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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Teachers' ratings of children's constructive coping and attentional control were positively related to boys' social skills and peer status. Children's emotional intensity and their coping behavior that involved acting out were negatively related to girls' and boys' social skills and boys' peer status. Mothers' reports of boys' low emotional…
Descriptors: Coping, Emotional Adjustment, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship
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Liew, Jeffrey; Eisenberg, Nancy; Reiser, Mark – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
Relations among effortful control/low negative emotionality, immediate reactions in a situation that usually calls for the masking of disappointment (i.e., the use of display rules), and social competence/adjustment were investigated for 78 preschool children (mean age=4.87 years). Parents, teachers, and peers rated children on negative…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the relations of emotionality and regulation to preschoolers' naturally occurring anger reactions through observations of behavior. Children's use of verbal objections to anger situations were positively related to constructive coping and attentional control, particularly for boys, and negatively related to girls' anger intensity,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Anger, Coping