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Keri Giordano; Eileen McKeating; Diana Hoffstein-Rahmey; Kai Primus-Dawson – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Suspension and expulsion have been documented concerns in childcare centers throughout the United States for nearly 20 years. This study examined suspension and expulsion practices in community childcare centers two years into the COVID-19 pandemic (May 2022). Survey data from 131 administrators of community childcare programs were analyzed. It…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Child Care Centers, COVID-19
Sema Soydan; Kamile Mutlu; Gülsüm Akis – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
This study aims to examine the predictive role of parent-child interaction on children's self-regulation skills during the preschool period. The study was conducted on a sample consisting of 219 children aged 5-6 and their mothers, selected using convenience sampling method. In the research, mothers' interactions with their children were evaluated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Attention Control
Rey-Guerra, Catalina; Zachrisson, Henrik D.; Dearing, Eric; Berry, Daniel; Kuger, Susanne; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Naerde, Ane; van Huizen, Thomas; Côté, Sylvana M. – Child Development, 2023
Whether high quantities of center-based care cause behavior problems is a controversial question. Studies using covariate adjustment for selection factors have detected relations between center care and behavior problems, but studies with stronger internal validity less often find such evidence. We examined whether within-child changes in hours in…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Time
Zhonglian Yan; Wenqi Lin; Jing Ren; Qinglin Ma; Yanling Qin – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To explore the relationships among parenting styles, children's electronic media usage (EMU) and children's problem behaviours (CPB), 1,224 preschoolers aged 3-6 years old (52.0% boys; 30.9% aged 3 years old, 34.6% aged 4 years old, 26.1% aged 5 years old, and 8.4% aged 6 years old) and their parents were enrolled in the present study by means of…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children, Correlation
Chen Chen; Nanxi Chen; Jinliang Qin – Early Education and Development, 2024
Physical abuse is one subtype of child abuse and it has been a worldwide public health issue for its detrimental effects on child development, profiles, predictors, and its relation with behavior problems need further exploration, particularly in Chinese children. This study attempts to explore profiles and predictors of physical abuse and to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Behavior Problems
Christopher DeCamp; Sarah V. Alfonso; Christopher J. Lonigan – Grantee Submission, 2025
Objective: Executive Function (EF) is thought to be a core component of various cognitive processes. Two common ways to measure EF are through report-based measures that assess EF by collecting informant(s) reports on children's behaviors, and performance-based measures that assess EF through the completion of a task related to EF dimension(s).…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Reading Skills, Mathematics Skills
Li, Ishien; Shen, Pao-Sheng; Wu, Mei-Liang; Wang, Wenchun – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
With a non-clinical sample of pre-schoolers, we used partial least squares regression to assess the extent to which children's seven sensory regulatory factors (X) account for variations in the three temperament factors (Y) and Y explains variations in X. The results suggested predicting temperament factors from sensory processing factors receive…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sensory Experience, Personality, Early Childhood Education
Eti, Inanç – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate the predictive effects of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about emotions on the social skills and problem behaviours of preschoolers. The study involved 227 mothers of 3-6-year-old preschool children (M[subscript age] = 63 months). Two hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to determine to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Beliefs, Parent Attitudes
Maria Julia Hermida; Eliana Ruetti; Sebastián Javier Lipina; Maria Soledad Segretin – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Child temperament is a predictor of non-verbal ability (i.e. thinking and problem-solving skills that do not fundamentally require verbal language production and comprehension). Given that temperament scores might vary depending on whether the reporter is a parent or a teacher, this study analyses (a) whether those reports are different and (b)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Nonverbal Ability, Personality Assessment
Ben-Harush, Aya; Schiff, Miriam; Sulimani, Naama; Pat-Horenczyk, Ruth – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Complications during pregnancy, postpartum and current maternal depression are risk factors that may affect child behavior in early and middle childhood. Objectives: This longitudinal study examined the associations between complications during pregnancy, postpartum and current depression, and child internalizing and externalizing…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Pregnancy, Mothers, Child Behavior
Mengjiao Wang; Xi Chen; Shanyun Zheng – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
According to the heuristic model of emotion socialization by Eisenberg et al., parental reactions to children's negative emotions (RCNE) have an important role in this socialization process; however, its effects on children's social-emotional outcomes may be moderated by the children's temperament. This longitudinal study verified this proposition…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Child Behavior, Emotional Response, Behavior Problems
Agbaria, Qutaiba – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
This study examined whether two facets of preschool children's home environment, parenting style and parental emotional intelligence, may be risk factors for challenging behaviors among kindergarten children in Arab society in Israel. The author sampled 524 parents of children ages 4 to 5 years who completed questionnaires about their parenting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Emotional Intelligence
Cornelia Rüdisüli; Isabelle Duss; Patricia Lannen; Corina Wustmann Seiler – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Adults' behaviour in interactions with children is assumed to influence children's playfulness. However, little is known about how the quality of teacher-child interaction in early childhood education and care affects the development of children's playfulness, although the interaction quality has been identified as a strong predictor of children's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Play, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children
Dong, Shuyang; Dubas, Judith Semon; Dekovic, Maja; Wang, Zhengyan; van Aken, Marcel A. G.; Wu, Meng – Early Education and Development, 2022
This study investigated how parenting behaviors and child committed compliance predicted internalization of rules and externalizing behaviors throughout early childhood. Participants were 95 Chinese mother-child dyads. Maternal respect for autonomy and negative control were observed in free-plays at 14 and 25 months. Toddlers' committed compliance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Child Behavior, Compliance (Psychology)
Tompkins, Virginia; Villaruel, Eve – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Educators recognize children's social competence as an indicator of school readiness. Children's social competence may be promoted prior to kindergarten through parents' discipline. We assessed parent discipline as a predictor of 37 low-income pre-schoolers' social skills over four months. Parents answered open-ended questions about how they would…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Parenting Styles, Child Behavior, Discipline