European Conference on Developmental Psychology
August 25-29, 2025 | Vilnius, Lithuania
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 26/Aug/2025 | |||||
| 8:00am - 6:00pm |
REGISTRATION Location: LOBBY OF THE CONFERENCE CENTER IN RADISSON BLU HOTEL LIETUVA (Konstitucijos av. 20) |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
PLENARY SESSION. KEYNOTE: Livio Provenzi "Into the Translational Parentome: From Developmental Psychobiology to Family-centered Care" Location: ALPHA Chair: Spyridon Tantaros Into the Translational Parentome: From Developmental Psychobiology to Family-centered Care University of Pavia, Italy |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
COFFEE BREAK Location: LOBBY OF THE CONFERENCE CENTER IN RADISSON BLU HOTEL LIETUVA (Konstitucijos av. 20) |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
S601: INVITED SYMPOSIUM: Centering Majority World in Developmental Science Location: ALPHA Chair: Peter F. Titzmann Centering Majority World Research in Developmental Science Presentations of the Symposium Majority World Developmental Science Research: Challenges and Recommendations What can authors do to center Majority World research in Developmental Science? What can reviewers and editors do to center the Majority World research in Developmental Science? |
S602: SYMPOSIUM: Unravelling trauma and stress: Developmental and multilevel insights into risk and resilience Location: BETA 1 Chair: Fabiola Silletti Unravelling trauma and stress: Developmental and multilevel insights into risk and resilience Presentations of the Symposium Stressful Life Events and Youth Delinquency: Exploring Family and Peer Support as Mediators or Moderators in a Longitudinal, Diverse Sample Exposure to trauma in young adults and multisystemic resilience: the aftermath and the mental health impact. COVID-19 Links to Maternal Anxiety and Depression: The Roles of Long-COVID, Self-Efficacy, and Partner Support Considering the Links between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Mentalization, Epistemic Trust, and Eating Disorders Psychopathology in Young Adulthood |
S603: SYMPOSIUM: Voices, Behaviors, and Interventions: Comprehensive Insights into Bullying, Cyberbullying and Students’ Well-Being Location: BETA 2 Chair: Laura Menabò Voices, Behaviors, and Interventions: Comprehensive Insights into Bullying, Cyberbullying and Students’ Well-Being Presentations of the Symposium Unpacking School Bullying: A Consensual Qualitative Study of What Matters to Students The Role of School Refusal in the Association Between Peer Victimization and School Dropout Risk Understanding Adolescents Bystanders’ Responses to Cyberbullying: Insights from a Web-Based Experimental Study Big Talks for Little People: A Pilot Study of an Australian Classroom Based Digital Mental Health Program |
S604: SYMPOSIUM: Expanding the Horizon in Mentalization Location: ZETA 1 Chair: Ruben Fukkink Expanding the Horizon in Mentalization Presentations of the Symposium Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Children's Expressions of Shyness during a Performance Task Evolving Mind-Mindedness: Parental Interactional Mind-Mindedness with Older Children in Pleasant and Stressful Interactions The First Goodbye: Parent-Child Interaction during Separation Situation in the Light of Parental Mentalization The Role of Mentalization in Enhancing Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Professionals’ Interaction and Relationships with Children |
S605: SYMPOSIUM: Self-Regulation in Preschoolers: Embodied Approaches to Early Development Location: ZETA 2 Chair: Silvia Ampollini Self-Regulation in Preschoolers: Embodied Approaches to Early Development Presentations of the Symposium From the Bottom to the Top: Enhancing Preschoolers’ Executive Functions and Self-Regulation through Daily Intersensory Synchrony Experiential Practice The Impact of a Musical Intervention on Preschool Children’s Executive Functions Rhythm and movement for self-regulation, executive function, social, and behavioural skills in the preschool years: The RAMSR program |
| T601: THEMATIC SESSION: What They See and What They Do Online: Digital Content and Youth Behavior Location: GAMMA Chair: Lowie Bradt Assessing the Impact of Smartphone Bans in Schools: A Longitudinal and Multi-Informant Approach Ghent University, Belgium Identify High-Risk Messages of Adolescents in Social Media by Machine Learning 1: Institute of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan; 2: Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan; 3: Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan; 4: Institute of Learning Sciences and Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan; 5: Center for Application and Development of AI in Humanity and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan; 6: Counseling Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan Content Matters: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Relations Between the Content Adolescents Consume on TikTok and the Activities They Perform 1: Babes-Bolyai University, Romania; 2: Self and Identity Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Adolescents’ Social Networks and Attitudes: A Longitudinal Study of Face-to-Face and Electronic Contact with Syrian Peers 1: Batman University, Turkiye; 2: Bursa Uludag University, Turkiye |
T602: THEMATIC SESSION: Emotion Regulation, Peer Experiences, and Self-Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence Location: ETA Chair: Fatma Betul Abut Emotion Regulation Skills in Children and Adolescents: A National Study 1: Middle East Technical University, Turkiye; 2: Ege University; 3: Boğaziçi University Invisible children: Examining the characteristics and well-being of children who receive little to no peer attention at school 1: Brigham Young University, United States of America; 2: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands Engaging with Students' Sadness: A Multi-Method Approach to Exploring the Emotion Socialization Behaviors of Primary School Teachers 1: Roma Tre University, Italy; 2: Sapienza University of Rome Primary school students’ profiles of self-regulatory efficacy sources–Transitions and association with self-regulatory efficacy University of Eastern Finland, Finland Examining Reciprocal Relations Between Self-Concept and Social Exclusion in Early Adolescence – a Within-Person Approach Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway |
