Ann T. Skinner

TL;DR: Testing in an international sample of more than 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas finds that sensation seeking increased between preadolescence and late adolescence, peaked at age 19, and declined thereafter, whereas self-regulation increased steadily from preadolescentence into young adulthood, reaching a plateau between ages 23 and 26.

TL;DR: The early stages in the development and testing of an instrument, known as the CHIP (Child Health and Illness Profile), for assessing the health of individuals aged 11 through 17, suggest that the instrument has content validity and construct validity.

TL;DR: Despite mean-level differences in relational and physical aggression across countries, the findings provided support for cross-country similarities in associations between relational andPhysical aggression as well as links between gender and aggression.

TL;DR: Initial evidence is provided that CAT and CAI can improve children’s attention in the classroom - and support additional studies to determine whether more clinically significant benefits are attainable.

TL;DR: Clinicians across countries should advise parents against using corporal punishment, even in the context of parent–child relationships that are otherwise warm, and should assist parents in finding other ways to manage children's behaviors.