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Direct linkDollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study aimed to substantiate and extend our understanding regarding the existence and developmental pathways of 3 distinct temperament profiles--exuberant, inhibited, and average approach--in a sample of 3.5-year-old children (n = 121). The interactions between temperamental styles and specific types of effortful control, inhibitory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Interaction, Personality Traits
Kangas, Jonna; Ojala, Mikko; Venninen, Tuulikki – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Research has shown that self-regulation can support child development in the areas of children's attentional flexibility, working memory, and inhibitory control for excluding impulsive responses. How this is actually related in everyday pedagogical early childhood education (ECE) activities has rarely been studied in detail. In…
Descriptors: Self Control, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Surveys
Gilpin, Ansley T.; Brown, Melissa M.; Pierucci, Jillian M. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Emotion regulation is a strong predictor of both short- and long-term peer relationships and social competence and is often targeted in preschool curricula and interventions. Pretense is a natural activity of childhood that is thought to facilitate the development of socialization, perspective taking, language, and possibly…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Fantasy, Self Control
McArdle, Karen; Harrison, Terri; Harrison, Daniel – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2013
Children from challenging backgrounds were brought to a woodland for a programme that sought to promote resilience at Camphill School. This qualitative study of one programme uses an ethnographic approach to research the effectiveness of this type of intervention. Case studies of three of the children are used to illustrate the ways in which…
Descriptors: Play, Outdoor Education, Resilience (Psychology), Qualitative Research
Shelleby, Elizabeth C.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Cheong, JeeWon; Chang, Hyein; Gardner, Frances; Dishion, Thomas J.; Wilson, Melvin N. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2012
This study examines the role of one component of emotion regulation, behavioral control, in the growth of children's early behavior problems by examining whether increases in parental positive behavior support brought about by a family-centered intervention were associated with greater child behavioral control, and whether greater behavioral…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Problems, Parent Child Relationship, Child Behavior
Halperin, Jeffrey M.; Marks, David J.; Bedard, Anne-Claude V.; Chacko, Anil; Curchack, Jocelyn T.; Yoon, Carol A.; Healey, Dione M. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2013
Objective: To examine whether cognitive enhancement can be delivered through play to preschoolers with ADHD and whether it would affect severity of ADHD symptoms. Method: Twenty-nine 4- and 5-year-old children and their parents participated in separate group sessions (3-5 children/group). Child groups were introduced games designed to enhance…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Teaching Methods
Gaertner, Bridget M.; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Infant and Child Development, 2008
This longitudinal study examined individual differences and correlates of focused attention when toddlers were approximately 18 months old (T1; n = 256) and a year later (T2; n = 230). Toddlers' attention and negative emotionality were reported by mothers and non-parental caregivers and rated globally by observers. Toddlers' focused attention also…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Measurement
