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Heyi Zhang; Xueli Yin; Xiao Yu; Winnie Sin Wai Pui; Yinghe Chen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Overparenting is an emerging topic in parenting research and has gained increasing attention in media. Most studies have focused on adolescents and young adults in Western countries, while it remains unclear whether overparenting is related to young children's outcomes in non-Western contexts. The present study aimed to examine the mechanism by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Parents, Child Rearing
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Harry Kipkemoi Bett – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic had far-reaching effects on school-going children. With the indefinite closure of schools in many parts of the world, many children found themselves with limited avenues for play and interaction. The current qualitative study, anchored on social capital theory, aimed at investigating the informal learning that took place as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Rural Areas, COVID-19
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Mengyan Fang; Runke Huang; Zuofei Geng – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Executive function (EF) is essential for developing social competence (SC) in early childhood. However, previous research has primarily taken a general perspective of SC and overlooked its components. Furthermore, although EF and SC are known to influence each other across childhood, the mechanisms of this interaction remain unclear. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Interpersonal Competence, Correlation
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Peter Kutnick; Jen Colwell – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Reviews concerning the enhancement of preschool children's social competencies reveal areas within which teacher approach, definitions of social competence and methods of study can be enhanced. In response, teachers and researchers co-developed and introduced a peer-based relational intervention to support children's communication, empathic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Interpersonal Competence
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Tian Yang; Ye Zhang – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges for people, including young children. This study focuses on how teachers and parents foster children's prosocial behaviours during online learning amidst the pandemic. Data were sourced from 100 articles on WeChat Official Service/Subscription Accounts (WOSA) -- a popular Chinese social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Prosocial Behavior