Development of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children in the Transition From Kindergarten to Basic School According to Participation in Organized Sports by Merike Järvamägi, Eva-Maria Riso, Kirkke Reisberg, Jaak Jürimäe

“…The proportion of 5th grade children demonstrating age-appropriate healthy CRF was almost threefold higher in the group of consistent sports training among both boys and girls than among non-members of sports clubs.Conclusion: Consistent attendance in organized sports in childhood and early preadolescence ensures higher CRF and healthier body composition than in children who had no experience of organized sports.…”
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Psychometric properties of the Chinese Family Assessment Instrument: evidence from mainland China by Daniel T. L. Shek, Kim Hung Leung, Xiang Li, Diya Dou

“…To understand the psychometric properties of the C-FAI in mainland China, we collected three waves of data from students in the period of preadolescence and early adolescence in mainland China (N = 3,732). …”
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Prevalence, stability, and predictive utility of the Multidimensional Assessment of Preschoolers Scales clinically optimized irritability score: Pragmatic early assessment of menta... by Jillian Lee Wiggins, Ana Ureña Rosario, Leigha A. MacNeill, Sheila Krogh‐Jespersen, Margaret Briggs‐Gowan, Justin D. Smith, Lauren S. Wakschlag

“…Irritability was highly stable through preadolescence. Children with versus without clinically significant early childhood irritability had greater odds of early onset, persistent internalizing/externalizing disorders. …”
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Fruit Juice Consumption, Body Mass Index, and Adolescent Diet Quality in a Biracial Cohort by Lynn L. Moore, Xinyi Zhou, Li Wan, Martha R. Singer, M. Loring Bradlee, Stephen R. Daniels

“…Here, we evaluated the association between preadolescent 100% fruit juice intake and later adolescent diet quality and body mass index (BMI). …”
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Dieting is associated with reduced bone mineral accrual in a longitudinal cohort of girls by Emily E. Hohman, Katherine N. Balantekin, Leann L. Birch, Jennifer S. Savage

“…Conclusions Dieting behavior in preadolescence is associated with reduced bone mineral accrual. …”
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Relationship between internalizing and externalizing symptoms trajectories and perinatal risk factors in an epidemiological sample: Preliminary results from the remind project by S. Grazioli, E. Rosi, F. Villa, M. Mauri, P. Brambilla, C. Bonivento, M. Molteni, M. Nobile

“…Results rm-MANOVA results show that high number of perinatal risks was significantly associated with higher internalizing symptomatology in preadolescence but not in adolescence and adult life. …”
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Estudio descriptivo sobre hábitos alimentarios en el desayuno y almuerzo de los preadolescentes de Viladecans (Barcelona) by Mª Adela Amat Huerta, Vanesa Anuncibay Sánchez, Juana Soto Volante, Nuria Alonso Nicolás, Ana Villalmanzo Francisco, Sonia Lopera Ramírez

“…Abstract Feeding during childhood and preadolescence has a great importance on the adult projection quality of life. …”
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Resolving early obesity leads to a cardiometabolic profile within normal ranges at 23 years old in a two-decade prospective follow-up study by Paulina Correa-Burrows, José Rogan, Estela Blanco, Patricia East, Betsy Lozoff, Sheila Gahagan, Raquel Burrows

“…Participants who had obesity in early childhood or preadolescence but transitioned to a non-obesity status had a cardiometabolic profile similar to participants who were never obese and within normal limits. …”
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The Influence of Smartphone Use on Tweens’ Capacity for Complex Critical Thinking by Rosa Angela Fabio, Rossella Suriano

“…This happens especially in a phase of life such as preadolescence when children are particularly sensitive to external conditioning. …”
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Carlos Jansen and the literary vulgarization for the youth by Lia Araujo Miranda Lima, Germana P.H. de Sousa

