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Preschoolers' and First Graders' Reasons for Liking or Avoiding School
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Sahin-Sak, Ikbal Tuba – Education 3-13, 2019
This qualitative study examined 287 Turkish children's school experiences and sought to connect such experiences to their overall feelings about school. A semi-structured interview protocol derived from Ladd, Kochenderfer, and Coleman's [1996. "Friendship Quality as a Predictor of Children's Early School Adjustment." "Child…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Attitudes, Grade 1, Foreign Countries
Young Chinese Children's Anger and Distress: Emotion Category and Intensity Identified by the Time Course of Behaviors
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He, Jie; Qiu, Peihua; Park, Ka Young; Xu, Qinmei; Potegal, Michael – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
A hierarchical cluster analysis of the time course of the videotaped reactions of 75 Chinese 2-4-year olds to mothers' toy-removal identified Distress, Low Anger, and High Anger behavior clusters. Anger often begins at low intensity; some children then escalate. The face-validity of Low and High Anger-cluster classifications was supported in that…
Descriptors: Young Children, Multivariate Analysis, Toys, Emotional Disturbances
Behaviour, Physiology and Experience of Pathological Laughing and Crying in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Olney, Nicholas T.; Goodkind, Madeleine S.; Lomen-Hoerth, Catherine; Whalen, Patrick K.; Williamson, Craig A.; Holley, Deborah E.; Verstaen, Alice; Brown, Laurel M.; Miller, Bruce L.; Kornak, John; Levenson, Robert W.; Rosen, Howard J. – Brain, 2011
Pathological laughing and crying is a disorder of emotional expression seen in a number of neurological diseases. The aetiology is poorly understood, but clinical descriptions suggest a disorder of emotion regulation. The goals of this study were: (i) to characterize the subjective, behavioural and physiological emotional reactions that occur…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Metabolism, Emotional Response, Crying
Depression in Adults with Intellectual Disability: Symptoms and Challenging Behaviour
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Hurley, A. D. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
Background: Psychiatric evaluation of adults with intellectual disability (ID) remains complex because of limitations in verbal abilities, atypical clinical presentation and challenging behaviour. This study examines the clinical presentation of adults with depression compared with bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and non-psychiatric control…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Crying, Patients, Verbal Communication
Diminished Reactivity of Postmature Human Infants to Sucrose Compared with Term Infants.
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Smith, Barbara A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
This study of healthy 39-week-old infants, so-called term infants, and chronically stressed 42-week-old infants, so-called postmature infants, showed that sucrose was extremely effective in calming term infants but less effective in calming postmature infants. Results supported the hypothesis that sucrose engages an opioid system in infants. (BG)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Crying, Experimental Psychology
Differential Effects of Sucrose, Fructose, Glucose, and Lactose on Crying in 1- to 3-Day-Old Human Infants: Qualitative and Quantitative Considerations.
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Blass, Elliott M.; Smith, Barbara A. – Developmental Psychology, 1992
The potency of different sugars as calming agents in human infants was investigated in 2 experiments with 40 infants. Sucrose and fructose were equally effective calming agents, whereas glucose was less effective. Results indicate that the calming effects of milk lie in components other than its sugar. (LB)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Crying, Experimental Psychology