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Stevenson, Matthew M.; Crnic, Keith A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study examined activative fathering observed during father--child interactions in the family home, focusing on the relation between activative fathering at children aged four and children's behaviour dysregulation and sociability at children aged five. One hundred twenty-seven families participated in the study. Activative fathering was…
Descriptors: Fathers, Child Rearing, Predictor Variables, Parent Child Relationship
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Azar, Sandra T.; Stevenson, Michael T.; Johnson, David R. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Parents with intellectual disabilities (PID) are overrepresented in the child protective services (CPS) system. This study examined a more nuanced view of the role of cognition in parenting risk. Its goal was to validate a social information processing (SIP) model of child neglect that draws on social cognition research and advances in…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Mothers, Mental Retardation, Child Rearing
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White, Burton L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Describes an experiment undertaken to identify the home experiences of 1- to 3-year-old children which result in competence at the age of 6. (BRT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Competence
Petersen, Evelyn – 1997
Adults can encourage young children to assimilate and use information through inventing, creating, experimenting, and other activities. This guide, part of the "Seeds for Success" series, provides ideas for parents on being their children's first and most important teacher by means of nearly 100 simple activity ideas designed for use with 3- to…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Experiential Learning
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Kermani, Hengameh; Janes, Helena A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1999
Observations of 12 immigrant Latino mother-child dyads performing school-like and home-like tasks revealed that in the home-like task, mothers purposefully scaffolded learning, adjusted their scaffolding to variation in task, demonstrated a greater range and variety of scaffolding strategies, and accomplished scaffolding goals based on their…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Cultural Context, Early Childhood Education
Pough, Carmen; Evans, Hattie – 1990
South Carolina's Guide to Child Development addresses three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive, and affective. The first unit of the guide, Child Development I, concerns the processes of understanding prenatal development, caring for an infant, providing care for children between 1 and 6 years of age, and delivering care for the…
Descriptors: Careers, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Computer Software
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology