Child Development

Papers
(The TQCC of Child Development is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linking Quality and Quantity of Parental Linguistic Input to Child Language Skills: A Meta‐Analysis87
Children’s screen and problematic media use in the United States before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic51
Paternal Sensitivity and Children’s Cognitive and Socioemotional Outcomes: A Meta‐Analytic Review50
Global estimates of the implications of COVID‐19‐related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing45
Getting Fewer “Likes” Than Others on Social Media Elicits Emotional Distress Among Victimized Adolescents43
Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children41
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn‐Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development41
Interpersonal Neural Synchrony During Father–Child Problem Solving: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study39
A Little Autonomy Support Goes a Long Way: Daily Autonomy‐Supportive Parenting, Child Well‐Being, Parental Need Fulfillment, and Change in Child, Family, and Parent Adjustment Across the Adaptation to38
Causal Effects of Parent Number Talk on Preschoolers’ Number Knowledge35
Longitudinal Trajectories, Social and Individual Antecedents, and Outcomes of Problematic Internet Use Among Late Adolescents34
Lying and Theory of Mind: A Meta‐Analysis33
Learning From Video: A Meta‐Analysis of the Video Deficit in Children Ages 0 to 6 Years32
Infant exuberant object play at home: Immense amounts of time‐distributed, variable practice32
Child Language Difficulties and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Meta‐Analysis31
Student–Teacher Relationships and Students’ Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors: A Cross‐Lagged Study in Secondary Education31
Parental sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A meta‐analytic review30
How Diversity Approaches Affect Ethnic Minority and Majority Adolescents: Teacher–Student Relationship Trajectories and School Outcomes29
Skill, Thrill, and Will: The Role of Metacognition, Interest, and Self‐Control in Predicting Student Engagement in Mathematics Learning Over Time29
The Development of Advanced Theory of Mind in Middle Childhood: A Longitudinal Study From Age 5 to 10 Years29
How Children Learn From Others: An Analysis of Selective Word Learning29
Early Constraints on the Imagination: The Realism of Young Children29
Explaining Individual Differences in Trajectories of Simultaneous Bilingual Development: Contributions of Child and Environmental Factors28
Infant and Toddler Child‐Care Quality and Stability in Relation to Proximal and Distal Academic and Social Outcomes27
Can guidance during play enhance children’s learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta‐analysis26
A Daily Examination of African American Adolescents’ Racial Discrimination, Parental Racial Socialization, and Psychological Affect25
Family Structure, Family Instability, and Child Psychological Well‐Being in the Context of Migration: Evidence From Sequence Analysis in China25
Coaching Teachers to Improve Students’ School Readiness Skills: Indirect Effects of Teacher–Student Interaction24
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child and adolescent development around the world24
Cognitive Stimulation at Home and in Child Care and Children’s Preacademic Skills in Two‐Parent Families24
Advancing scholarship on anti‐racism within developmental science: Reflections on the special section and recommendations for future research23
Developmental Relations Between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, and Reading Skills: Evidence From a 3‐Year Longitudinal Study23
Inhibitory Control Across the Preschool Years: Developmental Changes and Associations with Parenting23
Does It Matter How We Speak About Social Kinds? A Large, Preregistered, Online Experimental Study of How Language Shapes the Development of Essentialist Beliefs23
Comparing Automatic and Manual Measures of Parent–Infant Conversational Turns: A Word of Caution23
Interrupting the Pathway From Discrimination to Black Adolescents’ Psychosocial Outcomes: The Contribution of Parental Racial Worries and Racial Socialization Competency23
Trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic23
From Parent to Child to Parent: Associations Between Parent and Offspring Psychopathology23
Home Language and Literacy Environments and Early Literacy Trajectories of Low‐Socioeconomic Status Chilean Children22
Fostering Self‐Control Development With a Designed Intervention in Physical Education: A Two‐Year Class‐Randomized Trial22
Is Skill Type the Key to the PreK Fadeout Puzzle? Differential Associations Between Enrollment in PreK and Constrained and Unconstrained Skills Across Kindergarten21
