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Stefania Sette; Matilde Brunetti; Giulia Pecora; Fiorenzo Laghi; Emiddia Longobardi; Robert J. Coplan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
This study investigated links between motivations for social withdrawal, time spent alone, and indices of internalizing difficulties. Participants were 169 (n = 96 girls) children and early adolescents aged 8-14 years (M[subscript age] = 10.82, SD = 1.78). Children completed self-report measures of motivations for social withdrawal (shyness,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Social Isolation
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Scrimin, Sara; Moscardino, Ughetta; Finos, Livio; Mason, Lucia – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
This study investigated early adolescents' psychophysiological response to a school-related stressor (SRS) as indexed by heart rate variability and examined the unique and interactive effects of heart rate variability and temperament on academic achievement. A total of 91 seventh graders watched an SRS video-clip while their heart rate variability…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Stress Variables, Video Technology, Metacognition
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Castelli, Luigi; Zogmaister, Cristina; Tomelleri, Silvia – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Previous literature based on self-report measures has not found a clear relationship between the ethnic attitudes of White parents and those of their children. In particular, no study has evidenced such a relationship in the case of preschool children. In the present study, the authors measured parents' implicit and explicit racial attitudes as…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Preschool Children, Family Attitudes, Family Characteristics