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Jessilyn M. Froelich; Emily D. Gerstein – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Parenting is a primary mechanism through which children develop. Much is known about how parenting influences development over time; it is also critical to know what shapes specific aspects of parenting, particularly for families with higher socioeconomic risk. Objective: The current study examined how parenting stress, child behavior…
Descriptors: Parents, Stress Variables, Child Rearing, Child Behavior
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Tiffany Phu; Elly Miles; Amy Dominguez; Jason Hustedt; Sarah Enos Watamura; BTS Consortium Principal Investigators – Prevention Science, 2025
The Buffering Toxic Stress (BTS) consortium included six sites in locations that varied widely in racial/ethnic composition and population density. Each site tested a promising parent-child intervention designed to supplement Early Head Start (EHS) services and prevent "toxic stress." To better understand family risk in a large and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Parent Child Relationship, Family Programs
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Cathy H. Qi; M. Lee Van Horn; Rebecca Bulotsky-Shearer; Jenna Futterer; Alexandra Nicole Davis; Almut Klara Zieher; Judith Carta – Early Child Development and Care, 2025
The moderating role of maternal depressive symptoms in the relationship between language skills and problem behaviours was examined in a sample of 240 preschool children (M age = 43.52 months) enrolled in Head Start programmes. This longitudinal study assessed children's language skills using the Preschool Language Scale-5. Mothers completed the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Depression (Psychology), Child Behavior, Preschool Children
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Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh; Damon E. Jones – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2025
Introduction: Growing up in poverty increases children's exposure to adversities that undermine healthy development, impeding growth in the social-emotional and language skills that support adaptive coping and promote mental health (Yoshikawa et al., 2012). Head Start promotes preschool gains but benefits fade as children proceed into elementary…
Descriptors: Intervention, Preschool Children, Child Development, Social Emotional Learning
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Kelsey A. Clayback; Hsiu-Wen Yang; Maddisen Domingo; Erin E. Barton; Mary Louise Hemmeter – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2025
Developmentally and culturally appropriate program behavior policies that are clearly communicated and implemented successfully can prevent exclusion and positively impact teachers, children, and families. However, it is unclear if policies are high quality or designed to equitably support positive behavior. We examined behavior policies from 41…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Christopher DeCamp; Megan E. Hoffman; Darcey M. Allan; Brittany M. Morris; Christopher J. Lonigan – Grantee Submission, 2025
Despite frequent reliance on teacher and parent ratings of children's behavior for multi-informant assessment, agreement between teachers' and parents' ratings is low. This study examined the predictive utility of teacher and parent ratings for children's self-regulatory outcomes (i.e., executive function, continuous performance task) in four…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)