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Andrea Ritoša; Lena Almqvist; Henrik Danielsson; Mats Granlund – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" This study examined the engagement of 494 preschool children in Sweden (M = 53.44 months, SD = 10.64) using both teacher questionnaires to measure global engagement (trait) and observations to measure momentary engagement (state). Using a person-oriented approach with cluster analysis, we identified five distinct…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Learner Engagement, Early Childhood Education, Personality Traits
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Yue, Yaping; Yuan, Haojie; Tan, Beijia; Wu, Dandan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study aims to explore the possible mediators between social support and parenting competence in Chinese mothers of preschoolers. Altogether 538 Chinese mothers were sampled and surveyed with the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), Psychological Capital Scale (PCS-24), and the Chinese versions of the Parenting Sense of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Social Support Groups, Parenting Skills
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Cha, Kijoo – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: The present study examined (a) whether children's negative emotionality traits (anger proneness and unsoothability) interactively predict mothers' authoritarian parenting (AP) and (b) whether children's negative emotionality moderates the associations between AP and children's performance on a spatial cognitive task. Eighty…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation, Spatial Ability
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Justice, Laura M.; Cottone, Elizabeth A.; Mashburn, Andrew; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: The teacher-child relationship can provide an important support to young children who exhibit developmental risk. This research studied the contribution of children's language skills, temperamentally based attributes (shyness, anger), and gender to closeness and conflict in the teacher-child relationship for 133 preschoolers…
Descriptors: Shyness, Comprehension, Conflict, Preschool Children
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Wood, Jeffrey J. – Early Education and Development, 2007
This study tested a conceptual model of a psychosocial pathway to academic competence in preschool. Developmental theory and research with older children suggest that social and psychological factors could have a significant impact on young children's learning and school readiness. Children in 3 preschool classrooms (N = 31) participated. Mothers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Peer Acceptance, School Readiness, Preschool Curriculum