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

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    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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  • The relationship of child temperament and maternal behavior to the child's self-esteem

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    Sorte, Joanne Godard
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    High levels of self-esteem (the individual's assessment of self-worth) have been associated with a variety of positive child outcomes, while low levels of self-esteem have been related to problems in child growth and development. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between specific child temperament and parenting...
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    give children clear cues to use in postulating their self-worth. Children who know the limits placed

  • The effects of divorce and related stressors on early adolescents' self-esteem

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    Moon, Christine Ellen
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    Divorce rates have increased in the past three decades. Much research has focused on the effects of divorce on children and adolescents' emotional adjustment. Measures of self-esteem are one way to determine emotional development. Less attention has been devoted to understanding the effect divorce has on another very important developmental...
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  • Profiles of Community Resources and their Influence on Self-Regulation at Preschool : A Focus on Children from Low-Income Families

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    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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    to strengthen the self-regulatory resources of children early in life (Evans & Fuller-Rowell, 2013

  • What Do Girls Learn from Dolls? Sexualized Stimuli and Girls’ Body Esteem and Academic Performance

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    Lundeberg, Pamela J.
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    Although a significant amount of research has investigated the effect of sexualization on women's body esteem and cognitive performance, few researchers have examined the effect of sexualization on girls. Additionally, research that has been conducted regarding girls' experiences of sexualization has primarily focused on media influences. The effect of dolls...
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    .............................................................................................. 16 2.3 Experimenter Effects in Studies with Children

  • Boosting the preschooler memory for schema-inconsistent, gender-based information

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    Forbes, Charles W.
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    For gender-related information, previous studies have shown that children of preschool age are more likely to remember schema-consistent information over schema-inconsistent information. In this study, an attempt was made to boost children's recognition for inconsistent information. In order to do this, children were presented with pictures of both gender-consistent and...
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    unsupported and children did not have a better memory for either type of information. Children in group two

  • Parental beliefs and practices : influences of parenting in Latino/a and Caucasian children's behavioral regulation

    Creator:
    Diaz, Guadalupe
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    The transition to kindergarten can be challenging for many children who do not have the necessary skills to meet the demands of classroom settings such as paying attention, remembering instructions, and demonstrating self-control. Children who lack the necessary behavioral regulation skills to meet the demands in the classroom environment are...
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    , remembering instructions, and demonstrating self-control. Children who lack the necessary behavioral

  • Temperamental reactivity and children's social competence

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    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

  • Motor and social development : differences between children with and without autism?

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    Irwin, J. Megan
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    Current prevalence statistics suggest 1 in 88 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (CDC, 2012). ASDs are pervasive developmental disorders characterized by social communicative deficits and restricted interests and behaviors (APA, 2000). Children with ASD also display deficits in motor skills (Green et al., 2002: Pan, Tsai, &...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Megan MacDonald Current prevalence statistics suggest 1 in 88 children are diagnosed

  • Classroom teachers' accuracy in observing students' motor performance

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    King, Christine Marie
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    The purpose of this study was to examine how accurate classroom teachers' observations are for identifying high and low motor performances. In order to assess teacher accuracy in rating motor performance, an analysis was conducted on students' scores on the Short Form of the Bruininks - Oseretsky Test of Motor...
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    teacher rating scale. Ninety-one children were randomly selected from Fairplay Elementary School in the