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Claire P. Monks; Katie Rix – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Children's relationships with their peers have important associations with their behaviour. The current study examined children's friendships during the formative school years and hypotheses were made regarding associations between how well-liked children were by peers, the reciprocity of these friendships, and with whom friendships were made.…
Descriptors: Friendship, Young Children, Interpersonal Competence, Social Behavior
'Chairs of Conflict Resolution': Training Young Children to Resolve Conflicts in Greek Kindergartens
Eleni Moschovaki; Sevasti Paida – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The Chairs of Conflict Resolution (CoCR) is a process developed for training children to discuss their conflicts constructively so they experience win-win outcomes. The present study examines the discussion taking place during the use of CoCR with young children 4-6-years-old. The discussion between the two children proceeded in four phases: (a)…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Young Children, Preschool Education, Perspective Taking
Shuyang Dong; Yue Song; Judith Semon Dubas; Nanhua Cheng; Xi Liang; Qiqi Yuan; Zhengyan Wang – Developmental Psychology, 2024
While negative associations between behavioral inhibition/shyness and social competence are well established for children from Western cultures, the directions of these associations have been inconsistent for Chinese children, partly due to the ongoing social-cultural changes in China. Drawing from three samples of young Chinese children (born…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Shyness, Fear, Interpersonal Competence
Juanjuan Sun; Junsheng Liu; Mowei Liu; Yuemin Feng; Yan Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Despite the fact that the universal two-child policy had a significant impact on family structure and parenting behaviors, there is still a paucity of study on the mechanisms underlying this policy's effects. This study explored the role of social competence and sibling presence in the relationship between maternal warmth and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship
Jillianne Neri Tejada; Liang Li; Marie Hammer – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study examines a child's personal experiences with peer relationship building in the classroom and is guided by Vygotsky's cultural historical concepts of the social situation of development and cultural tools and Hedegaard's (2012) model for learning and development. Hedegaard's (2012) dialectical-interactive approach was adopted to analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Peer Relationship, Social Behavior
Hina Sheel; Lidia Suárez; Nigel V. Marsh – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief instrument developed primarily for screening children and adolescents for social-emotional learning. The SDQ contains four factors related to socio-emotional difficulties and one factor related to prosocial behaviour. However, studies of its factor structure have produced mixed results.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Behavior, Questionnaires, Behavior Problems
Zijian Li; Boya Li; Yung-Ting Tsou; Carolien Rieffe – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Empathy plays an important role in children's early social-emotional development. However, there are not many instruments available for measuring the different aspects/levels of empathy in preschool children. Moreover, few studies examined the validity of the existing measures for empathy in Chinese children. The present study…
Descriptors: Empathy, Questionnaires, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Zuofei Geng; Bei Zeng; Liping Guo – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Self-regulation develops rapidly during early childhood and is essential for academic and social adjustment. However, previous research has attempted to define the conceptualization and structure of self-regulation differently, leaving the field with an incomplete picture. The nature of the relations between self-regulation and early child…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Metacognition, Academic Ability, Self Control
Qutaiba Agbaria – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Cognitive-behavioral interventions to improve social and cognitive skills of children with behavioral disorders and their parents may extend beyond Western culture and provide effective intervention methods for parents in Arab society. The benefits of this intervention method on Arab parents of preschool children with behavioral disorders must be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Behavior, Arabs, Behavior Disorders
Ghanbari, Saeed; Vahidi, Elahe; Behzadpoor, Samaneh; Goudarzi, Zahra; Ghabezi, Fateme – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is considered to be a key factor in the development of emotion regulation in children, which in turn plays an important role in their psychosocial functioning. This study aimed to explore the mediating role of children's emotion regulation in the relationship between parental reflective functioning and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mothers, Emotional Response, Self Control
Håvard Horndalen Tveit; Frode Stenseng – Prevention Science, 2024
Heterogeneous effects from interventions often remain hidden in between-group analyses, risking overgeneralized conclusions of treatment effects. In this exploratory study, we performed latent profile analysis to unveil differential treatment effects among children in The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme (IY TCMP). This…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries
Tony Xing Tan; Joy Huanhuan Wang; Yi Zhou; Yaxuan Deng – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
Our study examined young children's pre-academic and social skills in relation to parental locus of control and children's behaviours of ADHD. The participants were parents of 1,502 children from four Chinese kindergartens (M[subscript age] = 4.59, SD = 0.93; Girls: 51.40%). Data on six domains of children's pre-academic and social skills,…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Interpersonal Competence, Locus of Control, Parent Role
Dere, Zeynep – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Technology can provide children new opportunities to dive into the internet and play online games. Parents are showing concerns towards losing the ability to observe children's accession to technological devices. It is also growing concern that technological addiction has some negative impacts on young children. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Internet, Video Games, Child Behavior
Susanna Salomäki; Niina Junttila; Sirkku Setänen; Päivi Rautava; Mira Huhtala; Marika Leppänen; Liisa Lehtonen; Riikka Korja – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study examined longitudinal associations between parental psychological distress (stress and depression) when the child was 2 to 4 years and a child's emotional and behavioural problems at ages 3 to 4, and social functioning (loneliness and social competence) at age 11 in very preterm born children. The participants were Finnish families of…
Descriptors: Parents, Stress Variables, Depression (Psychology), Young Children
Emen Parlatan, Meltem; Sigirtmaç, Ayperi Dikici – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study aims to investigate the behaviors of young children in competitive games. A qualitative research design was used. Participants consisted of 14 children attending a kindergarten. In the process, children were involved in different types of competitive games. Sociometry was applied before the game procedure. The data obtained were…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Games, Competition, Child Behavior