T603: THEMATIC SESSION: Foundations of Social and Emotional Adjustment in Early Childhood Location: EPSILON Chair: Katja Maarit Tervahartiala Participation in out-of-home childcare mitigates the association between maternal psychological distress and child behavioral problems at the age of 2 years 1: Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland; 2: Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; 3: FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 4: Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 5: Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 6: Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 7: Department of Clinical Medicine, Unit of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 8: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA Contributions of a professional development model on children engagement and development in childcare centers 1: ProChild CoLab Against Poverty and Social Exclusion – Association, Portugal; 2: Ispa; 3: Fundação Brazelton-Gomes Pedro; 4: Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; 5: Universidade de Aveiro; 6: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto; 7: Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa The emergence of children’s authoritarian and social dominance attitudes 1: Reichman University, Israel; 2: Max Stern College Young Children's Perception of Peers’ Social and Solitary Preferences in Italy 1: Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 2: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Smartphone use in young children: Associations with social competence and bullying 1: University of Udine, Italy; 2: University of Milano-Bicoca, Milan, Italy |
S606: SYMPOSIUM: From the Womb to Emerging Adulthood: Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change and Environmental Exposure on Development and Well-being Location: THETA Chair: Cansel Karakas Ozden From the Womb to Emerging Adulthood: Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change and Environmental Exposure on Development and Well-being Presentations of the Symposium Environmental contributions to developmental epigenome: Pollutants and greenness exposures during the first thousand days Voices from Northern Kenya Turkana adolescents experiencing climate change-triggered mental distress Adolescent Development Amid Climate Change: Lived Experiences from Two Climate-Vulnerable Regions Climate Emotions in Young People: A Systematic Review on the Prevalence, Development, and Links to Mental Health and Pro-environmental Behaviors |
T604: THEMATIC SESSION: Advancing Measurement in Developmental Psychology: Tools Across the Lifespan Location: IOTA Chair: Daiva Daukantaite Understanding Adolescent Embodiment: Development, Validation, and Mental Health Applications of the 12-Item Embodiment Scale (ES-12) Lund University, Sweden Why, not how much - Exploring Motivations for Digital Technology Use in Adolescents 1: Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia; 2: Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia Psychometric Properties of the WRAADDS in Japanese Adults with ADHD: Focus on Emotional Dysregulation Ochanomizu University, Japan Validation of a transdiagnostic early screening tool for warning signs of neurodevelopmental disorders in infants under one year Centre PsyCLE - UR 3273, France |
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| T605: THEMATIC SESSION: Young Minds, Bright Futures: Promoting Mental Health and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adults Location: OMEGA Chair: Josimar Antônio de Alcântara Mendes RRI-YPMH – An RRI Framework for the Responsible Involvement of Young People in Mental Health Projects University of Oxford, United Kingdom University Adjustment Journey: Examining the University Adjustment Process of First-Year Students through Longitudinal Research Ankara University, Turkiye When Helping Brings Happiness: Changes in Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction and the Motivation to Help on different life stages University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland Predicting life satisfaction across the life span: the role of time orientation and formulation of developmental tasks "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje, North Macedonia, North Macedonia, Republic of From Resilience to Well-Being: Exploring the Role of Emotional Reactivity 1: Åbo Akademi University, Finland; 2: University Hopsital of Montpellier; 3: Massachusetts General Hospital; 4: Vilnius University; 5: University of Montpellier; 6: Kaunas University of Technology; 7: Bocconi University; 8: Trinity College Dublin; 9: Karolinska Institutet |
T606: THEMATIC SESSION: Being and Becoming in Adulthood: Emotional, Social, and Developmental Perspectives Location: OMIKRON Chair: Goda Gegieckaitė How middle-aged women experience their aging: a qualitative study 1: The Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania; 2: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Department of Health Psychology, Lithuania A Look from Within: Autistic Adults' Experiences of Building Connections with Strangers Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania The relations between Inhibitory Control and Empathy-related responses: A Daily Diary Study 1: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology, Rome, Italy; 2: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology of Developmental and Socialization Processes, Rome, Italy; 3: University of Florence, Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI), Florence, Italy The temporal dynamics of young adults’ personal goals: An eight-year longitudinal study 1: Lusófona University, Portugal; 2: University of Helsinki, Finland Meaning in Life at Midlife for Single and Childfree Filipino Women University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK Location: RESTAURANT "RIVERSIDE" IN RADISSON BLU HOTEL LIETUVA |
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| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
S607: INVITED SYMPOSIUM: LGBTQ+ Youth and Families: Growing up in the Context of Stigma Location: ALPHA Chair: Susie Bower-Brown LGBTQ+ Youth and Families: Growing up in the context of stigma Presentations of the Symposium Social, familial, and psychological factors affecting wellbeing in bisexual father families Nonbinary identities are not ‘elitist’ or ‘woke’: Demographic characteristics and social relationships of nonbinary youth in three community samples in the Netherlands and Belgium A Trans Moral Panic? Exploring the media and policy backlash against gender-diverse youth in the UK |
