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Scrimin, Sara; Moscardino, Ughetta; Mason, Lucia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: Children's ability to remain focused on a task despite the presence of emotionally salient distractors in the environment is crucial for successful learning and academic performance. Aims: This study investigated first-graders' allocation of attentional resources in the presence of distracting emotional, school-related social…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Attention Control, Psychological Patterns
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Saswati Chaudhuri; Eija Pakarinen; Heli Muhonen; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen – Educational Psychology, 2024
This study investigated associations between quality of the teacher-student relationship (closeness and conflict) and teachers' (N = 48) visual focus of attention in Grade 1 classrooms in fall and spring, and it explored to what extent students' (N = 650) gender and task-avoidant behaviour moderated the associations. Results showed first that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Gender Differences, Teacher Student Relationship, Attention Control
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Huang, Su-Ying; Yeh, Li-Li – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The authors investigated the relationships among effortful control and frustration and literacy proficiency of preadolescence to determine which subcomponent of effortful control and/or emotion might be critical in achieving academic success. The participants included 72 children recruited from a larger longitudinal study. Children's frustration,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Psychological Patterns, Attention Control, Grade 1
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Schultz, David; Izard, Carroll E.; Stapleton, Laura M.; Buckingham-Howes, Stacy; Bear, George A. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
A recent meta-analysis found that across studies individual differences in aspects of children's emotionality predict social status [Dougherty, L.R., (2006). Children's emotionality and social status: a meta-analytic review. Social Development, 15, 394-417.]. In the present study we extended these findings by examining the emotion of interest and…
Descriptors: Social Status, Attention Control, Social Development, Psychological Patterns