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Direct linkKarolina Wieczorek; Megan DeGroot; Heather Ganshorn; Susan A. Graham – Child Development, 2025
Research examining relations between language skills and social competence has yielded mixed findings. Three meta-analyses investigated links between language skills (overall, receptive, and expressive) and social competence in 2- to 12-year-old children. Data from 130 studies representing 62,120 children (M age at language assessment = 4.70…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Children, Receptive Language
Peer reviewedBretherton, Inge; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines young children's developing ability to talk about emotions, considers evidence concerning the ability to talk about emotions in the conduct of interpersonal interaction, and offers ideas about future directions for research, emphasizing the functionalist approach to the analysis of emotion-denoting terms. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedAdalbjarnardottir, Sigrun – Child Development, 1995
Examined role of social anxiety, social withdrawal, and locus of control in the developmental level of interpersonal negotiation strategies (INS) when resolving hypothetical conflicts. Found that sociable children were more likely than socially withdrawn children to exhibit greater competence in INS. Children with internal locus of control were…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Conflict Resolution, Interpersonal Competence, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedLemerise, Elizabeth A.; Arsenio, William F. – Child Development, 2000
Interprets literature on contributions of social cognitive and emotion processes to children's social competence in the context of an integrated model of emotion processes and cognition in social information processing. Provides neurophysiological and functional evidence for the centrality of emotion processes in personal-social decision making.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Cues, Decision Making
Peer reviewedAsher, Steven R. – Child Development, 1983
Focuses on implications for intervention and highlights conceptual and methodological advances in studies establishing a causal link between social behavior and peer status. Studies reviewed investigate social interaction over time, use fine-grained coding systems, employ multiple measures, and videotape behavior in carefully designed analogue…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention
Peer reviewedMiller, Scott A. – Child Development, 1995
Reviews research on the determinants and the effects of parents' attributions. The evidence suggests that parents do form attributions for their children's behavior; these attributions vary in predictable ways across judges (mothers versus fathers), targets (age or sex of child), and behavior outcomes (positive or negative); and attributions…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory
Peer reviewedScarr, Sandra – Child Development, 1992
Argues that an evolutionary perspective can unite the study of species-typical development and individual variation. Provides examples from the domains of personality, social, and intellectual development. Maintains that understanding the ways in which genes and environments work together helps developmentalists identify children who need…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing
