Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Journal presenting original experimental, theoretical, and review papers on issues of human development.

Children's peer relations and their psychological adjustment: differen...
April 01, 2008

Predicting youth out-of-school time participation: multiple risks and ...
April 01, 2008

Peer contextual influences on the growth of authority-acceptance probl...
April 01, 2008

Gender and mother-child interactions during mathematics homework: the ...
April 01, 2008

Migrating from Mexico and sharing pretend with peers in the United Sta...
April 01, 2008

Relations of perceived maternal parenting style, practices, and learni...
January 01, 2008

Peer group influence and selection in adolescents' school burnout: a l...
January 01, 2008

Portraits of early moral sensibility in two children's everyday conver...
January 01, 2008

Different fear-regulation behaviors in toddlerhood: relations to prece...
January 01, 2008

Emotion and cognition processes in preschool children.(Report)
January 01, 2008

Individual differences in preschoolers' self-regulation and theory of ...
January 01, 2008

Moving away or fitting in? Understanding shyness in Chinese children.(...
October 01, 2007

Peer relations at school entry: sex differences in the outcomes of fos...
October 01, 2007

Monthly changes in the composition of friendship networks in early ado...
October 01, 2007

The mediating and moderating effects of teacher preference on the rela...
October 01, 2007

Impression formation and modifiability: testing a theoretical model.(R...
October 01, 2007

Girl talk: gossip, friendship, and sociometric status.(Report)
July 01, 2007

Same-gender versus cross-gender friendship conceptions: similar or dif...
July 01, 2007

Ethnic heterogeneity of social networks and cross-ethnic friendships o...
July 01, 2007

Introduction to the special issue gender and children's friendships: d...
July 01, 2007

Girlfriends and boyfriends diverging in middle childhood and coming to...
July 01, 2007

The study of sex, gender, and relationships with peers: a full or empt...
July 01, 2007

Structure, content, and socioemotional correlates of girls' and boys' ...
July 01, 2007

Gender differences in the interpersonal consequences of early-onset de...
July 01, 2007

The protective role of friendships in overtly and relationally victimi...
July 01, 2007

Friendship features and social exclusion: an observational study exami...
July 01, 2007

Adaptive emotion regulation among low-income African American children...
April 01, 2007

Ethnic identity, acculturation, parenting beliefs, and adolescent adju...
April 01, 2007

Assessment of adolescents' preference- and reputation-based peer statu...
April 01, 2007

Clique membership and social adjustment in children's same-gender cliq...
April 01, 2007

The role of reciprocity in romantic relationships in middle childhood ...
April 01, 2007

Kindergarten teachers' beliefs and responses to hypothetical prosocial...
April 01, 2007

The role of context in risk for pediatric injury: influences from the ...
January 01, 2007

Temperamental and joint attentional predictors of language development...
January 01, 2007

Gender differences in moral motivation.
January 01, 2007

Perspectives on the ethics of sociometric research with children: how ...
January 01, 2007

Explaining friendship formation and friendship stability: the role of ...
January 01, 2007

Children's effortful control and academic competence: mediation throug...
January 01, 2007

Maternal emotional expressiveness and attachment security: links to re...
October 01, 2006

Behavioral characteristics associated with stable and fluid best frien...
October 01, 2006

Perceptions of friendship quality and observed behaviors with friends:...
October 01, 2006

How children's justifications of the "best thing to do" in peer confli...
October 01, 2006

The relationship of young children's motor skills to later reading and...
October 01, 2006

Predicting preschool cognitive development from infant temperament, ma...
October 01, 2006

Variable--and person-centered approaches to the analysis of early adol...
July 01, 2006

Mother and caregiver sensitivity over time: predicting language and ac...
July 01, 2006

Trajectories of reading development: a follow-up from birth to school ...
July 01, 2006

Emotional availability in mother-child dyads: short-term stability and...
July 01, 2006

The uses of longitudinal data and person-centered analyses in the stud...
July 01, 2006

Predicting interpersonal competence and self-worth from adolescent rel...
July 01, 2006

The person-oriented versus the variable-oriented approach: are they co...
July 01, 2006

Person-centered and variable-centered approaches to longitudinal data.
July 01, 2006

Person-oriented and variable-oriented research: concepts, results, and...
July 01, 2006

Predictive validity of personality types versus personality dimensions...
July 01, 2006

Language, school functioning, and behavior among African American urba...
April 01, 2006

Effects of home and school computer use on school readiness and cognit...
April 01, 2006

Violence exposure, IQ, academic performance, and children's perception...
April 01, 2006

Gaining options: a mathematics program for potentially talented at-ris...
April 01, 2006

Predictors of early substance use among African American and Caucasian...
April 01, 2006

How can basic research on children and families be useful for the poli...
April 01, 2006

In service to children and youth: foreword to the special issue.(Edito...
April 01, 2006

Bridging campus to community in the lives of urban children and youth:...
April 01, 2006

Meeting children's needs: how does the United States measure up?
April 01, 2006

Predictors of Arab American adolescent tobacco use.
April 01, 2006

Trials, tribulations, and occasional jubilations while conducting rese...
April 01, 2006

Conversation and developing understanding: introduction to the special...
January 01, 2006

Constructing emotional and relational understanding: the role of affec...
January 01, 2006

As stories become familiar: mother-child conversations during shared r...
October 01, 2005

Mothers' and preschoolers' mental state language during reminiscing ov...
October 01, 2005

Mothers' and fathers' attitudes regarding pretend play in the context ...
October 01, 2005

Hidden shyness in children: discrepancies between self-perceptions and...
October 01, 2005

Links among gender, inhibition, and parental socialization in the deve...
October 01, 2005

Parents' causal attributions concerning their children's school achiev...
October 01, 2005

Personality in children.
July 01, 2005

Adolescent personality types and subtypes and their psychosocial adjus...
July 01, 2005

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