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Culture, Emotion Socialization and Children's Inhibitory Control
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Doan, Stacey N.; Song, Qingfang – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
In the current study, we investigated the relations among maternal emotion socialization practices and children's inhibitory control (IC) performance in Chinese and European American families. Fifty-three Chinese (Mage = 60 months) and 52 European American (Mage = 50 months) children and their mothers participated in this study. Maternal emotion…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Asians, Whites
The Relations among Theory of Mind, Inhibitory Control, and Aggressive Behavior in 4-Year-Old Children -- A Multi-Measure Multi-Informant Approach
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Buttelmann, David; Kühn, Karen; Zmyj, Norbert – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Identifying correlates of aggressive behavior in children might help to find potential candidates for interventions in aggression reduction. While some previous studies found that children's Theory of Mind (ToM) and inhibitory control (IC) correlate with aggressive behavior, others did not confirm this relation. One explanation for these mixed…
Descriptors: Correlation, Theory of Mind, Inhibition, Cognitive Processes
Self-Regulation in Preschool Children: Factor Structure of Different Measures of Effortful Control and Executive Functions
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Kälin, Sonja; Roebers, Claudia M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Temperamental effortful control (EC) and executive functions (EF) are two frameworks for studying self-regulation in children. Despite stemming from different research traditions, they show many conceptual and theoretical similarities and their corresponding tasks are often used interchangeably. However, little is known about how and whether the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Control, Preschool Children, Executive Function
Evidence-Based Practices in a Social Project: Promotion of Executive Functions in Children from Northeastern Brazil
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Brito, Gabriel; Leon, Camila; Ribeiro, Camila; Trevisan, Bruna; Dias, Natália; Seabra, Alessandra – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Evidence points to the possibility of promoting executive functions (EF) through school interventions. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of this type of intervention in situations of social vulnerability. This study investigated the effectiveness of an EF intervention program applied with a sample of preschool children, in a…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Executive Function, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Spanish-Speaking Parent-Child Emotional Narratives and Children's Social Skills
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Leyva, Diana; Berrocal, Monica; Nolivos, Virginia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
We examined whether parents' content and style when discussing past positive and negative emotional experiences with their children were concurrently and predictively linked to prekindergarteners' social skills. Sixty-five low-income Spanish-speaking parent-child dyads discussed a past positive and negative emotional experience at the beginning of…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Parent Child Relationship, Problem Solving, Interpersonal Competence
Parent-Child Talk about Past Emotional Events: Associations with Child Temperament and Goodness-of-Fit
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Bird, Amy; Reese, Elaine; Tripp, Gail – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
The aim of this study was to examine associations between children's temperament, parent-child goodness-of-fit, and the emotional content of parent-child conversations about past events. Fifty one New Zealand 5- and 6-year-old children and their parents discussed 4 emotional past events. Parents rated children's temperament along 15 dimensions…
Descriptors: Personality, Young Children, Parents, Parent Child Relationship