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Peer reviewedJames, Allison – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1996
Explores the contribution of participant observation as a research method to the study of childhood. Discusses how participant observation permits a more comprehensive understanding of the process of friendship making than traditional sociometric techniques, and shows that, for the researcher, remembered experiences of participation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Participant Observation
Peer reviewedDunn, Judy; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1981
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior, Birth, Birth Order
Peer reviewedDunn, Judy; Kendrick, Carol – Child Development, 1981
Individual differences in the social behavior of young siblings were studied in 40 sibling pairs observed at home, when the second child was 8 months old and 14 months old. Differences between same-sex and different-sex sibling pairs were marked by the second observation. More positive social behavior characterized same-sex pairs; more negative…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
Download full textIreson, Judith M.; Shields, Maureen – 1982
The purpose of this study was to trace the development of children's understanding of emotions between the ages of 4 and 12. Twenty-four children at each of five age groups (4, 6, 8, 10, and 12), equally divided by sex, served as subjects. Three groups of tasks were administered: (1) the recognition of facial expressions from photographs, (2) the…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Measures, Age Differences, Association Measures
