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Bianca Ulitzka; Monika Daseking; Julia Kerner auch Koerner – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Delay of gratification tasks have an impressive predictive value for various outcomes and are designed to measure self-regulation. Since many behavioural and psychological conditions in children are related to limitations in self-regulation, the extent to which delay tasks can be used as a screening for the detection of psychopathology is…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Child Behavior, Self Control, Young Children
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Zhang, Xinyi; Lau, Carrie; Yang, Yi – Infant and Child Development, 2021
Shyness, which is characterized by social withdrawal behaviours and approaching-withdrawal conflicted social motivations, is suggested to influence children's social-emotional development. This study examined the association between shyness and social-emotional development among Chinese children aged 3 to 12. A systematic search of both Chinese…
Descriptors: Shyness, Withdrawal (Psychology), Social Development, Emotional Development
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Orta, Irem Metin; Corapci, Feyza; Yagmurlu, Bilge; Aksan, Nazan – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This cross-sectional study relied on circumscribed measures of emotion regulation and dysregulation to examine their role in mediating the associations of maternal responsiveness and effortful control with social competency and externalizing symptoms. We examined those associations in an understudied cultural context, Turkey, with 118…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Self Control, Foreign Countries, Correlation
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Doumen, Sarah; Buyse, Evelien; Colpin, Hilde; Verschueren, Karine – Infant and Child Development, 2011
High levels of teacher-child conflict have repeatedly been found to amplify children's aggressive behaviour. Up to now, however, research on possible mechanisms explaining this link is largely lacking. The current study aimed to test whether children's self-esteem is an intervening mechanism. Participants were 139 children (70 boys, M age = 6.18…
Descriptors: Conflict, Grade 1, Teacher Student Relationship, Aggression
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Dworzynski, Katharina; Ronald, Angelica; Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E.; McEwan, Fiona; Happe, Francesca; Bolton, Patrick; Plomin, Robert – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are diagnosed when individuals show impairments in three behavioural domains: communication, social interactions, and repetitive, restrictive behaviours and interests (RRBIs). Recent data suggest that these three sets of behaviours are genetically heterogeneous. Early language delay is strongly associated with ASD,…
Descriptors: Twins, Delayed Speech, Autism, Asperger Syndrome
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van Aken, C.; Junger, M.; Verhoeven, M.; van Aken, M. A. G.; Dekovic, M. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
The present study aimed to determine the potential moderating effects of temperamental traits on the relation between parenting and toddlers' externalizing behaviours. For that purpose, this study examined the interplay between temperament and maternal parenting behaviours in predicting the level as well as the development of toddlers'…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Toddlers, Personality Traits, Social Environment
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Nyberg, Lillianne; Henricsson, Lisbeth; Rydell, Ann-Margaret – Infant and Child Development, 2008
The principal aim of the present study was to obtain a deeper understanding than hitherto of the concurrent correlates and prospective predictors of loneliness and poor peer acceptance, both falling under the umbrella term low social inclusion. Problematic and socially competent behaviours were investigated as possible predictors of low social…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 1, Peer Acceptance, Psychological Patterns
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de Graaf, Ireen; Onrust, Simone; Haverman, Merel; Janssens, Jan – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The present study evaluated two primary care parenting interventions. First, we evaluated the most widely used Dutch practices for primary care parenting support. Second, we assessed the applicability of the Primary Care Triple P approach, which is now being utilized in a wide variety of primary care settings. Both interventions target parents of…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Parents
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Hammarberg, Annie; Hagekull, Berit – Infant and Child Development, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in externalizing and internalizing problem behaviours in 6-year-olds with a focus on sex differences. Teachers rated problem behaviours at the beginning and at the end of the school year, 8 months apart, in 370 children (197 boys and 173 girls) attending 22 school preparatory classrooms.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Gender Differences, Child Behavior, Behavior Change
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Karp, Jennifer; Serbin, Lisa A.; Stack, Dale M.; Schwartzman, Alex E. – Infant and Child Development, 2004
This study demonstrates the potential utility of the Behavioural Style Observational System (BSOS) as a new observational measure of children's behavioural style. The BSOS is an objective, short and easy to use measure that can be readily adapted to a variety of home and laboratory situations. In the present study, 160 mother-child dyads from the…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Personality, Observation, Measures (Individuals)
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Hall, Wendy A.; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Silburn, Sven R.; Parsons, Deborah E.; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Behavioural sleep problems (childhood insomnias) can cause distress for both parents and children. This paper reports a model describing predictors of high sleep problem scores in a representative population-based random sample survey of non-Aboriginal singleton children born in 1995 and 1996 (1085 girls and 1129 boys) in Western Australia.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology)
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Brocki, Karin C.; Bohlin, Gunilla – Infant and Child Development, 2006
In a sample of 92 children aged 6-13 years this study investigates the normal developmental change in the relation between executive functioning (EF) and the core behavioural symptoms associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (hyperactivity/impulsivity and inattention) as well as symptoms often co-occurring with childhood…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Conceptual Tempo, Short Term Memory, Factor Analysis