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Language, Aggression, and Self-Regulation in Young Children
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Clark, Robert; Menna, Rosanne; McAndrew, Annamaria J.; Johnson, Emily M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2021
Aggression in early childhood has been found to predict negative outcomes later in life, including delinquency and psychopathology. The present study explored associations between young children's language, self-regulation, and physical aggression. A community sample of 126 preschool children aged 3 to 6 years (M = 4.87 years, SD = 0.87; 59% boys)…
Descriptors: Aggression, Preschool Children, Mothers, Self Control
Mother-Child Synchrony Is High across Child Executive Function Levels for Both Physical and Digital Spatial Play
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Jamie J. Jirout; Sierra Eisen; Zoe S. Robertson; Tanya M. Evans – Grantee Submission, 2022
Play is a powerful influence on children's learning and parents can provide opportunities to learn specific content by scaffolding children's play. Parent-child synchrony (i.e., harmony, reciprocity and responsiveness in interactions) is a component of parent-child interactions that is not well characterized in studies of play. We tested whether…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Executive Function
The Mediating Role of Emotional Control in the Link between Parenting and Young Children's Physical Aggression
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Woods, Sara E.; Menna, Rosanne; McAndrew, Annamaria J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Aggression in early childhood has been found to predict future psychopathology, academic problems, and delinquency. In a sample of 136 mother-child pairs (M[subscript age] = 4 years, 11 months, SD = 11 months, 58% boys) associations among mothers' responding with distress to children's negative emotions, children's emotional control, and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Young Children, Emotional Response, Self Control
Sleep and Cognition in Preschool Years: Specific Links to Executive Functioning
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Bernier, Annie; Beauchamp, Miriam H.; Bouvette-Turcot, Andrée-Anne; Carlson, Stephanie M.; Carrier, Julie – Child Development, 2013
This study investigated the prospective links between sleep in infancy and preschoolers' cognitive performance. Mothers of 65 infants completed a sleep diary when infants were aged 1 year, and children completed two subscales of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence at 4 years, indexing general cognitive ability and complex…
Descriptors: Sleep, Executive Function, Infants, Preschool Children
Emotion Understanding in Preschool Children: The Role of Executive Functions
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Martins, Eva Costa; Osório, Ana; Veríssimo, Manuela; Martins, Carla – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
This investigation was aimed at studying the relations between executive functions (EFs) and categorical emotion understanding while controlling for preschoolers' IQ, language ability and theory of mind (ToM). Specifically, we wanted to analyse the association between emotion understanding and set shifting, due to the lack of studies with this EF.…
Descriptors: Role, Executive Function, Preschool Children, Theory of Mind