneth A"
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Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World.
(J Youth Adolesc, 2017-10-19)Epidemiological data indicate that risk behaviors are among the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality worldwide. Consistent with this, laboratory-based studies of age differences in risk behavior allude to ... -
Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.
(Dev Sci, 2017-02-01)The dual systems model of adolescent risk-taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination of heightened sensation seeking and still-maturing self-regulation, but most tests of this model have been conducted ... -
Associations Between Perceived Material Deprivation, Parents' Discipline Practices, and Children's Behavior Problems: An International Perspective.
(Child development, 2018-10)This study investigated the association between perceived material deprivation, children's behavior problems, and parents' disciplinary practices. The sample included 1,418 8- to 12-year-old children and their parents in ... -
Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries
(Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2018-09-01)© 2018 Society for Research on Adolescence This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand ... -
Can Genetics Predict Response to Complex Behavioral Interventions? Evidence from a Genetic Analysis of the Fast Track Randomized Control Trial.
(J Policy Anal Manage, 2015)Early interventions are a preferred method for addressing behavioral problems in high-risk children, but often have only modest effects. Identifying sources of variation in intervention effects can suggest means to improve ... -
Can typical US home visits affect infant attachment? Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of Healthy Families Durham.
(Attach Hum Dev, 2017-12)US government-funded early home visiting services are expanding significantly. The most widely implemented home visiting models target at-risk new mothers and their infants. Such home visiting programs typically aim to support ... -
Classes of Intimate Partner Violence From Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood.
(J Interpers Violence, 2017-06-01)Researchers do not agree on how intimate partner violence (IPV) emerges and changes from adolescence to young adulthood. This may be because change in these behaviors varies across individuals. The present study ... -
Cumulative stress in childhood is associated with blunted reward-related brain activity in adulthood.
(Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 2016-03)Early life stress (ELS) is strongly associated with negative outcomes in adulthood, including reduced motivation and increased negative mood. The mechanisms mediating these relations, however, are poorly understood. We examined ... -
Developmental cascades of peer rejection, social information processing biases, and aggression during middle childhood.
(Dev Psychopathol, 2010-08)This study tested a developmental cascade model of peer rejection, social information processing (SIP), and aggression using data from 585 children assessed at 12 time points from kindergarten through Grade 3. Peer rejection ... -
Dimensions of deprivation and threat, psychopathology, and potential mediators: A multi-year longitudinal analysis.
(Journal of abnormal psychology, 2018-02)Prior research demonstrates a link between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology later in development. However, work on mechanisms linking adversity to psychopathology fails to account for specificity in these ... -
Dysregulation in children: Origins and implications from age 5 to age 28.
(Dev Psychopathol, 2017-11-20)Research shows that childhood dysregulation is associated with later psychiatric disorders. It does not yet resolve discrepancies in the operationalization of dysregulation. It is also far from settled on the origins and ... -
Effect of a Community Agency-Administered Nurse Home Visitation Program on Program Use and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
(JAMA network open, 2019-11)Importance:Postnatal home visitation to support parenting and infant healthy development is becoming increasingly common based on university efficacy studies, but effectiveness when disseminated by communities is not clear. ... -
Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-07-28)We tested a model that children's tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive behavior ... -
Household income predicts trajectories of child internalizing and externalizing behavior in high-, middle-, and low-income countries
(International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018-07-04)© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents’ education and children’s trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, ... -
Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School.
(Child Dev, 2016-11-17)North Carolina's Smart Start and More at Four (MAF) early childhood programs were evaluated through the end of elementary school (age 11) by estimating the impact of state funding allocations to programs in each of 100 counties ... -
Implementation and randomized controlled trial evaluation of universal postnatal nurse home visiting.
(Am J Public Health, 2014-02)OBJECTIVES: We evaluated whether a brief, universal, postnatal nurse home-visiting intervention can be implemented with high penetration and fidelity, prevent emergency health care services, and promote positive parenting ... -
'Mixed blessings': parental religiousness, parenting, and child adjustment in global perspective.
(J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 2017-08)BACKGROUND: Most studies of the effects of parental religiousness on parenting and child development focus on a particular religion or cultural group, which limits generalizations that can be made about the effects of parental ... -
Moving Beyond Program to Population Impact: Toward a Universal Early Childhood System of Care
(Journal of Family Theory and Review, 2018-01-01)© 2018 National Council on Family Relations Families have clearly benefited from increased availability of evidence-based intervention, including home-visiting models and increased federal funding for programs benefiting ... -
Multiple Response System: Evaluation of Policy Change in North Carolina's Child Welfare System.
(Child Youth Serv Rev, 2011-11-01)Systemic challenges within child welfare have prompted many states to explore new strategies aimed at protecting children while meeting the needs of families, but doing so within the confines of shrinking budgets. Differential ...
