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Coyle, Emily F.; Liben, Lynn S. – Child Development, 2016
Gender schema theory (GST) posits that children approach opportunities perceived as gender appropriate, avoiding those deemed gender inappropriate, in turn affecting gender-differentiated career trajectories. To test the hypothesis that children's gender salience filters (GSF--tendency to attend to gender) moderate these processes, 62 preschool…
Descriptors: Females, Play, Gender Differences, Individual Differences
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Dahl, Audun; Campos, Joseph J. – Child Development, 2013
Different social experiences help children develop distinctions between domains of norms. This study investigated whether mothers respond differently to moral, prudential, and pragmatic norms during the 2nd year, a period that precedes the time when children are able to make explicit distinctions between these norms. Sixty mothers of infants…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Social Experience, Norms, Mothers
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DeGarmo, David Scott – Child Development, 2010
To better understand quantity and quality of divorced father contact, a weighted county sample of 230 divorced fathers with a child aged 4-11 years was employed to test whether fathers' antisocial personality (ASP) moderated effects of monthly contact with children in predicting children's observed noncompliance. Eighteen-month latent growth…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Personality, Fathers
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Korner, Anneliese F.; Thoman, Evelyn B. – Child Development, 1972
Data indicate that the interventions provided differed in their effectiveness in calming newborns to a highly significant degree. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Rocissano, Lorraine; Yatchmink, Yvette – Child Development, 1983
Explores particulars that may partially account for the remedial influence on development of interactions between infants and caregivers. Videotaped interactions between 20 prematurely born toddlers and their mothers were described in terms of dyadic joint attention to features of the environment. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Intervention
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Ramey, Craig T.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Data from an early intervention program for children at risk for developmental retardation were used to investigate two kinds of intellectual plasticity: developmental functions and individual differences. Possible convergences between the two realms of development are examined. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, High Risk Persons, Individual Differences
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Dybdahl, Ragnhild – Child Development, 2001
Evaluated effects on children in Bosnia and Herzegovina of a 5-month psychosocial intervention program of weekly group meetings for mothers. Found that although all participants were exposed to severe trauma, their distress varied considerably. The intervention program had a positive effect on mothers' mental health, children's weight gain, and…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries