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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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Hou, Yujia; Yan, Tingrui; Deng, Meng – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Parental involvement plays a vital role in the transition from kindergarten to primary school among children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs); this study aims to explore Chinese parents' experiences of parental involvement during this period. Informed by interpretive phenomenological analysis, semi-structured, one-on-one…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Tsirmpa, Chrysoula; Stellakis, Nektarios; Lavidas, Konstantinos – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
In the present study, we investigated the grouping of Greek parents of preschool children according to their beliefs about literacy by using a mixed-method approach. The sample included 147 parents of preschool children attending the 13 public kindergartens in the town of Pyrgos, in Greece. The participants completed a paper survey and 20 of them…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Silinskas, Gintautas; Kiuru, Noona; Aunola, Kaisa; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study investigated the longitudinal associations between children's academic performance and their mothers' affect, practices, and perceptions of their children in homework situations. The children's (n = 2,261) performance in reading and math was tested in Grade 1 and Grade 4, and the mothers (n = 1,476) filled out questionnaires on their…
Descriptors: Homework, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement
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Leyva, Diana; Nolivos, Virginia – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: This study examined the relation between Chilean parents' narrative participatory styles (i.e., the way in which parents scaffold children's participation in conversations) and children's self-regulation skills. A total of 210 low-income Chilean parent-child dyads participated in the study. Dyads were videotaped talking about a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Emotional Response, Children