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Schoppmann, Johanna; Schneider, Silvia; Seehagen, Sabine – Child Development, 2022
Little is known about toddlers' acquisition of specific emotion regulation (ER) strategies, and how early ER is shaped by temperament. This study investigated if 24-month-old German toddlers, predominantly from families with high levels of parental education (N = 96, n = 49 male), learned the ER strategy distraction through observational learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Affective Behavior, Self Control
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Stenberg, Craig R.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Investigated whether, in a sample of 30 infants, anger could reliably be observed in facial expressions as early as seven months of age. Also considered was the influence of several variables on anger responses: infants' familiarity with the frustrator, repetition of trials, and sex of the child. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Facial Expressions, Infant Behavior
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DiPietro, Janet A.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined fetal heart rate and movement in 31 healthy fetuses from 20 weeks through birth and at age 6 months. Found that more active fetuses were more difficult, unpredictable, unadaptable, and active as infants that were less active fetuses, and that higher fetal heart rate was associated with lower emotional tone, activity level, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
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Plomin, Robert; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Investigated genetic change and continuity within the domains of temperament, emotion, and cognition and language for 200 pairs of twins assessed at 14 and 20 months of age. Correlations of measures at the two ages indicated that individual differences in the second year of life showed greater change than continuity on most measures. (MDM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Genetics, Heredity
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Lerner, Jacqueline V.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Data were examined to determine (1) the stability of negative emotional characteristics from early life through adolescence; (2) the degree of relation between these emotional characteristics and adjustment in childhood and adolescence; and (3) the degree to which the characteristics differentially predict multiple adjustment dimensions in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Emotional Problems
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Coy, Katherine C.; Tjebkes, Terri L.; Husarek, Susan J. – Child Development, 1998
Examined 8- to 10-month-olds' responses to standard procedures eliciting joy, fear, anger, and discomfort. Found that response parameters to standard procedures cohered strongly within each episode. Responses cohered across same-emotion episodes, except for anger. Responses and father-reported temperament related to infant's emotional tone in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
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Kagan, Jerome; Snidman, Nancy; Arcus, Doreen – Child Development, 1998
Observed 193 children at 4.5 years who had been classified at 4 months as high or low reactive to stimulation for signs of inhibited or uninhibited behavior. Children classified as high reactive were less spontaneous and less sociable than low-reactive children, but only a small proportion maintained a consistently inhibited or uninhibited…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Infants
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Braungart-Rieker, Julia M.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Child Development, 1996
Examined continuity, stability, and change in behaviors reflecting infant reactivity and regulation. Subjects were 100 infants of 5 and 10 months old. Found that infant behaviors during frustrating situations showed both change and continuity, but the relationship between reactivity and regulation changed in that both factors became more…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Psychology
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined relations of children's regulation and emotionality to their social functioning. Found that resiliency mediated effects of individual differences in attentional regulation on social status and socially appropriate behavior, and that negative emotionality moderated the positive relation between attentional control and resiliency. Also…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention Control, Children, Emotional Development
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Gunn, P.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Older Down's syndrome infants responded to the regular reappearance of a squeaky doll with significantly more affective behavior than did younger Down's syndrome infants. Longitudinal research with the younger infants indicated that the onset of affective behavior significantly correlated with mental development and aspects of temperament.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Downs Syndrome
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Observed 20-month olds' solitary play and collaborative play with their mothers. Found that child language and mothers' symbolic play influenced child collaborative play; child gender and mothers' verbal intelligence predicted child solitary play and influenced mothers' play; and mothers' physical affection influenced mothers' play. (BC)
Descriptors: Affection, Affective Behavior, Infants, Language Skills
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Garner, Pamela W.; Power, Thomas G. – Child Development, 1996
Evaluated a conceptual model that links temperament, emotional knowledge, and family expressiveness to preschoolers' emotional regulation ability by giving "disappointing" prizes after a task. Subjects were 82 preschoolers. Found that children's positive displays when presented the disappointing prize were inversely related to the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior
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Matheny, Adam P., Jr. – Child Development, 1980
Factor analysis of 25 rating scales from Bayley's infant behavior record were performed for a sample of about 300-400 infant twins tested one or more times between 3 and 24 months of age. The analyses provided five major and two minor factors that were considerably consistent at all ages. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Factor Analysis