S608: SYMPOSIUM: Environmental Sensitivity and Temperament: Associations and Patterns of Differential Susceptibility from Infancy to Middle Childhood Location: BETA 1 Chair: Francesca Lionetti Environmental Sensitivity and Temperament: Associations and Patterns of Differential Susceptibility from Infancy to Middle Childhood Presentations of the Symposium Environmental Sensitivity and associations with temperamental regulatory aspects: empirical data from infancy to middle childhood Observer-Rated Environmental Sensitivity and its Characterisation at Behavioural, Genetic, and Physiological Levels Testing Children’s Differential Susceptibility to Parenting in Interventions Using Pooled Data From Seven Randomized Trials |
S609: SYMPOSIUM: Peer Status as Predictor of Social Functioning in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Location: BETA 2 Chair: Nathalie Hoekstra Peer Status as Predictor of Social Functioning in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Presentations of the Symposium Friendship and Popularity Network Effects on Adolescents’ Popularity Perceptions: Exploring the differences among students at secondary school levels Peer Status as Protective or Risk Factor for Cyberbullying: A Longitudinal Study among Italian Adolescents Peer Social Status in Emerging Adults’ Peer Groups From Playground to Profession: A Developmental Tasks Perspective |
S610: SYMPOSIUM: Development of children's emotion knowledge - results from 3 countries in Europe Location: ZETA 1 Chair: Maria von Salisch Development of children's emotion knowledge - results from 3 countries in Europe Presentations of the Symposium Contributions of the Adaptive Test of Emotion Knowledge (ATEM 3-9) in outlining the socio-emotional profile of a Portuguese sample Longitudinal associations between emotion knowledge and positive peer relationships in Swiss preschool classrooms What predicts growth in primary school children’s emotion knowledge? What comes first: children’s language skills or their emotion knowledge? |
S611: SYMPOSIUM: Biobehavioral dynamics of family interactions: socioemotional development in children taking into account synchrony, attachment and family resilience Location: ZETA 2 Chair: Michel Sfeir Biobehavioral dynamics of family interactions: socioemotional development in children taking into account synchrony, attachment and family resilience Presentations of the Symposium Family resilience among the “ribeirinhas” in the Amazon region Triadic stress resilience transmission: the role of attachment and synchrony Cooperative, conflictual, or disordered family alliance: Influence on infants’ physiological regulation during family interactions Individual differences in the developmental trajectories of joint attention: a 5-waves longitudinal study in the first years of life |
| T607: THEMATIC SESSION: Digital Risks and Adolescent Vulnerabilities Location: GAMMA Chair: Hamide Avci Social Media Engagement in Early Adolescence and Perceived Problematic Use in Late Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Parents and Peers Groningen University, Netherlands, The The Role of Social Media Activity in the Link Between Problematic Use and Loneliness in Adolescence University of Padua, Italy Young people’s awareness of, and attempts to manage, the negative impact of digital activity on their mental health: The Managing My Life Online questionnaire. 1: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom; 2: Department of Psychology, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom; 3: School of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 4: Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom Preliminary findings of the project “Smartphone Use, Sleep, and Mood: A cross-cultural study on the role of emotion regulation” / EADP Collaboration Grant Paper 1: University Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia; 2: Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Greece; 3: Department of Youth and Family, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; 4: Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Children’s Smartphone Use and Parent-Child Conflicts: The Moderating Role of Hyperactivity Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia |
T608: THEMATIC SESSION: Moral Development and Prosocial Behavior in Youth Location: ETA Chair: Yentl Koopmans The Association Between Attentional Biases and Loneliness in Early Adolescence 1: School Psychology and Development in Context, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2: Department of Youth and Family, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Shame memories of mother and daughter dyads: Personal shame memories 1: Hacettepe University; 2: Middle East Technical University Guilt Feelings and Prosocial Behavior from Adolescence to Young Adulthood 1: Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Psychology, Rome, Italy; 2: University of Palermo, Department of Cultures and Societies, Palermo, Italy Maternal Parenting Beliefs and Behaviors, Internalization of Moral Values, and Prosocial Behaviors: A Path Analysis 1: Middle East Technical University, Türkiye; 2: Ege University, Türkiye; 3: Bogazici University, Türkiye GENERATION PEACE: Developing and validating a cross-cultural Youth Peacebuilding Scale 1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; 3: Fundacion Universidad Konrad Lorenz, Colombia; 4: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 5: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 6: University of Munich, Germany |
T609: THEMATIC SESSION: Relational Foundations of Early Development: Parenting, Stress, and Support Systems Location: EPSILON Chair: Ramona Sandnes Attachment and parental psychological distress in the context of very preterm birth 1: Nantes Université, France; 2: Université d'Angers; 3: CHU de Rouen; 4: CHU d'Angers Preliminary Evidence for Parental Buffering Effect - Child Performance in an Emotional Go/No-Go Task at 9.5 Years of Age is Improved with Parental Presence 1: FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 2: Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland; 3: Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 4: The Centre of Excellence for Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research (InterLearn), University of Turku and University of Jyväskylä, Finland; 5: Department of Psychology, Columbia University; 6: Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Finland; 7: Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 8: Department of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland INVESTIGATION OF THE BEHAVIOR OF MOTHERS WITH GIFTED CHILDREN IN THE PRESCHOOL PERIOD IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SOCIALIZATION APPROACH 1: Ankara University, Turkiye; 2: Ordu University, Turkiye; 3: Ankara University, Turkiye Child Temperament as a Moderator of the Link Between Parental Burnout and Violence: The Role of Sibling Temperament Similarity in Belgian Families Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Exploring an AI Parent Training System to Support Transition Preparation for Young Children with Special Needs in the Social-Emotional Domain Chung Yuan Christian Univ., Taiwan |
S612: SYMPOSIUM: The Faces of Online Hate Speech: Who Is Exposed, Who Stands Up, and Who Pays the Price? Location: THETA Chair: Benedetta Emanuela Palladino The Faces of Online Hate Speech: Who Is Exposed, Who Stands Up, and Who Pays the Price? Presentations of the Symposium How do adolescents behave in the face of cyberhate? Implication roles, Bystander Responses, and Insights for Promoting Defensive Behaviors Psychological Factors Influencing Adolescents' Willingness to Counteract Online Hate Speech: The Role of Empathy, Self-Efficacy, and Meaning in Life Online Hate Speech and Adolescents' Well-Being: Unraveling Its Daily Impact on Youth with Migrant Background |
T610: THEMATIC SESSION: Rethinking How We Study Development: Methods, Measures, and Marginalized Voices Location: IOTA Chair: Jallu Lindblom Addressing Key Questions in Developmental Psychology: Lessons from the 20-Year Miracles of Development Study 1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: University of Helsinki, Finland Can Psychology Become Less ODD? CVML-Based Reintegration of Behavioral Observation into Psychological Research Jagiellonian University, Poland Measuring kindergarten teachers’ child maltreatment detection and reporting behavior: are we doing it correctly? 1: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 2: The American College of Greece-Deree; 3: Department of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Institute of Child Health Towards a ‘trauma-informed’ approach to peer-research: Reflections on peer research with unaccompanied asylum-seeking youth during the UK’s COVID-19 Lockdown. 1: University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 2: University of Liverpool, School of Law and Social Justice, United Kingdom; 3: Institute of Education, University College London, United Kingdom Beyond Good Intentions: Promising Practices and Preventable Failures in Engaging 'Hard-to-Reach' Youth in Participatory Research on Street Harassment 1: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The |
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| T612: THEMATIC SESSION: Development in Later Life: Cognition, Identity, and Life Course Transitions Location: OMIKRON Chair: Antanas Kairys The Transition to Retirement: How Retirement Intentions, Workplace Quality and Social Activity Shape Outcomes 1: Vilnius University, Institute of Psychology, Lithuania; 2: Uppsala University, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Sweden; 3: Rīga Stradiņš University, Statistics Unit, Latvia A Qualitative Study: Grandmothers and Mothers Are (Not) on the Same Page for Grandchildren 1: Middle East Technical University, Turkiye; 2: Auckland University of Technology; 3: University of Otago Exploring Lifestyle as a Mediator Between Education, Personality Traits, and Cognitive Abilities in Older Adulthood Vilnius University, Lithuania The paradox of aging: exploring the link between cognitive function and driving competence Vytautas Magnus university, Kaunas, Lithuania “Complicating Factors”: Investigating occupational complexity as a measure of cognitive reserve among older Irish adults 1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: Trinity College Dublin; 3: University College London |
R602: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Sustainable Developmental Science Location: TAU Chair: Spyridon Tantaros Sustainable Developmental Science |
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| 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
COFFEE BREAK Location: LOBBY OF THE CONFERENCE CENTER IN RADISSON BLU HOTEL LIETUVA (Konstitucijos av. 20) |
POSTER SESSION 1 Location: LOBBY OF THE CONFERENCE CENTER IN RADISSON BLU HOTEL LIETUVA (Konstitucijos av. 20) Early Postnatal Testosterone and Harsh Parenting at 1 to 3 months of age and Physical Aggression at 12 months of age. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Level 2 spatial perspective-taking and developmental milestones in infants under one year old Shiga University, Japan Anatomical configuration guides perceptual representation of hands in early infancy University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy The silent effects of ostracism: how social exclusion modulates behavioral, physiological reactivity and attentional disengagement in 8-month-old infants. 1: Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca; 2: NeuroMI, Milan Center for Neuroscience Imitative ability is related to ASD traits, gross motor, and receptive language at 14 months 1: NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan; 2: Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Are distinct sleep profiles in infancy related to early attention and executive function development? 1: FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine,University of Turku, Finland; 2: Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland; 3: Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 4: Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, Finland; 5: Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, US; 6: Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; 7: Paediatric Research Center, Child Psychiatry, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland; 8: The Centre of Excellence for Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research, University of Turku and University of Jyväskylä, Finland; 9: Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, Finland; 10: Department of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland Investigating the Relationships between Music, Rhythm, and Executive Functions in Italian Preschoolers University of Verona, Italy Neural tracking and language development in early life: A longitudinal approach. 