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Direct linkAmanda S. Haber; Sona C. Kumar; Kathryn A. Leech; Kathleen H. Corriveau – Child Development, 2024
This study explores how caregiver-child scientific conversation during storybook reading focusing on the challenges or achievements of famous female scientists impacts preschoolers' mindset, beliefs about success, and persistence. Caregiver-child dyads (N = 202, 100 female, 35% non-White, aged 4-5, [function] = 0.15) were assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregivers, Caregiver Role, Story Reading
Chen, Edith; Lee, William K.; Cavey, Lisa; Ho, Amanda – Child Development, 2013
Little is understood about why some youth from low-socioeconomic-status (SES) environments exhibit good health despite adversity. This study tested whether role models and "shift-and-persist" approaches (reframing stressors more benignly while persisting with future optimism) protect low-SES youth from cardiovascular risk. A total of 163…
Descriptors: Role Models, Risk, Heart Disorders, Socioeconomic Status
Peer reviewedMiller, Robert S.; Morris, William N. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Imitation, Learning Theories, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedDenney, Nancy Wadsworth; Connors, Gerard J. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Instruction, Preschool Children, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedMidlarsky, Elizabeth; And Others – Child Development, 1973
It was hypothesized that while approval of donation behavior from altruistic models would be rewarding, such approval from selfish models would be aversive. (Authors)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Altruism, Elementary School Students, Negative Reinforcement
Peer reviewedMontemayor, Raymond – Child Development, 1974
Elementary school children played a game labeled either sex-appropriate, sex-neutral or sex-inappropriate game. Measures of performance and attractiveness of the game were obtained. Sex differences were noted. (ST)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Games, Elementary School Students, Role Models
Peer reviewedSlaby, Ronald G.; Frey, Karin S. – Child Development, 1975
Developmental levels of gender identity in preschool children were investigated. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Identification (Psychology), Observational Learning, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedJennings, Sally A. – Child Development, 1975
This study investigated whether (a) awareness of sex typing in literature exists in preschool children; (b) children express sex role character preferences; and (c) their recall was affected by reversed sex roles. (ED)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Preschool Children, Recall (Psychology), Role Models
Peer reviewedMoir, D. John – Child Development, 1974
The development of moral judgment in 11-year-old girls is discussed in terms of the evaluation of role taking ability. (ST)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Females
Peer reviewedZimmerman, Barry J. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Grouping, Conceptual Schemes, Instruction
Peer reviewedBryan, Janice Westlund; Luria, Zella – Child Development, 1978
Describes 2 experiments in which children ages 5-6 and 9-10 years viewed slides of male and female models performing matched acts which were sex-appropriate, sex-inappropriate, or sex-neutral. Visual attention was assessed by the method of feedback electroencephalography. Recall and preference for the slides were also measured. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Attention, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Observational Learning
Peer reviewedKeller, Martha Freese; Carlson, Peter M. – Child Development, 1974
Nineteen socially isolated preschool children were exposed either to four videotapes in which social skills were modeled (treatment) or to four sequences of a nature film (control). Observations indicated that treatment produced increases in the frequency with which subjects dispensed and received social reinforcement and the frequency of social…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Observational Learning, Peer Relationship, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedWentzel, Kathryn R. – Child Development, 2002
Examined the utility of parent socialization models for understanding effects of middle school teachers on student adjustment. Found that five teaching dimensions (modeling of motivation, and parenting dimensions of control, maturity demands, democratic communication, and nurturance) predicted student motivation, social behavior, and achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedCook, Thomas D.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed boys in grades two through eight about their occupational aspirations. Found that aspirations of inner-city boys mirrored race and class differences in adult job holdings; the gap between aspirations and expectations was greater for inner-city boys than other boys; and lower occupational aspirations of inner-city boys were related to…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
