Jenna E Finch
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Recent Articles
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Finch J, Starr E, Akhavein K, Hatton H
Dev Psychol
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39899014
Families with young school-age children experienced unique challenges during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This longitudinal, mixed-methods study explored links between parent-child conversations early in the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Akhavein K, Clark C, Nelson J, Espy K, Finch J
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2024 Oct;
249:106109.
PMID: 39471728
Although young children often use counting to solve arithmetic problems, over time they move toward more efficient strategies such as direct retrieval and decomposition. Strategy selection has longitudinal associations with...
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Akhavein K, Clark C, Nelson J, Espy K, Finch J
Cogn Dev
. 2023 Dec;
68.
PMID: 38045024
Executive functions (EFs) are linked to children's overall math performance, although few studies have considered the joint role of prior math abilities for specific math subskills, such as arithmetic. The...
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Finch J, Akhavein K, Patwardhan I, Clark C
J Appl Dev Psychol
. 2023 Feb;
85.
PMID: 36817721
Early externalizing and internalizing problems undermine children's school success and long-term well-being. Leveraging a large, U.S.-representative dataset ( ≈ 14,810), we examined how kindergarten teachers' self-efficacy and school climate perceptions...
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Finch J, Wolf S, Lichand G
Dev Psychol
. 2022 Sep;
58(12):2287-2301.
PMID: 36074592
The role of executive function skills and motivation in supporting children's academic achievement is well-documented, but the vast majority of evidence is from high-income countries. Classrooms in sub-Saharan Africa tend...
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Obradovic J, Finch J, Connolly C, Siyal S, Yousafzai A
Dev Sci
. 2022 May;
25(6):e13271.
PMID: 35561073
Performance-based measures of children's executive functions (EFs) do not capture children's application of these skills during everyday emotionally-laden and socially-mediated interactions. The current study demonstrates the value of using assessor...
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Latham S, Finch J, Reardon S, Waldfogel J
Acad Pediatr
. 2020 Dec;
21(2):304-311.
PMID: 33279735
Objective: Research shows that population-level rates of obesity, which rose dramatically from the 1970s through the mid-2000s, have since plateaued or even started to decline. However, overall improvements may mask...
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Sulik M, Finch J, Obradovic J
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2020 Jul;
198:104883.
PMID: 32640382
Intrinsic motivation and executive functions (EFs) have been independently studied as predictors of academic achievement in elementary school. The goal of this investigation was to understand how students' challenge preference...
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Armstrong-Carter E, Finch J, Siyal S, Yousafzai A, Obradovic J
Dev Psychobiol
. 2020 May;
62(8):1046-1061.
PMID: 32458442
Many young children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face heightened risk for experiencing environmental adversity, which is linked with poorer developmental outcomes. Children's stress physiology can shed light on...
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Johnson A, Finch J, Phillips D
Dev Psychol
. 2018 Dec;
55(3):623-636.
PMID: 30589337
Publicly funded center-based preschool programs were designed to enhance low-income children's early cognitive and social-emotional skills in preparation for kindergarten. In the U.S., the federal Head Start program and state-funded...