1: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; 2: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour; 3: Tilburg University Young children exhibit homophily in social-conventional norms within their peer social network. 1: NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan; 2: Runbini Early Childhood Education and Care Center Development of a test battery to assess self-regulation at preschool age (SelKi) 1: Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany; 2: IDeA Research Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 3: University of Muenster, Germany White Italian Parents’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Children’s Prosocial Behaviors Toward Migrant-Origin Peers 1: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Arizona State University; 3: State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; 4: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro; 5: Università degli Studi di Bergamo; 6: North Carolina State University Better language skills are related to better cooperating skills during preschool years 1: Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland; 2: FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital; 3: Pediatric Neurology, Turku University Hospital; 4: Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä; 5: Department of Teacher Education; 6: Centre for Population Health Research, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; 7: Department of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital; 8: Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Association Between Gross Motor Skills and Emotional Regulation in Children Aged 3–6 Years: The Mediating Role of Executive Function National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan A Study on the Executive Function Trajectories of Taiwanese Children in the Context of Chinese Cultural Parenting Department of Child and Family Science, National Taiwan Normal University The Structure and Reliability of the Spoken Lithuanian Language Assessment Scale for Preschool-Aged Children Designed for Parents Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Cultural variations in parents’ naturalistic challenge-related language and its relation to children’s strategic persistence 1: Arizona State University, United States of America; 2: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 3: University of Akureyri, Iceland The Relationships Between Scientific Reasoning Skills and Executive Functions in Japanese Preschool Children Osaka Shoin Women's University, Japan Temperament and Prosocial Behaviour: Analysis of Interactions in Preschool Children Sapienza University, Italy The Association Between Performance on Executive Function Tasks and Parent-Rated Everyday Executive Functioning Difficulties in 5-Year-Old Children 1: FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; 2: Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; 3: Centre of Excellence for Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research (InterLearn), University of Turku and University of Jyväskylä, Finland; 4: Centre for Population Health Research, Turku University Hospital, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; 5: Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku and Hospital District of Southwest Finland, Turku, Finland; 6: Department of Clinical Medicine, Unit of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 7: Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Finland The relationship between imaginary companions and everyday social behaviors in Japanese preschoolers University of Teacher Education Fukuoka, Japan Associations between early childhood temperament profiles, child eating habits and longitudinal weight development 1: FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; 2: Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland; 3: Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland;; 4: Centre of Excellence in Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research (InterLearn), University of Jyväskylä and University of Turku, Finland;; 5: Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland;; 6: Department of Clinical Medicine, Unit of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland;; 7: The Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital. Selective Trust in Preschoolers: Developmental Pathways and Social-Cognitive Influences 1: Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkiye; 2: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkiye Mealtime Technoference, Self-Regulation, and Preschool Children's Emotional Eating Özyeğin University, Turkiye Exploring the Relationship Between Children's and Mothers’ Fantasy Orientation Boğaziçi University, Turkiye Becoming a Sibling in China: What Child and Family Characteristics Predict Early Sibling Relationship Quality? University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Children's play in the age of digital technology: Analog play in preschool children in the context of time spent playing digital games. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic Toy Dogs and Young Minds: How Preschoolers Attribute Awareness to Inanimate Objects Meijo University, Japan Young children’s early conceptual representations about the Internet National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece The role of parent-child trust relationship and self- and co-regulation in children’s dishonest behavior Heidelberg University, Germany Developmental Accomplishments of Toddlers: Play and Self-Regulation 1: Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania; 2: Vilnius University, Lithuania How Gender Shapes the Story: Adults’ Predictions of Children’s Behavior in Emotional Scenarios University of Latvia, Latvia Childhood Maltreatment and Emotional Development: An Umbrella Meta-analysis of Research in Samples of Children and Adolescents University of Southampton, United Kingdom The relations between first-grade students’ temperament and teacher-student interaction 1: University of Eastern Finland, Finland; 2: University of Jyväskylä, Finland; 3: University of Helsinki, Finland Examining students’ emotions during math task performance using facial expressions