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Yu Zhou; Shuhan Jiang; Yong Jiang – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: The current study explored the average levels, latent profiles, and predictors of preschoolers' cultural cognition, in a sample of 8774 preschoolers' parents in Shanghai, China. Parents with children aged 3-6 years completed measures of "Cultural Cognition Scale for Preschoolers" (CCSP) which was newly developed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Cultural Awareness, Predictor Variables
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Cui, Yiran; Zhang, Danhui; Leung, Frederick K. S. – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study employed data from the TIMSS 2015 survey to investigate whether parental educational involvement behaviour in early childhood and parental attitudes towards education can enhance children's mathematics achievement in the 4th grade via influencing children's learning interests. Samples from Singapore (N=6237) and Hong…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Influence, Parent Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Jun Hao; Yeh Hsueh; Katherine Kitzmann; Haojie Yuan; Yaping Yue – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Parental supervision, parental risk perception, and parental risk attitudes constitute an important parenting environment for the development of young children. To examine the mechanisms of Chinese parenting environment on young children's risk-taking behaviors, this study first established a four-factor model and surveyed 497…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Parent Attitudes
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Julia Fuoco; Nina Howe; Sandra Della Porta; Hildy S. Ross – Early Education and Development, 2024
This study investigated parents' and siblings' knowledge use during naturalistic teaching episodes in the home. Thirty-seven middle-class families were observed for six 90-minute sessions (siblings aged 4 and 6 years). Parent and sibling teaching sequences were coded for knowledge type (conceptual, procedural), conceptual subcategories (social…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parents as Teachers, Foreign Countries, Siblings
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Simone E. Halliday; Franziska M. Dahinden; Tina Hascher – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Prosocial behavior in early childhood can be assessed by various informants and methodologies, but the information each provides may differ in meaningful ways. The present study measured and compared young children's (N = 486; age: M = 48.51 months, SD = 8.22) prosocial behavior based on parent reports, teacher reports, and…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Young Children, Child Behavior, Parent Attitudes
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Zhang, Chenyi; Qiu, Wei; Li, Hongli; Li, Juan; Zhang, Liying; Li, Xueyan; Li, Jia – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to examine the associations among the family pandemic experience, home activities during the stay-at-home quarantine, and level of parental stress. The results showed that, Chinese parents perceived only significantly higher stress related to children's behavioral and emotional…
Descriptors: Parents, Preschool Children, Behavior Problems, Family Environment
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del Río, M. Francisca; Susperreguy, María Inés; Strasser, Katherine; Cvencek, Dario; Iturra, Carolina; Gallardo, Ismael; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Two hundred and sixty-seven Chilean children from grades 1-3, their fathers and their mothers completed measures of implicit and explicit math-related beliefs (math-gender stereotypes, math self-concepts) and feelings (math anxiety), as well as tests of mathematical achievement. Children, fathers, and mothers exhibited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Zhu, Wenting; Hong, Xiumin – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This study investigates the ideal and realistic second-child fertility willingness of Chinese parents and the associated factors. Altogether 4,510 Chinese parents of only-child (ages 3-6 years) were sampled and surveyed online. The descriptive and logistic regression analyses indicated that: (1) about 74.1% of the parents were…
Descriptors: Family Size, Public Policy, Preschool Children, Children
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Sian McDonald; Olga Fotakopoulou – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Children are increasingly using touchscreen technologies at home, which has become a recurring feature within their classroom too. Research has investigated the potential effect of using computer-based tests to assess pupils' performance rather than traditional paper tests. An agreement has still not been formed about the impact…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Mathematics Achievement
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Ekerim Akbulut, Müge; Etel, Evren; Tahiroglu, Deniz; Selçuk, Ayse Bilge – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The Children's Social Understanding Scale (CSUS) assesses young children's theory of mind (ToM). The current study adapted the parent version of the CSUS-short form to Turkish and examined its utility, for the first time, as an assessment tool for teachers. The associations of parent and teacher reports of the CSUS-short form…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Preschool Children
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Liu, Xinxin; Jiang, Yong; Zhou, Yu; Xu, Qian; Lan, Sufen – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This study explored the developmental pattern, latent profiles of young children's sympathy development, and the associated family factors. Altogether 1408 Shanghai parents completed the Children's Sympathy Assessment Scale-Parents (CSAS-P). The descriptive results indicated an age-related increase in sympathy and a significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Congruence (Psychology), Caring, Age Differences
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Bryant, Lindsey M.; Duncan, Robert J.; Schmitt, Sara A. – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: The present study explored connections between participation in structured open-skilled (e.g., soccer, basketball) and closed-skilled sports (e.g., swimming) and executive function (EF) among preschool-aged children. The sample included 197 preschool-aged children (mean age = 4.34 years, female = 48.2%, White = 83.8%). Parents…
Descriptors: Participation, Athletics, Team Sports, Executive Function
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Størksen, Ingunn; Ellingsen, Ingunn T.; Wanless, Shannon B.; McClelland, Megan M. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Self-regulation in young children predicts later social adjustment and academic success across cultural contexts. Therefore, it is crucial to identify factors that promote or inhibit behavioral self-regulation skills. In this study, we focus on gender and socioeconomic status (SES; parental education and income) as possible…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences, Self Control, Young Children
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Mondi, Christina F.; Reynolds, Arthur J. – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Previous research has indicated that low-income children are at increased risk for socio-emotional problems, which may contribute to socioeconomic disparities in wellbeing and academic achievement. The present study examines socio-emotional learning (SEL) across the prekindergarten year in a low-income, racially and ethnically…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Emotional Development, Social Development, Low Income Students
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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
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