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Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
psych journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2046-0260
pISSN - 2046-0252
DOI - 10.1002/pchj.146
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , psychology , developmental psychology , intervention (counseling) , perspective (graphical) , parenting styles , early childhood , political science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , computer science , law
The first issue of 2017 features a Special Collection on “The Development of Self‐Regulation in Children” which goes beyond previous research on this topic in two significant ways: first, by extending the study the self‐regulation beyond the normal focus on infancy and early childhood with examinations that include the early school years and beyond, and second, by presenting the latest self‐regulation research from a more international perspective, including studies from various parts of Asia and Australia, in addition to the more traditional contexts of Europe and North America. The contributions specifically introduce the following topics: an innovative way to extend the assessment of delay of gratification beyond the normal top age of 5 years; the use of a computerized battery of tests of executive functioning on young girls and their mothers in India; a longitudinal study in Germany investigating the growth of self‐regulation in grade school children and the influence of factors such as family environment; the influence on self‐regulation of parenting styles among low‐income Mexican American children; the differential effects of two components of self‐regulation, inhibitory control and verbal working memory, on social functioning in French school children; the role of good mentoring relationships in promoting positive future planning and goal‐setting styles among disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong; a report on the opportunities and challenges in introducing a program on parenting, initially developed in the UK as early intervention for very young children diagnosed with attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder, into new cultural contexts in Denmark, Hong Kong, Japan, and China. Rounding out this issue is a Short Communication on a study of the effects of sex on associations between traits of the Dark Triad and dimensions of time perspective, plus a report, in our continuing series on recent Chinese Psychological Research, of a cognitive neuroscience study of a potential biomarker which may help in the early detection of vulnerability to schizophrenia in people with subclinical manifestations.