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Zijian Li; Boya Li; Yung-Ting Tsou; Carolien Rieffe – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Empathy plays an important role in children's early social-emotional development. However, there are not many instruments available for measuring the different aspects/levels of empathy in preschool children. Moreover, few studies examined the validity of the existing measures for empathy in Chinese children. The present study…
Descriptors: Empathy, Questionnaires, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
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Blenda Luize Chor Rodrigues; Linda L. Hestenes – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Outdoor environments have recently become part of the early childhood quality puzzle, which has long been important to trace relationships between children's experiences in child care and their development. However, fewer studies have analyzed the extent to which the quality of these outdoor spaces relates to young children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Outdoor Education
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Federica Zava; Stefania Sette; Giovanni Maria Vecchio; Fiorenzo Laghi; Emma Baumgartner; Robert J. Coplan – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: In the present study, we investigated the roles of children's social competence and immigrant background in the prediction of the quality of children's relationships with peers and teachers and school adjustment. Participants were N = 212 children (M[subscript age] = 58.32 months, SD = 10.72; n = 98 with an immigrant background)…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Immigrants, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship