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Coley, Rebekah Levine; Kull, Melissa – Child Development, 2016
Residential mobility has received notable attention in the literature, yet there remains limited consensus on how and when mobility is associated with detriments to children's development. Drawing on a nationally representative sample of 19,162 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study followed from kindergarten through eighth grade, this…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys
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Veenstra, Rene; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Munniksma, Anke; Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis – Child Development, 2010
To understand the complex nature of bullies' acceptance and rejection, this article considered goal-framing effects of status and affection as they relate to the gender of the bully (male vs. female bullies), the target (male vs. female victims), and the evaluator (acceptance and rejection from male vs. female classmates). The hypotheses were…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Bullying, Social Networks, Rejection (Psychology)
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Laski, Elida V.; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 2007
This study examined the generality of the logarithmic to linear transition in children's representations of numerical magnitudes and the role of subjective categorization of numbers in the acquisition of more advanced understanding. Experiment 1 (49 girls and 41 boys, ages 5-8 years) suggested parallel transitions from kindergarten to second grade…
Descriptors: Females, Individual Differences, Classification, Elementary Education
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Benenson, Joyce F.; Dweck, Carol S. – Child Development, 1986
Subjects of this study were 144 White, middle-class children in kindergarten, first, second, and fourth grades. Children were interviewed individually about their explanations for both academic and social outcomes and their evaluations of their own outcomes. Self-evaluations became less positive in both domains and less similar across domains with…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
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Hubbs-Tait, Laura – Child Development, 1986
Assesses three sets of Piagetian exclusion operations (of varying the independent variables, of holding the independent variable constant, and tautology) and of levels of thought (concrete through formal) in 33 fifth graders, 27 sixth graders, and 31 seventh graders. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
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Silverman, Irwin W.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
Perceptual counterparts of a series of conservation of length tests were presented to subjects who were categorized as conservers or nonconservers conservation of length pre-tests, and to conservers and nonconservers given conservation length training. Perceptual performance of the untrained nonconservers was significantly worse than that of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Elementary Education
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Richards, Maryse H.; Crowe, Paul A.; Larson, Reed; Swarr, Amy – Child Development, 1998
Fifth through eighth graders completed self-reports in response to pager signals received over one week and again four years later. Responses indicated that thinking about the opposite sex occurs earlier than spending time with the opposite sex alone and that both increase over time. Girls spent more time with opposite sex and more time thinking…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Elementary Education, Friendship
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Brody, Gene H.; Henderson, Ronald W. – Child Development, 1977
Examined the influence of both peer and adult models who displayed either consistent, conflicting, or inconsistent moral judgments on the moral judgments and explanations of first graders. The influence of rationale provision was also assessed. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 1, Modeling (Psychology), Moral Development
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Brooks-Gunn, J.; Warren, Michelle P. – Child Development, 1988
Studied the onset of puberty in girls aged nine to eleven as represented by breast, pubic hair growth, and height. Breast growth, but not pubic hair growth was associated with a positive body image, positive peer relationships, and superior adjustment. Height was linked to superior adjustment and rating of career as important. (RJC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Females, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Karnoil, Rachel – Child Development, 1980
Reports an attempt to test two interpretations of immanent justice responses as causal attributions rather than as moral judgments. Finds older children use causal chains to explain contiguity between misdeed and adversity. Data were interpreted as consistent with an information-processing model of immanent justice responses. (RMH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Ability
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Larson, Reed W. – Child Development, 1997
Studied developmental changes in the experience of solitude between late childhood and early adolescence. Fifth through ninth graders (N=483) provided experience-sampling reports on their companionship and subjective states at random times over a week. Found that in early adolescence solitude comes to have a more constructive role in daily life as…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Developmental Continuity, Developmental Stages
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Berndt, Thomas J.; Berndt, Emily G. – Child Development, 1975
Preschoolers and second and fifth graders were interviewed to determine their understanding of an actor's motives and the intentionality of his act after watching films and hearing stories which portrayed an actor who intentionally or accidentally injured another for either good or bad motives. (JMB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Moral Development, Preschool Children
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Bachrach, Riva; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Cross-lagged correlational analyses and multiple-regression analyses of the data collected in these two studies supports the causal model that, while intentionality and internality both emerge when a common cognitive construct develops, heightened internality also significantly enhances a child's ability to learn intentionality. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Locus of Control
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Dreman, S. B. – Child Development, 1976
The effects of rewards and expectations of future rewards on sharing were examined with 180 Israeli boys at three age levels (ages 6-7, 9-10, and 12-13). A relation between moral judgment and behavior was found. (BRT)
Descriptors: Altruism, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Expectation
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Mednick, Birgitte R. – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development
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