Without much effort, one can easily imagine a young girl, at age 3 or 4, happily wearing a pink, frilly dress. She twirls, she dances, she skips in her dress, reveling in its femininity and flounce. In the same vein, with great ease one can imagine a small boy, a towel draped around his neck, his bony arms outstretched in fists. He imagines his muscles bulging and his strength abounding, runnin...

AIMS To examine the association between parental rules and communication (also referred to as antismoking socialization) and adolescents' smoking. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS A cross-sectional study including 428 Dutch two-parent families with at least two adolescent children (aged 13-17 years). MEASUREMENTS Parents' and adolescents' reports on an agreement regarding smoking by adolescents, smo...

OBJECTIVE Peer socialization may be an important contributor to the rising prevalence of diet and muscle gain behaviors (i.e., body change behaviors) in adolescence. The present study longitudinally examined body change behaviors in preadolescents' friendship groups as predictors of preadolescents' own body change behaviors. It was predicted that peer socialization effects would vary according ...

Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts, 2016, 6(2) 47 Emotion regulation is the motivation and ability to control one’s subjective experience of emotion and to strategically manage one’s expression of emotion in communicative contexts (Saarni, 1999). Emotion regulation fosters one’s emotional well-being, positive social relationships (Eisenberg, Spinrad, & Eggum, 2010), and academic competence ...

Little research has explored the child gender preferences of preadoptive parents. This study utilized a mixed-methods approach to explore child gender preferences (and individuals’ reasons for such preferences) in a geographically diverse, US sample of 93 heterosexual, 61 lesbian, and 48 gay male preadoptive couples. Heterosexual men were the least likely to demonstrate a gender preference and ...

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] This focused collection explores inequalities in the experiences of women in physics. Yet, it is important for researchers to also be aware of and draw insights from common patterns in the experiences of women across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Here, we review studies on gender disparit...

The aim of the study was to know the factors that influence boys and girls' perceptions for performing physical activity during playground recess from their own perspective. Ninety-eight schoolchildren aged 8-11 years from five schools from Cuenca (Spain) participated in 22 focus groups and carried out 98 drawings following the socioecological model as a theoretical framework. A content analysi...