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Mengdi Chen; Helma M. Y. Koomen; Debora L. Roorda – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: The present study focused on the affective quality of dyadic relationships between teachers and young children in China and the Netherlands. We examined whether there were cross-cultural differences in teachers' and children's relationship perceptions, as well as the degree to which teachers and children agreed on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Cultural Differences, Teacher Attitudes
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Zhou, Siyu; Li, Xiaowei – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Work-to-family conflict is prevalent in preschool teachers, which has increased their risk of emotional exhaustion. To help preschool teachers deal with work-to-family conflict and avoid emotional exhaustion, this study examined the relation between work-to-family conflict and emotional exhaustion and the buffering roles of…
Descriptors: Conflict, Family Work Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Beginning Teachers
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Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; Hawley, Leslie; Molfese, Victoria J.; Tu, Xiaoqing; Prokasky, Amanda; Sirota, Kate – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study is an examination of (a) links between preschool children's temperament (effortful control, shyness, and anger) and teacher-child conflict and (b) classroom instructional and emotional support as moderators of associations between temperament and teacher-child conflict. Children (N = 104) were enrolled in 23…
Descriptors: Conflict, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship
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Kramer, Laurie – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Young children's relationships with their sisters and brothers offer unique and important opportunities for learning about emotions and developing emotional understanding. Through a critical analysis, this article examines sibling interaction in 3 different but normative contexts (conflict/conflict management, play, and…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Child Development, Emotional Development, Self Control
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Gamble, Wendy C.; Yu, Jeong Jin – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study examines patterns of sibling relationship qualities or interactional types and their association with family characteristics, parenting, and the characteristics of 1 of those children. Participants were 65 children (34 boys; Time 1 mean age = 51 months), their mothers, fathers, and Head Start teachers. Approximately…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Siblings, Family Characteristics, Young Children
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McCormick, Meghan P.; Turbeville, Ashley R.; Barnes, Sophie P.; McClowry, Sandee G. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Racial/ethnic minority low-income children with temperaments high in negative reactivity are at heightened risk for developing disruptive behavior problems. Teacher-child relationships characterized by high levels of closeness and low levels of conflict may protect against the development of disruptive behaviors in school. The…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Urban Schools, Longitudinal Studies, Personality Traits
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Silver, Carrie; Harkins, Debra – Early Education and Development, 2007
The current study investigated how teachers would intervene in hypothetical conflicts experienced by students in the classroom and how informal labeling of students and affect relate to teachers' hypothetical interventions. Thirty-one teachers from various early childhood learning centers were recruited for participation. Teachers were presented…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Labeling (of Persons)
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Arsenio, William F.; Killen, Melanie – Early Education and Development, 1996
Videotaped four- and five-year-olds playing to investigate conflict emotions during peer disputes. Found that initiators', recipients', and observers' emotions differed in the conflict and postconflict periods. Conflict initiators almost exclusively expressed happiness, whereas conflict recipients expressed mostly sadness and anger. Conflict…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Conflict, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
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Dunn, Judy; And Others – Early Education and Development, 1995
A longitudinal study of conflict management among siblings found that children's use of other-oriented statements emerged between 33 and 47 months of age, and that children used other-oriented arguments with their friends more often than with their mothers or siblings. Further, at 33 months, children used more reasoning during conflicts when not…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Psychology
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McHale, James P.; Johnson, Dannie; Sinclair, Robert – Early Education and Development, 1999
Studied whether co-parenting and family-group process influence early social competence. Found indirect pathways linking low levels of support and mutuality in the co-parenting relationship to problematic peer relationships, and direct pathways linking the family's affective climate to positive peer behavior. Discovered that effects were strongest…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Conflict, Family Environment