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Luisa Marie Lüken; Judith Rebecca Silkenbeumer; Manfred Holodynski; Joscha Kärtner – Social Development, 2025
Effective emotion regulation is critical for establishing and maintaining positive relationships, and it has previously been linked to several indicators of social competence. Theories agree that one core characteristic of adaptive emotion regulation is the ability to flexibly adapt emotion regulation strategies to situational demands (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Learning Strategies, Psychological Patterns
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
Babic Cikeš, Ana; Cakic, Lara; Kuti, Vedrana – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The changed sentence: The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Emotion Matching Task (EMT) in a sample of Croatian preschool children. The Croatian version of the EMT was applied to 198 children (52% female), together with measures of verbal ability and social competence. The internal structure of the test, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Objective Tests, Psychological Patterns, Preschool Children
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
Memba, Gabriela V.; Ostrov, Jamie M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Early childhood is a key developmental period to assess social competence (SC) as experiences of peer interactions begin to accumulate. Past work suggests that temperament and forms of peer victimization (physical and relational) are independently associated with changes in SC, but less work has examined the differential effects of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Peer Relationship, Victims, Personality
Mills-Koonce, W. Roger; Towe-Goodman, Nissa; Swingler, Margaret M.; Willoughby, Michael T. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
This study utilized latent profile analyses to identify unique configurations of children's family-based social experiences during the first 3 years of life and examine differences across profiles with respect to developmental outcomes at 36 and 48 months of age. Seven family process variables were used: maternal emotional functioning, maternal…
Descriptors: Social Experience, Preschool Children, Family Environment, Child Rearing
da Silva, Brenda M. S.; Ketelaar, Lizet; Veiga, Guida; Tsou, Yung-Ting; Rieffe, Carolien – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Moral emotions are experienced in daily life and are crucial for mediating appropriate social behaviors, as they prevent individuals from committing transgressions. In this study, caregivers of 377 children aged between 2.5 and 6.5 years old completed the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ), a parent report aimed to separately identify the presence…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Psychological Patterns, Social Behavior, Questionnaires
Erkul, Raziye; Sonmez, Sibel – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2020
The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between social skills and problem behavior in preschool children and the relationship between predictive levels for social skills, social competence, and behavior; and also for problem behavior, social competence, and behavior. The sample of this study consists of 44 teachers preschools and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Psychological Patterns
Margaret Burchinal; Robert Pianta; Arya Ansari; Jessica Whittaker; Virginia Vitiello – Grantee Submission, 2023
Pre-kindergarten (pre-k) is thought to have both direct and indirect effects on children's outcomes in early elementary school. Direct pre-k effects consistently include moderate to large gains in academic skills and sometimes include increases in problem behaviors that affect acquisition of skills in school. Indirect pre-k effects assume that…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Educational Experience
Guedes, Carolina; Ferreira, Tiago; Leal, Teresa; Cadima, Joana – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
This study aimed to examine the unique and joint contributions of behavioral and emotional self-regulation to key but understudied emergent literacy and early social skills, disentangling sex-differentiated paths. The participants were 231 Portuguese preschoolers (50% boys; M[subscript age] = 59.5 months; SD = 8.5) enrolled in 47 classrooms. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Self Management, Self Control
Hanson-Cook, Blair S.; Richardson, George B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Research has identified antecedents to flourishing--high levels of social, emotional, and psychological health--in adolescence and adulthood but few studies have attended to flourishing in childhood. Moreover, although there has been great interest in how environmental effects on mental illness vary by temperament, little attention has been…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Preschool Children
Kaur, Jasleen; Sharma, Anupam – SAGE Open, 2021
The primary objective of this article is to create a conceptual Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) happiness framework for preschool children in India. Although happiness is regarded as one of the key elements that influence early childhood development, an effective happiness framework does not exist for preschools in rural and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Marcone, Roberto; Caputo, Antonietta – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
A Friend is truly a treasure, in accordance with age and competence's qualitative changes. The aim of this study was to confirm the increase in friendship competence and its multifactorial nature in 3- up to 10-year-old children, and to verify gender differences, and parenting influences on the concept of friendship. A semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
Uygun, Nur; Kozikoglu, Ishak – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2019
The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between preschoolers' play behaviors, social competence behaviors and their parents' parental attitudes. In this study, correlational survey model was used. The target population of the study consists of 12.183 children attending preschool education institutions in the central districts of Van…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Correlation, Play, Child Behavior
Haskett, Mary E.; Neal, Sarah C.; Norwalk, Kate E. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
A large body of literature demonstrates that children who experience unstable housing and homelessness are at risk for developmental delays and social--emotional challenges. However, there is also evidence of variability in the functioning of these children. Our primary aims were to identify unique profiles among preschool-aged children who were…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, At Risk Students, Homeless People