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Direct linkViktorija Cepukiene; Julija Janulevice – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Early childhood is essential for the rapid development of self-regulation systems, shaped by brain maturation and parental discipline. Inadequate discipline can hinder this development, leading to behavioral, social, and long-term negative outcomes. Objective: This meta-analysis synthesizes research conducted over the last two decades,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Discipline, Self Control, Preschool Children
Yasumitsu Jikihara; Shunsuke Suzumura; Akiko Hirose; Naoya Todo; Takahiro Kubo; Misako Aramaki; Naomi Shiozaki; Satoko Ando – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Positive marital relations are crucial for healthy family functioning, whereas conflict-ridden marital relations are linked to children's adjustment problems. According to the Emotional Security Theory, destructive interparental conflict leads to children's emotional insecurity, impacting their adjustment. Objective: This three-wave…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Marital Instability
Chelsea Marlborough; Katja Lemermeyer; Daniel J. Coletti; Chris P. Madsen; Caleb Polley; Garrett Sharp; Adam E. Block – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Children with neurodisabilities, including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), autism and other complex needs, frequently experience sleep disturbances, impacting their health, behaviour and caregiver well-being. This study evaluates the effectiveness of Cubby Beds, sensory safety beds designed to improve…
Descriptors: Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Sleep, Furniture, Safety
Marlies Wintmolders; Bien Cuyvers; Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg; Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn; Guy Bosmans – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Theory suggests that attachment figures' regulation of child arousal during stress is central to the development of secure attachment, that is, trust in the attachment figure, and knowledge about care-related interactions, known as the Secure Base Script (SBS). The current study tested the hypothesis that hair cortisol concentration (HCC),…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Physiology, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hoi Shan Cheung; Charissa S. L. Cheah – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
This concept paper introduces a special section on "Parenting Across Cultures: Bridging Commonalities and Specificities in Parental Control and Warmth." In this article, we explore how parental control and warmth manifest and function across diverse cultural contexts, emphasizing both common patterns and culturally specific practices. We…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Affective Behavior, Cultural Differences
Felicia Soemarjono; Mary Louise Hemmeter; Jennifer R. Ledford; Kate Nuhring; Adrienne K. Golden; Erin E. Barton – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2025
Stay-Play-Talk (SPT) is a peer-mediated intervention where peers are taught to stay, play, and talk with buddies during typical classroom activities. This U.S. study replicates and extends findings of previous SPT studies by examining the differential outcomes of SPT and SPT with reinforcement, for children who are emergent bilingual learners and…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Child Behavior, Intervention, Reinforcement
Amadou Boly; Kole Keita; Assi Okara; Guei C. Okou – Education Economics, 2025
We present a model with corrupt and honest examiners, and applicants with heterogeneous innate ability in the education sector with effort and bribe modelled as substitutes. The results show that 'strong' candidates rely only upon effort; 'medium' candidates choose positive levels of bribe and effort; 'weak' candidates rely only on bribery. They…
Descriptors: Cheating, Deception, Social Problems, Antisocial Behavior
Sabina Pauen; Jule Bach – Social Development, 2025
Imitation plays a crucial role in early social learning. Numerous studies indicate that young children copy even actions that are clearly irrelevant for goal achievement--a phenomenon called overimitation (OI). The present study tested whether this finding can be generalized to different forms of faithful nonsense imitation presented in different…
Descriptors: Imitation, Young Children, Child Behavior, Behavior Change
Claudia Hammond-Price; Caroline Bond; Shannon Hatton-Corcoran; Rachel Lyons – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2025
School attendance difficulties including emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) are an ongoing concern. Over recent years, local authorities (LAs) have provided guidance for school staff and other professionals in addressing EBSA. Educational psychologists (EPs) have written or contributed significantly to guidance. In order to establish what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance, Guidance, Educational Psychology
Ted Schoneberger – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2025
In "Verbal Behavior," Skinner (1957) defined verbal behavior as "behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons" (p. 2) in which the delivery of reinforcement has been "conditioned precisely in order to reinforce the behavior of the speaker" (p. 225). By contrast, as part of relational frame theory (RFT),…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Behavior, Definitions, Psychology
Emily R. DeFouw; Julie Sarno Owens; Samantha M. Margherio; Steven Evans – School Psychology Review, 2024
Although intensive interventions can be more costly than less intensive interventions, for some individuals, they may be more cost-effective. We extend the examination of differential cost-effectiveness to teacher consultation by examining the association between teacher-level characteristics (baseline knowledge, beliefs, skills) and change in…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cost Effectiveness, Intervention, Teacher Characteristics
Jennifer J. Lanham – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation was designed to determine which behavior analytic intervention was more effective in the treatment and reduction of mouthing non-nutritive substances in children diagnosed with autism. This study included four participants in an A-B-A reversal design with a component analysis across four intervention phases. The study…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Intervention, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Teresa Del Bianco; Georgia Lockwood Estrin; Julian Tillmann; Bethany F. Oakley; Daisy Crawley; Antonia San José Cáceres; Hannah Hayward; Mandy Potter; Wendy Mackay; Petrusa Smit; Carlie du Plessis; Lucy Brink; Priscilla Springer; Hein Odendaal; Tony Charman; Tobias Banaschewski; Simon Baron-Cohen; Sven Bölte; Mark Johnson; Declan Murphy; Jan Buitelaar; Eva Loth; Emily J. H. Jones – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic individuals experience higher rates of externalising and internalising symptoms that may vary with environmental factors. However, there is limited research on variation across settings that may highlight common factors with globally generalisable effects. Data were taken from two cohorts: a multinational European sample (n = 764; 453…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Socioeconomic Influences, Mental Health
Margaret T. Floress; Lyndsay N. Jenkins; Sara Caldwell; Kaylee Hampton – Contemporary School Psychology, 2024
This exploratory study extends the literature on teachers' stress and self-efficacy in relation to behavior management. Sixty-six middle and high school teachers' use of praise and reprimand during a 20-min observation, in the general education setting, were examined. Following the observation, teachers completed stress and self-efficacy scales,…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Stress Variables, Self Efficacy, Student Behavior
Natalie Grafft; Barbara Mendez-Campos; Danielle T. Walker; Summer Sherburne Hawkins – Youth & Society, 2024
Little is known about the implications of cannabis legalization on adolescent health behaviors. This study sought to examine the relationship between recreational cannabis legalization and adolescent sexual risk behaviors. Data on 371,487 respondents who have ever had sexual intercourse from 41 states in the 2005 to 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Sexuality, Adolescents, Health Behavior
