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Tracy M. Zehner; Tanya M. Paes; Brianna L. Devlin; Elyssa A. Geer; Germán Posada; Robert J. Duncan; David J. Purpura; Sara A. Schmitt – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study examined the association between preschool children's social-emotional competence (SEC), defined by their social skills and problem behaviors, and numeracy skills. It also examined if any subdomains of SEC predicted preschool numeracy above and beyond latent social skills or problem behaviors variables. Data came from…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Interpersonal Competence, Predictor Variables, Correlation
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Tompkins, Virginia; Villaruel, Eve – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Educators recognize children's social competence as an indicator of school readiness. Children's social competence may be promoted prior to kindergarten through parents' discipline. We assessed parent discipline as a predictor of 37 low-income pre-schoolers' social skills over four months. Parents answered open-ended questions about how they would…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Parenting Styles, Child Behavior, Discipline
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Platt, Michelle; Malecki, Christine K.; Luckner, Amy; Wiemer, Kristina; Pyun, Yoonsun – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
Prosocial teasing is the positive playful form of relational aggression, and studies have found children engage in playful teasing more often than aggressive teasing. Therefore, understanding the basic characteristics or skills that contribute to the more complex social skill of prosocial teasing is important. The current study focused on the role…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Prosocial Behavior, Play
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Davis, Alexandra Nicole; Qi, Cathy Huaqing – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2020
We examined the relations between language skills and behavior problems and whether social skills mediated these relations among preschool children enrolled in Head Start programs. Participants included 242 preschool children and their parents in Head Start programs. Over a 2-year period, parents and teachers reported children's behavior problems…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children
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Sheridan, Susan M.; Knoche, Lisa L.; Boise, Courtney; Witte, Amanda; Koziol, Natalie; Prokasky, Amanda; Schumacher, Rachel; Kerby, Hannah – Early Education and Development, 2022
Social-behavioral functioning during early childhood is associated with children's academic and social success concurrently and over time. This study explored how concurrent, year-to-year, and sustained parent--teacher and student--teacher relationships predicted children's social skills and problem behaviors across the preschool to Grade 1…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Preschool Education, Kindergarten