Developmental Transactions Between Self‐Regulation and Academic Achievement Among Low‐Income African American and Latino Children

Mills, Britain A.; Dyer, Nazly; Pacheco, Daniel; Brinkley, Dawn Y.; Owen, Margaret Tresch; Caughy, Margaret O’Brien

doi:10.1111/cdev.13091

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“…Conclusions and evidence about the importance of self-regulation in child development (including in relation to eating and weight), strengthens the argument for greater attention to the developmental course, origins and influences on self-regulation of energy intake in a way that parallels the extensive research on self-regulation in the child development area e.g., [ 83 , 84 , 177 ]. What would be beneficial is not just research on how self-regulation influences eating and weight or what contributes to self-regulation of energy intake, but attention to the developmental course of self-regulation of energy intake over the early years.…”

Section: Biology Integrated With Psychosocial Processessupporting

confidence: 61%

Biological and Psychosocial Processes in the Development of Children’s Appetitive Traits: Insights from Developmental Theory and Research

Russell

2018

Nutrients

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There has been increasing concern expressed about children’s food intakes and dietary patterns. These are closely linked to children’s appetitive traits (such as disinhibited eating and food fussiness/neophobia). Research has examined both biological and psychosocial correlates or predictors of these traits. There has been less focus on possible processes or mechanisms associated with children’s development of these traits and research that links biological and psychosocial factors. There is an absence of research that links biological and psychosocial factors. In the present article, we outline a model intended to facilitate theory and research on the development of appetitive traits. It is based on scholarship from developmental theory and research and incorporates biological factors such as genetic predispositions and temperament as well as psychosocial factors in terms of parent cognitions, feeding styles and feeding practices. Particular attention is directed to aspects such as emotional eating and feeding, self-regulation of energy intake, and non-shared family environments. We highlight the opportunity for longitudinal research that examines bidirectional, transactional and cascade processes and uses a developmental framework. The model provides a basis for connecting the biological foundations of appetitive traits to system-level analysis in the family. Knowledge generated through the application of the model should lead to more effective prevention and intervention initiatives.

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Section: Biology Integrated With Psychosocial Processessupporting

confidence: 61%

Biological and Psychosocial Processes in the Development of Children’s Appetitive Traits: Insights from Developmental Theory and Research

Russell

2018

Nutrients

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“…The study presented here represents a secondary analysis of data drawn from a larger longitudinal study assessing self-regulation, executive functioning, and school readiness among low-income, ethnic minority children and their families residing in a large urban area in the southwestern United States (Caughy, Owen, Mills, & Hurst, 2013; Mills et al, 2018). The sample for the parent study was limited to African Americans and Hispanics due to the disparities in school readiness experienced in these groups.…”

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Longitudinal associations between relationship quality and maternal depression among low-income African American and Hispanic mothers.

Thomas¹,

Caughy²,

Anderson³

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Journal of Family Psychology

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This examination of 237 African American and Hispanic mothers of young children explored the longitudinal linkages between romantic partner relationship quality and maternal depressive symptoms among low-income ethnic minority populations. Most studies to date have largely focused on majority non-Hispanic White populations, as well as married partner dyads, and very few have utilized longitudinal designs. At three time points, participants completed a series of questionnaires including the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) for partner relationship quality, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CESD-R) scale for maternal depressive symptoms during home visit interviews. Both concurrent and prospective correlations were significant and negative, indicating a higher level of relationship quality was associated with fewer depressive symptoms. After adjusting for potential confounders, partner relationship quality was prospectively associated maternal depressive symptoms but not vice versa. This pattern did not differ by maternal ethnicity. The findings of this study support and contribute to the limited research conducted to date to uncover patterns and influences of associations between romantic partner relationship quality and depressive symptoms in representative samples of ethnic minority populations.

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“…Half of the children were girls ( M = 50.4%, SD = 4.2%). Although 46 studies drew on samples of children who had not yet entered first grade, 15% of Mills et al’s (2019) sample were first graders. All studies were published between 2007 and 2021 (see Table 3).…”

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The relation between executive functions and math intelligence in preschool children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Emslander¹,

Scherer²

2022

Psychological Bulletin

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Executive functions (EFs) are key skills underlying other cognitive skills that are relevant to learning and everyday life. Although a plethora of evidence suggests a positive relation between the three EF subdimensions, inhibition, shifting, and updating, and math skills for schoolchildren and adults, the findings on the magnitude of and possible variations in this relation are inconclusive for preschool children and several narrow math skills (i.e., math intelligence). Therefore, the present meta-analysis aimed to (a) synthesize the relation between EFs and math intelligence (an aggregate of math skills) in preschool children; (b) examine which study, sample, and measurement characteristics moderate this relation; and (c) test the joint effects of EFs on math intelligence. Utilizing data extracted from 47 studies (363 effect sizes, 30,481 participants) from 2000 to 2021, we found that, overall, EFs are significantly related to math intelligence (r = .34, 95% CI [.31, .37]), as are inhibition (r = .30, 95% CI [.25, .35]), shifting (r = .32, 95% CI [.25, .38]), and updating (r = .36, 95% CI [.31, .40]). Key measurement characteristics of EFs, but neither children's age nor gender, moderated this relation. These findings suggest a positive link between EFs and math intelligence in preschool children and emphasize the importance of measurement characteristics. We further examined the joint relations between EFs and math intelligence via meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Evaluating different models and representations of EFs, we did not find support for the expectation that the three EF subdimensions are differentially related to math intelligence. Public Significance StatementExecutive functions (EFs) are key to learning, and children who score higher on EFs also show better scores in mathematics. This meta-analysis confirms that children who can better avoid (or inhibit) being distracted, shift easily between different tasks, or update the information they have just learned also score high on math intelligence tests. However, this link between EFs and math intelligence should always be interpreted in light of the measurement characteristics of EFs, as suggested by the moderator analyses. We found evidence to support the idea that the three EFs (inhibition, shifting, and updating) are equally important for math intelligence.

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Developmental Transactions Between Self‐Regulation and Academic Achievement Among Low‐Income African American and Latino Children

Cited by 14 publications

References 64 publications

Biological and Psychosocial Processes in the Development of Children’s Appetitive Traits: Insights from Developmental Theory and Research

Biological and Psychosocial Processes in the Development of Children’s Appetitive Traits: Insights from Developmental Theory and Research

Longitudinal associations between relationship quality and maternal depression among low-income African American and Hispanic mothers.

The relation between executive functions and math intelligence in preschool children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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