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Children's Utilization of Toys Is Moderated by Age-Appropriateness, Toy Category, and Child Age
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Richards, Melissa N.; Putnick, Diane L.; Bradley, Laura P.; Lang, Kyle M.; Little, Todd D.; Suwalsky, Joan T. D.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Play during childhood is essential to growth and learning. Little is known about whether categories of toys moderate play behaviors at different ages, or how children interact with toys that are simple, appropriate, or complex for their developmental level. Two hundred and forty-three children between the ages of 1 and 8 years, divided into four…
Descriptors: Toys, Use Studies, Age, Play
Socialization of Lying Scale: Development and Validation of a Parent Measure of Socialization of Truth and Lie-Telling Behavior
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Talwar, Victoria; Lavoie, Jennifer; Crossman, Angela M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
This study focused on the development of the Socialization of Lying scale for which exploratory factor analysis demonstrated four empirically interpretable subscales: Parents' Values and Direct Socialization about Honesty, Encouragement and Modeling of Lying, Consequences for Lying, and The Child's Problematic Lying. These emergent factors suggest…
Descriptors: Socialization, Deception, Ethics, Parent Child Relationship
Parental Socialization Goals and Behaviors for Appreciation, Parents' Own Appreciation, and Children's Appreciation: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese Parent-Child Dyads
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Yu Chen; Yue Liang; Nan Zhou; Hongjian Cao; Jonathan R. H. Tudge; Ruihong Nie; Miao Yu – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Most extant research on parental socialization for child appreciation has either conflated appreciation and gratitude or fallen foul of a conceptual-operational mismatch, yielding theoretical controversies and inconsistent results. Using a matched conceptualization and operationalization of appreciation and based on three waves of data from 496…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Socialization, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies
Psychometric Properties of the Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) in Two-Year-Old Ivorian and Ghanaian Children
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Barthel, Dana; Kriston, Levente; Guo, Nan; Yao, Esther Doris; Armel, Koffi Ekissi Jean; Fordjour, Daniel; Mohammed, Yasmin; Kotchi, Carine Esther Bony; Eberhardt, Kirsten Alexandra; Hinz, Rebecca; Ehrhardt, Stephan; Bindt, Carola – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
There is a lack of feasible and psychometrically sound instruments assessing social-emotional development in young children in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) in two West-African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Social Development, Emotional Development
Unique and Joint Contributions of Behavioral and Emotional Self-Regulation to School Readiness
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Guedes, Carolina; Ferreira, Tiago; Leal, Teresa; Cadima, Joana – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
This study aimed to examine the unique and joint contributions of behavioral and emotional self-regulation to key but understudied emergent literacy and early social skills, disentangling sex-differentiated paths. The participants were 231 Portuguese preschoolers (50% boys; M[subscript age] = 59.5 months; SD = 8.5) enrolled in 47 classrooms. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Self Management, Self Control
Retrospective Report Revisited: Long-Term Recall in European American Mothers Moderated by Developmental Domain, Child Age, Person, and Metric of Agreement
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L.; Costlow, Kyrsten M.; Suwalsky, Joan T. D. – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
Retrospective parental reports are common in the developmental science literature, but their validity has been questioned. We investigated the consistency of retrospective maternal recall by comparing original with retrospective maternal reports in three domains (maternal cognitions, mother-reported child and mother behaviors, and observed child…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Comparative Analysis, Schemata (Cognition), Developmental Stages