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The Role of Household Chaos on Levels and Trajectories of Socioemotional Behavior in the Second Year
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Chimed-Ochir, Ulziimaa; Bai, Liu; Whitesell, Corey J.; Teti, Douglas M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The second year of life is a time of formative developmental change as basic behavioral systems undergo rapid integration and expansion. This study examined the developmental trajectories of social-emotional (SoE) outcomes and the effects of infant sex and household chaos (HC) on the development of SoE outcomes across the second year of life. The…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Child Behavior, Child Development, Behavior Development
The Regulation of Negative Reactivity in Infancy: Function and Development.
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Stifter, Cynthia A.; Braungart, Julia M. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined the function and effectiveness of certain behaviors in regulating negative arousal in infants who participated in an arm restraint procedure at age 5 months and a toy removal task at age 10 months. Results showed that comforting behaviors were preferred at both 5 and 10 months of age. (MDM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Infant Behavior, Infants
Sequential Analysis of Mastery Behavior in 6- and 12-Month-Old Infants.
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MacTurk, Robert H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Sequences of mastery behavior were analyzed in a sample of 67 infants 6 to 12 months old. Authors computed (a) frequencies of six categories of mastery behavior, transitional probabilities, and z scores for each behavior change, and (b) transitions from a mastery behavior to positive affect. Changes in frequencies and similarity in organization…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Goal Orientation, Infants
Development of Children's Understanding of Ambivalence and Causal Theories of Emotions.
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Donaldson, Sally K.; Westerman, Michael A. – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates a proposed four-stage developmental sequence that describes how children explain changes in sad and angry feelings and how their ability to understand is related to their theories of how feelings change. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, Behavior Development
Mother-Infant Affect Synchrony as an Antecedent of the Emergence of Self-Control.
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Feldman, Ruth; Greenbaum, Charles W.; Yirmiya, Nurit – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Assessed mother-infant face-to-face play and infant difficult temperament at 3 and 9 months; assessed self-control, verbal IQ, and maternal warm discipline at 2 years. Found that maternal synchrony with infant affect at 3 months and mutual synchrony at 9 months were related to self-control at 2 years when temperament, IQ, and maternal style were…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Emotional Development
Children's Attributions Regarding the Situational Determinants of Emotion in Self and Others.
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Strayer, Janet – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates children's person-by-situation knowledge of probable causes of emotion in self and in others, and compares this to adults' construals. Shows that children can generate contextual explanations for affective states in self and others that are both shared by other children and adults and selectively related to different kinds of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attribution Theory
Transitions and Turning Points: Navigating the Passage from Childhood through Adolescence.
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on this special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Presents models for predicting and understanding behavioral and affective change at transitions occurring especially from middle childhood through adolescence. Provides examples…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents