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Vallotton, Claire D.; Ayoub, Catherine C. – Social Development, 2010
Social skills and symbol skills are positively associated in middle childhood, but the relation between these domains is less clear in newly verbal toddlers. Vygotsky proposed that symbols are both tools for interaction and mental tools for thought. Do symbols help even very young children build skills for interacting with and conceptualizing the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Mothers, Social Development, Social Cognition
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Laible, Deborah; Carlo, Gustavo; Torquati, Julia; Ontai, Lenna – Social Development, 2004
This study was designed to examine the links between parenting, children's perceptions of family relationships, and children's social behavior. Seventy-four children (M age = 6.01 years; 39 boys; 35 girls) and their parents took part in the study. Children completed relationship-oriented doll stories that were coded for coherence, prosocial…
Descriptors: Relationship, Child Rearing, Childhood Attitudes, Family Relationship