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Jussi Järvinen; Lauri Hietajärvi; Elina E. Ketonen; Katariina Salmela-Aro – Educational Psychology, 2025
This study examines how task instruction and task appraisals predict engagement and disaffection in classroom moments. We assessed 2,560 momentary survey responses from 124 Finnish 7th grade students using a within-person analytical approach. The results showed that students were more engaged during active instruction and when they had choice in…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Learner Engagement, Instruction, Middle School Students
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Misailidi, Plousia; Kapsali, Katerina – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
The relation between children's guilt proneness and theory of mind (???) was examined in children (? = 96) aged 7- to 11-years. Guilt proneness was assessed with a self-report scenario-based measure and ToM was examined with a battery of first-order and second-order mental-state tasks. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that second-order,…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Moral Values, Psychological Patterns, Prediction
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Saswati Chaudhuri; Eija Pakarinen; Heli Muhonen; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen – Educational Psychology, 2024
This study investigated associations between quality of the teacher-student relationship (closeness and conflict) and teachers' (N = 48) visual focus of attention in Grade 1 classrooms in fall and spring, and it explored to what extent students' (N = 650) gender and task-avoidant behaviour moderated the associations. Results showed first that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Gender Differences, Teacher Student Relationship, Attention Control
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Wilson, Andrew; Kim, Wonsun; Raudenbush, Bryan – English Language Teaching, 2016
The purpose of the study is to investigate if the effects of chewing cinnamon flavored gum can increase mood, feeling and spelling acquisition. 5th grade students (n = 22) at Ilshin elementary school in South Korea served as participants. The same students were required to take 4 spelling tests with 1 given every day over the course of 4 days. For…
Descriptors: Spelling, Psychological Patterns, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Tadic, Nadja – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2016
Stance refers to a display of a socially recognized epistemic or affective attitude toward a referent or proposition (Ochs, 1993). Although this display of attitude can be performed linguistically, paralinguistically, and non-verbally (Du Bois, 2007), it has primarily been explored in terms of linguistic strategies (use of reference terms,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes, Socialization, Self Concept
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Aldrich, Naomi J.; Brooks, Patricia J. – First Language, 2017
This study investigated children's narrative evaluations about jealousy in relation to performance on a higher-order perspective-taking task and assessments of receptive vocabulary and nonverbal intelligence. Eighty children (5;0-11;11) narrated a wordless picture book about a jealous frog, answered probe questions about the plot, and generated a…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Psychological Patterns, Perspective Taking, Picture Books
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Morris, Amanda Sheffield; Silk, Jennifer S.; Morris, Michael D. S.; Steinberg, Laurence; Aucoin, Katherine J.; Keyes, Angela W. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
In a sample of 153 children from preschool through second grade, relations between the use of emotion regulation strategy and children's expression of anger and sadness were coded during an observational task in which children were intentionally disappointed in the presence of the mother. Multilevel modeling was used to examine strategy use and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Grade 2, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Towse, John N.; Lewis, Charlie; Knowles, Mark – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
We argue that the concept of goal neglect can be fruitfully applied to understand children's potential problems in experimental tasks and real-world settings. We describe an assessment of goal neglect developed for administration to preschool children and report data on two measures derived from this task alongside the Dimensional Change Card Sort…
Descriptors: Cues, Preschool Children, Inhibition, Memory
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Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Nicol, Cynthia, Ed.; Oesterie, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The theme of the 38th meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 38) and the 36th meeting of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA 36) was "Mathematics Education at the Edge." Academically, the theme provides opportunities to highlight and examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Research