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Infant-mother attachment security, contextual risk, and early development: a moderational analysisJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Dev Psychopathol 14:293-310. 2002..Findings are discussed in terms of risk and resilience and in light of the probabilistic nature of the relation between early attachment and later development...- Are there long-term effects of early child care?Jay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Child Dev 78:681-701. 2007..Discussion focuses on mechanisms responsible for these effects, the potential collective consequences of small child-care effects, and the importance of the ongoing follow-up at age 15... - Developmental origins of attachment stylesJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck College, 7 Bedford Square, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
Attach Hum Dev 4:166-70. 2002 - Exploring marriage-parenting typologies and their contextual antecedents and developmental sequelaeJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK
Dev Psychopathol 16:501-23. 2004..Results are discussed in terms of the relative influence of marriage and parenting on child development and the potential benefits of applying typological approaches to the study of marriage-parenting family subsystems... - Intergenerational transmission of warm-sensitive-stimulating parenting: a prospective study of mothers and fathers of 3-year-oldsJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
Child Dev 76:384-96. 2005..Results are discussed in terms of supportive versus harsh parenting, mother-father differences, and the characteristics of the sample... 
The development of reproductive strategy in females: early maternal harshness --> earlier menarche --> increased sexual risk takingJay Belsky
Instititute for Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, 7 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 46:120-8. 2010..Results are discussed in terms of evolutionary perspectives on human development and reproductive strategy, and future directions for research are outlined...- The intergenerational transmission of parenting: introduction to the special sectionJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, 7 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 45:1201-4. 2009..Lacking, however, is high-quality work highlighting the conditions under which parenting is not transmitted across generations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)... 
Vulnerability genes or plasticity genes?J Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
Mol Psychiatry 14:746-54. 2009....- Effects of Sure Start local programmes on children and families: early findings from a quasi-experimental, cross sectional studyJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1B 3RA
BMJ 332:1476. 2006..To evaluate the effects of Sure Start local programmes (SSLPs) on children and their families. To assess whether variations in the effectiveness of SSLPs are due to differences in implementation... - Parenting, attention and externalizing problems: testing mediation longitudinally, repeatedly and reciprocallyJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, London UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1233-42. 2007..Building on prior work, this paper tests, longitudinally and repeatedly, the proposition that attentional control processes mediate the effect of earlier parenting on later externalizing problems... - Family rearing antecedents of pubertal timingJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Child Dev 78:1302-21. 2007..Maternal menarche, controlled in all analyses, was a stronger predictor than rearing. Findings are discussed in terms of theory development, genetic and nutritional influences, and sample restrictions... - Childhood experience and the development of reproductive strategiesJay Belsky
Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
Psicothema 22:28-34. 2010..Twenty years since BSD advanced their <<uncanny>> prediction, it seems clear that female pubertal timing is related to select aspects of early family experience... - Annual Research Review: Parenting and children's brain development: the end of the beginningJay Belsky
Institute for Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:409-28. 2011..Research on parenting and children's brain development may be regarded as at 'the end of the beginning'... - Emanuel Miller lecture developmental risks (still) associated with early child careJ Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 42:845-59. 2001.... - Child-rearing antecedents of intergenerational relations in young adulthood: a prospective studyJ Belsky
School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, England
Dev Psychol 37:801-13. 2001.... - Quantity counts: amount of child care and children's socioemotional developmentJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues, Birkbeck College, University of London, 7 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA, UK
J Dev Behav Pediatr 23:167-70. 2002 - Cumulative-genetic plasticity, parenting and adolescent self-regulationJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:619-26. 2011..Here the differential-susceptibility hypothesis is tested that the more putative 'plasticity alleles' adolescents carry, the more positively and negatively influenced they will be by, respectively, supportive and unsupportive parenting... - Intergenerational relationships in young adulthood and their life course, mental health, and personality correlatesJay Belsky
Birkbeck University of London, Families and Social Issues, London, United Kingdom
J Fam Psychol 17:460-71. 2003..Results are discussed in terms of the openness of the parent-child relationship in adulthood to further development... - Infant attachment security and the timing of puberty: testing an evolutionary hypothesisJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, London, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 21:1195-201. 2010..These results support a conditional-adaptational view of individual differences in attachment security and raise questions about the biological mechanisms responsible for the attachment effects we discerned... - Testing a core emotion-regulation prediction: does early attentional persistence moderate the effect of infant negative emotionality on later development?J Belsky
School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Child Dev 72:123-33. 2001.... - Differential susceptibility to parenting and quality child careMichael Pluess
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, London, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 46:379-90. 2010..J. Belsky, D. L. Vandell, et al.'s (2007) failure to consider such temperament-moderated rearing effects in their evaluation of long-term child care effects misestimates effects of child care quality on social adjustment... - Socioeconomic risk, parenting during the preschool years and child health age 6 yearsJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Eur J Public Health 17:508-13. 2007..This study tests the hypothesis that some of the effect of socioeconomic risk on health in mid childhood is transmitted via early parenting... - Differential susceptibility to rearing experience: the case of childcareMichael Pluess
