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School Readiness of Five-Year-Old Children from Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Areas: Evidence from the Preparing for Life Evaluation
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Pitsia, Vasiliki; Kent, Grainne – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Being school-ready when transitioning to the primary school system has been associated with favourable outcomes during schooling and adult life. While children living in socio-economically disadvantaged areas may be at a higher risk of being less school-ready, research in the area has highlighted that not all children experience such a delay. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Preschool Children, Socioeconomic Status
From External Regulation to Self-Regulation: Early Parenting Precursors of Young Children's Executive Functioning
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Bernier, Annie; Carlson, Stephanie M.; Whipple, Natasha – Child Development, 2010
In keeping with proposals emphasizing the role of early experience in infant brain development, this study investigated the prospective links between quality of parent-infant interactions and subsequent child executive functioning (EF), including working memory, impulse control, and set shifting. Maternal sensitivity, mind-mindedness and autonomy…
Descriptors: Self Control, Child Rearing, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Utilization of a Piagetian Approach in the Investigation of Early Experience Effects: A Research Strategy and Some Illustrative Data
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Wachs, Theodore D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1976
Illustrates the use of a Piagetian-influenced research strategy in overcoming existing methodological problems in human experience research and presents illustrative data on human early experience research which has so far yielded inconsistent data. (GO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Early Mathematical Experiences: Observing Young Black and White Children's Everyday Activities
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Tudge, Jonathan R. H.; Doucet, Fabienne – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004
Children's early mathematical experiences play an enormous role in the development of their understanding of mathematics, and serve as a foundation for their cognitive development. In this descriptive study, we observed the naturally occurring mathematical activities engaged in by thirty-nine 3-year-olds, equally divided by race/ethnicity and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Cognitive Development, African Americans, Whites
Vulnerability to Depression among Adolescents: Implications for Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment
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Reinecke, Mark A.; Simons, Anne – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2005
A range of factors, including early experience, parent-child interaction patterns, biological factors, and life events, have been associated with the development of depression among adolescents. Relations between early experience, attachment insecurity, and later depression may be mediated by failures to develop adaptive social skills, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Experience, Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology)
The Effects of Maternal Employment and Non-Maternal Infant Care on Development at Two and Four Years.
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Scarr, Sandra; Thompson, William W. – Early Development and Parenting, 1994
Assessed effects of maternal employment on infants with mothers working 20 or more hours per week or fewer than 20 hours per week. Found that neither differences in maternal employment during child's first year, nor child's entry into nonmaternal care before age one, predicted differences in cognitive and socioemotional development at ages two and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Day Care, Day Care Effects, Early Experience
Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy: Coordinated Timing in Development.
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Jaffe, Joseph; Beebe, Beatrice; Feldstein, Stanley; Crown, Cynthia L.; Jasnow, Michael D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Studied partner and site novelty for mother-infant, stranger-infant, and mother-stranger face-to-face interactions. Found that adult-infant vocal timing measures at age 4 months did predict attachment and cognition at age 12 months. Comparison of mother-infant and stranger-infant interactions suggested the dynamics of infants' early…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Audiotape Recordings, Child Language