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Vecchio, Giovanni Maria; Zava, Federica; Gerbino, Maria; Baumgartner, Emma; Sette, Stefania – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system faced unprecedented challenges, including global school closures, the cancellation of face-to-face teaching, and ultimately school step-wise or partial reopening. Childcare providers have faced additional significant stressors from the beginning of the outbreak. The present…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Psychological Patterns
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Ferretti, Larissa K.; Bub, Kristen L. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: Using data from 3,250 participants in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort, we used structural equation modeling to investigate whether family routines (e.g., bedtime routine, reading routine) established in preschool predict children's school readiness (i.e., academic skills, social-emotional skills, and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Family Environment, Structural Equation Models
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Roskam, Isabelle; Hoang, Thi Vân; Schelstraete, Marie-Anne – Early Education and Development, 2017
Children's social competence and behavioral adjustment are key issues for child development, education, and clinical research. Cross-cultural analyses are necessary to provide relevant methods of assessing them for cross-cultural research. The aim of the current study was to contribute to this important line of research by validating the 3-factor…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Child Development
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Brock, Laura L.; Curby, Timothy W. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Teachers' ratings of conflict and closeness as well as observed emotional support are known predictors of children's social functioning. Consistency in emotional support represents an emerging line of research. The goal of the present study is to understand whether the relation between the consistency of teachers' emotional support and children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship
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Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Acosta, Sandra; Davis, Heather; Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn; Saenz, Laura; Soares, Denise; Resendez, Nora; Zhu, Leina – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This study investigated the association between Mexican American maternal education and socioeconomic status (SES) and child vocabulary as mediated by parental reading beliefs, home literacy environment (HLE), and parent-child shared reading frequency. As part of a larger study, maternal reports of education level, SES, HLE, and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Socioeconomic Status, Literacy, Beliefs
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Buettner, Cynthia K.; Jeon, Lieny; Hur, Eunhye; Garcia, Rachel E. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Early care and education has pronounced implications for young children's social-emotional learning. Although program structural and classroom process quality indicators have been widely explored, teachers' personal social-emotional capacity has only recently been recognized as an indicator of quality. This study reviewed and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Gündüz, Gizem; Yagmurlu, Bilge; Harma, Mehmet – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: In this study, we examined self-regulatory skills, namely, effortful control and executive function, in Turkish preschoolers (N = 217) and their mediating roles in the associations between parenting and children's socioemotional competence. We also investigated the role of family socioeconomic status and maternal psychological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Control, Executive Function, Preschool Children
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Cadima, Joana; Gamelas, Ana M.; McClelland, Megan; Peixoto, Carla – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: This study examined concurrent associations between family sociodemographic risk, self-regulation, and early literacy and mathematics in young children from Azores, Portugal (N = 186). Family sociodemographic risk was indexed by low maternal education, low family income, and low occupational status. Behavioral aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Preschool Children, Family Income
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Nievar, M. Angela; Moske, Amanda Kay; Johnson, Deborah Jean; Chen, Qi – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study investigates the effect of the early home environment on self-regulation in preschoolers, and how self-regulation relates to later school achievement, while taking into account family resources. Participants were part of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Family Environment, Self Control, Preschool Children
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Bassett, Hideko Hamada; Denham, Susanne; Mincic, Melissa; Graling, Kelly – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: A theory-based 2-factor structure of preschoolers' emotion knowledge (i.e., recognition of emotional expression and understanding of emotion-eliciting situations) was tested using confirmatory factor analysis. Compared to 1- and 3-factor models, the 2-factor model showed a better fit to the data. The model was found to be…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Emotional Intelligence, Preschool Children, Minority Group Children
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Searle, Amelia Kate; Miller-Lewis, Lauren R.; Sawyer, Michael G.; Baghurst, Peter A. – Early Education and Development, 2013
The aim of this prospective study was to identify preschool factors that are associated with children's classroom engagement during their 1st school year. The study was guided by a social-motivational process model that highlights the importance of parent-child and teacher-child relationships in promoting engagement. In preschool, parents and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Kindergarten, Learner Engagement, Parent Child Relationship
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Mintz, Tamar M.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Hatfield, Bridget E. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: This study examined the extent to which maternal sensitivity in infancy and toddlerhood is associated with children's social and relational competence and problems in the early years of schooling as well as the extent to which this association is mediated by children's effortful control abilities. Data from 1,364 children (705…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Structural Equation Models, Child Health, Parent Child Relationship
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Jones, Stephanie M.; Bub, Kristen L.; Raver, C. Cybele – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: This study examines the theory of change of the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), testing a sequence of theory-derived mediating mechanisms that include the quality of teacher-child relationships and children's self-regulation. The CSRP is a multicomponent teacher and classroom-focused intervention, and its…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, School Readiness, Self Control, Intervention
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Chan, Siu Mui; Bowes, Jennifer; Wyver, Shirley – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine parenting style in the domain of emotion socialization through studying the relationships among parenting styles, emotion-related parental practices, and parental goals of Hong Kong-Chinese mothers. Data were collected from 189 Hong Kong-Chinese mothers of 6- to 8-year-old children. Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Goal Orientation, Emotional Intelligence
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Silva, Kassondra M.; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Sulik, Michael J.; Valiente, Carlos; Huerta, Snjezana; Edwards, Alison; Eggum, Natalie D.; Kupfer, Anne S.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Wilson, Shauna B.; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Landry, Susan H.; Swank, Paul R.; Assel, Michael A.; Taylor, Heather B. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of children's effortful control and quality of relationships with teachers to school attitudes longitudinally in an ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged sample. Data were collected as part of a larger intervention project during mid-fall, winter, and late spring…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, School Attitudes, Low Income, Structural Equation Models
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