“…In this article we study the translations of Carlos Jansen for the youth, age group corresponding approximately to the contemporary concepts of preadolescence and adolescence, made at the end of the 19th century. …”
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From Hitting to Tattling to Gossip: An Evolutionary Rationale for the Development of Indirect Aggression by Gordon P. D. Ingram

“…An important puzzle concerns why indirect aggression becomes more covert, and tattling more derogated, in preadolescence and adolescence. This may be due to the development of new strategies aimed at renegotiating social identity and friendship alliances in the peer group.…”
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THE EFFECT OF VIOLENCE OF READING COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES IN TURKISH TEXTBOOKS ON STUDENTS by Şükran DİLİDÜZGÜN, Melda KARAGÖZ, Şerife GENÇ

“…In this study adopting multi-method research, the sample has been selected via convenience sampling and consists of 60 students at Grade 7, who are at the late of preadolescence stage (between the ages of 6 and 12) and thought to be affected the most in this context. …”
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Study regarding the school curriculum and the leisure time segment in middle school pupils by Cătălina Ababei, Mihaela Rusu Nicolae

“…Preadolescence is the the most active age group, from a physical point of view, the fittest and healthiest. …”
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Schooling and Occupational Outcomes in Adults with ADHD: Predictors of Success and Support Strategies for Effective Learning by Simone Varrasi, Francesco Maria Boccaccio, Claudia Savia Guerrera, Giuseppe Alessio Platania, Concetta Pirrone, Sabrina Castellano

“…Most of the literature has been focusing on the impact of this condition on infancy and preadolescence, but little is known on its consequences in adulthood. …”
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Deliberate Soccer Practice Modulates Attentional Functioning in Children by Consuelo Moratal, Juan Lupiáñez, Rafael Ballester, Florentino Huertas

“…The main purpose of this study was to explore the association between the regular practice of open-skill sports (i.e., soccer) and executive control, along with other attentional functions (i.e., alerting and orienting) during preadolescence. The study was conducted on 131 participants (70 non-athletes and 61 soccer players). …”
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Deliberative and Affective Risky Decisions in Teenagers: Different Associations with Maladaptive Psychological Functioning and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation? by Marco Lauriola, Luca Cerniglia, Renata Tambelli, Silvia Cimino

“…In contrast to the view that risk propensity increases from preadolescence to middle adolescence and decreases at later ages, our study revealed no age-specific trend. …”
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Early-Onset Paternal Smoking and Offspring Adiposity: Further Investigation of a Potential Intergenerational Effect Using the HUNT Study. by David Carslake, Pia R Pinger, Pål Romundstad, George Davey Smith

“…Recently it has been suggested that rearing conditions during preadolescence in one generation may affect health outcomes in subsequent generations. …”
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Variation of Bone Turnover Markers in Childhood and Adolescence by Yiduo Zhang, Jing Zhang, Xiaocui Huang, Xingnan Yu, Ye Li, Fan Yu, Wenjie Zhou

“…According to the main developmental periods, the children were divided into preschool, preadolescence, and adolescence groups. Serum bone turnover markers including β-isomerized C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen (β-CTx), N-terminal midfragment of osteocalcin (N-MID), and procollagen type 1 N-propeptide (P1NP) as well as growth and development indices such as serum calcium (Ca), phosphorus (Pi), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and vitamin D were measured. …”
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Network evolution of regional brain volumes in young children reflects neurocognitive scores and mother’s education by Yidong Zhou, Hans-Georg Müller, Changbo Zhu, Yaqing Chen, Jane-Ling Wang, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, Muriel Bruchhage, Sean Deoni, RESONANCE Consortium

“…Abstract The maturation of regional brain volumes from birth to preadolescence is a critical developmental process that underlies emerging brain structural connectivity and function. …”
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Memorizing and reproducing the sequence of movements by younger schoolchildren and adolescents: age-specific mistakes by Alexey A. Korneev, Dmitry I. Lomakin

“…The capacity of working memory develops through preadolescence to adolescence, while the developmental changes of representations of serial order are not clear enough so far. …”
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