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Sympathy and Personal Distress: Development, Gender Differences, and Interrelations of Indexes.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1989
Investigates developmental change and gender differences in sympathy and personal distress reactions in children. Examines interrelations among indexes used to assess sympathy and personal distress. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
Shyness and Children's Emotionality, Regulation, and Coping: Contemporaneous, Longitudinal, and Across-Context Relations.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Fabes, Richard A.; Murphy, Bridget C.; Guthrie, Ivanna K. – Child Development, 1998
Examined the relations of teachers' and parents' reports of children's shyness at ages 6-8, 8-10, and 10-12 years to dispositional regulation, emotionality, and coping. The overall pattern of findings was partially consistent with the conclusion that parent-rated shyness reflected primarily social wariness with unfamiliar people, whereas…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Context Effect
Children's Reactions to the Receipt of Direct and Indirect Help.
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Shell, Rita M.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Child Development, 1996
Examined the reactions of 201 elementary school children to direct and indirect help and the moderating effects of grade, understanding of personality, and sex on children's reaction to aid. Results indicated that children high in the understanding of consistency of personality were more autonomous in the indirect than the direct help condition.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Dependency (Personality)