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The Effects of Mobile Phone Use on Students' Emotional-Behavioural Functioning, and Academic and Social Competencies
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Eskandari, Hossein; Vahdani Asadi, Mohammad Reza; Khodabandelou, Rouhollah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
This correlational study investigates the relationship between mobile phone use among elementary school students in Iran during the COVID-19 epidemic, and its effect on emotional-behavioural functioning and academic and social competencies. A researcher-devised questionnaire, and the Achenbach Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)-parental version, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Handheld Devices, Psychological Patterns
Counterfactual Thinking and Educational Psychology
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Hill, Joanna – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2017
Counterfactual thinking refers to imaginative thoughts about what might have been ("if only" or "what if") which are intrinsically linked to self-conscious emotions (regret and guilt) and social judgements (blame). Research in adults suggests that the focus of these thoughts is influenced by order (temporal and causal). Little…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Imagination, Educational Psychology
Children with Epilepsy: The Role of the Educational Psychologist
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Reilly, Colin; Fenton, Virginia – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2013
Childhood epilepsy is the most common paediatric neurological disorder. It is a condition with a well-documented association with cognitive, behavioural and emotional difficulties. Children with epilepsy are at increased risk of global and specific cognitive impairments. They are also at increased risk for symptoms associated with attention…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Neurological Impairments, Seizures, School Psychologists
Mathematical Development: The Role of Broad Cognitive Processes
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Calderón-Tena, Carlos O. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2016
This study investigated the role of broad cognitive processes in the development of mathematics skills among children and adolescents. Four hundred and forty-seven students (age mean [M] = 10.23 years, 73% boys and 27% girls) from an elementary school district in the US southwest participated. Structural equation modelling tests indicated that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
The Role of Inhibitory Functioning in Children's Reading Skills
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Booth, Josephine N.; Boyle, James M. E. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2009
Executive functions, including inhibition, have been implicated in children's reading ability. This study investigates whether children's performance on an inhibition task is more indicative of reading ability than a measure of another executive function, that is, planning. Fifty-three male participants were administered a reading test and tests…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Reading Tests, Inhibition, Reading Skills
Deaf Children's Understanding of Other People's Thought Processes
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Edmondson, Peter – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2006
This study focuses on the ability of deaf children to predict the behaviours of other people, based on an understanding of their beliefs. An unexpected transfer task and a deceptive box task were used with a group of 55 severely/profoundly deaf children. Results reiterate the findings of other studies that many deaf children are grossly delayed in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Deafness