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Andrew E. Koepp; Elizabeth T. Gershoff – Child Development, 2024
Studying within-person variability in children's behavior is frequently hindered by challenges collecting repeated observations. This study used wearable accelerometers to collect an intensive time series (2.7 million observations) of young children's movement at school (N = 62, M[subscript age] = 4.5 years, 54% male, 74% Non-Hispanic White) in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Child Behavior, Kinesiology
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Loe, Irene M.; Balestrino, Maria D.; Phelps, Randall A.; Kurs-Lasky, Marcia; Chaves-Gnecco, Diego; Paradise, Jack L.; Feldman, Heidi M. – Child Development, 2008
In a prospective study of developmental outcomes in relation to early-life otitis media, behavioral, cognitive, and language measures were administered to a large, diverse sample of children at 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9-11 years of age (N = 741). At 9-11 years of age, 9% of the children were categorized as having attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Diseases, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Saudino, Kimberly J.; Plomin, Robert – Child Development, 2007
Although a negative association between hyperactivity and academic achievement is well documented, little is known about the genetic and/or environmental mechanisms responsible for the association. The present study explored links between parent and teacher ratings of hyperactive behavior problems and teacher-assessed achievement in a sample of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Hyperactivity, Genetics, Academic Achievement
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Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Zupan, Brian A.; Simmel, Cassandra; Nigg, Joel T.; Melnick, Sharon – Child Development, 1997
Investigated predictors of peer sociometric nominations among boys with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Found that aggression, covert antisocial behavior, and authoritative parenting beliefs predicted negative peer status and peer social preference. Aggression predicted peer rejection more strongly for comparison than…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Attention Deficit Disorders, Child Behavior, Children
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Hoza, Betsy; Waschbusch, Daniel A.; Pelham, William E.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Milich, Richard – Child Development, 2000
Compared behavioral, self-evaluative, and attributional responses of boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to those of typically-developing boys on a social success and failure laboratory task. Found that ADHD boys rated their own performance more favorably than controls, were more likely to attribute success to external…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Attribution Theory, Child Behavior, Childhood Attitudes
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Carlson, Elizabeth A.; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Investigated the development of inattentiveness and hyperactivity in middle childhood through a prospective study that followed 191 children from birth through age 11. In early childhood, quality of caregiving better predicted distractibility, an early precursor of hyperactivity, than did early biological or temperament factors. Caregiving and…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Biological Influences, Caregiver Child Relationship