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Early Child Care Experiences and Individual Differences: The Role of Gender and Temperament in Social Skills and Problem Behaviours in Italian Toddlers
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Arace, Angelica; Scarzello, Donatella; Zonca, Paola; Agostini, Protima – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Research on the effects of nursery school attendance still presents divergent results: a possible explanation is that the effects of child care on development outcomes can be modulated by individual characteristics, such as gender or temperament. In the present study, gender differences in nursery adaptation (evaluated by social skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Preschool Education
Transactional Effects between Parental Sensitivity and Child Social Adjustment: Specifying Trait-State Aspects of Parenting
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Ding, Xiaoqin; Ansari, Arya; Li, Xile; Liu, Yuan; Yan, Ni – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study examined the reciprocal relations among maternal sensitivity, paternal sensitivity, and children's social adjustment from 54 months of age to 5th grade. Using a subsample from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 829), we employed an autoregressive latent trajectory…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Parent Child Relationship, Individual Differences, Parenting Styles
Children's Temperament Moderates the Long-Term Effects of Pedagogical Practices in ECEC on Children's Externalising Problems
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Wilhelmsen, Tiril; Lekhal, Ratib; Alexandersen, Nina; Brandlistuen, Ragnhild E.; Wang, Mari V. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
In this study, we explored how free play and scaffolding practices in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) related to children's externalising problems both in ECEC and later in school. Furthermore, we aimed to reduce the knowledge gap of whether these relations depended on children's differences in emotional temperament. We used structural…
Descriptors: Young Children, Personality, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
The Moderating Role of Adolescent Personality in Associations between Psychologically Controlling Parenting and Problem Behaviors: A Longitudinal Examination at the Level of Within-Person Change
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Mabbe, Elien; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Brenning, Katrijn; De Pauw, Sarah; Beyers, Wim; Soenens, Bart – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Although abundant research has demonstrated associations between psychologically controlling parenting and adolescent problem behavior, little is known about the moderating role of adolescent personality herein. This study examined whether adolescent personality moderates the associations between parental psychological control and internalizing…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Parenting Styles
Observer-Rated Environmental Sensitivity Moderates Children's Response to Parenting Quality in Early Childhood
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Lionetti, Francesca; Aron, Elaine N.; Aron, Arthur; Klein, Daniel N.; Pluess, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2019
According to several developmental theories some children are more sensitive to the quality of their environment than others, but most supporting empirical evidence is based on relatively distal markers of hypothesized sensitivity. This study provides evidence for the validity of behaviorally observed Environmental Sensitivity as a moderator of…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Personality Traits, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing