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Overview

Pamela E. Davis-Kean is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a focus on education, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, statistics and probability, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, including early childhood education and development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, parental involvement in education, reading and literacy development, cognitive abilities and testing, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and child abuse and trauma.

Recent publications by Pamela E. Davis-Kean include:

  • The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children's Development (2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
  • Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation (2023, Infant and Child Development)
  • Pathways from socioeconomic status to early academic achievement: The role of specific executive functions (2020, Early Childhood Research Quarterly)
  • Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective (2021, Journal of Numerical Cognition)
  • Preregistration of secondary data analysis: A template and tutorial (2021, Meta-Psychology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Davis-Kean include:

  • Alexa Ellis
  • Sammy F. Ahmed
  • Nicholas E Waters
  • Adrienne D. Woods
  • María Inés Susperreguy

Pamela E. Davis-Kean has published multiple works in several key journals, such as:

  • Infant and Child Development
  • Journal of Numerical Cognition
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Child Development

Best Publications

  • The influence of parent education and family income on child achievement: the indirect role of parental expectations and the home environment.

    Pamela E. Davis-Kean

  • Development of achievement motivation.

    Allan Wigfield;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • Children's Time With Fathers in Intact Families

    W. Jean Yeung;John F. Sandberg;Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Sandra L. Hofferth

  • Math and science motivation: A longitudinal examination of the links between choices and beliefs.

    Sandra D. Simpkins;Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • Early Predictors of High School Mathematics Achievement

    Robert S. Siegler;Greg J. Duncan;Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Kathryn Duckworth

  • What’s Past Is Prologue: Relations Between Early Mathematics Knowledge and High School Achievement

    Tyler W. Watts;Greg J. Duncan;Robert S. Siegler;Pamela E. Davis-Kean

  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families.

    Elizabeth T. Gershoff;Jennifer E. Lansford;Holly R. Sexton;Pamela Davis-Kean

  • Parents, peers, and problem behavior: a longitudinal investigation of the impact of relationship perceptions and characteristics on the development of adolescent problem behavior.

    Sara E. Goldstein;Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • Increases in Maternal Education and Young Children's Language Skills

    Katherine A. Magnuson;Holly R. Sexton;Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Aletha C. Huston

  • Executive function and academic achievement: Longitudinal relations from early childhood to adolescence.

    Sammy F. Ahmed;Sandra Tang;Nicholas E. Waters;Pamela Davis-Kean

  • What is a representative brain? Neuroscience meets population science.

    Emily B. Falk;Luke W. Hyde;Colter Mitchell;Jessica Faul

  • The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development:

    Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Lauren A. Tighe;Nicholas E. Waters

  • Parents’ socializing behavior and children’s participation in math, science, and computer out-of-school activities

    Sandra D. Simpkins;Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • A meta-analysis of measures of self-esteem for young children : A framework for future measures

    Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Howard M. Sandler

  • Race Differences in Parental Influences on Child Achievement: Multiple Pathways to Success

    Pamela E. Davis-Kean;Holly R. Sexton

  • “I can, but I don't want to”: The Impact of Parents, Interests, and Activities on Gender Differences in Math

    Janis E. Jacobs;Pamela Davis-Kean;Martha Bleeker;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • Maternal Math Talk in the Home and Math Skills in Preschool Children

    Maria Ines Susperreguy;Pamela E. Davis-Kean

  • Self-esteem, academic self-concept, and aggression at school.

    Laramie D. Taylor;Pamela Davis-Kean;Oksana Malanchuk

  • Changes in the Relation of Self-efficacy Beliefs and Behaviors across Development.

    Pamela E. Davis-Kean;L. Rowell Huesmann;Justin Jager;W. Andrew Collins

  • Race/ethnic disparities in early childhood BMI, obesity and overweight in the United Kingdom and United States

    A Zilanawala;P Davis-Kean;J Nazroo;A Sacker

  • The intersection between self-concepts and values: Links between beliefs and choices in high school

    Sandra D. Simpkins;Pamela E. Davis-Kean

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine
Robert S. Siegler
Robert S. Siegler Columbia University
Gregory S. Pettit
Gregory S. Pettit Auburn University
Sandra D. Simpkins
Sandra D. Simpkins University of California, Irvine
Katherine Magnuson
Katherine Magnuson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jennifer E. Lansford
Jennifer E. Lansford Duke University
John E. Bates
John E. Bates Indiana University
Frederick J. Morrison
Frederick J. Morrison University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John E. Schulenberg
John E. Schulenberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Elizabeth T. Gershoff The University of Texas at Austin

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