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Direct linkThibodeau-Nielsen, Rachel B.; Gilpin, Ansley T. – Infant and Child Development, 2020
Executive functions (EF) have been identified as important predictors of children's proximal and distal development. Recent research highlights pretend play as a potential mechanism for EF development, and there has been a call to identify for whom pretense in most beneficial. The current study investigated whether an association found between…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Self Control, Executive Function, Play
Van Reet, Jennifer – Infant and Child Development, 2020
There has long been a hypothesized link between pretend play and self-regulation in childhood, and several recent studies have confirmed a positive relation between the two in children as young as preschool-age. However, no research to date has investigated whether this relation is present in toddlerhood. The purpose of the present study is to…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Play, Self Control
Slot, Pauline Louise; Mulder, Hanna; Verhagen, Josje; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Infant and Child Development, 2017
The preschool period is marked by rapid growth of children's self-regulation and related executive functions. Self-regulation is considered an important aspect of school readiness and is related to academic and social--emotional outcomes in childhood. Pretend play, as part of the early childhood curriculum, is hypothesized to support…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Self Control, Cognitive Development, Executive Function
Utendale, William T.; Hastings, Paul D. – Infant and Child Development, 2011
Deficits in executive function, and in particular, reduced capacity to inhibit a dominant action, are a risk factor for externalizing problems (EP). Inhibitory control (IC) develops in the later preschool and early childhood periods, such that IC might not regulate EP in toddlers and younger preschoolers. Aggression was observed during peer play…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Preschool Children, Risk
Gaertner, Bridget M.; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Infant and Child Development, 2008
This longitudinal study examined individual differences and correlates of focused attention when toddlers were approximately 18 months old (T1; n = 256) and a year later (T2; n = 230). Toddlers' attention and negative emotionality were reported by mothers and non-parental caregivers and rated globally by observers. Toddlers' focused attention also…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Measurement
Gerrits, Marleen H.; Goudena, Paul P.; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Infant and Child Development, 2005
According to Russell et al. ("Developmental Rev" 1998; 18: 313) child-parent interaction could contain horizontal qualities, similar to child-peer interactions. To study this, child-parent and child-peer play interactions were compared on several observed horizontal and vertical characteristics in 55 7-year-old children interacting with their…
Descriptors: Play, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction Process Analysis, Peer Relationship
