What influences early cognitive development? Family context as a key mediator.

Emotional Skillfulness as a Key Mediator of Aggression

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Family Influences on Early Development: Integrating the Science of Normative Development, Risk and Disability, and Intervention

The focus of this chapter is on family patterns of interaction that influence the social and intellectual competence of young children. It is the development of social and intellectual competencies that enables children to pursue their own goals as effectively as possible and to do so in the context of larger family values, expectations, and routines. Of importance, the development-enhancing qu...

What about the context in family medicine?

MobiTip: Using Bluetooth as a Mediator of Social Context

MobiTip is a social mobile service where comments or tips given by one person are made available to another when user devices connect on the fly, when users approach connection hotspots, or on demand. Bluetooth connectivity is used to form a social space of nearby devices that is used as key input for the collaborative filtering of tips. The social space is visualized to show other users nearby...

Family Conflict as a Mediator of Caregiver Strain*

The present study used structural equation modeling to examine the potential mediating effect of family conflict on caregiver strain in a randomly drawn household sample of 650 adults with primary care responsibility for an adult age 50 or older with a mental disability. Caregiver strain was directly influenced by the conflict, disagreements, and hardships experienced by the caregiver’s family....