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Jun Hao; Yeh Hsueh; Katherine Kitzmann; Haojie Yuan; Yaping Yue – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Parental supervision, parental risk perception, and parental risk attitudes constitute an important parenting environment for the development of young children. To examine the mechanisms of Chinese parenting environment on young children's risk-taking behaviors, this study first established a four-factor model and surveyed 497…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Parent Attitudes
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Katherine E. Frye; Elizabeth J. Garis; Ted O. Myers; A. Corinne Huggins-Manley; Tina M. Smith-Bonahue; Kristen M. Kemple; LeAnna Kehl – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Emotion knowledge is one facet of social and emotional learning (SEL) that emerges in early childhood. Various interventions and measures target preschoolers' emotional skills to bolster these foundational competencies prior to formal schooling. One measure of emotion knowledge specifically with preschool children is the Affect…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Preschool Children, Psychological Patterns
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Michelle N. Maurer – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Fluent and legible handwriting is associated with longer texts and higher text quality and is therefore an important goal in the primary school curriculum. While girls' handwriting tends to be more proficient than boys', potential differences in the correlates of girls' and boys' early handwriting are poorly understood. In this…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Skills, Psychomotor Skills, Executive Function
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Zijian Li; Boya Li; Yung-Ting Tsou; Carolien Rieffe – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Empathy plays an important role in children's early social-emotional development. However, there are not many instruments available for measuring the different aspects/levels of empathy in preschool children. Moreover, few studies examined the validity of the existing measures for empathy in Chinese children. The present study…
Descriptors: Empathy, Questionnaires, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
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Julia Fuoco; Nina Howe; Sandra Della Porta; Hildy S. Ross – Early Education and Development, 2024
This study investigated parents' and siblings' knowledge use during naturalistic teaching episodes in the home. Thirty-seven middle-class families were observed for six 90-minute sessions (siblings aged 4 and 6 years). Parent and sibling teaching sequences were coded for knowledge type (conceptual, procedural), conceptual subcategories (social…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parents as Teachers, Foreign Countries, Siblings
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Yu Zhou; Shuhan Jiang; Yong Jiang – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: The current study explored the average levels, latent profiles, and predictors of preschoolers' cultural cognition, in a sample of 8774 preschoolers' parents in Shanghai, China. Parents with children aged 3-6 years completed measures of "Cultural Cognition Scale for Preschoolers" (CCSP) which was newly developed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Cultural Awareness, Predictor Variables
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Simone E. Halliday; Franziska M. Dahinden; Tina Hascher – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Prosocial behavior in early childhood can be assessed by various informants and methodologies, but the information each provides may differ in meaningful ways. The present study measured and compared young children's (N = 486; age: M = 48.51 months, SD = 8.22) prosocial behavior based on parent reports, teacher reports, and…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Young Children, Child Behavior, Parent Attitudes
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Chen Chen; Nanxi Chen; Jinliang Qin – Early Education and Development, 2024
Physical abuse is one subtype of child abuse and it has been a worldwide public health issue for its detrimental effects on child development, profiles, predictors, and its relation with behavior problems need further exploration, particularly in Chinese children. This study attempts to explore profiles and predictors of physical abuse and to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Behavior Problems
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Guoyan Liu; Wenqi Zhan; Sisi Ma; Sha Xie – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" The present study aims to investigate the relationship between physical fitness and visuomotor integration in young children. A total of 242 three- to six-year-old preschoolers were randomly selected from a preschool in Shenzhen, China and their visuomotor integration and physical fitness were evaluated using the…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Psychomotor Skills, Correlation, Foreign Countries
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Sian McDonald; Olga Fotakopoulou – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Children are increasingly using touchscreen technologies at home, which has become a recurring feature within their classroom too. Research has investigated the potential effect of using computer-based tests to assess pupils' performance rather than traditional paper tests. An agreement has still not been formed about the impact…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Mathematics Achievement