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Dealing with Feelings: Foundations and Consequences of Young Children's Emotional Competence.
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Denham, Susanne A. – Early Education and Development, 2001
Summarizes this special issue on how children develop emotional and social strengths, as well as difficulties. Highlights three areas of focus among the seven articles: (1) the relation of emotional competence to social competence; (2) the socialization of emotional competence; and (3) attachment as the foundation. (SD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Competence, Developmental Psychology
Emotional Competence, Emotion Socialization, and Young Children's Peer-Related Social Competence.
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Garner, Pamela W.; Estep, Kimberly M. – Early Education and Development, 2001
Investigated linkages between aspects of emotional competence and preschoolers' social skills with peers, as well as parental emotion socialization practices as predictors of social skill. Found that emotional competence variables were meaningfully related to the peer variables and that, for non-constructive anger reactions, maternal reports of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
Emotion Regulation, Parenting and Display of Social Reticence in Preschoolers.
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Rubin, Kenneth H.; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Fox, Nathan – Early Education and Development, 2001
Examined social reticence and its association with the quality of parenting behaviors. Found that children's shy, socially reticent behavior was predicted by the extent to which mothers were over-solicitous during free-play. Suggested that early childhood educators offer reticent-shy children opportunities to explore their personal and social…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
Social and Emotional Competencies: Contributions to Young African-American Children's Peer Acceptance.
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Smith, Maureen – Early Education and Development, 2001
Explored the relation between measures of emotional competence, behavioral regulation, and general social competence and African American preschoolers' peer acceptance and popularity. Found that gender, emotional knowledge, emotion regulation, and themes of violence in response to hypothetical situations of interpersonal conflict were strongly…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Adjustment
Mothers' Beliefs about Feelings and Children's Emotional Understanding.
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Dunsmore, Julie C.; Karn, Michelle A. – Early Education and Development, 2001
Described results of the alteration of Hyson and Lee's Caregiver's Beliefs about Feelings questionnaire for use with parents in order to assess emotional understanding of children. Found mothers' developmental beliefs scores were positively related to mothers' negative emotional expressiveness, and mothers' emotion language scores were positively…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
The Socialization of Compassionate Behavior by Child Care Teachers.
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Kienbaum, Jutta – Early Education and Development, 2001
Examined how child care teachers' socialization practices and child characteristics jointly predicted children's sympathetic-prosocial responding. Found that child characteristics and socialization practices played an important role in children's interpersonal functioning, and the ability of the teacher to interact in a warm, affectionate way was…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Competence, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education