Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volume 42 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 9 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area.

A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including Loneliness in Childhood, The Legacy of Early Interpersonal Experience, The Relation Between Space and Math, and Producing and Understanding Prosocial Acts in Early Childhood.

Each chapter provides in-depth discussions and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.

1. Loneliness in childhood: toward the next generation of assessment and research
2. Cognitive and linguistic correlates of early exposure to more than one language
3. The legacy of early interpersonal experience
4. Some (but not much) progress toward understanding teenage childbearing: a review of research from the past decade
5. Social-emotional development through a behavior genetics lens: infancy through preschool
6. The relation between space and math: developmental and educational implication
7. Testing models of children’s self-regulation within educational contexts: implications for measurement
8. Producing and understanding prosocial actions in early childhood
9. Food and family: a socio-ecological perspective for child development