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McKay, Courtney; Wijeakumar, Sobanawartiny; Rafetseder, Eva; Shing, Yee Lee – Developmental Science, 2022
Children show marked improvements in executive functioning (EF) between 4 and 7 years of age. In many societies, this time period coincides with the start of formal school education, in which children are required to follow rules in a structured environment, drawing heavily on EF processes such as inhibitory control. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Self Control, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Terri J. Sabol; Elise Chor; Teresa Eckrich Sommer; Lauren A. Tighe; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Amanda Sheffield Morris; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Christopher King – Child Development, 2024
This study explores the effects of the two-generation program Career"Advance"--which combines education and training for parents in healthcare with Head Start for children--on children's academic, language, mathematics, and inhibitory control followed for 3 years. The sample (collected in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2011 to 2018) includes 147…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Early Childhood Education
Santiago, Ken – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Accelerating the Boys and Girls Clubs to continued learning and growing in their practices is one key to transforming the young boys and girls which they serve. The purpose of this study was to examine the affects that the Boys and Girls Clubs have had on the membership and to utilize the information learned to endorse the Clubs work going…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence, Self Control
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Sheila Lopez; Nicole R. Giuliani; Anna Cecilia McWhirter – Grantee Submission, 2024
Self-regulation in early childhood, including the ability to regulate one's own thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, are associated with a range of outcomes including academic performance, and social development. Research has extensively examined the effects of mother's parental involvement and parenting experiences, such as parenting stress and…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Self Control
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Howard, Steven J.; Vasseleu, E.; Neilsen-Hewett, C.; de Rosnay, M.; Williams, K. E. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Over the past few decades early self-regulation has been identified as foundational to positive learning and wellbeing trajectories. As a consequence, a wide range of approaches have been developed to capture children's developmental progress in self-regulation. Little is known, however, about whether and which of these are reliable…
Descriptors: Prediction, School Readiness, Self Control, Preschool Children
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Zhang, Tianxue; Huang, Heng – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2022
Based on data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), this study conducted an empirical analysis of the effect of parent educational expectations on the competence development of rural left-behind children and the underlying mediating mechanism. The research findings reveal that rural left-behind children have far less developed competencies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expectation, Parent Attitudes, Competence
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Song, Wei; Qian, Xueqin – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: There is limited evidence addressing the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adolescent sexual risk behaviors and pregnancy. In this study, we examined whether individual and cumulative ACEs increased the risk of unhealthy sexual behaviors and adolescent pregnancy. To inform intervention efforts, potential mediating…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Health Behavior
Cummings, Malia; Lawson, Shari; Scaggs, Delora – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In recent years, schools have begun Social Emotional Learning (SEL) instruction. In 1994, the term Social Emotional Learning was coined by CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning; originally named the Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning). SEL instruction is critical in schools because communities and…
Descriptors: Principals, Social Emotional Learning, Faculty Development, Instructional Leadership
Tua Karing, Jasmine; Tracy, Alexis; Gonzales, Christopher R.; Nancarrow, Alexandra F.; Tomayko, Emily J.; Tominey, Shauna; Escobar, Hannah; McClelland, Megan M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Objectives: The importance of breastfeeding exposure and children's development of self-regulation, independently, are well established. Each of these domains also has been linked to better cognitive development and academic achievement in children. However, little is known about how breastfeeding affects development of early self-regulation…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Child Development, Correlation
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Sun, Jin; Kang, Rong – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study examined early development of cool and hot self-regulation and how they were related to Chinese preschoolers' early achievement. A total of 951 children (448 girls) aged three to five in Hong Kong participated in this study. Children's self-regulation was assessed with a battery of five tasks tapping either cool or hot self-regulation;…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Control, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Clark McKown; Nicole Russo-Ponsaran; Ashley Karls – Grantee Submission, 2022
This paper presents evidence of the score reliability, factor structure, criterion-related validity, and measurement equivalence of a web-based assessment of several important social and emotional competencies for children in fourth through sixth grades. The assessment, SELweb LE (Late Elementary), is designed to measure children's understanding…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development, Elementary School Students
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Alzahrani, Mona; Alharbi, Manal; Alodwani, Amani – International Education Studies, 2019
In this paper, we explore the importance of the social-emotional competence on children's growth. To develop children social-emotional competence, an interaction between adults and children is critically needed. Teachers have the responsibility to enhance children's development in many aspects, including social, emotional, cognitive, academic, and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Child Development, Teacher Role
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Liew, Jeffrey; Cameron, Claire E.; Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Primary education is compulsory around the world. This means that around age 5 or 6, millions of children worldwide transition from home or preschool/kindergarten settings into primary school, with the success of this transition shaping school and life trajectories for years to come. Both developmental and environmental factors during early…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Executive Function
Huse, Christina Scrivner – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In a world where children are likely to experience early-life trauma, relationships matter, and trust is a key in forming healthy working relationships. Intentionally teaching adults and teachers how to evoke calmness in ourselves and breathe to handle negative situations, trusted educators can then teach children to do the same. It is important…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Kindergarten, Young Children, Resilience (Psychology)
Hierl, Kiley – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Over the past several decades, there has been a dramatic increase in research surrounding factors that influence children's school readiness, or preparedness that allows children to learn in a formal educational setting. It includes possessing early academic as well as cognitive and socio-emotional skills (e.g., self-regulation, emotion knowledge)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Metacognition, At Risk Students, School Readiness
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