Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance,
socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to …

Divergent etiological viewpoints of child abuse stress psychological disturbance in parents,
abuse-eliciting characteristics of children, dysfunctional patterns of family interaction, stress …

Progress in psychological science can be limited by a number of factors, not least of which
are the starting assumptions of scientists themselves. We believe that some influential …

This chapter summarizes the results of nearly 100 years of research on school-based social
and emotional learning (SEL). The SEL field has grown out of research in many fields and …

Background and objectives Heavy parent digital technology use has been associated with
suboptimal parent–child interactions and internalizing/externalizing child behavior, but …

During the latter half of the twentieth century, an explosion of research elucidated a growing
number of causes of disease and contributors to health. Biopsychosocial models that …

The association between parenting stress and child externalizing behavior, and the
mediating role of parenting, has yielded inconsistent findings; however, the literature has …

Individual differences in parenting stress, experienced by most parents as those aversive
feelings that are associated with the demands of the parenting role, have been shown to be …

Skill theory provides tools for predicting developmental sequences and synchronies in any
domain at any point in development by integrating behavioral and cognitive-developmental …

Concepts and Theories of Human Development is the most comprehensive and in-depth
overview of the foundational theoretical contributions to understanding human development …