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Burke, John Charles – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
This paper reviews research on disturbances of children with developmental delays and handicaps in responding to complex stimuli, suggesting that such disturbances may deleteriously influence behavioral/neurophysiological development. Intervention programs for teaching children with autism a generalized set to use in responding to complex…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Development, Children, Difficulty Level

Smallbone, Stephen W.; Dadds, Mark R. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1998
Forty-eight incarcerated sex offenders were compared with 16 property offenders and 16 nonoffenders on self-report measures of childhood maternal and paternal attachment and adult attachment. Results suggest that insecure childhood attachments may be related to offending behavior generally and that certain combinations of childhood attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Correctional Institutions, Criminals

Chen, Xinyin; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Collected behavioral inhibition data from Chinese and Canadian 2-year-olds, and obtained information on mothers' child-rearing attitudes and beliefs. Found that Chinese toddlers were significantly more inhibited than Canadians. For Canadians, inhibition was associated positively with mothers' punishment orientation and negatively with mothers'…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries

Barnett, Douglas; Vondra, Joan I. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Reviews conceptual background on atypical patterns of early attachments, including basic theoretical terms and constructs of attachment theory; the nature and function of the original classification system; notions of "exceptional cases" or "atypical patterns"; and implications of atypicality for both a classification system of attachment behavior…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories

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

Bradley, Robert H.; Corwyn, Robert F. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2001
Role of self-efficacy beliefs as a mediator and moderator of the relation between the home environment and well-being was examined for both European American and African American adolescents. Found that self-efficacy beliefs sometimes mediate the relation between experiences in the home environment and measures of adolescent development. Effects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Behavior Development

Shaw, Daniel S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Mothers and infants were observed in the laboratory when the infants were 12, 18, and 24 months. Mothers reported their child's behavior at 36 months. Predictors of boys' externalizing behavior at two and three years were maternal unresponsiveness and infant attention seeking, aggression, and noncompliance. For girls, infant noncompliance was…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior

Zener, Rita Schaefer – NAMTA Journal, 1999
Defines normalization and deviations in child development. Discusses the three different levels in the normalization process. Asserts that guiding the process of normalization should drive the practice of Montessori education. Concludes that whenever there are brief episodes of normalization, the true nature of the child shows itself. (JS)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems

Hess, Elisabeth K.; Walker, Anthony M. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2001
Excerpts were taken from transcriptions of four interviews with youth in a special education school. Each adolescent had a history of outbursts, uncontrolled anger, and aggressive behavior with teachers and peers in schools, and in the community. Adolescents discuss their progress in understanding their anger and describe ways adults can help them…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Aggression, Anger
Bissell, Lianne; Phillips, Neil; Kroese, Biza Stenfert – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
Carers' behaviour is thought to contribute to the development and maintenance of challenging behaviour in people with learning disabilities (Emerson et al. 1995; Hastings & Remington 1994). The present study sought to investigate the effectiveness of a behavioural intervention in the management of such problem behaviours by means of a long-term…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Holistic Evaluation, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Caregivers
Mahoney, Joseph L.; Stattin, Hakan; Lord, Heather – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study involves a two-year longitudinal investigation of adolescent participation in unstructured youth recreation centres and the development of antisocial behaviour. Participants were 1163 adolescents who represented 92% of all eighth-grade students in the town of Orebro, Sweden, during the fall of 1999. Antisocial young people and those…
Descriptors: School Activities, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Social Environment
Mattaini, Mark A.; McGuire, Melissa S. – Behavior Modification, 2006
Youth violence is widely recognized as a critical social issue in the United States, and many approaches to prevention have been developed in recent years. Emerging research suggests that only approaches that are deeply embedded in cultural, community, and organizational contexts are likely to be powerful enough to have a meaningful collective…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Social Problems, Violence, Interpersonal Competence
Fitzgerald, Linda F.; Weidner, Heidemarie Z. – 1995
A study examined caring attitudes in nursing students, specifically how students ranked characteristics of caring behavior, how the reading of personal narratives and literary works dealing with caring influenced caring behavior, and, how keeping a personal journal influenced caring behavior. Subjects were nine students in a seminar entitled…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavior Development, Caregiver Role, Course Content
Rickman, David L. – 1995
Although it is difficult to ascertain precisely the time at which the study of individual differences became recognized as a specialty within the psychological sciences, there appears to be much agreement among historians that its development was fostered primarily within the United States during the late 19th century. This paper examines the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences
Hoard, Cynthia E.; Clark, Henry T., III – 1992
A study examined preschoolers' metacognitive self-regulatory behaviors. It was hypothesized that tasks that omitted or greatly decreased verbalization would allow preschool children to exhibit evidence of metacognitive self-regulatory behaviors. Subjects were 20 preschool children, half identified as special needs and half designated as typical…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages