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The Development of Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation and Their Effects on Academic Achievement in Childhood
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Edossa, Ashenafi Kassahun; Schroeders, Ulrich; Weinert, Sabine; Artelt, Cordula – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Self-regulation is an essential ability of children to cope with various developmental challenges. This study examines the developmental interplay between emotional and behavioral self-regulation during childhood and the relationship with academic achievement using data from the longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Using cross-lagged panel…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Control, Young Children, Teacher Evaluation
Maltreatment, Negative Expressivity, and the Development of Type D Attachments from 12 to 24 Months of Age.
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Barnett, Douglas; Ganiban, Jody; Cicchetti, Dante – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Investigated relationship between children's negative expressivity to the formation of an Insecure- Disorganized/Disoriented, Type D attachment pattern in follow-up of maltreated and nonmaltreated children at 12 and 24 months of age. Found that experiencing maltreatment in infancy was associated with Type D attachment through the toddler years,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Toward a Developmental Theory of Prosocial Motivation.
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Hoffman, Martin L. – 1972
This paper presents a summary of behavior concepts that together provide the outline of a possible developmental theory of prosocial motivation. These concepts, based on human role-taking capacities, include empathic distress, sympathetic distress, personal guilt, and existential guild. At first, a child cannot discriminate between himself and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Concept Formation
Attachment Disorganization.
Solomon, Judith, Ed.; George, Carol, Ed. – 1999
Disorganized attachment relationships were first formally identified on the basis of the anomalous behavior of some infants during laboratory separations and reunions with the parent. This book presents new research and theory on the topic of attachment disorganization, an area of investigation that is of increasing importance in the study of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development
The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together. Family and Public Policy Series.
Maccoby, Eleanor E. – 1998
This book seeks to explain how gender affects human development from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood. The book's introduction states the two theses of the book: first, gender differences appear primarily in group, or social, contexts; and second, gender differentiation can be understood only in a developmental context--the sexes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Aggression, Behavior Change
Viewing Violence: How Media Violence Affects Your Child's and Adolescent's Development.
Levine, Madeline – 1996
Numerous studies have shown that viewing media violence encourages aggression, desensitization, and pessimism in children. This book reviews research on the effects of television and movie violence on children and adolescents, offering parents suggestions for dealing with the problems it creates. It is asserted that parents frequently…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advocacy, Affective Behavior, Aggression