Findings from a longitudinal study suggest that childhood bullying may lead to long-lasting health consequences, impacting psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular health well into adulthood.
New research associates early life adversity with the presentation of social anxiety disorder later in life.
Spanking at age 5 is associated with increased behavior problems 1 and 3 years later -- an increase that cannot be attributed to characteristics of the child or the family environment
Early deprivation experiences, such as parental neglect, appear to be more closely associated with cognitive and emotional functioning in adolescence than early threat experiences, such as exposure to abuse.
Arielle Baskin-Sommers explores the cognitive-affective processes associated with disinhibition and community violence.
Fostering children’s psychological well-being could help reduce their risk for heart conditions as adults, according to findings from a longitudinal study of British people born in 1958.
APS President Alison Gopnik discusses the increasing amount of scientific evidence that our experiences as children shape our adult lives.
Two APS journal articles—one published in Psychological Science and the other in Perspectives on Psychological Science—have been singled out for awards from The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
A culturally underprivileged childhood increases a person’s risk of being less physically active in adulthood. This risk is greater for women than for men, according to new research published in the journal Psychological Science.
New research associates early life adversity with the presentation of social anxiety disorder later in life.
Encouraging young people returning from juvenile detention to share their goals with an educator could help them stay in school and out of the criminal justice system.
Reduced access to rewards may influence brain development, contributing to the increased prevalence of mental health disorders in children living in economically impoverished environments.
Science explores the formidable link between our earliest life experiences and our health in old age.
Children often show remarkable resilience, but survey data shows that repeated exposure to adversity in childhood can have a significant impacts on health and well-being later in life.
Psychological scientists describe the abundant evidence demonstrating the negative impact of separating parents and children.
Harry Harlow’s empirical work revolutionized the scientific understanding of the influence of social relationships in early development.
Babies not only pick up on their mother’s stress, they also show corresponding physiological changes, research shows.
Children who overcome overcome adversity are seen as resilient, but this resiliency may have health costs that last well into adulthood.
Children who experience early-life stress and abuse are at risk of a wide spectrum of later disorders and symptoms, including depression.
Adults who report high levels of stress and who also had stressful childhoods are most likely to show hormone patterns associated with negative health outcomes.
Adults may "explain away" symptoms of childhood disorders that present in an otherwise positive environment.
While the amount of exposure to disaster coverage on TV can impact children's well-being, their preexisting symptoms of posttraumatic stress also play an important role.
A longitudinal twin study suggests that victimization makes general and far-reaching contributions to mental disorders.
Longitudinal data suggest growing up in a warm family environment in childhood is associated with feeling more secure in romantic relationships in one’s 80s.
Long thought to result from fragile self-esteem, bullying may instead stem from grandiose, inflated, and narcissistic self-assessment, some psychological scientists argue.
