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Direct linkNa Zhang; Jinghan Xu; Xifeng Zhang; Yifang Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The presence of social robots in children's daily environments has steadily increased. With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), social robots have influenced children's learning and development. This study innovatively utilized the Web of Science database and conducted a bibliometric analysis of 517 publications on social robots…
Descriptors: Robotics, Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Bibliometrics
Natalie Kirby; Camilla Biggs; Megan Garside; Gloria Cheung; Philip Wilson; Matt Forde; Manuela Deidda; Dennis Ougrin; Fiona Turner; Karen Crawford; Helen Minnis – JCPP Advances, 2025
Background: Children in foster care are at high risk of future mental health and developmental difficulties. A number of interventions may be helpful; however, the effectiveness of interventions specifically for pre-school children in foster care is not well established. This is an important omission, since infancy and early childhood may be the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Foster Care, Intervention, Social Emotional Learning
Rahel L. van Eickels; Magdalena Siegel; Alice J. Juhasz; Martina Zemp – Child Development, 2025
Empirical findings on the associations of positive and dysfunctional parent--child relationship (PPCR/DPCR) characteristics with child shame, adaptive guilt, and maladaptive guilt were synthesized in six meta-analyses. The 65 included samples yielded 633 effect sizes (N[subscript total] = 19,144; M[subscript age] = 15.24 years; 59.0% female; 67.7%…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Child Development, Meta Analysis
Lucas G. Gago-Galvagno; Stephanie E. Miller; Natalia A. Mancini; Ailin C. Simaes; Angel M. Elgier; Susana C. Azzollini – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Although executive functions (EFs) have been identified as a cornerstone of cognitive development, knowledge of this fundamental ability in children is based primarily on research with North American and Western European samples of middle to high socioeconomic status (SES). In this article, we highlight advances in research on developmental EFs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Children, Cultural Context
Download full textFarahiyah Wan Yunus; Sakinah Idris; Siti Noraini Asmuri; Bess Fowler; Muhammad Hibatullah Romli – American Journal of Play, 2024
The authors contend that children benefit from play as a form of intervention and as a means of fostering their cognitive, social, and physical growth. They review several standardized instruments developed over the last fifty years to assess this benefit of play on child development. They identify twenty-one such play measures, the majority of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Play, Test Reliability, Standardized Tests
Fan Yang – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Happiness is one of the most important parenting goals in today's modern society. To promote a happy childhood, we need to understand what happiness means to children. Contrary to the view that young children may equate happiness with satisfying material desires and experiencing simple pleasures, in this article, I review recent developmental…
Descriptors: Children, Psychological Patterns, Child Behavior, Ethics
Nana A. Kwofie; Xanne Janssen; John J. Reilly – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2025
Background: Several studies have reported low adherence to World Health Organization sedentary behavior (SB) guidelines in the early years. The purpose of this review is to examine the associations between time spent in different types of SB (screen time and habitual SB) and motor competence (MC; fundamental motor skills, fine and gross motor…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Computer Use, Television Viewing, Physical Activity Level
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Freya Westlake; Meryl Westlake; Vaso Totsika – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: The review aimed to investigate the effectiveness of parent-child relationship interventions for families of children with intellectual disability up to 12 years old. Methods: Quasi-experimental or randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions targeting the parent-child relationship where =50% of children had an intellectual…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Parent Child Relationship, Intellectual Disability
Viktorija Cepukiene; Julija Janulevice – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Early childhood is essential for the rapid development of self-regulation systems, shaped by brain maturation and parental discipline. Inadequate discipline can hinder this development, leading to behavioral, social, and long-term negative outcomes. Objective: This meta-analysis synthesizes research conducted over the last two decades,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Discipline, Self Control, Preschool Children
Wanjiang Zhou; Pablo Saiz-González; Ronny Rodriguez Aragon; Kaitlyn Adams; Zan Gao – Quest, 2024
This systematic review synthesized current literature regarding the effect of physical activity (PA) interventions on brain structure (BS) and brain function (BF) in healthy children. This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews protocols and used the Rayyan web for data extraction. Eleven experimental studies were…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Cognitive Structures, Brain
Jutta Kray; Linda Sommerfeld; Arielle Borovsky; Katja Häuser – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Prediction error plays a pivotal role in theories of learning, including theories of language acquisition and use. Researchers have investigated whether and under which conditions children, like adults, use prediction to facilitate language comprehension at different levels of linguistic representation. However, many aspects of the reciprocal…
Descriptors: Prediction, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Error Analysis (Language)
Bo Hyun Hwang; Daehyoung Lee – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
An emerging body of literature suggests that early motor skills may be a key predictor of language development in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, characteristics of subject groups, targeted skill areas and their assessment tools, and methodological approaches significantly vary across existing studies. This scoping review…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Language Skills, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Age Groups
Catherine R. Gaspar; Laudan B. Jahromi – Infants and Young Children, 2024
The transition from early childhood special education into school-based special education services is often the first major educational change for children with special needs. Parents are critical to children's successful transitions. This systematic review compiled parent-reported data from 20 peer-reviewed quantitative and qualitative empirical…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children, Special Education, Special Needs Students
Jaime Balladares; Martín Miranda; Karen Cordova – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
The study evaluated the effects of board games on children in a range of cognitive areas, considering both inclusion (i.e. pre- and post-comparisons, playing style [board games], participants belonging to PreKinder and Kindergarten, and experimental approach) and exclusion criteria (i.e. video games). Nineteen articles were selected using both…
Descriptors: Games, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
