OBJECTIVE: This is the sixth article in a series of 10-year reviews of rating scales. The
current article reviews scales that assess externalizing behaviors such as disruptive …

Identified opportunities to make statistical analysis more closely approximate the conceptual
issues that are apparent in current research in pediatric psychology. The paper proceeds by …

Do parents have any important long-term effects on the development of their child's
personality? This article examines the evidence and concludes that the answer is no. A new …

This theoretical article views children's risky play from an evolutionary perspective,
addressing specific evolutionary functions and especially the anti-phobic effects of risky …

Objective To determine the predictive validity of perceived risk, risk taking, estimation of
ability, overefficacy, and previous injuries on actual injury among adolescents in sport; and …

Multimethod strategies (ie, questionnaires, parents' observations, injury-event recording
diaries, telephone and home interviews) were used to study in-home injuries experienced …

This study examined longitudinal and concurrent relations between temperament, ability
estimation, and injury proneness. Longitudinal assessments of Inhibitory Control were …

Objectives: To draw on empirical findings of the psychological factors that cause elementary-
school children to engage in risky play behaviors that can lead to injury, with the aim of …

Objective To identify child and parent attributes that relate to caregiver supervision and
examine how these factors influence child-injury risk. Methods Mothers completed diary …

This study examined social and temperamental influences on children's judgments about
their physical abilities and relations between temperamental characteristics, ability …