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Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016
In this paper, we examine the impact of U.S. child-care subsidies on the cognitive and behavioral development of children in low-income female-headed families. We identify the effect of subsidy receipt by exploiting geographic variation in the distance that families must travel from home to reach the nearest social service agency that administers…
Descriptors: Child Care, Grants, Child Development, Cognitive Development
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Schonberg, Michael A.; Shaw, Daniel S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
The joint trajectory analysis version of Nagin's ("Group-based modeling of development." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) semiparametric, group-based approach for modeling trajectories was used to assess how boy's trajectories of conduct problems (CP) and neighborhood SES covaried from ages 5 to 12. Participants were…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Risk, Neighborhoods, Males
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Boyce, W. Thomas; Essex, Marilyn J.; Alkon, Abbey; Smider, Nancy A.; Pickrell, Tyler; Kagan, Jerome – Child Development, 2002
Examined associations between tympanic membrane (TM) temperature asymmetries and biobehavioral attributes of 4- to 8- year-old children. Found shared patterns of associations that linked TM temperature lateralities to individual differences in behavior and socioaffective difficulties. Found that warmer left TMs were associated with affectively…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
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DiLalla, Lisabeth Fisher – Developmental Review, 2002
Argues that a thorough understanding of factors that influence aggression in children cannot be achieved without including behavior genetic studies that allow examination of the effects of shared versus non-shared environment, as well as genes, on aggressive behaviors. Details the growing body of evidence on the genetic effects on aggression.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
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Ray, Kimberly P.; Watson, T. Steuart – School Psychology Quarterly, 2001
Assessed the relationship between temporally distant antecedent events (TDEs) and the frequency and function of aggressive and out-of-seat behaviors occurring in school. Results were consistent with previous literature that describes certain antecedent events as establishing operations. Discussion includes how these events interact to alter the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
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Fox, Lise – Young Children, 2003
Presents a bibliography of 59 books, journal articles, and web sites for further reading on preventing and responding to children's challenging behaviors. (SD)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Development
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Clarke, Ann M.; Clarke, Alan D. B. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Offers selective reviews on adult outcomes of severe mental retardation, autism, conduct disorders, mild retardation and adjustment disorders of childhood. Discusses important prospective study of mild retardation. Stresses that adjustment disorders of childhood only rarely continue into adult life; but incidence of these disorders is on the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Autism, Behavior Development
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Carlson, Marcia J.; Corcoran, Mary E. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth was used to examine the effect of various family structures on behavioral and cognitive outcomes for children aged 7 to 10. Results indicate family income, mother's psychological functioning, and quality of home environment are important for behavior, whereas family income and mother's aptitude…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Children
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Lemery, Kathryn S.; Essex, Marilyn J.; Smider, Nancy A. – Child Development, 2002
This study examined whether item overlap, or measurement confounding, accounts for the correlation between temperament and behavior problem symptoms in children. Experts rated items on Children's Behavior Questionnaire and Preschool Behavior Questionnaire for their fit to both constructs, and then these items were factor analyzed with longitudinal…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Children, Error of Measurement
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Wang, Li; Chen, Xinyin; Chen, Huichang; Cui, Liying; Li, Miao – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
Emotional control has traditionally been emphasized in Chinese culture. The primary purpose of the study was to examine the relevance of early affect to social functioning in Chinese children. A sample of children, initially at two years of age, and their mothers in the People's Republic of China participated in this two-year longitudinal study.…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Mothers, Asian Culture, Child Rearing
Ferinden, William E., Jr. – 1970
The primary aim of this book is to bring to the grade school teacher a survey of the most recent techniques and ideas of behavior modification which are applicable to good classroom management. All of the approaches and techniques presented could be of interest to teachers working at all grade levels. Since research has shown that the systematic…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
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Marston, John R. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2001
Rather than being nurtured into healthy beings, the children who experience rejection and blame can become discouraged and angry. They respond with escalating, acting-out behavior to the perceived hostile environment. Success with these children requires adults who can live with them in their world without becoming entangled in counteraggression.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems
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Yahav, Rivka – American Journal of Family Therapy, 2002
Investigated families of children with internalized versus externalized symptoms according to linear and curvilinear conceptions of circumplex model. It was hypothesized that externalized symptoms would result in family being classified as chaotic and disengaged, whereas internalized symptoms would result in being classified as rigid and enmeshed.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Mrazek, David; And Others – 1993
The product of a close collaboration between mental health and child development professionals, this book provides essential information about the many types of behaviors--both normal and atypical--that children can show, with a sensitivity to the complex issues that child behavior problems can sometimes create for mothers and fathers. Following…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Child Development
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Herrenkohl, Ellen C.; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
This study assessed physically abused/neglected and nonabused/nonneglected children (n=206) at preschool and elementary school age to identify variables significantly affecting children's behavioral functioning. Behavioral functioning was most strongly differentiated by the sociocultural and family climate in which the child was raised, with…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse
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