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Shyness and Socioemotional Functioning in Young Chinese Children: The Moderating Role of Receptive Vocabulary
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Zhu, Jingjing; Li, Yan; Wood, Katherine R.; Coplan, Robert J.; Chen, Xinyin – Early Education and Development, 2019
The goal of this study was to explore links among shyness, receptive vocabulary, and indices of socioemotional functioning in a sample of young children in mainland urban China. In particular, we sought to examine the potential moderating role of receptive language in these relations. Participants were N = 360 young children (200 boys, 160 girls,…
Descriptors: Shyness, Foreign Countries, Young Children, Receptive Language
Dealing with Feelings: Foundations and Consequences of Young Children's Emotional Competence.
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Denham, Susanne A. – Early Education and Development, 2001
Summarizes this special issue on how children develop emotional and social strengths, as well as difficulties. Highlights three areas of focus among the seven articles: (1) the relation of emotional competence to social competence; (2) the socialization of emotional competence; and (3) attachment as the foundation. (SD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Competence, Developmental Psychology
Social and Emotional Competencies: Contributions to Young African-American Children's Peer Acceptance.
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Smith, Maureen – Early Education and Development, 2001
Explored the relation between measures of emotional competence, behavioral regulation, and general social competence and African American preschoolers' peer acceptance and popularity. Found that gender, emotional knowledge, emotion regulation, and themes of violence in response to hypothetical situations of interpersonal conflict were strongly…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Adjustment