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Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2025
Traditionally, children have generally been considered as developmentally immature and unable to experience spirituality. However, more recent studies seem to indicate the opposite. This article aims to: (1) explore how religiosity and spirituality evolve in the developing person; (2) describe the perceptions of children about God; (3) explore how…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Religious Factors, Beliefs, Child Development
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Stelle, Charlie D.; Sheehan, Nancy W. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2011
While research on parent-adult child relationships has expanded over the last two decades, most research has ignored the experiences of older fathers and their relationships with adult children. The present study sought to explore how midlife and older men assess the costs and rewards associated with their fatherhood experiences and how fathers'…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Self Concept, Rewards, Fathers
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Esposito, Gianluca; Venuti, Paola – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a disorder that affects language and social skills to varying degrees. While many studies have concentrated on examining patterns of behavior and development on the context of speaking and interacting, very few researchers have investigated the parameters of crying in infants with ASD. This finding is surprising…
Descriptors: Autism, Crying, Social Structure, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Heckhausen, Jutta – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Task-centered interactions of 12 mother-infant pairs observed between the infants' 14th and 22nd month indicated that infants become aware of their competence in their second year. Five critical aspects of the children's behavior are discussed with respect to mother's influence, action as context for competence, and developmental characteristics…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Competence, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
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Dawson, Geraldine; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined electrical brain activity during negative and positive emotion expression in infants of depressed and nondepressed mothers. Found that, compared with infants of nondepressed mothers, infants of depressed mothers exhibited increased EEG activation in the frontal but not parietal region when expressing negative emotions. There were no…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
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Hickey, Tom; And Others – Gerontologist, 1981
Professionals (N=228) were interviewed about their case experiences with neglect and abuse of the elderly. It was suggested that environmental contexts and situational problems trigger such behavior, and that the behavior is primarily based on flawed development of the perpetrator and disordered family relationships. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Family Relationship
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Cohen, Jere – Youth and Society, 1980
Examines important behaviors and changes through which adolescents establish their autonomy. Concludes that high school students' drive for autonomy incorporates: (1) growth in behavioral autonomy from parents; (2) increased emotional autonomy from friends; and (3) the development of "grown up" identity through commission of status offenses that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Individual Development
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Burger, Gary K.; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1975
Two groups of college students' accounts of recalled parent's child rearing patterns were examined and compared in this study by means of two objective personality measures. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Children, College Students
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Farrar, M. Jeffrey; Welch-Ross, Melissa K.; Fasig, Lauren G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Assessed the relationship of attachment status to autobiographical memory in preschoolers. Found that mother-child dyads with insecurely attached daughters engaged in relatively more negative memory talk than those with securely attached daughters. Secure-daughter dyads elaborated more on emotional themes than insecure-daughter dyads. Relations…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Children, Emotional Experience
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Rothbart, Mary K.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Infants' orienting of attention undergoes marked development in the first six months of life. Changes in attentional control appear to be related to infants' susceptibility to distress. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Attention Control
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed.; Chen, Shing-jen, Ed. – 1988
Provided in this annual report, the 10th of a series, are the texts of four papers presented at a preconference workshop on new directions for infancy research. The papers focus on the middle European contribution to infancy research, main themes in European research on infant perception and cognition, an innovative therapeutic approach to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
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Miller, Scott A. – Child Development, 1995
Reviews research on the determinants and the effects of parents' attributions. The evidence suggests that parents do form attributions for their children's behavior; these attributions vary in predictable ways across judges (mothers versus fathers), targets (age or sex of child), and behavior outcomes (positive or negative); and attributions…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory
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Messinger, Daniel S.; Fogel, Alan; Dickson, K. Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Compared Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiles of 1- to 6-month olds during weekly videotapes of mother/infant interaction for clues regarding emotional significance. Correlated levels of Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiling within sessions; found that they had similar developmental trajectories. Duchenne smiles were typically preceded by non-Duchenne…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Comparative Analysis
Fonagy, Peter – 1993
Work in developmental psychiatry and psychology has increasingly focused on how internal representations of early experiences with primary figures of childhood affect relationship formation in later childhood and adulthood. Investigations of the reflective self function, which involves mental states in which individuals become the subject of their…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Abuse, Developmental Psychology
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Vazsonyi, Alexander T.; Pickering, Lloyd E. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2000
Examined whether apprentices differed from nonapprentices in rates of deviant behavior. Found that nonapprenticed males were less deviant than apprenticed males; nonapprentices perceived more connectedness with and peer disapproval from parents; affective quality of parent-adolescent relations did not differ by educational track; and there was…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Apprenticeships
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