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November 28, 2024

Associations among parents’ math anxiety, math-related leisure activities, children’s early numeracy interest and skills

David Purpura

Parents play a pivotal role in early numeracy development. It however remains unknown whether parents' math anxiety and math-related leisure activities concurrently contribute to children's early numeracy skills through numeracy interest.

November 26, 2024

CFF welcomes Leigha MacNeill as a faculty partner!

Leigha MacNeill joins CFF as an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science. Research interests include Social-emotional development in the family system and how such trajectories lead to mental health. She is actively aiming to translate developmental knowledge base...

November 14, 2024

CFF welcomes Mark Suchman as a faculty partner!

Mark Suchman joins CFF as a Professor of Sociology. Research interests include The impact of law and legal institutions on social and economic life, with a particular focus on how legal conditions create—or foreclose—opportunities for innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological change.

November 4, 2024

Weathering the storm: How agribusinesses and farms can prepare for natural disasters

Maria Marshall

Major natural disasters, like Hurricanes Helene and Milton, caused severe economic and environmental damage in the southeastern region of the U.S. this fall.

November 4, 2024

Purdue Center for Early Learning finds new research PURPOSE

David Purpura, Sarah Eason

The Purdue University Center for Early Learning (CEL) is pushing the integration of early STEM and non-STEM education research with PURPOSE.

November 4, 2024

Parental warmth and parent–child conflict among U.S. Latinx families in middle childhood

Kim Updegraff

Grounded in family systems theory and using latent profile analysis, the present study examined (a) patterns of parent–child warmth and parent–child conflict within multiple dyads among 305 U.S. Latinx families with fifth graders and younger siblings and tested links of...

November 4, 2024

Competence Perceptions at the Intersection of Gender and Race-Ethnicity

Trenton Mize

Competence perceptions represent a fundamental dimension of human perception and have wide-ranging consequences for social interaction. Therefore, it is no surprise that multiple prominent social psychological theories emphasize the role of competence perceptions.

November 1, 2024

Mode of pandemic school instruction associated with distress among military and non-military-connected students

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

Because they experience unique risk factors, students from military families may have responded differently to remote school instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 30, 2024

Lability in parent–child warmth and hostility and adolescent externalizing behaviors

Kristine Marceau

Both longer term developmental changes (increases in hostility, decreases in warmth) and lability (year-to-year fluctuations) in parent–child relationship quality across childhood and adolescence have been linked to adolescent externalizing behaviors.

October 30, 2024

US dietary guidelines could recommend Americans eat less meat and potatoes. Expect a food fight.

Heather Eicher-Miller

Beef groups slammed recommendations for consumers to increase their protein intake via beans, peas and lentils, calling the proposal “unhinged.”

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