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Schirmbeck, Katharina; Rao, Nirmala; Maehler, Claudia – Infant and Child Development, 2020
A systematic review was conducted to gain a more nuanced understanding of similarities and distinctions across countries in the development of executive functions (EF). The review includes 26 studies, with child and adolescent participants, that were published between 2006 and 2018. Both similarities and differences within developmental patterns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Cognitive Development, Children
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Zhu, Jingjing; Baldwin, Danielle; Li, Yan; Xie, Qingbin; Coplan, Robert J. – Infant and Child Development, 2018
The goal of this study was to examine longitudinal associations among unsociability and indices of socio-emotional functioning in a sample of young Chinese children. Participants were N = 360 children (M[subscript age] = 4.72 years, SD = 0.67) recruited from kindergarten classes in an urban area of China. Assessments of unsociability and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Young Children, Kindergarten
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Yang, Xiujie; Peng, Peng; Meng, Xiangzhi – Infant and Child Development, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of general cognitive skills (working memory, inhibition, and reasoning) and metalinguistic awareness to young children's character reading. One hundred eighty-nine Chinese children, aged from 60 to 78 months, were administered with measures of character recognition, language,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Short Term Memory, Inhibition, Logical Thinking
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Zhang, Xiao – Infant and Child Development, 2013
The present study examined the longitudinal relations between psychopathology and social competence in a sample of 115 Chinese children during the transition to preschool initiated in their third year of life. Social competence was assessed by maternal reports at three months after preschool entry (T1) and at the end of the first (T2) and second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Psychopathology, Interpersonal Competence