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Wong, Tracy K. Y.; Konishi, Chiaki; Kong, Xiaoxue – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Surprisingly little research has considered whether parent-child activities facilitate social-emotional development and whether these associations differ for boys and girls. To address this gap, this study leveraged the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (2006-2008) to examine the extent to which story reading, storytelling and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Social Development, Emotional Development, Gender Differences
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Carpio de los Pinos, Carmen; Soto, Antonio Gobea; Martín Conty, José Luis; Serrano, Rosa Conty – Journal of Experiential Education, 2020
Background: Summer camp is proposed as a context to enhance prosocial behavior. This context could be used to apply intervention programs, in addition to being a time of fun and conviviality. A camp-based intervention program to increase empathy was administered for adolescents at risk. Purpose: The aim of this study was to apply and evaluate a…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Camps, Experiential Learning, Empathy
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Gülseven, Zehra; Carlo, Gustavo; Kumru, Asiye; Sayil, Melike; Selçuk, Bilge – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
This study examined the protective roles of early prosocial behaviours (at age 4) on later internalizing and externalizing problems (at age 6) and to what extent emotion regulation skills (at age 5) mediated these longitudinal associations in children from Turkey. Participants were 293 Turkish preschool children (M[subscript age] = 49.01 months;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prosocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children
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Sharma, Drishti; Mehari, Krista R.; Kishore, Jugal; Sharma, Nandini; Duggal, Mona – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
A quasi-experimental study was conducted in the eighth grade of two public schools located in Central Delhi. Two classes (95 participants) in the intervention school and three classes (108 participants) in the comparison school participated. The brief intervention was implemented across four 2-hour sessions for 1 month in the intervention school.…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Early Adolescents
Tyler, Corine P.; Geldhof, G. John; Settersten, Richard A., Jr.; Flay, Brian R. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Black and Latinx youth are situated in a maladaptive discriminatory context in the United States; however, prosociality may be one way that youth can promote their own positive development in the face of these experiences. We examined the longitudinal associations between discrimination and prosociality among 380 Black and Latinx early adolescents…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Self Esteem, Prediction, Prosocial Behavior
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Archbell, Kristen A.; Coplan, Robert J.; Nocita, Gabriella; Rose-Krasnor, Linda – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2019
The goals of the present study were (a) to explore different aspects of children's participation in structured performing arts activities (e.g., dance and music); and (b) to examine links between participation in performing arts and indices of socioemotional functioning. Participants were N = 166 children (75 boys and 91 girls) in Grade 1 (n = 70,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Student Participation, Theater Arts
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Binfet, John-Tyler; Whitehead, Jenna – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
A current trend in kindness research is to assess the effect of being kind on participants' well-being. To do this, participants are asked to complete a series of kind acts and the corresponding impact on their well-being is measured. As participation in school-based interventions can vary, the aim of the current study was to assess the extent of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Intervention, Pretests Posttests, Prosocial Behavior
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Rivas-Drake, Deborah; Lozada, Fantasy T.; Pinetta, Bernardette J.; Jagers, Robert J. – Youth & Society, 2020
This study sheds light on the interrelations of universal, school-based social-emotional learning strategies and ethnic-racial identity over time. We assessed exposure to social-emotional learning practices and ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution among 367 middle school students (70% African American, 30% Latinx; 51% girls) across 3…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Ethnicity, Racial Identification
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Troop-Gordon, Wendy; Kaeppler, Alexander K.; Corbitt-Hall, Darcy J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Evidence suggests that children's expectations for how their teacher responds to students' aggression moderate concurrent links between peer victimization and adjustment. This study extends this work by examining these associations longitudinally. Youth (N=366; 196 girls; M[subscript age]=9.25years) reported on their teacher's use of five…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Expectation, Aggression, Student Behavior
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Akelaitis, Arturas V.; Lisinskiene, Ausra R. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine and compare social emotional skills and prosocial behaviour among 15-16-year-old adolescent athletes and non-athletes. The measures of social emotional skills and prosocial behaviour were evaluated using Schutte Self-Report Inventory, Self-control scale, Social Skills Rating System (Student form),…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Development, Social Development, Interpersonal Competence
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Conte, Elisabetta; Grazzani, Ilaria; Pepe, Alessandro – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: In this study, we investigated associations among social cognition skills (specifically, emotion knowledge and theory of mind), language abilities, and 3 varieties of prosocial behavior (helping, sharing, and comforting) in early childhood. The effects of age and gender were also taken into account. Participants were 149 Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Child Care Centers
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Vassilopoulos, Stephanos P.; Brouzos, Andreas; Koutsianou, Athina – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2018
This study investigated the effectiveness of a social and emotional learning (SEL) group to enhance first-grade students' school adjustment. A seven-session intervention program was conducted by two group leaders and included training in social and emotional skills. Pre- and post- and follow-up assessment data were collected from a total of 114…
Descriptors: Socialization, Emotional Development, Grade 1, Student Adjustment
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Maguire, Lisa K.; Niens, Ulrike; McCann, Mark; Connolly, Paul – Educational Psychology, 2016
There has been an increasing focus on social and emotional development in educational programmes in early childhood as both variables are believed to influence behavioural outcomes in the classroom. However, relationships between social and emotional development and behaviour in early childhood have rarely been explored. This article sets out to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Emotional Development
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Bradshaw, Catherine P.; Waasdorp, Tracy E.; Leaf, Philip J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS; Sugai & Horner, 2006) is currently implemented in over 20,000 schools across the country with the goal of preventing disruptive behavior problems and enhancing the school climate. While previous studies have indicated significant main effects of SWPBIS on student outcomes, the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Behavior Modification, Student Behavior, Intervention
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Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
Emotion socialization begins within the family setting and extends outward as children transition into expanded social worlds. Children contribute to their socialization from the first years of life, so the dynamics between parents and children are reciprocal in nature. Because socialization influences are best inferred from patterns that unfold…
Descriptors: Socialization, Family Environment, Emotional Development, Parent Child Relationship
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