analysis and self-reports 1: University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Åbo Akademi University, Finland Development of moral evaluations of lying or reporting for transgressions of peers Kobe University, Japan A humanizing intervention addressing children’s dehumanization of and prosociality towards gender nonconforming peers University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Involvement in Bullying and Cyberbullying: A Scoping Review of Interactions and Psychological Mechanisms 1: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy; 2: University of surrey, England Defending or Remaining Passive as a Bystander in School Bullying: The Role of Moral Distress and Peer Norms Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan The vicious cycle between bullying and insomnia – A systematic review and meta-analysis on reciprocal links between bullying or victimization and sleep problems in children and adolescents 1: Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; 2: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University The component structure of executive functions across age 10 to 17 years: Differentiation and de-differentiation across development 1: Shandong Normal University; 2: Liaocheng University The Role of Emotional and Relational Factors in Primary School Second Language Learning Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, BA, Italy Pathways for Predicting Susceptibility to Peer Influence in Early Adolescence Mykolas Romeris university, Lithuania Chinese Adolescents' Information Management Behaviors and Their Relations with Different Forms of Autonomy: A Daily Diary Study The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Caught between autonomy, relatedness, and an uncertain future: Exploring what is important to adolescents 1: Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; 2: DeZIM Institute; 3: University Potsdam Intercultural sensitivity and social support in adolescence: the mediating role of reflective thinking 1: Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara; 2: Department of Psychology, University G. D’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara Structure of the Concept of Kanyo in Adolescent Friendships 1: Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan; 2: Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan; 3: Osaka Shin-Ai Gakuin University, Japan Identity Interplay: Variations in Ethnic-Cultural Identifications Across Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) Trajectories Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Understanding Procrastination in Math Learning through the Perspective of Expectancy-Value Theory Vilnius university, Lithuania The gap between awareness and behavior of rebellion among adolescents in Japan Hokkaido University, Japan A dyad study on family communication in business families: The role of parent-adolescent-divergence in adolescents’ succession intentions 1: Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany; 2: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Navigating the digital maze: understanding the interplay of digital skills, online risks, self-efficacy and life satisfaction among young people University of Helsinki, Finland Exploring Peer Relations among Adolescents in Turkey: A Qualitative Perspective Ege University, Turkiye Building bridges: Prosocial Functioning as a Pathway to Social Inclusion and Psychological Well-being 1: University of Florence, Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI), Florence, Italy; 2: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Psychology of Social Development and Socialization Processes, Rome, Italy; 3: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Psychology, Rome, Italy The Moderating Role of Empathy Profiles in the Relationship Between Parental Attitudes and Altruism and Aggression in Adolescents and Emerging Adults Jagiellonian University, Poland Quality and Development of Romantic Relationships Over Emerging Adulthood 1: Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 2: Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 3: Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 4: Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 5: UPV/EHU, Spain The Predictive Role of Empathic Self-Efficacy on Daily Prosocial Behavior of Young Adults 1: Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Psychology, Rome, Italy; 2: Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Psychology of Developmental and Socialization Processes, Rome, Italy Life goals and personality dimensions in emerging adulthood: Between changeability and resistance in the goal-pursuit-process Sigmund Freud Privat Universität, Austria Turkish Adaptation of Emotion Regulation of Others and Self (EROS) Scale 1: Anadolu University, Türkiye; 2: Samsun University, Türkiye; 3: University of Warwick, UK Senior Life in the Digital Age – How information communication technologies may help older Filipinos age with ginhawa University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Psychology Acquiring digital and technology-based competencies: Family as a resource with intergenerational challenges and potentials – implications for lifelong learning and development Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria The Use of AI Technologies, AI Literacy, and the Well-Being of Pupils in Croatia 1: University Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia; 2: University Department of Communication Science, Catholic University of Croatia; 3: Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNET MAINTAINING BALANCE: EXECUTIVE FUNCTION'S ROLE IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS’ COMPULSIVE INTERNET USE 1: Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Turkiye; 2: Ege University, Türkiye; 3: Middle East Technical University, Türkiye; 4: Bogazici University, Türkiye Unreciprocated Bonds: Looking into Adolescents’ Parasocial Relationships 1: Ankara University, Turkiye; 2: Yeditepe University, Turkiye Outdoors in Preschool and the Development of Emotion Regulation 1: University of Konstanz, Germany; 2: Thurgau University of Teacher Education, Switzerland Olfactotherapy as a new method for psychologists. First attempts to objectively assess the results 1: Integruojančios medicinos ir sveikatingumo centras, Lithuania; 2: M.K. Čiurlionio menų mokykla, Vilnius, Lithuania; 3: Medvisit holistinis sveikatos centras, Vilnius, Lithuania Parentification in intergenerational context: results from a study of Polish family triads University of Gdańsk, Poland Resistance of the parent: Insights from a non-directive play therapy case Middle East Technical University, Turkiye Traces of Castration Complex on Play Therapy: A Psychoanalytic Case Study Middle East Technical University, Turkiye |
