Publications by authors named "R Steinmayr"

The association between school students' social background and school achievement is well documented. Recent studies demonstrated that this association might be moderated by the level of cognitive potential. Based on these results, we recruited an elementary school sample ( = 837) and an adolescent sample at the end of their compulsory school time ( = 2100) to investigate whether the associations between students' social background and their academic achievement in math and language arts were moderated by the level of their general cognitive competencies, i.

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Having control over your own behavior and impulses is a critical skill that influences children's academic, social, and emotional development. This study investigates the stability and predictive relationships between parents' ratings of their own and their children's executive function and delay aversion. Using data from approximately 1700 families collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we employed hierarchical structural equation models and cross-lagged panel models to analyze the temporal stability and directional influences of executive function and delay aversion assessments.

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Article Synopsis
  • Mental Health Literacy (MHL) is crucial for promoting mental health among children of parents with mental illness (COPMI), but research on their knowledge of mental disorders is limited.
  • A study involving 181 semi-structured interviews with COPMI aged 5 to 17 revealed that younger children had limited disorder knowledge, while adolescents showed more understanding, particularly related to specific types of disorders.
  • The research indicated that knowledge levels varied by age and sex, with older males showing the highest overall understanding of mental disorders.
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Background: Children of parents with a mental illness (COPMI) have multiple psychological and developmental risks, including an increased lifetime risk of developing a mental illness themselves. Emotion regulation (ER) has been identified as a potential underlying mechanism of the transgenerational transmission of mental disorders. This study compares ER strategies in parents with and without a mental illness and their children.

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Objective: Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a fundamental social skill essential for adaptive social behaviors, emotional development, and overall well-being. FER impairments have been linked to various mental disorders, making it a critical transdiagnostic mechanism influencing the development and trajectory of mental disorders. FER has also been found to play a role in the transgenerational transmission of mental disorders, with the majority of research suggesting FER impairments in children of parents with a mental illness (COPMI).

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