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Caregiver Speech Predicts the Emergence of Children's Emotion Vocabulary
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Nencheva, Mira L.; Tamir, Diana I.; Lew-Williams, Casey – Child Development, 2023
Learning about emotions is an important part of children's social and communicative development. How does children's emotion-related vocabulary emerge over development? How may emotion-related information in caregiver input support learning of emotion labels and other emotion-related words? This investigation examined language production and input…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Toddlers, Language Usage, Speech Communication
Marital and Parent-Child Relationships in Family of Origin and Marital Change Following the Birth of a Baby: A Retrospective Analysis.
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Belsky, Jay; Isabella, Russell A. – Child Development, 1985
Indicates that husband-wife differences in evaluations of marital adjustment increased over time when individuals recalled being reared in a cold/rejecting as opposed to warm/supportive manner, particularly when individuals also recalled their own parents as not having an especially harmonious marital relationship. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Birth, Child Rearing, Emotional Experience, Marital Satisfaction
Preliminary Models of Risk and Protective Factors for Childhood Homesickness: Review and Empirical Synthesis.
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Thurber, Christopher A.; Sigman, Marian D. – Child Development, 1998
Examined predictors and sequelae of homesickness in 293 boys, ages 8 to 16 years, who spent two weeks at an overnight camp. Found that the "homesick disposition" and little prior separation together accounted for 69% of the variance in self-reported homesickness. Interpersonal attitudes and perceived control predicted 70% of the variance…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Experience
A Further Look at the Prognostic Power of Young Children's Reports of Depressed Mood and Feelings.
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Ialongo, Nicholas S.; Edelsohn, Gail; Kellam, Sheppard G. – Child Development, 2001
Examined the predictive validity of urban first-graders' self-reports of depressed mood and feelings with respect to later psychopathology and adaptive functioning. Found that subjects' self-reports of depressed mood predicted later academic functioning, the need for and use of mental health services, suicidal ideation, and major depressive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Depression (Psychology), Early Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances
Emotional Development in Children with Different Attachment Histories: The First Three Years.
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Kochanska, Grazyna – Child Development, 2001
Examined relationship of security of attachment to development of fear, anger, and joy over child's first 3 years. Found that attachment groups differed in trajectories of emotional development, with differences apparent at 14 months. Resistant children were most fearful and least joyful. Over the second and third years, secure children became…
Descriptors: Anger, Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Development
Infant Reactivity and Reliance on Mother during Emotion Challenges: Prediction of Cognition and Language Skills in a Low-Income Sample.
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Robinson, JoAnn L.; Acevedo, Marcela C. – Child Development, 2001
Examined association between infants' emotional reactivity and reliance on mother and cognitive and language development at 2 years. Found that infants with high reactivity and reliance on mother during emotion challenges had higher cognitive and language skills than infants with low reactivity and reliance. Poor developmental outcomes were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Emotional Experience, Emotional Response