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A Psychometric Study of the Infant and Toddler Intervals of the Social Emotional Assessment Measure
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Squires, Jane K.; Waddell, Misti L.; Clifford, Jantina R.; Funk, Kristin; Hoselton, Robert M.; Chen, Ching-I – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2013
Psychometric and utility studies on Social Emotional Assessment Measure (SEAM), an innovative tool for assessing and monitoring social-emotional and behavioral development in infants and toddlers with disabilities, were conducted. The Infant and Toddler SEAM intervals were the study focus, using mixed methods, including item response theory…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Evaluation Methods, Social Development, Emotional Development
Behavioral and Emotional Strengths among Youth in Systems of Care and the Effect of Race/Ethnicity
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Barksdale, Crystal L.; Azur, Melissa; Daniels, Amy M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2010
Behavioral and emotional strengths are important to consider when understanding youth mental health and treatment. This study examined the association between youth strengths and functional impairment and whether this association is modified by race/ethnicity. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to estimate the effects of strengths on…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Race, American Indians, Mental Health
Rethinking the Development of "Nonbasic" Emotions: A Critical Review of Existing Theories.
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Draghi-Lorenz, Riccardo; Reddy, Vasudevi; Costall, Alan – Developmental Review, 2001
Explores current theories of emotional development in order to identify the assumptions that could explain the strong antagonism toward early nonbasic emotions. Draws on the contrasting and polarity of viewpoints to examine the logical implications of these viewpoints for the very possibility of early nonbasic emotions and their reciprocal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Child Development
Children's Attributions Regarding the Situational Determinants of Emotion in Self and Others.
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Strayer, Janet – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates children's person-by-situation knowledge of probable causes of emotion in self and in others, and compares this to adults' construals. Shows that children can generate contextual explanations for affective states in self and others that are both shared by other children and adults and selectively related to different kinds of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attribution Theory
The Influence of Attachment Pattern on Developmental Changes in Peer Interaction from the Toddler to the Preschool Period.
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Jacobson, Joseph L.; Wille, Diane E. – Child Development, 1986
Investigates the influence of infant-mother attachment patterns on the development of peer interaction between the toddler and preschool periods. Notes that, in an initial encounter with an unfamiliar peer, attachment patterns appear to be related more to the child's attractiveness as an interactive partner than to the child's own active interest…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Emotional Development
Kids Learn from the Inside Out: How To Enhance the Human Matrix.
Randolph, Shirley L.; And Others – 1994
Noting that humans develop according to a genetically encoded timeline and that departure from the timeline limits human potential, this book provides an illustrated practical guide to intervention to help children's bodies work as they should, to nurture children along their developmental timeline, to help children learn "from the inside…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Health