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Associations between Publicly Funded Preschool and Low-Income Children's Kindergarten Readiness: The Moderating Role of Child Temperament
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Johnson, Anna D.; Finch, Jenna E.; Phillips, Deborah A. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Publicly funded center-based preschool programs were designed to enhance low-income children's early cognitive and social-emotional skills in preparation for kindergarten. In the U.S., the federal Head Start program and state-funded public school-based pre-kindergarten (pre-k) programs are the two primary center-based settings in which low-income…
Descriptors: Low Income, School Readiness, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Identifying Stable Variants of Callous-Unemotional Traits: A Longitudinal Study of At-Risk Girls
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Goulter, Natalie; Kimonis, Eva R.; Hawes, Samuel W.; Stepp, Stephanie; Hipwell, Alison E. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have proven important for designating children and adolescents showing a pattern of particularly severe, stable, and aggressive antisocial behaviors (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). Individuals with secondary CU traits represent a subpopulation that are distinguished from those with primary CU traits by…
Descriptors: Females, Anxiety, Personality Traits, Mental Health
A Bias for the Natural? Children's Beliefs about Traits Acquired through Effort, Bribes, or Medicine
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Lockhart, Kristi L.; Keil, Frank C.; Aw, Justine – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Three studies compared beliefs about natural and late blooming positive traits with those acquired through personal effort, extrinsic rewards or medicine. Young children (5-6 years), older children (8-13 years), and adults all showed a strong bias for natural and late blooming traits over acquired traits. All age groups, except 8- to 10-year-olds,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preadolescents, Children, Early Adolescents
Inhibited and Aggressive Preschool Children at 23 Years of Age: Personality and Social Transitions into Adulthood
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Asendorpf, Jens B.; Denissen, Jaap J. A.; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
In a 19-year longitudinal study, the 15% most inhibited and the 15% most aggressive children at ages 4-6 years were followed up until age 23 years and were compared with controls who were below average in preschool inhibition or aggressiveness. As adults, inhibited boys and girls were judged as inhibited by their parents and showed a delay in…
Descriptors: Aggression, Preschool Children, Inhibition, Profiles
The Antecedents and Correlates of Agreeableness in Adulthood.
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Laursen, Brett; Pulkkinen, Lea; Adams, Ryan – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Data from a 25-year study of 194 individuals indicated that teacher and peer reports of aggression, compliance, and self-control at age 8 distinguished high-agreeable from low-agreeable 33-year-olds. High-agreeable childhood types had fewer disobedience and concentration problems than low-agreeable childhood types. High-agreeable childhood boys…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Alcoholism, Behavior Problems
Callous-Unemotional Traits and Developmental Pathways to Severe Conduct Problems.
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Frick, Paul J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Investigated potential differences between nonreferred children with and without callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Found that children with conduct problems, irrespective of CU trait presence, tended to have significant problems in emotional and behavioral regulation. CU traits, irrespective of conduct problem presence, related to a lack of…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Bias, Children
Adolescent Risk Factors for Binge Drinking during the Transition to Young Adulthood: Variable- and Pattern-Centered Approaches to Change.
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Schulenberg, John; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined the extent to which risk factors for concurrent binge drinking in adolescence can predict changes during transition to young adulthood. Found that being male, possessing low self-efficacy, and drinking primarily "to get drunk" were unconditional risk factors for increased binge drinking over time. Other adolescent risk factors…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse