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Changes in Children's Anger, Sadness, and Persistence across Blocked Goals: Implications for Self-Regulation
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Tan, Lin; Shin, Eunkyung; Page, Kenyon; Smith, Cynthia L. – Child Development, 2023
The current study took a person-centered approach to examine the heterogeneity of changes in children's emotions and persistence during a goal-blocking task and examined how different profiles of emotions and persistence related to children's self-regulation. Children's anger, sadness, and persistence were rated in a goal-blocking task in…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Persistence, Attitude Change, Goal Orientation
Developing Relationships, Being Cool, and Not Looking Like a Loser: Social Goal Orientation Predicts Children's Responses to Peer Aggression
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Rudolph, Karen D.; Abaied, Jamie L.; Flynn, Megan; Sugimura, Niwako; Agoston, Anna Monica – Child Development, 2011
This research explored the contribution of social goal orientation, specifically, development (improving social skills and relationships), demonstration-approach (gaining positive judgments), and demonstration-avoidance (minimizing negative judgments). Children (N = 373; M age = 7.97, SD = 0.34) were followed from 2nd to 3rd grades. Validity of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Problem Solving, Social Adjustment
Goal Neglect and Working Memory Capacity in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children
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Marcovitch, Stuart; Boseovski, Janet J.; Knapp, Robin J.; Kane, Michael J. – Child Development, 2010
Goal neglect is the phenomenon of failing to execute the momentary demands of a task despite understanding and being able to recall the task instructions. Successful goal maintenance is more likely to occur in adults with high working memory capacity (WMC) who can keep rules mentally accessible while performing the task. The current study…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Task Analysis, Recall (Psychology), Young Children
Children's and Adults' Models for Predicting Teleological Action: The Development of a Biology-Based Model.
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Opfer, John E.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 2001
Two studies examined models that preschoolers, fifth-graders, and adults use to guide predictions of self-beneficial, goal-directed action. Found that preschoolers' predictions were consistent with an animal-based model, fifth-graders' with biology-based and complexity-based models, and adults' predictions with a biology-based model. All age…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis