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Not Just Any Child Care Center? Social and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Early Education Institutions with a Beneficial Learning Environment
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Becker, Birgit; Schober, Pia Sophia – Early Education and Development, 2017
This study investigates social and ethnic differences in the use of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers with different learning environments in an ECEC system with universal state-subsidized provision and low fees. Based on the German National Educational Panel Study-Kindergarten Cohort from 2011, we matched data on 587 groups in 253…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Educational Environment, Social Influences
Early Full-Time Day Care, Mother-Child Attachment, and Quality of the Home Environment in Chile: Preliminary Findings
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Cárcamo, Rodrigo A.; Vermeer, Harriet J.; van der Veer, René; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Two longitudinal studies are reported examining the effects of full-time day care in Mapuche and non-Mapuche families in Chile. First, the Magellan-Leiden Childcare Study (MLCS) used a sample of 95 mothers with children younger than 1 year old (n = 36 in day care). Second, we partially cross-validated our results in a large and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Parent Mediation Empowers Sibling Conflict Resolution
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Ross, Hildy S.; Lazinski, Marysia J. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: For the current study, formal mediation procedures were adapted for families and parents were trained and asked to mediate their children's disputes; control group parents intervened as they normally would. Conflict negotiations with parents and their children (ages 3½-11 years) occurring 3 and 7 weeks following training, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict Resolution, Parents, Children
Improving Social Competence through Emotion Knowledge in 2-Year-Old Children: A Pilot Study
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Giménez-Dasí, Marta; Fernández-Sánchez, Marta; Quintanilla, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The goal of this study was to determine the efficacy of an educational intervention program to improve emotion knowledge, emotion regulation, and social competence in 2-year-old Spanish children. This study makes two original contributions because there are no validated education programs for such young children and because it…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Experimental Groups, Self Control, Emotional Development
Young Children's Trust Beliefs in Peers: Relations to Social Competence and Interactive Behaviors in a Peer Group
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Chin, Jui-Chih – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to explore the relations between children's trust beliefs and social competence as well as social preference. In addition, this study examined how children with different trust belief profiles may differ in their peer interactive behaviors. A total of 47 children ages 5 to 6 participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Rating Scales
Narrative Development in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Preschool Children
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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Petersen, Douglas; Spencer, Trina; Hammer, Krista – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to describe differences in the narratives produced by 3-, 4-, and 5- year old Spanish-speaking (SS) children. Narrative productions of 104 typically developing children were collected using a story-retelling task and coded using the Index of Narrative Complexity. The results of this study indicate…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Personal Narratives, Story Telling
Profiles of Child Developmental Dimensions in Kindergarten and the Prediction of Achievement in the First and Second Grades of Primary School
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Mascareño, Mayra; Doolaard, Simone; Bosker, Roel J. – Early Education and Development, 2014
A successful transition from kindergarten to 1st grade requires a positive combination of multiple dimensions of child competence. Using latent class analysis, we simultaneously examined the academic skills, work attitude, and social/behavioral competence of a large sample of Dutch kindergarten children to identify profiles of kindergarten…
Descriptors: Child Development, Kindergarten, Profiles, Prediction