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Siyan Liu; Bin Tang; Jiayi Shi; Ai Yue; Ling Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study investigated the sequential mediating effects of parental material investment (MI) and time investment (TI) upon the correlation between family socioeconomic status (SES) and toddlers' development (TD). Data derived from a 2016 data set, including a sample of 1,316 toddlers based in 117 villages across 22 counties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Socioeconomic Status, Time
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Dandan Wu; Xinyi Dong; Danqing Liu; Hui Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Early digital experience (e.g. screen time and digital use) is believed to impact children's brain development, functionally and structurally, but this impact has not been systematically reviewed. In this scoping review, we synthesized and evaluated 33 collected studies on children's digital use (ages 0-12) and their associated…
Descriptors: Children, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Digital Literacy, Literature Reviews
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Can He; Jie Xiong; Hua Wei – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study explored the relationship between family-work conflict and autonomy support among Chinese kindergarten teachers. Autonomous motivation and ego depletion were considered as the mediator and moderator, respectively. A total of 859 kindergarten teachers were recruited and surveyed online. The results showed that (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Family Work Relationship, Correlation
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Blenda Luize Chor Rodrigues; Linda L. Hestenes – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Outdoor environments have recently become part of the early childhood quality puzzle, which has long been important to trace relationships between children's experiences in child care and their development. However, fewer studies have analyzed the extent to which the quality of these outdoor spaces relates to young children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Outdoor Education
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Aruna Wu; Yue Tian; Shuo Chen; Liying Cui – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Playfulness is an important personality tendency with an important role in the well-being, mental health, and various other aspects of an individual's life. Previous studies have shown that the development of children's playfulness is related to parents' playfulness. However, limited research has been conducted on…
Descriptors: Parents, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Simon M. Hay; Harriet J. Vermeer; Ruben G. Fukkink; Harold T. Nefs – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: A growing number of stakeholders in early childhood education (ECE) rely on self-assessment to assess and improve the quality of ECE. In this systematic review, we investigated the reliability and validity of self-assessment in ECE, summarizing findings from 27 publications. We meta-analytically synthesized findings from 25…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Journal Articles
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Erica Kamphorst; Marja Cantell; Alexander Minnaert; Suzanne Houwen; Ralf Cox – Early Education and Development, 2024
A complex dynamic systems perspective was applied to explore how mother and child mutually shape interpersonal coordination. Applying a microanalytic design, this study examined the moment-to-moment interaction behavior of 39 Dutch mothers and their three- and four-year-old children (53.8% girls, predominantly White) during a collaboration task.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship
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Qianwen Liu; Zhenhong Wang – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: The present study investigated the potential mediating role of maternal parenting in the intergenerational effects of maternal childhood traumatic experiences (CTEs) on prosocial behaviors of their offspring and examined whether the offspring's sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) moderates this association using a 1-year…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Trauma, Prosocial Behavior
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Yi Yang; Nirmala Rao; Jin Sun – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study examined the associations between early childhood education (ECE) teachers' pre-service education (PE), professional development (PD) experiences, ECE quality, and child development. The participants included 52 teachers and 706 children from 52 preschool classes in Shanghai and Guizhou. Teacher educational level was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Beatriz Lucas-Molina; Marta Giménez-Dasí; Laura Quintanilla; Renata Sarmento-Henrique – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": Empathy is a relevant component of social interactions that can be observed from early childhood. Validated tests for young children are still scarce. This study has two goals: (1) to validate the modified two-factor version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) in Spanish children between the ages of 3 and 8;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence
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Hongbiao Yin; Alan Chi Keung Cheung; Winnie Wing Yi Tam; Elaine Lau – Early Education and Development, 2024
While play-based learning is important for a high quality early education, only when teachers are confident and competent in enacting play-based learning in their everyday practice are expected benefits of play-based learning for whole-child development realized. A sample of 592 early childhood educators who assumed different job titles in Hong…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Preschool Teachers
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Kenji Kitamura – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Despite the prevalence of integrating early childhood education (ECE) into formal schooling, there is limited evidence on how school-based ECE affects children compared to other types of ECE, particularly in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Therefore, this study examined school-based ECE programs compared…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Urban Areas, Private Schools
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Chuchu Zheng; Yongping Yu; Juncen Lu; Yi Hou; Kexin Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This national survey study aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on early development of rural preschoolers in China and compare the urban-rural gap. Participants were 11,282 rural preschool teachers recruited through the stratified random sampling method. They completed the survey online via wjx.com, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Rural Schools, COVID-19
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Chunyuan Xi; Lingyan Wang – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" This study examined how family socioeconomic status and home environment may help explain the indirect relationship between parental migration status and rural Chinese children's holistic development. A total of 198 preschool-age children and their primary caregivers were recruited from three rural preschools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Caregivers, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Sarah N. Lang; Shinyoung Jeon; Erin Tebben – Early Education and Development, 2024
Family-program partnerships in early care and education have the potential to influence young children's development through multiple pathways. Guided by the Head Start (HS) Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) framework, the current study uses data from the 2014 HS Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) to examine the direct, and…
Descriptors: Social Services, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Family School Relationship
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