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Development of Shyness across Adolescence: Reactivity, Regulation, or Both?
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Hassan, Raha; Willoughby, Teena; Schmidt, Louis A. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The reactivity-regulation model suggests that the origins and maintenance of shyness results from relatively high levels of reactivity in combination with relatively low levels of regulation. Although this model has received some empirical support, there are still issues regarding directionality of the relations among variables and a dearth of…
Descriptors: Shyness, Early Adolescents, Children, Elementary School Students
Habitus as Foregrounded History: Theorising Affect in the Social Formation of Embodied Practice
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Leaney, Sarah – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article builds upon a tradition of feminist critical engagements with Bourdieu, developing the concept of 'foregrounded history' as a way to conceptualise the temporal and affective in processes of habitus formation. Through analysis of affects 'produced through the social encounter' within everyday childhoods on a British council estate, the…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Personality Development
Is Social Capital a Mediator between Self-Control and Psychological and Social Functioning across 34 Years?
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Pulkkinen, Lea; Lyyra, Anna-Liisa; Kokko, Katja – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social capital assessed in early adulthood in linking self-control in childhood with psychological and social functioning in middle age. Data collected at ages 8, 27, and 42 years were based on the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (159 females, 177 males).…
Descriptors: Psychology, Social Networks, Social Capital, Social Development
Parental Agreement-Disagreement on Child Rearing Orientations and Gender-Related Personality Correlates in Children.
Block, Jeanne H.; And Others – 1979
An objective index of degree of parental agreement was generated by comparing the independent responses of 83 parental dyads to a set of Q-sort items referencing child-rearing values and orientations. This index was found to significantly predict subsequent continuation or termination of the marriage and to relate to independently-described…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Divorce, Family (Sociological Unit), Females
Problem Behaviors in Young Children.
Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – 1987
Early personality and environmental characteristics that predict later problematic aggression and depression in children were investigated longitudinally. A developmental psychopathology approach was taken. (This approach assumes that patterns of adaptation and maladaptation in development can best be understood when explored simultaneously and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Infants
Preschool Temperament and Environmental Factors Related to the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Middle Childhood.
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Hagekull, Berit; Bohlin, Gunilla – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1998
A prospective study investigated associations between preschool temperament and environmental factors and school-age personality in 93 Swedish children. Found that personality was predicted by early temperament and environmental factors such as external day care and negative life events. Extraversion was most clearly related to temperament.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Children, Day Care Effects