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Amanda S. Haber; Sona C. Kumar; Kathryn A. Leech; Kathleen H. Corriveau – Child Development, 2024
This study explores how caregiver-child scientific conversation during storybook reading focusing on the challenges or achievements of famous female scientists impacts preschoolers' mindset, beliefs about success, and persistence. Caregiver-child dyads (N = 202, 100 female, 35% non-White, aged 4-5, [function] = 0.15) were assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregivers, Caregiver Role, Story Reading
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Chen, Edith; Lee, William K.; Cavey, Lisa; Ho, Amanda – Child Development, 2013
Little is understood about why some youth from low-socioeconomic-status (SES) environments exhibit good health despite adversity. This study tested whether role models and "shift-and-persist" approaches (reframing stressors more benignly while persisting with future optimism) protect low-SES youth from cardiovascular risk. A total of 163…
Descriptors: Role Models, Risk, Heart Disorders, Socioeconomic Status