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PLENARY SESSION. KEYNOTE: Michael Pluess "The Effects of War and Displacement on Syrian Refugee Children: Risk and Resilience" Location: ALPHA Chair: Dagmar Strohmeier The Effects of War and Displacement on Syrian Refugee Children: Risk and Resilience University of Surrey, United Kingdom |
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T611: THEMATIC SESSION: Sexual Identity Development and LGBTQ+: Diversity, Stigma, and Social Safety Location: ALPHA Chair: Rasa Katinaitė The Impact of Theory of Mind Abilities on the Coming-Out Process in LGBTQ+ Teenagers 1: University of Vechta, Germany; 2: Roma Tre University, Italy "You Feel Unsafe the Moment You Close Your Front Door": LGBTQ+ Individuals Experiences of Social Safety and Insecurity Vytautas Magnus university, Lithuania “It’s a lot of responsibility to be someone’s first time”: Exploring the Impact of Virginity Disclosure on Emerging Adults Using A Mixed-Methods Study of Reactions After a Hypothetical First-Date Disclosure Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Camouflaging and Mental Health in Adults with Comorbid ASD and Gender Dysphoria: A Double-Minority Perspective Ochanomizu University, Japan The Intersection of Autism, Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Perspectives on Identity Development 1: Middle East Technical University, Turkiye; 2: Haliç University, Turkiye |
S613: SYMPOSIUM: Escaping War is only Half the Journey: Correlates and Antecedents of Psychosocial Functioning in Children and Adolescents from a Refugee Background Location: BETA 1 Chair: Saira Wahid Escaping War is only Half the Journey: Correlates and Antecedents of Psychosocial Functioning in Children and Adolescents from a Refugee Background Presentations of the Symposium Trust Perception in Syrian Refugee Children Shadows of Past and Present: The Relation of Trauma and Post-Migration Stress with Self-Concept Clarity among Ukrainian Youth Do Momentary Manifestations of Trauma Explain the Link Between Post-Migration Stress and Parenting in Refugee Families? |
S614: SYMPOSIUM: Risk and Protective Factors in Parenting and Their Impact on Children’s Development: Family Systems Considerations Location: BETA 2 Chair: Carmen Berenguer Risk and Protective Factors in Parenting and Their Impact on Children’s Development: Family Systems Considerations Presentations of the Symposium Infant Triadic Emotion Regulation: Relations with coparenting and exploration of gender differences Online Psychosocial Intervention for Families of Children with Autism: Impact on Coping Strategies and Parental Stress The Mediating Role of Mindful Parenting in the Relationship Between Technoference and Child Development Outcomes |
S615: SYMPOSIUM: Individual, Contextual, and Temporal Antecedents and Consequences of Ethnic-Racial Discrimination among Children and Youth Location: ZETA 1 Chair: Savaş Karataş Individual, Contextual, and Temporal Antecedents and Consequences of Ethnic-Racial Discrimination among Children and Youth / EADP Collaboration Grant Symposium Presentations of the Symposium How Do Children Distribute Different Types of Help? The Role of Task Difficulty and Recipient’s Ethnicity The Cost of Peer Ethnic Discrimination: Interrelations with Ethnic Identity and Identity Coherence among Ethnic Minority Adolescents Ethnic-Racial Identity Exploration Instills Early Adolescents of Color with Resilience Against Racial/Ethnic Discrimination: A Co-Sibling Control Study Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Racial-Ethnic Discrimination and Young People’s Mental Health in Intensive Longitudinal Studies |
S616: SYMPOSIUM: Novel insights into adolescent gaming: Focusing on the individual and parental contexts Location: ZETA 2 Chair: Stefanie A. Nelemans Novel insights into adolescent gaming: Focusing on the individual and parental contexts Presentations of the Symposium Gaming and adolescent mental health: Gender differences and the role of motives for gaming Gender differences in parenting adolescent gaming behaviours: The role of parent-adolescent fit on adolescent mental health Are parental behaviors driving problematic gaming, or the other way around? Longitudinal and reciprocal associations between changes in parental restrictive mediation and problematic gaming behaviors |
| T613: THEMATIC SESSION: Growing Up in a Social World: Norms, Identity, and Belonging Location: GAMMA Chair: Lipaz Shamoa-Nir Children’s Intergroup Perceptions and Prosocial Behaviors in a Divided Society: Insights from Israel Zefat Academic College, Israel Associations Between Felt Pressure to Conform to Gender Norms and Dutch Children’s Gender-Typical Views on Future Career and Family Life 1: Beijing Normal University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 3: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Do preschoolers from three countries prefer their ingroup for altruistic sharing and helping? 1: TU Dortmund University, Germany; 2: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 3: Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkey The effectiveness of the Dutch Meaningful Roles program in children: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Utrecht University, Netherlands, the |
T614: THEMATIC SESSION: Supporting Children and Parents Through Early Interventions Location: ETA Chair: Rima Breidokiene Effects of an Early Childhood Emotion Regulation Program on Children’s Problem Behaviors and Parental Self-Efficacy in Türkiye 1: Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Türkiye; 2: Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Türkiye Enhancing Emotional Security and Socio-Emotional Development of Children in Foster Care: Effects of the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention (AVI) 1: Centre de Recherche en Education de Nantes (CREN), Nantes Université, France; 2: Pôle de pédopsychiatrie, EPSM Georges Mazurelle, La Roche-sur-Yon, France; 3: École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; 4: Institut de la Parentalité, Floirac, France; 5: Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL), Nantes Université, France Effects of invest in Play parenting groups on disruptive child behavior, in comparison to a European individual participant data meta-analysis of intervention trials 1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark Feasibility and Acceptability of a Nurse-Implemented Attachment-Based Program in Turkiye 1: Sabanci University, Turkiye; 2: Bogazici University, Turkiye; 3: Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa |
