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Using Mindfulness Practices to Increase Self-Regulation in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten-Aged Children
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Ellyn Culotta; Cynthia DiCarlo; Denise Rueter – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Self-regulation is identified in the literature as an early predictor of later in life success and an important skill that develops over the course of a lifetime but begins in early childhood. Objective: The purpose of this research study was to assess whether direct instruction of Mindfulness Practices, such as guided meditation and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Stress Management, Self Control, Preschool Children
Parental Attachment and Emotion Regulation in Children: The Mediating Role of Working Memory
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Sema Soydan; Ayber Acar; Kamile Mutlu – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of children's working memory levels in the relationship between attachment insecurity levels and emotion regulation skills. A total of 150 children aged 5 years, 75 girls and 75 boys, were selected by the stratified cluster sampling method and their mothers participated in the study. The…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Short Term Memory, Emotional Response
Longitudinal Relations between Maternal Parenting Styles and Preschoolers' Externalizing Problem Behaviors: A Chain Mediation Model
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Linlin Liang; Ni Zhang; Wen Liu; Linlin Lin; Xue Zhang – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Externalizing problem behaviors, such as childhood aggression, have a significant impact on adolescent delinquency and even adult delinquency and violence. Mother's attitudes and behaviors can impact the self-control and regulation of preschoolers, which in turn reflect in preschoolers' externalizing problems. Objective: This…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Aggression, Preschool Children
The Marshmallow Test as a Screening Instrument: Sensitivity and Specificity of a Delay of Gratification Task for Later ADHD and Conduct Problems
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Bianca Ulitzka; Monika Daseking; Julia Kerner auch Koerner – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Delay of gratification tasks have an impressive predictive value for various outcomes and are designed to measure self-regulation. Since many behavioural and psychological conditions in children are related to limitations in self-regulation, the extent to which delay tasks can be used as a screening for the detection of psychopathology is…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Child Behavior, Self Control, Young Children
Insecure Attachment, Poor Self-Regulation, and Weak Empathy as Developmental Antecedents to Delinquency When Mediated by Antisocial Cognition
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Glenn D. Walters – Youth & Society, 2025
A base model was tested composed of insecure attachment at age 3 years, poor emotional and behavioral self-regulation at age 5 years, and weak empathy at age 9 years predicted delinquency at age 15 years with and without the intervening influence of two dimensions of antisocial cognition: moral neutralization and cognitive impulsivity, both of…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Early Experience, Self Control
An Early Parenting Intervention Focused on Enriched Parent-Child Interactions Improves Effortful Control in the Early Years of School
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C. Bennett; E. M. Westrupp; S. K. Bennetts; J. Love; N. J. Hackworth; D. Berthelsen; J. M. Nicholson – Child Development, 2025
This study examined long-term mediating effects of the "smalltalk" parenting intervention on children's effortful control at school age (7.5 years; 2016-2018). In 2010-2012, parents (96% female) of toddlers (N = 1201; aged 12-36 months; 52% female) were randomly assigned to either: standard playgroup, "smalltalk" playgroup…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Young Children