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Exploring Links between Social Competence, Immigrant Background, and Children's Preschool Adjustment
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
Sun, Juanjuan; Liu, Junsheng; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Fang, Yue; Weng, Wanjuan; Xue, Zijing; Huang, Minmin; Li, Yan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study aimed to explore the mediating role of social competence and the moderating role of teacher-child conflict in the relation between maternal overcontrol and Chinese preschooler's internalizing problems. Participants were 216 children aged 3-4 years, from two kindergartens in Shanghai, China. Mothers completed the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Conflict, Preschool Children
Gaspar, Maria Filomena; Patras, Joshua; Hutchings, Judy; Homem, Tatiana; Azevedo, Andreia Fernandes; Pimentel, Mariana; Baptista, Elsa; Major, Sofia; Vale, Vera; Seabra-Santos, Maria – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (IY-TCM) program has shown efficacy in reducing behavioral problems and improving social skills among children experiencing poverty. However, quantitative studies that concentrate on its efficacy in relation to "proximal classroom outcomes" (e.g., classroom emotional…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Program Effectiveness, Psychological Patterns
Wolcott, Catherine S.; Williford, Amanda P.; Hartz-Mandell, Karyn – Early Education and Development, 2019
The links between a positive teacher-child relationship and young children's academic and social-emotional development have been well established, particularly for children with disruptive behaviors. However, less is known about children's views of the teacher-child relationship and how these representations relate to other established measures.…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Preschool Children, Personal Narratives, Teacher Student Relationship
Yoder, Michelle L.; Williford, Amanda P. – Early Education and Development, 2019
The ways in which teachers perceive and subsequently respond to preschoolers' behavior have significant implications for children's experience in the classroom. To further understand the nature and variability of teacher perception of young children's behavior, this study examined how teachers characterized the disruptive behaviors of a large and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children, Behavior Problems
Partee, Ann M.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Williford, Amanda P. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: This study examined the relation between classroom behavioral composition and teacher-child interactions in preschool classrooms and the potential for teachers' experience, education level, and area of study to buffer against the challenges of teaching in classrooms with high levels of disruptive behaviors. Classroom behavioral…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Classroom Environment
Weiss, Emily M.; McDermott, Paul A.; Rovine, Michael J.; Oh, Jimin – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This study examines the development of problem behavior in classroom contexts characterized by peer interaction among a nationally representative sample (N = 3,827) of U.S. low-income children from preschool entry to first grade. Latent growth mixture modeling was employed to identify unobserved subpopulations (latent classes)…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Peer Relationship, Interaction
Sheridan, Susan M.; Knoche, Lisa L.; Boise, Courtney; Witte, Amanda; Koziol, Natalie; Prokasky, Amanda; Schumacher, Rachel; Kerby, Hannah – Early Education and Development, 2022
Social-behavioral functioning during early childhood is associated with children's academic and social success concurrently and over time. This study explored how concurrent, year-to-year, and sustained parent--teacher and student--teacher relationships predicted children's social skills and problem behaviors across the preschool to Grade 1…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Bayly, Benjamin L.; Bierman, Karen L. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Children's readiness to handle the expectations of elementary school depends heavily on their self-regulation skills. Self-regulation includes both cognitive and behavioral elements; however, past studies have typically looked at cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in isolation or as a composite score rather than examining…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Self Control
Choi, Ji Young; Horm, Diane; Jeon, Shinyoung; Ryu, Dahyung – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study examined whether children's outcomes at age 3 were predicted by their experiences in Early Head Start (EHS), focusing on 2 key features of infant and toddler care: (a) stability of care and (b) teacher--child interactions. This study further explored potential interaction effects between stability of care and…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Malloy, Caitlin – Early Education and Development, 2019
This secondary analysis explored longitudinal associations between the concentration of shared-language peers and the development of prosocial and problem behavior in dual language learning (DLL) preschoolers from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Mixed-effects regression models were used to analyze year-end outcomes of 212 Spanish-speaking students…
Descriptors: Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Spanish Speaking, Prosocial Behavior
Bardack, Sarah; Obradovic´, Jelena – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: Drawing from a diverse community sample of 89 children, ages 4-6, their primary caregivers and teachers, this study examined the interplay of child emotional behavior problems, parent emotion socialization practices, and gender in predicting teacher-child closeness. Teachers reported on perceptions of closeness with children.…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Young Children, Emotional Response
Hernández, Maciel M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Valiente, Carlos; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Berger, Rebecca H.; VanSchyndel, Sarah K.; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Southworth, Jody; Silva, Kassondra M. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Positive emotional expressivity has been associated with increased social competence and decreased maladjustment in childhood. However, a few researchers have found null or even positive associations between positive emotional expressivity and maladjustment, which suggests that there may be nuanced associations of positive expressivity, perhaps as…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Emotional Adjustment, Student Adjustment, Behavior Problems
Iverson, Sydney L.; Gartstein, Maria A. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Temperament, often defined in terms of reactive and regulatory tendencies, has been shown to predict child outcomes over and above other risk factors and represents a critical aspect of social-emotional development. The present article is a systematic review of temperament-based interventions targeting caregivers, wherein the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intervention, Goodness of Fit, Stress Variables
Whittaker, Jessica E. V.; Williford, Amanda P.; Carter, Lauren M.; Vitiello, Virginia E.; Hatfield, Bridget E. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study explored the quality of teacher-child interactions within the context of a newly developed standardized task, Teacher-Child Structured Play Task (TC-SPT). A sample of 146 teachers and 345 children participated. Children who displayed the highest disruptive behaviors within each classroom were selected to participate.…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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