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Strickler, Richard W.; And Others – Instructor, 1970
Descriptors: Children, Individual Differences, Males, Sex Differences
Peer reviewedPlomin, Robert; Foch, Terryl T. – Child Development, 1981
Sex differences and their relationship to individual differences were examined for Maccoby and Jacklin's sex differences summaries, for a diverse set of measures of specific cognitive abilities (including verbal ability), and for objective personality assessments of 216 school-age children. Average differences between groups appeared to be trivial…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedRussell, Alan; Saebel, Judith – Developmental Review, 1997
Reviews literature for strongest position with respect to sex differences in parent-child relationships, namely that both parents' sex and child's sex contribute to four distinct dyad relationships. Found many claims and assumptions about the distinctness of relationships but little empirical evidence. When dyadic distinctness was found, it often…
Descriptors: Children, Daughters, Fathers, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedPetrill, Stephen A.; Thompson, Lee Anne – Personality and Individual Differences, 1994
Examined the effects of gender on academic achievement for 138 mono- and 125 dizygotic twin pairs, ranging in age from 6 to 12 years. Results suggested that individual differences in academic achievement may be more influenced by genetic than environmental variance in females, and by environmental than genetic variance in males. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Environmental Influences, Heredity
Brody, Leslie R. – 1983
Three studies explored age, sex, and individual differences in children's defensiveness about four feelings: happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. Also investigated was the relation between children's defensiveness and their mothers' comfort with and expression of feelings. Participants included children ranging in age from 4 through 11 years of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Emotional Response, Individual Differences
KOGAN, NATHAN; WALLACH, MICHAEL A. – 1965
THE EXAMINATION WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE IF A CHILD'S ABILITY TO CREATE (COGNITIVE ORIGINALITY) IS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH HIS GENERAL LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE. ONCE THIS PROVED TO BE THE CASE THE INVESTIGATORS THEN PURSUED THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES THAT DISTINGUISH INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON THE CREATIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
Peer reviewedLevy, Jerre; Levy, Jerome M. – Science, 1978
Provides findings of a study in which it was found that asymmetries in the size of the two feet were strongly related to sex and handedness; right-handed males having larger right feet and right-handed females having larger left feet, the reverse being seen in non-right-handed individuals. Differences were apparent in children even younger than…
Descriptors: Children, Human Body, Individual Differences, Lateral Dominance
Peer reviewedJarman, Ronald F.; Nelson, J. Gordon – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Used two spatial and language tasks to investigate that clockwise directionality in circle drawing indicates neutral integration difficulties. Tasks were administered to 106 children, eight years of age. Data were analyzed for sex differences and circling behavior. None of the hypotheses based on Blau's theory was supported. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries
Download full textLaosa, Luis M.; Brophy, Jere E. – 1971
The authors investigate MacDonald's (1969) hypothesis that a sex by birth order interaction should be observed in measures related to sex typing. Since first borns are more thoroughly socialized, MacDonald reasons, and since parental expectations differ according to the child's sex, then first born boys and girls on sex typed variables.…
Descriptors: Children, Individual Differences, Kindergarten Children, Role Perception
Peer reviewedBoyle, J. David; And Others – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1981
Examined and compared self-reported reasons for pop music preferences of 397 students in grades five, seven, nine, eleven, and college. Results revealed that characteristics such as melody, mood, rhythm, and lyrics were the most important reasons for selection. Differences in response by age and background characteristics were noted. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedSchneider, Barry H.; And Others – Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1994
Introduces this theme issue by synthesizing findings obtained using diverse methodologies derived from different theories about children's friendships. Comments on the trend away from studying global peer acceptance to studying friendship dyads. Discusses the features--individual, age, and gender differences--of children's friendships. (DR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Friendship, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedGronau, Roger C.; Waas, Gregory A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Investigated linkage between delay-of-gratification dimension of impulsivity and social information processing in 80 second-graders and 80 fifth-graders. Found that low-delay ability and younger participants made less use of social cues than did older and high-delay ability participants; however, these findings were qualified by grade and gender…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Cues
Peer reviewedCairns, Robert B.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1989
A six-year study investigated relationships between individual development and: (1) changes in aggressive expression; (2) continuities of aggressive behavior in girls and boys; and (3) convergence between self-concepts and social attributions of others in ontogeny. Participants were 220 fourth grade students who were followed from childhood…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Children, Factor Structure
Peer reviewedMurphy, Bridget C.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1996
Examined angry conflict incidents in a sample of 108 children ages 7 to 11, focusing on relations of anger-related internal and behavioral reactions to children's social functioning. Found that individual differences in children's social functioning were related to boys' anger-related goals and children's anger-related strategies. (MDM)
Descriptors: Anger, Children, Conflict Resolution, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedThomas, Hoben; Lohaus, Arnold – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
In 2 studies, subjects between 7 and 16 years of age indicated predictions for the water level in a tilted container or the position of a plumb line. Found that sex differences were evident at all ages; task performance improved with age according to a discrete stage process; and task performance was determined by field effects and rule strategy.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