Why Are Children So Distractible? Development of Attention and Motor Control From Childhood to Adulthood21
Development of Math Attitudes and Math Self‐Concepts: Gender Differences, Implicit–Explicit Dissociations, and Relations to Math Achievement20
Relations Among Parenting, Culture, and Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Mexican Youth: An Integrative Socialization Approach20
The Development of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Primary School: Contributions of Executive Function and Social Competence20
Do Children and Adults Take Social Relationship Into Account When Evaluating People’s Actions?20
Neurobiological Sensitivity to Social Rewards and Punishments Moderates Link Between Peer Norms and Adolescent Risk Taking20
The state of evidence for social and emotional learning: A contemporary meta‐analysis of universal school‐based SEL interventions20
Assessment of Autism Symptoms From 6 to 18 Months of Age Using the Autism Observation Scale for Infants in a Prospective High‐Risk Cohort20
Positive Shyness in the Brain: Frontal Electroencephalogram Alpha Asymmetry and Delta–Beta Correlation in Children20
Capturing Environmental Dimensions of Adversity and Resources in the Context of Poverty Across Infancy Through Early Adolescence: A Moderated Nonlinear Factor Model19
Extracurricular Activities and Chinese Children’s School Readiness: Who Benefits More?19
The Role of Immigration Background, Intergroup Processes, and Social‐Cognitive Skills in Bystanders’ Responses to Bias‐Based Bullying Toward Immigrants During Adolescence19
Parental Wealth and Children’s Cognitive Ability, Mental, and Physical Health: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study19
Hidden talents in context: Cognitive performance with abstract versus ecological stimuli among adversity‐exposed youth19
Attachment security predicts adolescents’ prosocial and health protective responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic19
Inter‐Relations Between Ethnic‐Racial Discrimination and Ethnic‐Racial Identity Among Early Adolescents18
Parent–adolescent interaction quality and adolescent affect—An experience sampling study on effect heterogeneity18
Understanding patterns of food insecurity and family well‐being amid the COVID‐19 pandemic using daily surveys18
Here for You: Attachment and the Growth of Empathic Support for Friends in Adolescence18
Associations between interpersonal behavior and friendship quality in childhood and adolescence: A meta‐analysis18
The Grade‐Level and Cumulative Outcomes of Absenteeism18
Why Does Classroom‐Level Victimization Moderate the Association Between Victimization and Depressive Symptoms? The “Healthy Context Paradox” and Two Explanations18
A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis of the development of turn taking in adult–child vocal interactions18
School Cultural Socialization and Academic Performance: Examining Ethnic‐Racial Identity Development as a Mediator Among African American Adolescents18
What’s in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children’s word reading development18
A Cross‐Cultural Analysis of Early Prelinguistic Gesture Development and Its Relationship to Language Development18
Socioeconomic Status Gradients in Young Children’s Well‐Being at School17
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children17
Daily Ethnic/Racial Context in Peer Groups: Frequency, Structure, and Implications for Adolescent Outcomes17
Statistical Learning of Orthographic Regularities in Chinese Children With and Without Dyslexia17
The Relation Between Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development and Their Ability to Predict and Recognize Words16
“So, like, it’s all a mix of one”: Intersecting contexts of adolescents’ ethnic‐racial socialization16
Investigating Bidirectional Links Between the Quality of Teacher–Child Relationships and Children’s Interest and Pre‐Academic Skills in Literacy and Math16
Perceived Psychological Control in Early Adolescence Predicts Lower Levels of Adaptation into Mid‐Adulthood16
The Role of Childhood Executive Function in Explaining Income Disparities in Long‐Term Academic Achievement16
“Martin Luther King Fixed It”: Children Making Sense of Racial Identity in a Colorblind Society16
Dialogue with a conversational agent promotes children’s story comprehension via enhancing engagement16
Profiles of Minority‐Majority Language Proficiency in 5‐Year‐Olds15
A Longitudinal Person‐Centered Examination of Affinity for Aloneness Among Children and Adolescents15
Adoptive Gay Father Families: A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Adjustment at Early Adolescence15
