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August 2015
Early Neighborhood Poverty and Children’s School-Age Conduct Problems: Latent Class Growth Analysis of Neighborhood Deprivation
SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel Choe (UC-Davis) Neighborhood poverty is associated with children’s increased risk of conduct problems (CPs), but it is unclear whether neighborhood poverty contributes to child CPs when considering other contextual stressors. Latent class growth analysis with U.S. Census data approximated trajectory classes of neighborhood deprivation from ages 2 to 5 among 716 ethnically diverse, low-income children in a randomized control trial administered in rural, suburban, and urban communities. Compared to children exposed to low to moderately-low deprivation, children…
Find out more »Child Personality: Measurement and Utility
SPEAKER: Dr. Jennifer Tackett (University Of Houston) Our research lab concentrates on two interrelated lines of work: 1) conceptualization and measurement of personality in childhood and 2) application and utility of child personality for developmental psychopathology. In this presentation, I will highlight studies reflecting both of these research lines. First, I will describe our recent efforts at developing a novel method for assessment of child personality by using “thin slice” ratings across multiple laboratory situational tasks. These findings suggest that…
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