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Shuyi Zhai; Ying Liang; Chenxin Lu; Jie He – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Parenting style plays an important role in children's externalizing behaviors. Differences in physiological regulation among children may lead to variations in whether or to what extent parenting style influences them. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of parenting styles on young children's development of externalizing behaviors…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Physiology
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Li Zhao; Weihao Yan; Junjie Peng; Paul L. Harris – Child Development, 2025
This research with two studies examined whether young children's moral judgments of honesty and dishonesty predict their actual cheating behavior. Participants were 200 children aged 3-6 years (2021-2022. Study 1: N = 80, M[subscript age] = 4.96, 40 girls; Study 2: N = 120, M[subscript age] = 4.98, 60 girls; all middle-class Han Chinese). Children…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Decision Making, Cheating, Young Children
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Mei Zhou; Puyuan Zhang; Catherine Mimeau; Shelley Xiuli Tong – Child Development, 2024
Abstract The relation between statistical learning and working memory in children with developmental dyslexia (DD) remains unclear. This study employed a distributional and a conditional statistical learning experiment and a working memory task to examine this relation in 651 Chinese 6- to 12-year-olds with and without DD (N[subscript DD] = 199,…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries, Children
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Xin Yang; Xin Zhao; Yarrow Dunham; Lin Bian – Child Development, 2024
Across three pre-registered studies (n = 221 4-9-year olds, 51% female; 218 parents, 80% female; working- and middle-class backgrounds; data collected during 2019-2021) conducted in the United States (Studies 1-2; 74% White) and China (Study 3; 100% Asian), we document the emergence of a preference for "strivers." Beginning at age 7,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Children
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Heqing Huang; Ya Zhu; Jiyou Gu; Xiaohui Xu – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The self-oriented and other-oriented empathy dimensions may have different relationships with playfulness. However, a scarcity of research exists on the association between empathy and playfulness. The present research contained two studies. Parents of 386 preschoolers (M[subscript age] = 4.89, SD[subscript age] = 0.79) attended Study 1, and…
Descriptors: Empathy, Play, Gender Differences, Preschool Children
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Xueke Wang; Tingyong Feng – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
An overarching framework in the field of developmental psychology highlights the close linkage of cognition with emotion; however, the extent to which this framework supports the relationship between executive functions and emotion understanding in young children remains unclear. Hence, we employ a longitudinal tracking study to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Executive Function
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Xie, Sha; Wu, Dandan; Liang, Luyao – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Since 2011, China has started to loosen its tight on the One-child Policy (OCP), which has impacted parent's child-rearing beliefs and the provision of home learning environment that constitutes family environment. Utilizing parent-reported data on 4,364 zero- to eight-year-olds from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS, wave…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Profiles, Predictor Variables, Family Structure
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Qianqian Wang; Minjie Ma; Miao Li; Yan Huang; Tingzhao Wang – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
Research on the effects of the socioeconomic status (SES) on literacy development of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) is limited. This study aimed to explore the SES's influence on literacy development of children with ID and possible mediating effects of home literacy environment (HLE) and the parent-child relationship. The subjects…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Intellectual Disability, Children, Adolescents
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Yu Zhou; Shuhan Jiang; Yong Jiang – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: The current study explored the average levels, latent profiles, and predictors of preschoolers' cultural cognition, in a sample of 8774 preschoolers' parents in Shanghai, China. Parents with children aged 3-6 years completed measures of "Cultural Cognition Scale for Preschoolers" (CCSP) which was newly developed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Cultural Awareness, Predictor Variables
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Zhonglian Yan; Wenqi Lin; Jing Ren; Qinglin Ma; Yanling Qin – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To explore the relationships among parenting styles, children's electronic media usage (EMU) and children's problem behaviours (CPB), 1,224 preschoolers aged 3-6 years old (52.0% boys; 30.9% aged 3 years old, 34.6% aged 4 years old, 26.1% aged 5 years old, and 8.4% aged 6 years old) and their parents were enrolled in the present study by means of…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children, Correlation
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Simin Cao; Chuanmei Dong; Hui Li – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Digital technologies are increasingly integrated into the daily lives of young children. However, disparities in access and use quality, known as the 'digital divide,' persist. Parents play a crucial role in narrowing this divide during early childhood, but the underlying mechanisms remain inconclusive. This study investigates how family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Digital Literacy, Parents
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Ren, Zhi; Liang, Xiao; Sun, Fanhui; Wang, Lijuan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Prospective memory (PM) is vital for children to live independently. Theoretical and empirical evidence has shown that executive function (EF) plays an important role in children's PM. However, there is no EF training for the PM of school-age children. Therefore, a 4-week EF training programme was conducted in this study to investigate the…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Memory, Transfer of Training, Children
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Huang, Yan; Wang, Qianqian; Ma, Minjie; Qunchao, Zhang; He, Huizhong; Wang, Tingzhao – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
The significant impact of the home literacy environment (HLE) on the literacy development and educational achievements of typically developing (TD) children has been well documented. The focus of the current research is to gain insights into the HLE of children with autism spectrum disorders owing to their literacy difficulties. We used online…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Literacy, Reading Interests, Parent Child Relationship
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Chen Chen; Nanxi Chen; Jinliang Qin – Early Education and Development, 2024
Physical abuse is one subtype of child abuse and it has been a worldwide public health issue for its detrimental effects on child development, profiles, predictors, and its relation with behavior problems need further exploration, particularly in Chinese children. This study attempts to explore profiles and predictors of physical abuse and to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Behavior Problems
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Kejun Zheng; Baolige Chao; Xiaoran Xue; Li Zhang – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To examine the relationship between early number sense and later symbolic arithmetic competence and how they are connected in young Chinese children. The present study utilized a longitudinal sample of 115 Chinese children aged 3 to 6. Young children completed measures to assess number sense, visual spatial skills (in the fall of their second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Numeracy, Arithmetic
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