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:396-404. 2009..Inconsistencies regarding developmental effects of non-maternal childcare may be caused by neglecting the possibility that children are differentially susceptible towards such experiences... - Early attachment security, subsequent maternal sensitivity, and later child development: does continuity in development depend upon continuity of caregiving?Jay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, 7 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA, UK
Attach Hum Dev 4:361-87. 2002..Results are discussed with regard to the role of early experience in shaping development... - Attachment and attention: protection in relation to gender and cumulative social-contextual adversityR M Pasco Fearon
Department of Psychology, University College London, University of London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Child Dev 75:1677-93. 2004.... - Parenting and children's cardiovascular functioningB G Bell
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
Child Care Health Dev 34:194-203. 2008.... - Beyond diathesis stress: differential susceptibility to environmental influencesJay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, 7 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA, United Kingdom
Psychol Bull 135:885-908. 2009..Discussion focuses upon limits of the evidence, statistical criteria for distinguishing differential susceptibility from diathesis stress, potential mechanisms of influence, and unknowns in the differential-susceptibility equation... - Disadvantaged but different: variation among deprived communities in relation to child and family well-beingJacqueline Barnes
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46:952-62. 2005..To evaluate the implementation, impact, and cost-effectiveness of SSLPs, or other area-based initiatives, it is important to consider ways in which they can be grouped meaningfully according to these patterns... - 5-HTTLPR moderates effects of current life events on neuroticism: differential susceptibility to environmental influencesMichael Pluess
Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 34:1070-4. 2010..Whereas neuroticism is likely to be an especially stable trait in individuals homozygous for the long allele, this may be less so the case for those carrying short alleles... - Variation in community intervention programmes and consequences for children and families: the example of Sure Start Local ProgrammesEdward Melhuish
Institute for the Study of Children Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:543-51. 2007..A national evaluation examined the links between variation in programme implementation and effectiveness... - Effects of fully-established Sure Start Local Programmes on 3-year-old children and their families living in England: a quasi-experimental observational studyEdward Melhuish
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
Lancet 372:1641-7. 2008..We therefore investigated whether SSLPs affect the wellbeing of 3-year-old children and their families... - Serotonin transporter polymorphism moderates effects of prenatal maternal anxiety on infant negative emotionalityMichael Pluess
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
Biol Psychiatry 69:520-5. 2011.... - Avoidant romantic attachment and female orgasm: testing an emotion-regulation hypothesisDanielle L Cohen
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Attach Hum Dev 10:1-10. 2008..39 years) proved consistent with this hypothesis. Results are discussed in terms of developmental influence on adult reproductive behavior, evolution, and the characteristics of the sample... - A taxometric study of the Adult Attachment InterviewGlenn I Roisman
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Dev Psychol 43:675-86. 2007..The consequences of these analyses for AAI reliability training and coding are also explored... - Mothers' and fathers' support for child autonomy and early school achievementJay Belsky
Dev Psychol 44:895-907. 2008..For boys, the effect of mothers' support for child autonomy was mediated by higher self-reliance at Grade 1 and of fathers' support for child autonomy by greater increases in self-reliance from Grades 1 through 3... - Does class size in first grade relate to children's academic and social performance or observed classroom processes?Virginia Allhusen
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Dev Psychol 40:651-64. 2004.... - Child-care history, classroom composition, and children's functioning in kindergartenJulia Dmitrieva
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Pholadelphia, PA 10122, USA
Psychol Sci 18:1032-9. 2007..g., fighting and arguing) and higher academic achievement when schooled in classrooms with more peers who had extensive child-care histories... - Neural correlates of the perception of goal-directed action in infantsVincent M Reid
Neurocognition and Development Group, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany
Acta Psychol (Amst) 124:129-38. 2007..These results suggest that by 8 months infants are sensitive to the disruption of perceived goal-directed actions... - Maternal personality and infants' neural and visual responsivity to facial expressions of emotionMichelle de Haan
Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:1209-18. 2004.... - The relationship between body mass index and behavior in childrenRobert H Bradley
Center for Applied Studies in Education, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA
J Pediatr 153:629-634. 2008..To examine reciprocal relationships between body mass index (BMI) and internalizing and externalizing problems from infancy through middle childhood, with a focus on sex and history of overweight... - Identifying risk for obesity in early childhoodPhilip R Nader
Division of Community Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Pediatrics 118:e594-601. 2006..Our aim with this study was to assist clinicians by estimating the predictive value of earlier levels of BMI status on later risk of overweight and obesity during the middle childhood and early adolescent years... - Does time spent in child care influence risk for unintentional injury?David C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:184-93. 2006..To investigate the effect of quantity and quality of early child care on children's risk for unintentional injury... - When parents have a history of conduct disorder: how is the caregiving environment affected?Sara R Jaffee
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:309-19. 2006..The cumulative consequences of early-onset conduct disorder and assortative mating for antisocial behavior may explain the long-term effects of conduct disorder on young adult functioning... - Teaching.Opportunities to learn in America's elementary classroomsRobert C Pianta
Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Science 315:1795-6. 2007