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  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    children. Results found that parent and child characteristics most strongly predicted the social

  • Impact of prosocial classroom and home learning programs on preschool children's prosocial behavior

    Creator:
    Doescher, Susan M.
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    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....
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    Dissertation

  • Developing social skills

    Creator:
    Oregon State University. Extension Service and Bailey, Cindee M.
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    Learning how to interact with others is necessary for being a member of any group—family, neighborhood, school, work, or community organization. Through each new encounter we stretch our understanding of ourselves and others. Being able to understand and reach out to others makes us feel needed and competent, a part...
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    Technical Report
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    act in specific situations and why • Praise children when they use social skills Although you

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    since birth. Some children may be more successful in social situations more naturally than others. For

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

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    paucity of research examining the relationship of motor skills and social skills in young children with

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
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    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

  • Parental contributions to aspects of ethnic development among four- and seven-year-old Chinese-American children

    Creator:
    Lin, Kowhei Sophia
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    This study had two major purposes. The first focused upon understanding the development of aspects of ethnic development among 4- and 7-year-old Chinese-American boys and girls from immigrant and non-immigrant families. The second focused upon understanding the contribution of selected parental (fathers' and mothers') characteristics on aspects of children's ethnic...
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    Dissertation
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    -American Children by Kowhei Sophia Lin A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • Moving on : the effects of frequent childhood mobility on a low-income population

    Creator:
    Hilberg, Beth Alyne
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between frequent childhood mobility and perceived social support, education level, and economic well-being in a sample of former Even Start parents. Theoretically the mechanisms for the disruption of frequent mobility are studied through both social capital theory and an ecological...
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    Masters Thesis
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    whole, as all the children in the school benefit from their work. Social capital is unique, then, in

  • 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...
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    social competency. Previous studies have combined the two skill sets involved in behavioral

  • The Bullying Experiences of Muslim-American Youth in U.S. Public Schools

    Creator:
    Baadarani, Dalia
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    Bullying cultivates insecurity and fear while generating attention for the perpetrator and degrading the student-victim in front of others. The act erodes the self-efficacy and identity of minority students more specifically and produces a hostile climate that undermines the learning and social development to all affected. Despite the pervasive negative...
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    Dissertation
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the