The advancement of communication and information technology has dramatically influenced both positive and negative influences, especially on children. Therefore, parents must educate their children ...well, not negatively, to influence the advancement of communication and information technology. Thus, as primary educators, parents must understand how to provide their children with the best education. The best education is to instil religious values in children from an early age, so the first and foremost thing to give this education is parents at home by setting a good example so that they can stick in the child's heart throughout his life.
En el presente artículo se presenta una experiencia de intervención a través del deporte, llevada a cabo con jugadores del FC Juárez (Ciudad Juárez, México), orientada a ayudar a los deportistas a ...conciliar el ámbito deportivo y académico-familiar, a fomentar su crecimiento personal a través de la educación en valores y a promover itinerarios de intervención para dar apoyo individualizado a estos jugadores como parte del proceso de desarrollo personal y académico en el contexto de la intervención social. Esta intervención, basada en una perspectiva sistémica del binomio jugador-familia, incluyó actividades enfocadas en el jugador, en su familia y en el cuerpo técnico. El artículo concluye con la exposición de los principales resultados de la intervención en el ámbito deportivo, académico y socio-comunitario.
Palabras clave: intervención social; fútbol; inclusión; educación; deporte.
Abstract. This article presents an experience of intervention through sport, carried out with FC Juárez players (Ciudad Juárez, México), aimed at helping athletes to reconcile the sporting and academic-family environment, to promote their personal growth through education in values and to promote intervention itineraries to provide individualised support to these players as part of the process of personal and academic development in the context of social intervention. This intervention, based on a systemic perspective of the player-family binomial, included activities focused on the player, his family and the coaching staff. The article concludes with the main results of the intervention in the sporting, academic and socio-community spheres.
Keywords: social intervention; football; inclusion; education; sport.
A family environment, characterized by low expressiveness, low cohesion and intense conflicts is usually associated with problematic internet use (PIU) among adolescents. However, the mechanism that ...correlates family environment with PIU is still unclear. We propose that a negative family environment is associated with high adolescents' depression which, in turn, leads to Fear of Missing Out (FoMO); Finally, FoMO is associated with PIU, and time spent online. Eighty-five adolescents (aged 12–16) and their parents (total N = 170) participated in the study. Parents provided data on the family environment, and adolescents provided data on depression, FoMO and PIU. In addition, we monitored adolescents' smartphones for 14 days, gathering objective data to evaluate time and content online. Results supported out model, indicating that the effects of low family expressiveness and high conflicts on PIU and time spent online are mediated by depression and FoMO. Results suggest that positive family environment could decrease depressive symptoms and FoMO among adolescents, and hence, diminish PIU and time spent online.
•Negative family environment is associated with high problematic internet use, and time spent online among adolescents.•Depression mediates the relationship between low expressiveness and high conflicts in family and time online.•Fear of Missing Out mediates the relationship between low expressiveness and high conflicts in family and time online.
The formation of intense emotional attachments to objects, difficulty parting with possessions, and the extreme accumulation of clutter are key features of Hoarding Disorder (HD). Although ...substantial literature implicates processes such as dysfunctional beliefs and maladaptive emotional cycles in HD, little is known about the vulnerability factors that lead to their development and hoarding symptomatology. The current review sought to systematically collate and integrate findings from studies investigating the relationship between hoarding symptoms and three proposed vulnerability factors: i) interpersonal attachment, ii) early family environment, and iii) traumatic or adverse life events. A comprehensive search of the databases PsycInfo, PubMed, and Scopus identified a total of 39 studies for inclusion. The results presented a complex pattern that supported the presence of relationships between insecure attachment, cold and controlling family experiences, and exposure to adverse life events with increased hoarding severity. However, the specificity of these factors to HD over other clinical groups remains unclear and findings are limited by the heterogenous and small number of studies. We conclude by discussing the clinical implications and limitations of these findings and propose new directions for future research.
•Insecure attachment and trauma exposure are linked to more severe hoarding.•Low family warmth and high control is linked to more severe hoarding.•Specificity of these factors to hoarding over other disorders remain unclear.•Methodological problems and small samples limit findings.•Replicative and longitudinal research is needed.
Mathematics anxiety is a pervasive issue in education that requires attention from both educators and researchers to help students reach their full academic potential. This review provides an ...overview of past research that has investigated the association between math anxiety and math achievement, factors that can cause math anxiety, characteristics of students that can increase their susceptibility to math anxiety, and efforts that educators can take to remedy math anxiety. We also derive a new Interpretation Account of math anxiety, which we use to argue the importance of understanding appraisal processes in the development and treatment of math anxiety. In conclusion, gaps in the literature are reviewed in addition to suggestions for future research that can help improve the field's understanding of this important issue.
