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International Journal of Early Years Education, 2000
Highlights articles in the ERIC database on early childhood development. Topics of papers and journal articles annotated include early years language and literacy curriculum; children's temperaments; preschool mathematics; and a multilingual nursery class. (HTH)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Hunt, Jasper – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 1996
In the ethical arena, our society offers the choice of an ethics of emotion versus an ethics of rules, inadequate choices when compared to ethics based in strong moral character. Moral education and character development are basic elements of adventure and experiential education, and practitioners achieve excellence in practice only when they…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Ethics, Experiential Learning, Moral Development

Ge, Xiaojia; Conger, Rand D. – American Journal of Community Psychology, 1999
Examined relationships between adolescent emotional and behavioral problems and late adolescent personality in a longitudinal study. Found that psychological distress and behavioral problems experienced during adolescent years of 7th to 10th grade are significantly related to personality structure during the final year of high school. (JPB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Emotional Adjustment

Meeus, Wim; Dekovic, Maja – Adolescence, 1995
Dutch adolescents, ages 12 to 14, completed the Utrect-Groningen Identity Development Scale, which encompasses separate scales for commitment in exploration for relational, school, and occupational identity. Results show that relational identity becomes consistently stronger as adolescents age, and that for girls, relational identity is much more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Career Choice, Higher Education
Grayson, Randall – Camping Magazine, 2001
Defines "at-risk youth." Describes characteristics of resilient children and their families, friends and mentors, schools, and communities. Discusses camp program practices that have been shown to promote resiliency: focus on youth development, intentional processes that target the personal domain, organizational elements borrowed from…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Camping, Child Development, Intervention

Orion, Judy – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses the development of the human hand from birth to age three as it contributes to the formation of human personality. Considers how parallels in eye, hand, brain, and motor skill development portray the evolving complexity and adaptation of the human grasp and illustrate Montessori theories about the relationship between physical experience…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Experience, Infants, Montessori Method
Pancer, S. Mark; Pratt, Michael; Hunsberger, Bruce; Alisat, Susan – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
What distinguishes adolescents who are active in community and political life from those who are not? In an attempt to answer this question, students in their last years of secondary school completed a measure of community and political activities, along with measures of parent and peer interactions, identity development, and adjustment. Cluster…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis, Activism, Secondary School Students
Chuang, Susan S.; Lamb, Michael E.; Hwang, C. Philip – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
We investigated the development of ego-control (EC) and ego-resiliency (ER) over a 13-year period in a cohort of Swedish children first assessed at 2 years of age. Children became more ego-controlled over time although individual differences in EC remained stable. Children's levels of resiliency increased from 2 to 3 years of age and then declined…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Self Concept, Personality, Individual Differences
Hoff, Erika – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
Researchers in the fields of cognitive and language development have made less use of large-scale longitudinal designs and of person-centered approaches to data analysis than have researchers in the fields of social and personality development. It is argued that differences among domains of developmental psychology in the research methods employed…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Personality, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
Amundson, Kristen – 1993
This booklet is a tool to help teachers find ways to keep their commitment to education strong. It shares success stories of educators who have kept their professional dedication alive, despite day-to-day hassles and significant obstacles. It also outlines steps teachers can take to keep their energy levels high. In each section space is provided…
Descriptors: Burnout, Elementary Secondary Education, Personality Development, Self Actualization
Johnson, Donal B.; And Others – 1993
This exploratory study investigated whether the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) can predict an infant's behavior on mastery motivation tasks at 1 and 2 years of age. Subjects were 31 normal, full-term infants from white, mostly middle class families. Infants were assessed using the NBAS with Kansas Supplements (NBAS-K) at a…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development, Infant Behavior, Infants

Ziv, Avner; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1975
Moral judgments of Israeli and Soviet educated adolescents who had recently arrived in Israel were compared on a relativistic-realistic dimension, using a specially designed instrument - the Morality Shifting in Adolescence Questionnaire. Soviety educated adolescents were significantly more realistically oriented in moral judgment and in both…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Socoski, Patrick M. – 1984
This paper explores the issue of sex bias in a contemporary major theory of moral development, cognitive moral theory. It explains critical reactions by Carol Gilligan and others questioning whether cognitive moral theory adequately accounts for female moral reasoning and behavior in its theory and research procedures. Several general…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Moral Development, Moral Values, Personality Development
The Concept of Energy in Psychological Theory. Cognitive Science Program, Technical Report No. 86-2.
Posner, Michael I.; Rothbart, Mary Klevjord – 1986
This paper describes a basic framework for integration of computational and energetic concepts in psychological theory. The framework is adapted from a general effort to understand the neural systems underlying cognition. The element of the cognitive system that provides the best basis for attempting to relate energetic and computational ideas is…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
Sockett, Hugh; Alston, Kal – 1989
This document explores the way in which courage, as a central virtue, and friendship, as a valued human state, have a significant place within the view of the education of character. Education of character is determined to bridge the gap between moral judgment and moral action. This paper has five sections. First, the need for character education…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Friendship, Moral Development