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Peer reviewedBurleson, Brant R. – Communication Monographs, 1984
This study of students (grades 1-12) concluded that the relationship between social-cognitive ability and the communication skill of comforting is contingent on age. (Comforting strategies are those messages having the intended function of alleviating, moderating, or salving the distressed emotional states of others.) (PD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Altruism, Children, Chronological Age
Preschoolers' Actions and Social Representations: A Sociogenetic Approach to Information Processing.
Download full textGravel, F.; Page, P.; Cloutier, G.; Legault, F. – 1999
The central objective of this study was to draw interdependent relationships between preschoolers' social functioning and their modes of social thought. Assessment of 67 four-year-olds was done through systematic observations of social behavior, including social participation, type of play, and affective involvement in the preschool setting, as…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Emotional Response
