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Kochanska, Grazyna; Tjebkes, Terri L.; Forman, David R. – Child Development, 1998
Assessed, at 8-10 months, children's restraint and attention, and at 13-15 months, compliance to mother, internalization of her prohibition, and quality of motivation of the mother-child teaching context. Found support for view of compliance and noncompliance as heterogenous: committed compliance was higher to maternal "don'ts" than…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Child Development, Compliance (Psychology)
Saarni, Carolyn – 1997
Emotion scripts provide children with culturally meaningful emotional experiences and plans of action for managing feelings and the circumstances surrounding emotional experiences. In an effort to understand how developing children acquire these emotion scripts, two studies described here investigated how children deploy emotion scripts to manage…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes
Masters, John C.; Binger, Craig G. – 1976
This study was designed to gather data on the developmental progression of children's inhibitive capabilities in a naturalistic setting and to determine the stability of observed capabilities within a developmental period. One hundred and twenty-two 2-, 3- and 4-year-old children were given an opportunity to select an attractive toy and play with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior, Child Development, Delay of Gratification
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Murray, Kathleen T.; Harlan, Elena T. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined young children's social development of effortful control in a longitudinal study. Found that between 22 and 33 months, effortful control improved considerably, its coherence increased, it was stable, and it was higher for girls. Found that children's focused attention at 9 months, mothers' responsiveness at 22 months, and mothers'…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Child Development, Emotional Development