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  • Supporting children who struggle with self-regulation : the role of early family risk and child care quality

    Creator:
    Pratt, Megan E.
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    Children's early self-regulation skills have long-term implications for a variety of academic, social, and health outcomes. Unfortunately, children facing multiple family risk factors (e.g., harsh parenting, economic disadvantage) are more likely to struggle with early self-regulation. Despite early disparities in self-regulation, promising intervention evidence suggests that high quality prekindergarten experiences...
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    differences in children’s early self-regulation, with children characterized by the profile including high

  • Strengthening school readiness for children at risk : evaluating self-regulation measures and an intervention using classroom games

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    Schmitt, Sara A.
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    In recent years, self-regulation has emerged as a foundational skill for academic success and well-being. Unfortunately, many children enter kindergarten without the self-regulation skills necessary to succeed. Children from high-risk backgrounds (e.g., low-income) are particularly vulnerable for difficulties in self-regulation development. Given these documented gaps in self-regulation, it has become...
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    documented gaps in self-regulation, it has become critical to first identify children at risk for poor self

  • 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

  • "And when they woke up... they were monkeys!" Using classroom games to improve preschoolers's behavioral self-regulation

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    Tominey, Shauna L. M.
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    Behavioral self-regulation has emerged as an important predictor of academic success as early as preschool. Few studies, however, have examined ways to improve children's behavioral self-regulation in preschool, prior to formal school entry. This dissertation includes two studies examining a pilot intervention using classroom games to improve behavioral self-regulation with...
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    designed to help children practice behavioral self-regulation skills. In the spring (time 2), children’s

  • Factors that influence the quality of teacher implementation of a school-based social-emotional learning and health promotion program

    Creator:
    Malloy, Margaret
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    Research regarding factors that promote high-quality implementation of school-based prevention programs has increased markedly over the past decade as it has become increasingly recognized that evidence-based programs are often not well implemented. Whole-school interventions may be particularly complex to implement because they are intended to involve all school personnel and...
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    important areas of implementation science that relate to SELHP programs for children and youth in schools

  • Measures of executive function : convergent validity and links to academic achievement in preschool

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    Duncan, Robert J.
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    Executive functions (including attentional shifting/flexibility, working memory, and inhibitory control) are strong predictors of children's early school success (Blair & Razza, 2007; Espy et al., 2004). The current study explored questions related to measurement of executive functions in preschool-aged children. Convergent and predictive validity were assessed for two traditional executive...
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    executive functions in preschool-aged children. Convergent and predictive validity were assessed for two

  • 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

  • Emotion regulation and hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence

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    Lewis, Kendra M.
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    This study posited that maturational growth in emotion regulation should be associated with reduction in hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence. The longitudinal design assessed emotion regulation and hyperactivity in an urban community sample of children in three waves, at ages 10.6, 11.6, and 12.6 years. A parallel growth curve...
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    design assessed emotion regulation and hyperactivity in an urban community sample of children in three

  • Pathways to Well-Being : A Mixed Methods Study on Purpose in Life in Middle Adulthood

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    Ko, Han-Jung
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    An ability to meet the changing demands associated with development promotes purpose in life, a defining feature of psychological well-being. Midlife adults consistently report higher purpose in life compared to older adults. However, less is known about the dynamics of purpose in life in the transition from middle to older...
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    , and/or centering on relationships. Their sources of purpose in life included self-needs, work

  • Evaluation of a social-emotional and character development program : methods and outcomes

    Creator:
    Lewis, Kendra M.
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    Schools are increasingly expected to prevent and decrease violence, substance use, and other problem behaviors linked to academics and prepare students to be contributing members of society. One approach with proven success in promoting positive outcomes related to a broad range of student behaviors and personal characteristics is social-emotional learning,...
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    effective in improving the SECD developmental status of children from this population. Data for this