Effects of Montessori Education on the Academic, Cognitive, and Social Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers: A Randomized Controlled Study in the French Public‐School System15
Toward complementarity: Specificity and commonality in social‐emotional development15
Transformations and Transfer: Preschool Children Understand Abstract Relations and Reason Analogically in a Causal Task15
Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on caregiver mental health and the child caregiving environment in a low‐resource, rural context15
Racial discrimination and the moderating effects of racial and ethnic socialization on the mental health of Asian American youth15
Building an assessment of community‐defined social‐emotional competencies from the ground up in Tanzania15
Associations Between Repeating Patterning, Growing Patterning, and Numerical Ability: A Longitudinal Panel Study in 4‐ to 6‐Year Olds14
Teaching Through Collaboration: Flexibility and Diversity in Caregiver–Child Interaction Across Cultures14
Adult outcomes of sustained high‐quality early child care and education: Do they vary by family income?14
A strengths‐based, culturally responsive family intervention improves Latino kindergarteners’ vocabulary and approaches to learning14
Princess Power: Longitudinal Associations Between Engagement With Princess Culture in Preschool and Gender Stereotypical Behavior, Body Esteem, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Early Adolescence14
When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long‐term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocial functioning14
Family Risk and Externalizing Problems in Chilean Children: Mediation by Harsh Parenting and Emotional Support14
Extracurricular Activities, Screen Media Activity, and Sleep May Be Modifiable Factors Related to Children’s Cognitive Functioning: Evidence From the ABCD Study®14
More Later: Delay of Gratification and Thought About the Future in Children14
Cognitive Prerequisites for Generative Learning: Why Some Learning Strategies Are More Effective Than Others14
Leaving a Choice for Others: Children’s Evaluations of Considerate, Socially‐Mindful Actions14
A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children’s language14
Purpose Among Youth From Low‐Income Backgrounds: A Mixed Methods Investigation14
Observed dyadic racial socialization disrupts the association between frequent discriminatory experiences and emotional reactivity among Black adolescents13
Robin Hood or Matthew? Children’s Reasoning About Redistributive Justice in the Context of Economic Inequalities13
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder13
The role of metacognitive competences in the development of school achievement among gifted adolescents13
When judging what you know changes what you really know: Soliciting metamemory judgments reactively enhances children’s learning13
Types of parental psychological control and rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ psychological well‐being and academic functioning13
Unpacking the Impacts of a Universal Parenting Program on Child Behavior13
Children Persist Less When Adults Take Over13
Adrenocortical and psychosocial responses of families in Jordan to the COVID‐19 pandemic13
“Dancing” Together: Infant–Mother Locomotor Synchrony13
The Development of a Scarcity Bias12
Tackling Scientific Misconceptions: The Element of Surprise12
Distinct Profiles of Relationships With Mothers, Fathers, and Best Friends and Social‐Behavioral Functioning in Early Adolescence: A Cross‐Cultural Study12
Language not auditory experience is related to parent‐reported executive functioning in preschool‐aged deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children12
Adaptive Parenting Among Low‐Income Black Mothers and Toddlers’ Regulation of Distress12
Maternal Support of Children’s Math Learning in Associations Between Family Income and Math School Readiness12
Children’s Social Information Seeking is Sensitive to Referential Ambiguity12
Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants’ Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities12
Auditory Sensory Processing and Phonological Development in High IQ and Exceptional Readers, Typically Developing Readers, and Children With Dyslexia: A Longitudinal Study12
The Kindergarten Hotspot: Literacy Skill Convergence Between Boston Prekindergarten Enrollees and Nonenrollees12
The Role of Alternative Theories and Anomalous Evidence in Children’s Scientific Belief Revision12
Emergence of the Link Between the Approximate Number System and Symbolic Math Ability12
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study12
Linking ethnic/racial discrimination to adolescent mental health: Sleep disturbances as an explanatory pathway12
