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Covell, Katherine; Abramovitch, Rona – Child Development, 1987
Children 5 to 15 years old answered questions on causal attributions of their own and their mothers' emotions, and methods for inferring and changing maternal emotion. Parents were asked reciprocal questions. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Influences, Mothers
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Kagan, Jerome; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Longitudinal study of two cohorts of children selected in the second or third year of life as being extremely cautious and shy (inhibited) or fearless and outgoing (uninhibited) in regards to unfamiliar events revealed preservation of these two behavioral qualities through their sixth year. (PCB)
Descriptors: Behavior, Inhibition, Longitudinal Studies, Psychological Patterns
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Susman, Elizabeth J.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Relations among hormone levels, emotional dispositions, and aggressive attributes were examined in 56 boys and 52 girls, aged 9 to 14 years. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Aggression, Behavior Problems
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Lerner, Jacqueline V.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Data were examined to determine (1) the stability of negative emotional characteristics from early life through adolescence; (2) the degree of relation between these emotional characteristics and adjustment in childhood and adolescence; and (3) the degree to which the characteristics differentially predict multiple adjustment dimensions in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Emotional Problems
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Brooks-Gunn, J.; Warren, Michelle P. – Child Development, 1989
Investigated effects of pubertal, social, and biological factors on negative affect of 103 White girls aged 10 t0 14 years. Results indicate that social factors, and the interaction of negative life events and pubertal factors, accounted for more variance than did hormonal pubertal factors alone. (RJC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Affective Behavior, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Reznick, J. Steven; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Observed a group of 46 children classified at 20 months as either behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited, and 18 children who were classified aa falling at neither extreme at 5.5 years of age, in contexts designed to evaluate behavior in social situations and heart rate, heart variability, and pupillary dilation to cognitive tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
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Jeremy, Rita Jeruchimowicz; Bernstein, Victor J. – Child Development, 1984
Compares 17 methadone-exposed and 23 control four-month-old infants in interactions with their mothers. Results indicate that methadone is only one of several risk factors affecting interaction. Mothers rated poor in communication have poor psychosocial and psychological resources, and infants rated poor in communication showed problematic motor…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Infants, Interpersonal Communication, Mothers