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The Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale in Children Aged 10 and 12 from 30 Countries: Analysis from Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
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Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera; Xavier Oriol-Granado; Mònica González; Jose A. Rodas – Infant and Child Development, 2025
This study evaluates the Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale (CW-PSWBS) within a diverse international cohort of children aged 10 and 12, utilising Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) methodologies. Through a detailed psychometric analysis, this research assesses the CW-PSWBS's structural integrity, focusing on…
Descriptors: Well Being, Rating Scales, Children, Item Response Theory
Who Knows Best? Preschoolers Sometimes Prefer Child Informants over Adult Informants
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VanderBorght, Mieke; Jaswal, Vikram K. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
Do preschoolers think adults know more about everything than children? Or do they recognize that there are some things that children might know more about than adults? Three-, four-, and five-year olds (N = 65) were asked to decide whether an adult or child informant would better be able to answer a variety of questions about the nutritional value…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Toys, Child Behavior, Help Seeking
Precursors of Language Ability and Academic Performance: An Intergenerational, Longitudinal Study of At-Risk Children
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Campisi, Lisa; Serbin, Lisa A.; Stack, Dale M.; Schwartzman, Alex E.; Ledingham, Jane E. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The current investigation examined whether inter-generational transfer of risk could be revealed through mothers' and preschool-aged children's expressive language, and whether continuity of risk persisted in these children's academic abilities, 3 years later. Participating families were drawn from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Language, Expressive Language, Language Aptitude
Social Experiences in Infancy and Early Childhood Co-Sleeping
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Hayes, Marie J.; Fukumizu, Michio; Troese, Marcia; Sallinen, Bethany A.; Gilles, Allyson A. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Infancy and early childhood sleep-wake behaviours from current and retrospective parental reports were used to explore the relationship between sleeping arrangements and parent-child nighttime interactions at both time points. Children (N = 45) from educated, middle-class families, mostly breastfed in infancy, composed a convenience sample that…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infants, Parents, Parent Child Relationship
Young Children's Psychological Explanations and Their Relationship to Perception- and Intention-Understanding
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Colonnesi, Cristina; Koops, Willem; Meerum Terwogt, Mark – Infant and Child Development, 2008
The present study examined two key aspects of young children's ability to explain human behaviour in a mentalistic way. First, we explored desires that are of a level of difficulty comparable with that of false beliefs. For this purpose, the so-called "alternative desires" were created. Second, we examined how children's psychological…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Intention, Young Children, Child Psychology
The Development of Mentalistic Gaze Understanding
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Doherty, Martin J. – Infant and Child Development, 2006
Very young infants are sensitive to and follow other people's gaze. By 18 months children, like chimpanzees, apparently represent the spatial relationship between viewer and object viewed: they can follow eye-direction alone, and react appropriately if the other's gaze is blocked by occluding barriers. This paper assesses when children represent…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Infants