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From "Barbaric" to "Knowing": Disrupting Teaching to Resignify "Toddler"
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Fincham, Emmanuelle N. – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
Mainstream images of "toddler" tend to serve a humorous purpose in mass media, most often presenting children of this age (18 months-3 years) as out-of-control. This assumed "barbaric" toddler promotes early childhood as a time for intervention, expecting adults to be the shapers of behavior and knowledge within discourses of…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Behavior, Child Development, Teaching Methods
Direct and Indirect Contributions of Child Difficult Temperament and Power Assertive Parental Discipline to Turkish Children's Behaviour Problems
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Acar, Ibrahim H.; Ahmetoglu, Emine; Özer, Irem Buselay; Yagli, Sevval Nur – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The purpose of the current study was to examine power assertive parental discipline and child difficult temperament as predictors of children's behaviour problems (internalizing, externalizing, and total behaviour problems) as well as mediating role of difficult temperament between power assertive parental discipline and children's behaviour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Power Structure
"Because I Said So!": Mothers' Conventional Conflict Justifications Related to Resolution and Child Behavior Problems and Temperamental Reactivity
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Tollossa, Ruhama M.; Nelson, Jackie A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
A common strategy parents use to justify their point of view during parent-child conflict is conventional reasoning, which focuses on child obedience to authority. In this brief report, we examined mothers' use of conventional justification during mother-child conflict discussions in relation to the resolution reached and children's behavior…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Conflict, Power Structure
Racial Awareness and the Politics in Play: Preschoolers and Racially Diverse Dolls in a US Classroom
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Sturdivant, Toni Denese – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
The development of racial awareness begins in infancy, continues throughout early childhood, and can shape play behaviors. The present study is a case study in a US pre-kindergarten classroom. The study aimed to examine the ways in which ideas about race and gender manifested within doll play. Participants included two 4-year-old Black girls,…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Play, Child Behavior, Race
The Impact of Children's Socioemotional Development on Parenting Styles: The Moderating Effect of Social Withdrawal
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Zarra-Nezhad, Maryam; Viljaranta, Jaana; Sajaniemi, Nina; Aunola, Kaisa; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study focused on associations between children's socioemotional development (prosocial behaviour, internalizing and externalizing problems) and parenting styles (affection, behavioural control, and psychological control), and the moderating role of children's social withdrawal (as a temperamental characteristic) in these associations.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Parenting Styles, Social Development, Emotional Development
Cultural Contributors to Negative Emotionality: A Multilevel Analysis from the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium
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Desmarais, Eric E.; French, Brian F.; Ahmetoglu, Emine; Acar, Ibrahim; Gonzalez-Salinas, Carmen; Kozlova, Elena; Slobodskaya, Helena; Benga, Oana; Majdandžic, Mirjana; Beijers, Roseriet; de Weerth, Carolina; Huitron, Blanca; Lee, Eun Gyoung; Han, Sae-Young; Park, Seong-Yeon; Giusti, Lorenzo; Montirosso, Rosario; Tuovinen, Soile; Heinonen, Kati; Raikkonen, Katri; Wang, Zhengyan; Lecannelier, Felipe; Linhares, Maria Beatriz Martins; Casalin, Sara; Putnam, Samuel P.; Gartstein, Maria A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
This study advances the cross-cultural temperament literature by comparing temperament ratings of toddlers from 14 nations. Multilevel modeling (MLM) procedures were utilized to regress negative emotionality (NE) and component subscales on Hofstede's cultural value dimensions while controlling for age and gender. More individualistic values were…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Personality Traits, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response