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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
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Alicia K. Jones; Shalini Gautam; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin to preferentially focus on controllable features of such events. Across two studies, Australian 4-9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Decision Making, Emotional Response
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Declercq, Christelle; Pochon, Régis – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
We studied comprehension of emotion versus concrete/abstract words in Down syndrome (DS). Study 1 compared 26 participants with DS and 26 typically developing (TD) children matched on verbal ability. Results showed no difference between groups. Study 2 assessed whether chronological age (CA) and (non)verbal abilities predicted developmental…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Lexicology, Down Syndrome, Predictor Variables
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Cleroux, Angelina; Peck, Joann; Friedman, Ori – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Although people take care of their own possessions, they also engage in stewardship and take care of things they do not own. Here, we examined what young children infer when they observe stewardship behavior of an object. Through four experiments on predominantly middle-class Canadian children (total N = 350, 168 girls and 182 boys from a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Psychological Patterns, Ownership, Inferences
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Sella, Enrico; Bolognesi, Monica; Bergamini, Emma; Mason, Lucia; Pazzaglia, Francesca – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Forest school is a form of outdoor learning that takes children into regular and repeated learning experiences in natural settings. Being based on a comprehensive experience with nature, it is assumed to be beneficial for learning and to promote restorative effects on cognitive and emotional function in preschool children. This review aimed to…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Outdoor Education, Preschool Children, Literature Reviews
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Manning, Leah B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Hierarchical linear modelling was used to explore the effect of changes in maternal sensitivity on attachment over time. Child characteristics of gender, temperament, and developmental status were used as moderating factors. Data from 1,249 mothers and their children from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development when the children…
Descriptors: Mothers, Time Perspective, Attachment Behavior, Sex
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Ophélie A. Collet; Massimiliano Orri; Cédric Galéra; Laura Pryor; Michel Boivin; Richard Tremblay; Sylvana Côté – Child Development, 2024
We investigated whether child temperament (negative emotionality, 5 months) moderated the association between maternal stimulation (5 months--2½ years) and academic readiness and achievement (vocabulary, mathematics, and reading). We applied structural equation modeling to the data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (N =…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Personality, Psychological Patterns, School Readiness
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Felicity L. Painter; Anna T. Booth; Primrose Letcher; Craig A. Olsson; Jennifer E. McIntosh – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and associated public health restrictions created unprecedented challenges for parents and their young dependent children. While psycho-social impacts of natural disasters on families are well studied, a typography of parent specific concerns in the COVID-19 context was yet to be articulated.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parents, Young Children
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Katherine Edler; Sarah Hoegler Dennis; Lijuan Wang; Kristin Valentino; Patrick T. Davies; E. Mark Cummings – Child Development, 2025
Longitudinal study of associations between family-level emotion socialization and adolescent adjustment is limited. When American children (53.5% girls) were in second grade (N = 213; M[subscript age] = 7.98; data collected 2002-2003), mothers and fathers (79.8% of mothers and 74.2% of fathers were White) reported on their reactions to children's…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Socialization, Adolescents, Grade 2
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Greenhalgh, Kate; Mahler, Nicole; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J.; Shanley, Dianne C. – Deafness & Education International, 2023
Parents of children with hearing loss (HL) often navigate an unfamiliar and uncertain path. This qualitative study investigated the nature of parental uncertainty: (1) immediately after a child's HL was identified; (2) prior to primary school entry; and (3) during primary school. Open-ended questions in online surveys were completed by…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Children, Parents
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Elizabeth Lyttle; Paul McCafferty; Brian J. Taylor – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Context: Adoption can provide a lifetime of benefits for children. Some adoptions however, experience severe challenges resulting in disruption, with children leaving home prematurely. Method: This qualitative study in Northern Ireland used interviews with parents from thirteen families whose adoptions had disrupted, to explore their perspective…
Descriptors: Adoption, Parent Attitudes, Social Services, Family Relationship
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Tania Clarke; Ros McLellan – School Psychology International, 2024
Childhood wellbeing is essential for positive outcomes in adulthood, as is academic attainment. Schools play a pivotal role in laying the foundations for children to live well. However, research investigating the relationship between wellbeing and attainment has relied on conceptualisations of wellbeing that are too broad (i.e. overall and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Well Being, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Ashley Miller; Carol A. Johnston – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Children's early experiences have potential to shape their development through early childhood, middle childhood, and into adolescence. Family structure at birth and material hardship may offer insight into how children's health and well-being are shaped within their family of origin. The current paper examined (a) the association between family…
Descriptors: Child Development, Family Structure, Racial Differences, Correlation
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Suzanne M. Egan; Mary Moloney; Jennifer Pope; Deirdre Breatnach; Clara Hoyne – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
Although it is well established that reading with young children supports early language and literacy development, few studies have focused on the importance of parental beliefs about reading with infants. The current study, which sheds light on parental beliefs had three main aims. The first was to examine practices of shared reading in infancy…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Infants, Parents, Parent Attitudes
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Jambon, Marc; Colasante, Tyler; Malti, Tina – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examined the course and correlates of the happy victimizer tendency--the expectation that harming others to achieve a goal will result in positive emotional outcomes for the transgressor--from 4 to 6 years of age in a community sample of Canadian children (N = 150; 50% female; Time 1 M[subscript age] = 4.53 years, SD = 0.30; 33%…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Psychological Patterns, Aggression
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