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Gajos, Jamie M.; Beaver, Kevin M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
A substantial body of research has reported significant associations between children's levels of self-control and a variety of academic and behavioural outcomes. As a result, studies have begun to investigate the factors involved in the development of self-control. The current study builds on this body of research and examines the extent to which…
Descriptors: Self Control, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Child Development
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Belsky, Jay; Beaver, Kevin M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: The capacity to control or regulate one's emotions, cognitions and behavior is central to competent functioning, with limitations in these abilities associated with developmental problems. Parenting appears to influence such self-regulation. Here the differential-susceptibility hypothesis is tested that the more putative "plasticity…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Genetics