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Siyan Liu; Bin Tang; Jiayi Shi; Ai Yue; Ling Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study investigated the sequential mediating effects of parental material investment (MI) and time investment (TI) upon the correlation between family socioeconomic status (SES) and toddlers' development (TD). Data derived from a 2016 data set, including a sample of 1,316 toddlers based in 117 villages across 22 counties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Socioeconomic Status, Time
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Can He; Jie Xiong; Hua Wei – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study explored the relationship between family-work conflict and autonomy support among Chinese kindergarten teachers. Autonomous motivation and ego depletion were considered as the mediator and moderator, respectively. A total of 859 kindergarten teachers were recruited and surveyed online. The results showed that (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Family Work Relationship, Correlation
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Aruna Wu; Yue Tian; Shuo Chen; Liying Cui – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Playfulness is an important personality tendency with an important role in the well-being, mental health, and various other aspects of an individual's life. Previous studies have shown that the development of children's playfulness is related to parents' playfulness. However, limited research has been conducted on…
Descriptors: Parents, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Simon M. Hay; Harriet J. Vermeer; Ruben G. Fukkink; Harold T. Nefs – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: A growing number of stakeholders in early childhood education (ECE) rely on self-assessment to assess and improve the quality of ECE. In this systematic review, we investigated the reliability and validity of self-assessment in ECE, summarizing findings from 27 publications. We meta-analytically synthesized findings from 25…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Journal Articles
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Erica Kamphorst; Marja Cantell; Alexander Minnaert; Suzanne Houwen; Ralf Cox – Early Education and Development, 2024
A complex dynamic systems perspective was applied to explore how mother and child mutually shape interpersonal coordination. Applying a microanalytic design, this study examined the moment-to-moment interaction behavior of 39 Dutch mothers and their three- and four-year-old children (53.8% girls, predominantly White) during a collaboration task.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship
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Qianwen Liu; Zhenhong Wang – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: The present study investigated the potential mediating role of maternal parenting in the intergenerational effects of maternal childhood traumatic experiences (CTEs) on prosocial behaviors of their offspring and examined whether the offspring's sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) moderates this association using a 1-year…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Trauma, Prosocial Behavior
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Zheng, Pengjuan; Sun, Jin – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This study investigated the relationship between the use of digital devices (DD) by preschool children in Hong Kong and their early development. The moderating role of family socioeconomic status (SES) was also examined. A total of 877 Chinese Hong Kong children aged 3-5 years old from 18 kindergartens and their parents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Psychomotor Skills, Handheld Devices
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Cadima, Joana; Barros, Sílvia; Bryant, Donna M.; Peixoto, Carla; Coelho, Vera; Pessanha, Manuela – Early Education and Development, 2023
This study examined the extent to which the quality of teacher-infant interactions varies across play and routine care activities. In addition, the effects of the quantity of adult involvement in the quality of teacher-infant interactions were investigated. Participants were teachers and infants from 90 infant classrooms in Portugal. Classrooms…
Descriptors: Interaction, Infants, Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Yi Yang; Nirmala Rao; Jin Sun – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study examined the associations between early childhood education (ECE) teachers' pre-service education (PE), professional development (PD) experiences, ECE quality, and child development. The participants included 52 teachers and 706 children from 52 preschool classes in Shanghai and Guizhou. Teacher educational level was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Kim, Yeon Ha – Early Education and Development, 2023
This study aims to identify early childhood sociability trajectories and examine their longitudinal associations with behavior problems. Using a population-based data set presented by the Panel Study on Korean Children, sociability trajectories from age 2 to age 4 were identified by latent class growth analysis. Associations between sociability…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Social Behavior
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Beatriz Lucas-Molina; Marta Giménez-Dasí; Laura Quintanilla; Renata Sarmento-Henrique – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": Empathy is a relevant component of social interactions that can be observed from early childhood. Validated tests for young children are still scarce. This study has two goals: (1) to validate the modified two-factor version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) in Spanish children between the ages of 3 and 8;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence
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Hongbiao Yin; Alan Chi Keung Cheung; Winnie Wing Yi Tam; Elaine Lau – Early Education and Development, 2024
While play-based learning is important for a high quality early education, only when teachers are confident and competent in enacting play-based learning in their everyday practice are expected benefits of play-based learning for whole-child development realized. A sample of 592 early childhood educators who assumed different job titles in Hong…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Preschool Teachers
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Kenji Kitamura – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Despite the prevalence of integrating early childhood education (ECE) into formal schooling, there is limited evidence on how school-based ECE affects children compared to other types of ECE, particularly in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Therefore, this study examined school-based ECE programs compared…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Urban Areas, Private Schools
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Thapa, Sapna; Nganga, Lydiah; Madrid Akpovo, Samara – Early Education and Development, 2022
This exploratory, cross-national research study investigated how ten female early childhood educators, five in Nepal and five in Kenya, understood and defined young children's socio-emotional development (SED). Research Findings: Revealed that teachers' understandings of SED were influenced by several factors such as ethno-culture, language, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Child Development
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Fung, Wing Kai; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Early Education and Development, 2023
This study investigated the direct relationship between home play opportunity and prospective school readiness, and the indirect relationships as mediated through object and social mastery motivation among Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children. Participants were 106 local children (44.4% girls, mean age = 60.0 months) and their parents and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mastery Learning, School Readiness, Play
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