The Immigrant Paradox in the Problem Behaviors of Youth in the United States: A Meta‐analysis12
Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference12
Examining Rater Effects on the Classroom Assessment Scoring System12
Preschoolers’ Motivation to Over‐Imitate Humans and Robots11
Should Individuals Think Like Their Group? A Descriptive‐to‐Prescriptive Tendency Toward Group‐Based Beliefs11
War‐related trauma linked to increased sustained attention to threat in children11
Advancing opportunities for children’s informal STEM learning transfer through parent–child narrative reflection11
Thinking Counterfactually Supports Children’s Evidence Evaluation in Causal Learning11
Developmental trajectories of sensory patterns from infancy to school age in a community sample and associations with autistic traits11
Do Belonging and Social Exclusion at School Affect Structural Brain Development During Adolescence?11
Teaching With Televised Stories: A Story‐Focused Narrative Preview Supports Learning in Young Children11
Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning11
Early life stress and behavior problems in early childhood: Investigating the contributions of child temperament and executive functions to resilience11
Into the Unknown: Examining Neural Representations of Parent–Adolescent Interactions11
The Relation Between Classroom Age Composition and Children’s Language and Behavioral Outcomes: Examining Peer Effects11
Child Effects on Parental Negativity: The Role of Heritable and Prenatal Factors11
Antiracism defined as equitable sociocultural interactions in prekindergarten: Classroom racial composition makes a difference11
Meeting in school: Cultural diversity approaches of teachers and intergroup contact among ethnic minority and majority adolescents10
Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism: Evidence from the first 2 years10
Students’ Occupational Aspirations: Can Family Relationships Account for Differences Between Immigrant and Socioeconomic Groups?10
Testing the specificity of environmental risk factors for developmental outcomes10
Preschool‐Aged Children Jointly Consider Others’ Emotional Expressions and Prior Knowledge to Decide When to Explore10
The representation of emotion knowledge across development10
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Preschoolers Expect Agents to Weigh Information Gain and Information Cost When Deciding Whether to Explore10
An empirical test of prototype and revisionist models of attachment stability and change from middle childhood to adolescence: A 6‐year longitudinal study10
Declining Gaze to Faces in Infants Developing Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence From Two Independent Cohorts10
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning10
Cross‐Cultural Associations of Four Parenting Behaviors With Child Flourishing: Examining Cultural Specificity and Commonality in Cultural Normativeness and Intergenerational Transmission Processes10
The role of harsh parenting practices in early‐ to middle‐childhood socioemotional development: An examination in the Millennium Cohort Study10
The Specificity Principle in Young Dual Language Learners’ English Development10
Early Educators’ Collective Workplace Stress as a Predictor of Professional Development’s Impacts on Children’s Development10
More Than Growth Mindset: Individual and Interactive Links Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents’ Ability Mindsets, Metacognitive Skills, and Math Engagement10
Speech and Gesture Production Provide Unique Insights Into Young Children’s Spatial Reasoning10
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti‐bullying components: A randomized controlled trial10
Longitudinal Trajectories of Four Domains of Parenting in Relation to Adolescent Age and Puberty in Nine Countries10
A human rights approach: The right to education in the time of COVID‐1910
Ability‐grouping and problem behavior trajectories in childhood and adolescence: Results from a U.K. population‐based sample10
Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Alcohol Use: The Mediating Role of Parental and Peer Influences10
Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia9
The Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Moral Functioning in Preschool9
The Impact of Daily Discrimination on Sleep/Wake Problem Trajectories Among Diverse Adolescents9
Does early childhood education help to improve high school outcomes? Results from Tulsa9
Within and Across Language Predictors of Word Learning Processes in Dual Language Learners9
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial9
Visual Attention Preference for Intermediate Predictability in Young Children9
Young children’s ability to make predictions about novel illnesses9
