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Direct linkShuyi Zhai; Ying Liang; Chenxin Lu; Jie He – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Parenting style plays an important role in children's externalizing behaviors. Differences in physiological regulation among children may lead to variations in whether or to what extent parenting style influences them. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of parenting styles on young children's development of externalizing behaviors…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Physiology
Maha Al-Hendawi; Fatima Al-Maadadi; Hanadi Al-Khater; Ali Alodat; Osamah Bataineh – Discover Education, 2024
Direct observation of classroom behavior in young children enriches our understanding of their behavior in its natural context, informing both assessment and intervention strategies to foster supportive learning environments. However, a notable gap in the literature concerning effective direct observation tools specifically designed for this…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Young Children, Behavior Problems
Megan Bird – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Psychosocial competencies; such as prosocial behaviors, compliance with authority, attention regulation, independence, and emotional regulation; play a crucial role in child development. Higher levels of these competencies in childhood are linked to fewer behavior problems, while deficits in these competencies can predict future problem behaviors.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Spanish, Translation, Psychometrics
Hina Sheel; Lidia Suárez; Nigel V. Marsh – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief instrument developed primarily for screening children and adolescents for social-emotional learning. The SDQ contains four factors related to socio-emotional difficulties and one factor related to prosocial behaviour. However, studies of its factor structure have produced mixed results.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Behavior, Questionnaires, Behavior Problems
Calpanaa Jegatheeswaran; Samantha Burns; Christine Barron; Michal Perlman – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on children and families worldwide. Children's mental health has been at the forefront of pandemic research, with several observational studies documenting its decline. Limited person-centred research exists, however, investigating the diverse mental health responses of vulnerable…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Children, Mothers
Katherine A. Hails; Anna Cecilia McWhirter; S. Andrew Garbacz; David DeGarmo; Allison S. Caruthers; Elizabeth A. Stormshak; Laura Lee McIntyre – Grantee Submission, 2024
Prior research points to the promotion of parenting self-efficacy (PSE) as an important component of parenting interventions; however, few studies have tested PSE as a mediator or moderator of the effects of parenting programs on child behavior. In the current study, we examined the efficacy of the Family Check-Up (FCU), a brief, strengths-based…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Self Efficacy, Parent Education, Program Effectiveness
Zijian Li; Boya Li; Yung-Ting Tsou; Carolien Rieffe – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Empathy plays an important role in children's early social-emotional development. However, there are not many instruments available for measuring the different aspects/levels of empathy in preschool children. Moreover, few studies examined the validity of the existing measures for empathy in Chinese children. The present study…
Descriptors: Empathy, Questionnaires, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Zhonglian Yan; Wenqi Lin; Jing Ren; Qinglin Ma; Yanling Qin – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To explore the relationships among parenting styles, children's electronic media usage (EMU) and children's problem behaviours (CPB), 1,224 preschoolers aged 3-6 years old (52.0% boys; 30.9% aged 3 years old, 34.6% aged 4 years old, 26.1% aged 5 years old, and 8.4% aged 6 years old) and their parents were enrolled in the present study by means of…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children, Correlation
Bianca Ulitzka; Monika Daseking; Julia Kerner auch Koerner – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Delay of gratification tasks have an impressive predictive value for various outcomes and are designed to measure self-regulation. Since many behavioural and psychological conditions in children are related to limitations in self-regulation, the extent to which delay tasks can be used as a screening for the detection of psychopathology is…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Child Behavior, Self Control, Young Children
Vatou, Anastasia – Child Care in Practice, 2023
This exploratory study examines parents' views of their parenting self-efficacy and children's behaviour during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece. One hundred and fifty-nine parents whose children were 3-5 years old completed an online survey. The Short-Form of the Self-Efficacy for Parenting Tasks Index-Toddler Scale (SEPTI-TS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Parent Attitudes
Claudio Longobardi; Laura Elvira Prino; Michele Settanni; Matteo Angelo Fabris – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Attendance at preschool represents an important transition, as it is often here that children have their first experience with unfamiliar adults. In this context, several factors can affect children's adjustment. Two important protective factors are the attachment relationship with the teacher and the level of executive functions. We investigate…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Executive Function, Behavior Problems
Chloe Turcan; Henry Delamain; Asher Loke; Richard Pender; Will Mandy; Rob Saunders – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Mental health conditions are more prevalent in autistic people than non-autistic people. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire is a commonly used screening tool for emotional and behavioural difficulties in autistic children and adolescents. However, few studies have assessed the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents, Preadolescents
Samantha Burns; Olesya Falenchuk; Evelyn McMullen; Michal Perlman – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Instability in early childhood education and care (ECEC) arrangements may have detrimental consequences on children's mental health. This study examined ECEC trajectories in the first 30 months of life for 373 children from low-income families in Toronto. We provide information about patterns of instability and reasons for instability. We also…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Mental Health, Reliability
Ghanbari, Saeed; Vahidi, Elahe; Behzadpoor, Samaneh; Goudarzi, Zahra; Ghabezi, Fateme – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is considered to be a key factor in the development of emotion regulation in children, which in turn plays an important role in their psychosocial functioning. This study aimed to explore the mediating role of children's emotion regulation in the relationship between parental reflective functioning and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mothers, Emotional Response, Self Control
Teresa Del Bianco; Georgia Lockwood Estrin; Julian Tillmann; Bethany F. Oakley; Daisy Crawley; Antonia San José Cáceres; Hannah Hayward; Mandy Potter; Wendy Mackay; Petrusa Smit; Carlie du Plessis; Lucy Brink; Priscilla Springer; Hein Odendaal; Tony Charman; Tobias Banaschewski; Simon Baron-Cohen; Sven Bölte; Mark Johnson; Declan Murphy; Jan Buitelaar; Eva Loth; Emily J. H. Jones – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic individuals experience higher rates of externalising and internalising symptoms that may vary with environmental factors. However, there is limited research on variation across settings that may highlight common factors with globally generalisable effects. Data were taken from two cohorts: a multinational European sample (n = 764; 453…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Socioeconomic Influences, Mental Health
