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  • Play With Your Older Sister: Relations Between Having an Older Sibling and School Readiness

    Creator:
    Tafuri, Sara A.
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    The present study examined if having an older sibling was significantly related to stronger selfregulation and achievement, in a sample of 74 preschool children participating in a selfregulation intervention. It was hypothesized that children with an older sibling in the fall would have higher self-regulation and achievement scores than children...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    : _____________________________________________________ Megan McClelland The present study examined if having an older

  • The influence of children's learning-related social skills and the home literacy environment on early literacy skills

    Creator:
    Farris, Carrie L.
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    The present study investigated how the home literacy environment and children's learning-related social skills independently and interactively predicted early literacy skills in a sample of 72 children. Hierarchical regressions revealed that the home literacy environment predicted children's early reading and vocabulary skills, when controlling for maternal education and child age....
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Skills. Megan M. McClelland The present study investigated how the home literacy environment and

  • Early family risk and children's academic achievement

    Creator:
    Sektnan, Michaella A.
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    Children who have multiple family risk factors are at increased risk for poor developmental outcomes, including poor academic achievement. The present study focused on charting the pathways through which early family risk – as indexed by ethnic minority status, low maternal education, low family income, and chronic maternal depressive symptoms...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Academic Achievement. Abstract approved: Megan M. McClelland Children who

  • 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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    approved: Megan M. McClelland Recent research has examined complex relationships between parent

  • Measuring behavioral regulation in young children

    Creator:
    Wanless, Shannon B.
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    Early behavioral regulation has been identified as an important component of school readiness, yet few easy-to-administer measures exist that directly assess this skill in young children outside of the United States (U.S.). In this dissertation, two studies were conducted to examine the reliability and validity of a direct measure of...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    as a student, a wife, and a mother. CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Megan McClelland assisted