BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

Gender Attitudes in Early Childhood: Behavioral Consequences and Cognitive Antecedents.

This study examined factors that predicted children's gender intergroup attitudes at age 5 and the implications of these attitudes for intergroup behavior. Ethnically diverse children from low-income backgrounds (N = 246; Mexican-, Chinese-, Dominican-, and African American) were assessed at ages 4 and 5. On average, children reported positive same-gender and negative other-gender attitudes. Po...

Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Cortical Thickness in Adulthood.

OBJECTIVE Behavioral inhibition (BI) during early childhood predicts risk for anxiety disorders and altered cognitive control in adolescence. Although BI has been linked to variation in brain function through adulthood, few studies have examined relations between early childhood BI and adult brain structure. METHOD The relation between early childhood BI and cortical thickness in adulthood wa...

Exclusive Breastfeeding and Developmental and Behavioral Status in Early Childhood

Breastfeeding during infancy may have beneficial effects on various developmental outcomes in childhood. In this study, exclusively breastfed infants were randomly assigned to receive complementary foods from the age of 4 months in addition to breast milk (CF, n = 60), or to exclusively breastfeed to 6 months (EBF, n = 59). At 18 months and again at 30-35 months of age, the children were evalua...

Multivariate Behavioral Genetic Analysis of Parenting in Early Childhood

Multivariate Behavioral Genetic Analysis of Parenting in Early Childhood Amanda K. Cheung, K. Paige Harden & Elliot M. Tucker-Drob To cite this article: Amanda K. Cheung, K. Paige Harden & Elliot M. Tucker-Drob (2016) Multivariate Behavioral Genetic Analysis of Parenting in Early Childhood, Parenting, 16:4, 257-283, DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2016.1184926 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/1...

The Effects of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation in Early Childhood Settings