Sperry, Sperry, and Miller (2018) aim to debunk what is called the 30‐million‐word gap by claiming that children from lower income households hear more speech than Hart and Risley () reported. We ...address why the 30‐million‐word gap should not be abandoned, and the importance of retaining focus on the vital ingredient to language learning—quality speech directed to children rather than overheard speech, the focus of Sperry et al.'s argument. Three issues are addressed: Whether there is a language gap; the characteristics of speech that promote language development; and the importance of language in school achievement. There are serious risks to claims that low‐income children, on average, hear sufficient, high‐quality language relative to peers from higher income homes.
The purpose of the current review was to address four questions: 1) Are there differences in family functioning or family environment among patients with different eating disorder (ED) diagnoses? 2) ...Are there differences in the perception of family functioning or family environment among different family members? 3) Is family functioning or family environment related to ED symptomatology? 4) Does family functioning or family environment change as a result of ED treatment? and 4a) If so, does this impact ED treatment outcome? Although most studies found no differences among ED diagnostic groups, those that did generally found worse family functioning among those with binge/purge symptoms than among those with the restricting subtype of anorexia nervosa. Differences in perceptions of family functioning among family members were found, with patients generally reporting worse functioning than their parents. Worse family functioning was generally found to be related to worse ED symptoms. The variety of treatment approaches and different assessments of outcome made it somewhat unclear whether family functioning consistently improves with ED treatment. More research is needed on family functioning and EDs, particularly in understudied groups such as males, and those with ED diagnoses other than anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
•Those with binge/purge symptoms report worse family functioning.•Patients report worse family functioning than their parents.•Worse family functioning is associated with worse eating disorder symptoms.
Amid growing controversy about the oft‐cited “30‐million‐word gap,” this investigation uses language data from five American communities across the socioeconomic spectrum to test, for the first time, ...Hart and Risley's (1995) claim that poor children hear 30 million fewer words than their middle‐class counterparts during the early years of life. The five studies combined ethnographic fieldwork with longitudinal home observations of 42 children (18–48 months) interacting with family members in everyday life contexts. Results do not support Hart and Risley's claim, reveal substantial variation in vocabulary environments within each socioeconomic stratum, and suggest that definitions of verbal environments that exclude multiple caregivers and bystander talk disproportionately underestimate the number of words to which low‐income children are exposed.
This article is commented on by Golinkoff et al (2019) and the authors in response. The commentary and author response were published in the previous 90.3 issue in error and are available online: Golinkoff et al (2019): https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13128 Sperry et al (2019): https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13125
Background: Maternal executive function and household regulation both are critical aspects of optimal childrearing, but their interplay is not understood. We tested the hypotheses that (a) the link ...between challenging child conduct problems and harsh parenting would be strongest for mothers with poorer executive function and weakest among those with better executive function, and (b) this mechanism would be further moderated by the degree of household chaos.
Methods: The socioeconomically diverse sample included 147 mothers of 3‐to‐7 year old children. Mothers completed questionnaires and a laboratory assessment of executive function.
Results: Consistent with hypotheses, harsh parenting was linked with child conduct problems only among mothers with poorer executive function. This effect was particularly strong in calm, predictable environments, but was not evident in chaotic environments.
Conclusion: Maternal executive function is critical to minimizing harsh parenting in the context of challenging child behavior, but this self‐regulation process may not operate well in chaotic environments.
Abstract Objective This article reviews the literature concerning the impact of exposure to domestic violence on the health and developmental well-being of children and young people. Impact is ...explored across four separate yet inter-related domains (domestic violence exposure and child abuse; impact on parental capacity; impact on child and adolescent development; and exposure to additional adversities), with potential outcomes and key messages concerning best practice responses to children's needs highlighted. Method A comprehensive search of identified databases was conducted within an 11-year framework (1995–2006). This yielded a vast literature which was selectively organized and analyzed according to the four domains identified above. Results This review finds that children and adolescents living with domestic violence are at increased risk of experiencing emotional, physical and sexual abuse, of developing emotional and behavioral problems and of increased exposure to the presence of other adversities in their lives. It also highlights a range of protective factors that can mitigate against this impact, in particular a strong relationship with and attachment to a caring adult, usually the mother. Conclusion Children and young people may be significantly affected by living with domestic violence, and impact can endure even after measures have been taken to secure their safety. It also concludes that there is rarely a direct causal pathway leading to a particular outcome and that children are active in constructing their own social world. Implications for interventions suggest that timely, appropriate and individually tailored responses need to build on the resilient blocks in the child's life. Practice implications This study illustrate the links between exposure to domestic violence, various forms of child abuse and other related adversities, concluding that such exposure may have a differential yet potentially deleterious impact for children and young people. From a resilient perspective this review also highlights range of protective factors that influence the extent of the impact of exposure and the subsequent outcomes for the child. This review advocates for a holistic and child-centered approach to service delivery, derived from an informed assessment, designed to capture a picture of the individual child's experience, and responsive to their individual needs.
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