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Miranda, Nekane; Larrea, Inaki; Muela, Alexander; Barandiaran, Alexander – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between social play and involvement in the outdoor preschool environment. The study included 173 children ranging in age from 3 to 6 years (M[subscript age] = 3.95, SD = 0.82) and attending 19 preschools in the Basque Country (Spain). A total of 51 teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Play, Social Behavior
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Miller, Rachel L.; Dunsmore, Julie C.; Smith, Cynthia L. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: We examined relations of effortful control with parent emotion socialization practices and child social behavior using a person-centered approach in children ages 18 months to 5 years. A total of 76 parents (66 mothers, 10 fathers) completed questionnaires at screening and 6-month follow-up. There were no age differences in…
Descriptors: Socialization, Parent Child Relationship, Profiles, Social Behavior
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Ren, Lixin; Knoche, Lisa L.; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: The current study examines the relations between Chinese preschoolers' social-emotional competence and their preacademic skills, as well as the role of child gender and parental education in such relations. A total of 154 children from the northeastern region of China were involved in the study. Both parents and head teachers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Correlation, Social Development
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Johnson, Stacy R.; Finlon, Kristy J.; Izard, Carroll E. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This article describes the development and evaluation of the Behavior and Emotion Expression Observation System (BEEOS), a direct observation tool to characterize preschoolers' social and emotion behaviors during semistructured activities in the classroom. The BEEOS was used to observe 148 Head Start preschoolers, and…
Descriptors: Observation, Preschool Children, Social Behavior, Emotional Response
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Shavega, Theresia J.; Brugman, Daniel; van Tuijl, Cathy – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: The present study concerns children's behavioral adjustment in the context of pre-primary schools in Tanzania. Twenty teachers and 320 children from 20 pre-primary schools participated in the study. Teacher-child relationships, children's behavioral adjustment, and teachers' cultural beliefs were reported by teachers; classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Nursery Schools