Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from January 2009

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from January 2009

Erratum.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2009... Issue: Vol. 54, No. 3 (July, 2008). Article: Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Luijk, M. P. C. M., & Juffer, F. (2008). IQ of children growing up in children's homes: A meta-analysis on IQ delays in orphanages. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 54, 341-366....

Social network centrality and leadership status: links with problem behaviors and tests of gender differences.(Report)
January 1, 2009... The importance of peer groups to young adolescents is well established. Belonging to a peer group provides children and adolescents with a sense of inclusion, enhancement of worth, instrumental aid, and companionship (Asher, Parker, & Walker,...

Associations between early childhood temperament clusters and later psychosocial adjustment.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Connections between temperament and later adjustment are now well established (Rothbart & Bates, 2006). Person-centered analytic approaches that use the individual as the unit of analysis and identify groups with similar profiles across...

"You didn't teach me, you showed me": variations in sibling teaching strategies in early and middle childhood.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Siblings play a distinctive role in each others' development, as these relationships are characterized by a number of unique features. Particularly during early childhood, children spend a great deal of time with their siblings and thus...

College mothers in the dual roles of student and parent: implications for their children's attitudes toward school.(Report)
January 1, 2009... The experiences of female college students who are raising children while pursuing higher education have received limited attention in the educational and psychological literature (Christopher, 2005; Colbry, 1995; Dyk, 1987; Gigliotti, 2001,...