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Direct linkHong, Xiumin; Lu, Yanan; Zhu, Wenting – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study investigated children's feelings about school and their adaptation to primary school after leaving kindergarten. Altogether, 28,334 Chinese children (ages 6-8Â years) were sampled and surveyed online. The descriptive statistic, latent class analysis (LCA) approach, and logistic regression analysis indicated that: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Adjustment, Elementary School Students
Monica S. Lu; Jessica E. Whittaker; Erik Ruzek; Robert C. Pianta; Virginia E. Vitiello – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study examines the unique and joint effects of individual teacher-child relationships and overall quality of teacher-child interactions on the motivation of 2,745 kindergarten children (51% girls; ages 5--6) from an ethnically and linguistically diverse county. Teachers reported the closeness and conflict in their…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, Gender Differences
King, Elizabeth K.; La Paro, Karen M. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Teachers in toddler classrooms are important agents of emotion socialization. The current study examined teachers' use of emotion minimizing language in toddler classrooms and toddlers' social emotional competence. Teachers' emotion minimizing language is described as language that purposefully distances them from a child's emotions and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development, Educational Quality
Wu, YunPeng; Wu, JianFen; Chen, YingMin; Han, Lei; Han, PiGuo; Wang, Peng; Gao, Fengqiang – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The current study examined the moderating effects of gender and teacher-child relationship on the association between shyness and school adjustment (school liking and avoidance, cooperative and independent participation). The sample consisted of 524 preschool students from 3 cities of Shandong province in northern China. Mothers…
Descriptors: Shyness, Student Adjustment, Intervention, Teacher Student Relationship
Hu, Bi Ying; Fan, Xitao; Wu, Yan; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Song, Zhanmei – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: Growing international evidence points to high-quality teacher-child interactions in early learning environments as key contributors to children's learning and development. Little is known, however, about the longitudinal effects of these experiences, particularly in the Chinese context. In this study, we addressed the question…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
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
Brock, Laura L.; Curby, Timothy W. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Teachers' ratings of conflict and closeness as well as observed emotional support are known predictors of children's social functioning. Consistency in emotional support represents an emerging line of research. The goal of the present study is to understand whether the relation between the consistency of teachers' emotional support and children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship
Booren, Leslie M.; Downer, Jason T.; Vitiello, Virginia E. – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: This descriptive study examined classroom activity settings in relation to children's observed behavior during classroom interactions, child gender, and basic teacher behavior within the preschool classroom. A total of 145 children were observed for an average of 80 min during 8 occasions across 2 days using the Individualized…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Conflict, Preschool Children, Scoring
Morris, Carol A. S.; Denham, Susanne A.; Bassett, Hideko H.; Curby, Timothy W. – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: Utilizing a 3-part model of emotion socialization that included modeling, contingent responding, and teaching, this study examined the associations between 44 teachers' self-reported and observed emotion socialization practices and 326 preschoolers' emotion knowledge and observed emotional behavior. Multilevel analyses…
Descriptors: Correlation, Emotional Development, Socialization, Preschool Teachers
Silva, Kassondra M.; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Sulik, Michael J.; Valiente, Carlos; Huerta, Snjezana; Edwards, Alison; Eggum, Natalie D.; Kupfer, Anne S.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Wilson, Shauna B.; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Landry, Susan H.; Swank, Paul R.; Assel, Michael A.; Taylor, Heather B. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of children's effortful control and quality of relationships with teachers to school attitudes longitudinally in an ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged sample. Data were collected as part of a larger intervention project during mid-fall, winter, and late spring…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, School Attitudes, Low Income, Structural Equation Models
Tsigilis, Nikolaos; Gregoriadis, Athanasios – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: The present study was designed to examine the factorial validity of the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale-Short Form (STRS-SF; R. C. Pianta, 2001) and its invariance across gender in the Greek educational context. The STRS-SF comprises 15 items that measure 2 dimensions of teacher-child relationships: Closeness and Conflict.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
Wyrick, Amanda J.; Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: Research on teacher-child relationships is important, as the quality of this relationship is linked to numerous child outcomes in the areas of academic and social functioning. In addition, parent involvement has been identified as a significant factor in the successful development of a child. This study attempted to join these…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Child Health, Student Adjustment, Parent School Relationship
Koepke, Margy Fox; Harkins, Debra A. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: Current research regarding gender differences in educational settings at all socioeconomic levels suggests that young males are at high risk for developing academic, social, and emotional difficulties, resulting in increased disconnection from self and society. This study examined gender differences in the teacher-child…
Descriptors: Conflict, Teacher Student Relationship, Gender Differences, Elementary School Students
Justice, Laura M.; Cottone, Elizabeth A.; Mashburn, Andrew; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: The teacher-child relationship can provide an important support to young children who exhibit developmental risk. This research studied the contribution of children's language skills, temperamentally based attributes (shyness, anger), and gender to closeness and conflict in the teacher-child relationship for 133 preschoolers…
Descriptors: Shyness, Comprehension, Conflict, Preschool Children
