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  • Parenting style and practice : predictors of behavioral regulation in preschool

    Creator:
    Pritchard, Megan E.
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    Increasing numbers of children are entering kindergarten without the behavioral skills needed to cope with the demands of the classroom environment. Moreover, a number of studies have documented that young children's behavioral regulation (including attention, working memory, and inhibitory control skills) plays an important role in later academic achievement (McClelland,...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Profiles of Community Resources and their Influence on Self-Regulation at Preschool : A Focus on Children from Low-Income Families

    Creator:
    Finders, Jennifer K.
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    Self-regulation skills lay the foundation for short- and long-term school success, and strengthening these skills in early childhood can have significant implications for immediate and future life outcomes (e.g., Blair & Diamond, 2008; McClelland, Acock, Piccinin, Rhea, & Stallings, 2013). A large body of literature has investigated how characteristics of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    to strengthen the self-regulatory resources of children early in life (Evans & Fuller-Rowell, 2013

  • Temperamental reactivity and children's social competence

    Creator:
    Nolen-Morse, Jessica M.
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    The current study examined relations between temperamental reactivity at 6 months and social competence in first grade, including if emotion regulation at 54 months played a role as mediator and/or moderator between temperamental reactivity and social competence in first grade. Previous studies have shown that children who are high on...
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    the classroom (Gresham & Elliott, 1990). Children exhibit self-control in conflict situations, when

  • Moving Towards Academic Success and Life Long Learning

    Creator:
    Becker, Derek R.
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    Early learning skills, such as executive function (EF), are a key component of healthy development and predict long-term academic success. Yet many children are entering kindergarten without the necessary skills (including EF) that are needed to set them on a successful learning trajectory. Early prekindergarten classrooms that encourage a high...
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    Dissertation
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    Intensity, Executive Function, and Academic Achievement in Grade School Children manuscript

  • Early Predictors of Academic Achievement and Externalizing Problems for Children in Low-Income Families

    Creator:
    Duncan, Robert J.
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    Empirical studies and theory have identified many early predictors of children's academic achievement and externalizing problems. Moreover, research shows that children's early cognitive abilities and behavioral problems are strong predictors of later academic achievement and externalizing problems. The current dissertation studies extend previous work and unpack how early predictors relate...
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    Dissertation
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    Problems for Children in Low-Income Families Abstract approved

  • Parental warmth and children's effortful control : predictors of social-emotional competency

    Creator:
    Murray, Amy K.
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    Recent research has examined complex relationships between parent and child characteristics and the development of children’s social-emotional competencies. The over-arching objective of the current study was to compare differential patterns of predictability between the individual social-emotional competencies of cooperation, responsibility, and independence, and a social-emotional competency composite, to parental warmth...
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    of Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on March 22, 2007. Title