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Children's Perception of Relations between Anger or Anxiety and Coping: Continuity and Discontinuity of Relational Structures
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Vierhaus, Marc; Lohaus, Arnold – Social Development, 2009
The main research question of this study is whether children's emotional responses to specific stress-evoking situations (anger or anxiety) and the coping strategies they would use are related. Furthermore, it is asked if these relationships are consistent over a specific age range. A total sample of 432 second graders participated in a…
Descriptors: Coping, Anxiety, Emotional Response, Stress Variables
Genetic Basis of Behavior--Especially of Altruism
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Blaney, Paul H.; And Others – American Psychologist, 1976
Presents pro and con comments with regards to 1975 APA presidential address under the heading of genetic basis of behavior--especially of altruism. Other comments are subsumed under the heading of biological versus social evolution, and the value of tradition. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Altruism, Behavior Development, Cultural Influences, Evolution
Inhibited and Uninhibited Children: A Follow-up Study.
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Reznick, J. Steven; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Observed a group of 46 children classified at 20 months as either behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited, and 18 children who were classified aa falling at neither extreme at 5.5 years of age, in contexts designed to evaluate behavior in social situations and heart rate, heart variability, and pupillary dilation to cognitive tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Are We Programmed?
Dobbs, Edith – Minnesota Reading Quarterly, 1971
Discusses the influences on children of the stereotyped portrayals of animals and people found in children's books. References. (VJ)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Books
Assertion: The Literature Since 1970.
Kelley, Colleen – 1977
This review presents a brief history of literature on assertion. It then concentrates on literature published after 1970. The review is divided into two areas: popular books, subdivided into introductory works and more specialized works, and professional books. Materials cited are reviewed and evaluated. (Author/JLL)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Assertiveness, Behavior Development, Daily Living Skills
Adlerian-Based Responses for the Mental Health Counselor to the Challenging Behaviors of Teens.
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Ballou, Roger A. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2002
The Adlerian concept of behavior being purposeful and socially embedded offers a contextual backdrop for understanding teens. This article offers an overview of the Dreikurs scheme, its applicability to understanding teen behavior, and, through a case study, the method to be used to speculate about the goal and purpose that undergrid a teenager's…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavior Development
Relationships Among Parent Ratings of Behavior Characteristics of Children. United States.
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National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1972
This report presents information on the interrelation of selected behavioral characteristics of children six to eleven years of age as obtained in the Health Examination Survey of 1963-65. Data were obtained from the parents on a self-administered medical history questionnaire and a more detailed supplemental medical history administered by a…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Children