This study investigated the impact of prosocial classroom and
home learning programs on children's prosocial behavior. More
specifically, it determined the influences of adult modeling and
encouragement in these programs on children's cooperating, sharing,
and helping behaviors immediately following the six-week intervention
programs, and six weeks after the programs' termination....
This study explored the relationship between ethnic and ego identities taking
into consideration age at arrival in the U.S., gender of adolescent, family functioning,
and parental performance of ethnic behaviors/activities. In addition, this study
described the general nature of ethnic and ego identity development among Korean-
American adolescents.
One hundred...
Contributions of selected personal and social perceptual factors to the
teaching performance of 67 female, undergraduate, Caucasian students, enrolled as
student teachers in a multicultural preschool setting associated with a teacher
preparation program, were examined. The multicultural preschool setting enrolled
children from both International and U.S. cultures. Student teachers were...
The purpose of this study was to examine the general nature of attributions of Chinese parents in the U.S. regarding their preschool children's social behaviors. Eighty-seven parents with preschool children participated. The attributions were examined along three causal dimensions: locus of causality (internal versus external), stability (stable versus unstable), and...
This exploratory study examined whether temperament, home environment, and family stress impact the amount of prosocial behavior displayed by pre-school age low-income children and examined how much of an impact each factor has. Each factor was explored in depth along sub-scale dimensions including, (1) self-regulatory temperament, negative reactive temperament, and...
As increasing numbers of poor children enter child care programs due to changes in work requirements under the Welfare Reform Act, there is a critical need to examine factors that may affect the quality of care that these children receive. One factor that has received limited attention in the literature...
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...
The purposes of this study were to find out about the associations between
hostile attributional bias and aggressive behaviors among preschool-aged children and
to identify possible sources of their hostile attributional bias. Seventy-two
preschoolers with an average age of 4.76 and their mothers acted as participants.
Children's hostile attributional bias...