First and Second Graders Successfully Reason About Ratios With Both Dot Arrays and Arabic Numerals9
Modeling and Visualizing the Codevelopment of Word and Nonword Reading in Children From First Through Fourth Grade: Informing Developmental Trajectories of Children With Dyslexia9
Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age9
Parental Job Loss and Early Child Development in the Great Recession9
Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects9
The acquisition of the gender‐brilliance stereotype: Age trajectory, relation to parents' stereotypes, and intersections with race/ethnicity9
Connecting inside out: Development of the social brain in infants and toddlers with a focus on myelination as a marker of brain maturation9
Effects of Reinforcement Learning on Gaze Following of Gaze and Head Direction in Early Infancy: An Interactive Eye‐Tracking Study9
Children’s Beliefs About Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and Reality9
The Very Best of Me: Longitudinal Associations of Perfectionism and Identity Processes in Adolescence9
Anti‐racism activism among Black adolescents and emerging adults: Understanding the roles of racism and anticipatory racism‐related stress9
Dynamic changes in perfectionism dimensions and psychological distress among adolescents assessed before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
The effects of maternal smartphone use on mother–child interaction9
Values‐Alignment Messaging Boosts Adolescents’ Motivation to Control Social Media Use9
Behavioral Inhibition in Early Childhood and Adjustment in Late Adolescence in China9
Longitudinal change in adolescent hope among recent immigrant Latinx adolescents: Links with adolescent and parent cultural stress, family functioning, emotional well‐being, and behavioral health9
Gender Discrimination, Perceived School Unfairness, Depressive Symptoms, and Sleep Duration Among Middle School Girls9
A dynamic systems account of parental self‐regulation processes in the context of challenging child behavior8
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person‐group dissimilarities in relational, socio‐behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization8
Longitudinal Effects of PostDivorce Interparental Conflict on Children’s Mental Health Problems Through Fear of Abandonment: Does Parenting Quality Play a Buffering Role?8
Toddlers Prefer Adults as Informants: 2‐ and 3‐Year‐Olds’ Use of and Attention to Pointing Gestures From Peer and Adult Partners8
Numerical Minority Status in Middle School and Racial/Ethnic Segregation in Academic Classes8
Children Hold Leaders Primarily Responsible, Not Entitled8
The association of early life stress with IQ‐achievement discrepancy in children: A population‐based study8
Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school8
Mothers’ Job Loss and Their Sensitivity to Young Children’s Development8
Parental educational aspirations and children’s academic self‐concept: Disentangling state and trait components on their dynamic interplay8
Investigating the Interrelations Between Systems of Support in 13‐ to 18‐Year‐Old Adolescents: A Network Analysis of Resilience Promoting Systems in a High and Middle‐Income Country8
A Two‐Generation Education Intervention and Children’s Attendance in Head Start8
Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories8
The development of place value concepts: Approximation before principles8
Developmental Improvements and Persisting Difficulties in Children’s Metacognitive Monitoring and Control Skills: Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Perspectives8
Children’s and Adults’ Views of Punishment as a Path to Redemption8
Predicting Middle School Profiles of Algebra Performance Using Fraction Knowledge8
Interparental conflict as a quadratic predictor of children’s reactivity to interparental conflict and school adjustment: Steeling effects or risk saturation?8
The course of problematic social media use in young adolescents: A latent class growth analysis8
Maternal color‐consciousness is related to more positive and less negative attitudes toward ethnic‐racial outgroups in children in White Dutch families8
Maternal Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory Features of Mother–Child Dyads in a Cross‐Cultural Context8
Early Emotion Knowledge and Later Academic Achievement Among Children of Color in Historically Disinvested Neighborhoods8
Children’s Knowledge of Symbolic Number in Grades 1 and 2: Integration of Associations8
Gender Encoding in Gender Diverse and Gender Conforming Children8
Spatial Metaphor Facilitates Word Learning8
Exclusion Expected? Cardiac Slowing Upon Peer Exclusion Links Preschool Parent Representations to School‐Age Peer Relationships8
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