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Zhu, Jingjing; Xiao, Bowen; Li, Yan; Xie, Mengyu; Zhang, Lingli – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The goal of the present study was to examine the moderating role of child effortful control (EC) in the relation between shyness and social-emotional adjustment difficulties among young Chinese children. Participants included 195 children (117 boys, 78 girls, Mage = 4.28 years, SD = 0.31) enrolled in 6 classes attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Urban Youth
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Zhu, Jingjing; Li, Yan; Wood, Katherine R.; Coplan, Robert J.; Chen, Xinyin – Early Education and Development, 2019
The goal of this study was to explore links among shyness, receptive vocabulary, and indices of socioemotional functioning in a sample of young children in mainland urban China. In particular, we sought to examine the potential moderating role of receptive language in these relations. Participants were N = 360 young children (200 boys, 160 girls,…
Descriptors: Shyness, Foreign Countries, Young Children, Receptive Language
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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
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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