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Pirko Tõugu; Anni Tamm; Tiia Tulviste – Infant and Child Development, 2024
In this study, maternal socialization goals in early childhood were linked to qualities of children's self in middle childhood, while also considering maternal education and child gender. Estonian mothers (N = 209; M[subscript age] = 33.6; 52.2% had university education) provided ratings of their socialization goals for children (52.2% girls;…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Mother Attitudes, Mothers
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Sarah M. Furnier; Susan Ellis Weismer; Eric Rubenstein; Ronald Gangnon; Steven Rosenberg; Cy Nadler; Lisa D. Wiggins; Maureen S. Durkin – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
We examined relationships between measures of adaptive behavior, cognitive ability, and autism symptom severity in 1458 preschool-aged children with autism from the Study to Explore Early Development. While publications commonly describe autistic children as "low-" or "high-functioning" based on cognitive ability, relying…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cognitive Ability, Adjustment (to Environment), Severity (of Disability)
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Yue Liang; Nan Zhou; Hongjian Cao; Jonathan R. H. Tudge; Ruoyue Qin; Qinglu Wu – Social Development, 2025
Extant research on parents' understanding of gratitude and the socialization of gratitude in children has primarily been conducted in Western cultural contexts. To address this gap, this interview-based qualitative study explored the perspectives of 50 Chinese parents (25 mothers and 25 fathers) regarding their understanding of gratitude, their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Socialization
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Katherine Edler; Sarah Hoegler Dennis; Lijuan Wang; Kristin Valentino; Patrick T. Davies; E. Mark Cummings – Child Development, 2025
Longitudinal study of associations between family-level emotion socialization and adolescent adjustment is limited. When American children (53.5% girls) were in second grade (N = 213; M[subscript age] = 7.98; data collected 2002-2003), mothers and fathers (79.8% of mothers and 74.2% of fathers were White) reported on their reactions to children's…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Socialization, Adolescents, Grade 2
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Norma J. Perez-Brena; Mayra Y. Bámaca; Gabriela Livas Stein; Elisa Gomez – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Familial racial-ethnic socialization (RES) helps youth build tools of cultural resilience by providing messages regarding race and ethnicity that enable them to negotiate and survive the demands of a racialized society. Thus, RES is an important caregiving task for historically minoritized families, including Latine families in the United States.…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Intervention, Self Concept, Cultural Background
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Ainur Sadyrova; Zhomart Simtikov – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2025
This study was aimed at investigating the processes of socialisation and development of life skills of children from orphanages in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The study used a mixed-methods approach, including structured surveys for 200 orphanage graduates and in-depth interviews with 12 field specialists. This approach provided quantitative data…
Descriptors: Socialization, Early Experience, Institutionalized Persons, Residential Institutions
Kevin A. Gee – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Prior evidence shows that early childhood education (ECE) can serve as a protective factor that boosts maltreated children's school readiness outcomes. Yet, less is known about ECE's relationship to other developmental domains critical to their wellbeing including their adaptive behaviors and cognitive development. Focusing on a broader range of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Behavior, National Surveys, Children
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Nadxieli Toledo Bustamante – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2024
This article examines caregivers' everyday language choices and interactions with children in an urban Zapotec community in Mexico, where Diidxazá is being displaced by Spanish in everyday use. It argues that caregivers' language choices and interactions get entangled in complex ways with the socio-cultural organization of everyday life and with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Urban Areas, Child Caregivers
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Chen Zhao; Ludovica Serratrice; Elena Lieven; Circle Steele; Nivedita Malik; Yi An; Emily Hayden; Jo Neumegen; Thea Cameron-Faulkner – First Language, 2024
Language development can be framed as the process of learning how to mean (Halliday, 1975). From this perspective, the role of communicative function is central to the language-learning process with development being guided by interaction with experienced others. In the current study, we present a detailed analysis of the communicative functions…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Socialization
Mackenzie S. Swirbul – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Infants and toddlers experience the world in interaction with others. Likewise, social interactions are important in learning about math--concepts of number ("one," "two," "three"), space ("on top," "upside-down," "round"), and magnitude ("more," "big,"…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Mathematics Skills, Sociocultural Patterns
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Efrat Sher-Censor; Smadar Dolev; Michal Shalem Gan-Or; Esther Zach – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study examined the links between Israeli teachers' perceptions of children with developmental delay (DD) in special education kindergartens and changes in children's development. Participants were 47 teachers and children diagnosed with DD. At Time 1, teachers' perceptions were assessed via the valence of their narrative about the child and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Developmental Delays
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Susanne A. Denham; David E. Ferrier – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Early childhood educator's emotional socialization may contribute crucially to young children's social-emotional competence. Here, we examined the contributions of self-reported reactions to children's emotions and beliefs about emotional socialization of 90 teachers to the social-emotional competence of 334 pre-schoolers. Teacher-reported emotion…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Socioeconomic Status, Preschool Children, Preschool Education