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Haruo Fujino; Minori Itai – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
The COVID-19 outbreak affected the daily lives of individuals with Down syndrome, who were considered to have a higher risk of severe infection. While several studies have reported mental health issues in children and/or parents in the general population, no study has focused on people with Down syndrome and their caregivers. This study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Down Syndrome, Hygiene
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Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
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Fuji, Shohei; Sugimura, Shinichiro – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Studies have found a relationship between pretend play and self-regulation both during and outside pretend play; however, very few have investigated these three variables simultaneously. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between the frequency of role-play (a type of pretend play), self-regulatory behaviour during role-play, and…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Metacognition, Imagination, Play
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Ban, Midori; Takahashi, Hideyuki – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study explored child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child's minds. We administered the Mind Perception Questionnaire to 216 women with children aged between 0 and 24 months and 221 working women without children. Participants responded with mind perceptions for various entities, including for their children (a 0--2-year-old…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Infants, Toddlers, Parent Attitudes
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Porter, Noriko; Tanabe, Keiko – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
The Japanese pedagogical strategy of mimamoru (watch and protect) has been identified by cross-culture researchers as an implicit component of early childhood education in Japan. However, little is known about the types of advice given by experts to parents regarding mimamoru. Accordingly, this study examined expert advice related to the mimamoru…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Periodicals, Child Rearing, Infants
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Yusuke Moriguchi; Chifumi Sakata; Xianwei Meng; Naoya Todo – SAGE Open, 2024
A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has spread widely throughout the world. To reduce the spread of infection, children are prevented from going to school and have fewer opportunities for in-person communication. Such changes in the everyday lives of children might influence their socio-emotional behaviors; however, the whole picture of the possible…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Child Behavior, Foreign Countries, Children
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Akinobu Nameda; Yuto Kumaki; Yuko Hashimoto; Yuichi Toda – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
Studies on development and fairness judgments in resource allocations have mainly addressed the distribution of reward. However, the distribution of responsibility also requires exploration in the context of research on development and distributive justice. For an integrated understanding of reward and responsibility distributions, we briefly…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Social Justice, Rewards, Responsibility
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Senzaki, Sawa; Shimizu, Yuki – Child Development, 2022
Social contexts shape the development of attention; however, little is known about joint attention beyond infancy. This study employed behavioral and eye-tracking measurements to investigate cultural variations in how caregivers direct 3- to 4-year-old children's attention and subsequent changes in children's attention to objects and contextual…
Descriptors: Interaction, Child Behavior, Cultural Differences, Eye Movements
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Yamamoto, Noriko; Imai-Matsumura, Kyoko – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Japan's Social Thinking and Academic Readiness Training (START) program Academic Readiness (AR) lesson aims to improve self-regulation, executive function, and behavior problems in kindergarten children, but the effects of the START program AR lessons in unfavorable circumstances are unclear. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Training, Kindergarten
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Nakatsubo, Fuminori; Ueda, Harutomo; Kayama, Misa – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
This study aims to examine pedagogical meanings of the "Mimamoru" approach frequently used by Japanese early childhood educators in children's physical fights. "Mimamoru" is a strategy in which educators intentionally withhold an intervention, while carefully observing children, to foster children's voluntary participation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Role
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Kawaoka, Naomi; Ohashi, Kei; Fukuhara, Satomi; Miyachi, Taishi; Asai, Tomoko; Imaeda, Masayuki; Saitoh, Shinji – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
In March 2020, many schools were closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Japan, and it is predicted that many children, especially those with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), will be affected emotionally and behaviorally. Here, we examined the impact of school closures due to COVID-19 on school-aged children with NDDs using the Child…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, School Closing
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Rademacher, Annika; Koglin, Ute – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
In recent years, preschooler's self-regulation has been extensively researched. This systematic review deals with the overlaps and differences among the many different terminologies and definitions of self-regulation in childhood and the association with preschooler's social-emotional and behavioural development. A systematic literature search in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Self Management, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Fujiwara, Aya; Sonoyama, Shigeki – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience difficulties with social play. They have some limitations in learning play skills and playing with peers. This study examines the effects of intervention, in an inclusive classroom, based on ecological assessment and conditions of social play selection on the engagement in social play of a…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Inclusion, Early Childhood Education
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Mio M. Ueda; Yi Ding; Fran Blumberg; Chun Zhang; Qiong Yu; Katherine Lantier – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2020
This exploratory study sought to compare the parenting variables of parenting stress, perceived social support, and parenting styles among Japanese mothers (n = 42) of children with autism and those (n = 36) without autism, and examine associations between children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors and these variables by using parent…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Stress Variables, Child Behavior
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Akutsu, Taichi – Music Education Research, 2018
This study investigated the flow experience of Jiro, a 2-year-old Japanese boy, regarding his violin playing in a social context. In this study, Jiro's violin playing was videotaped at home and during musical sessions for young children and families, guided by the author as a violinist-teacher-researcher. The method adopted a single case study…
Descriptors: Young Children, Musical Instruments, Video Technology, Music Education
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