T615: THEMATIC SESSION: Well-being and Identity Development in Diverse Cultural and Social Contexts Location: EPSILON Chair: Yan Li Early Life Stress, Peer Relationships in Middle Childhood, and Attachment in Adolescence 1: University of university, Finland; 2: University of Tampere, Finland Mental Health in Indigenous Children and Adolescents: The Contribution of Cultural Background Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile The Role of Maladaptive Perfectionism in Perceived Academic Failure of Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model of Gender and Academic Procrastination 1: Istanbul Medipol University, Turkiye; 2: Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkiye The Meaning of Childhood: Gifted Children's Perceptions of Their Own Childhood Ankara University, Turkiye |
S617: SYMPOSIUM: Modern Families: Overparenting and its linkages to adolescent and parental functioning Location: THETA Chair: Savannah Boele Modern Families: Overparenting and its linkages to adolescent and parental functioning Presentations of the Symposium Polish Mothers Navigating Work and Family Life: Maternal Guilt as a Mediator Between Intensive Parenting and Work-Family Conflict PARADOx-Project: Can Parenting Advice Strengthen Family Functioning and Adolescent Well-Being? A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Parent-reported and Youth’s Perceived Overprotective Parenting Features: Associations with Decision-Making and Coping Self-efficacy as Markers of Youth’s Autonomy Moments of Overparenting Triggered by Adolescents’ Negative Affect |
T616: THEMATIC SESSION: Advancing Psychological Assessment in Developmental Contexts Location: IOTA Chair: Paulina Zelviene How to recognize traumatization in young children: The new Odense Child Trauma Screening (OCTS) tool in Lithuania 1: Center for Psychotraumatology, Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2: Danish Center of Psychotraumatology, Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark; 3: The CHILD research group, Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark A Developmental Approach to ‘Best Interests’: The 'Best Interests Matrix' as an Evaluation Tool for Child Custody Cases University of Oxford, United Kingdom Evaluating a Learning Disorders Platform Based on the RE-AIM Framework: Insights from Web Analytics and User Experience 1: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany; 2: Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; 3: Teaching and Educational Technology, Institute of Education, University of Zurich, Switzerland Assessing student burnout with the BAT: Psychometric properties and links to well-being among general upper secondary, vocational upper secondary, and higher education students 1: University of Eastern Finland, Finland; 2: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Measuring Resilience in Healthcare: Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of the CD-RISC-10 and Grit-S 1: Åbo Akademi University; 2: University Hopsital of Montpellier; 3: Massachusetts General Hospital; 4: Vilnius University; 5: University of Montpellier; 6: Kaunas University of Technology; 7: Bocconi University; 8: Trinity College Dublin; 9: Karolinska Institutet |
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| T617: THEMATIC SESSION: Parent–Infant Interactions and Socioemotional Development Location: OMEGA Chair: Hervé Tissot Infants’ trajectories of physiological emotion regulation during parent(s)–infant interactions and links with infant temperament: An exploratory study 1: Lausanne University Hospital & University of Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: University of Geneva From dyadic connection to curiosity to the world: how mindfulness in parenting and maternal well-being promote curiosity during early childhood 1: University G. d'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Italy; 2: University of Addis Ababa Distracted glances: The effects of smartphone-use strategies on mother-infant interaction dynamics 1: Institute of Education and Psychology at Szombathely, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; 2: Faculty of Psychotherapy Science, Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, Austria Developmental Changes in Mother-Infant Synchrony: Behavioral and Affective Patterns in a Free-Play during the First 18 Months 1: University of Akureyri, Iceland; 2: Mef University, Turkey; 3: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 4: Lancaster University, UK; 5: Koç University, Turkey Sleep Quality of Child and Maternal Relationship Satisfaction: The Mediator Role of Maternal Sleep Quality 1: Atılım University Graduate School of Social Sciences; 2: Ankara Medipol University Department of Psychology |
T618: THEMATIC SESSION: Understanding and Supporting Learners: Anxiety, Motivation, and Equity Location: OMIKRON Chair: Mia Maurer Teacher and Parent Beliefs about Children’s Competence: Longitudinal and Interactive Effects on Children’s Interest and Self-concept of Ability in Literacy and Math University of Jyväskylä, Finland Longitudinal relations between math anxiety and performance: the role of self-concept and interest 1: University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Åbo Akademi University, Finland Intervention with a serious game in children with mathematical difficulties and ADHD 1: Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany; 2: IDeA Research Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 3: University of Würzburg, Germany Reducing math anxiety by relaxation and multiplication training in primary school classrooms: An intervention study 1: University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Åbo Akademi University, Finland |
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Location: ALPHA |
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EADP BUSINESS MEETING Location: ALPHA |
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