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Colleen K. Vesely; Elizabeth Levine Brown; Swati Mehta; Christy Galletta Horner – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Early childhood educators play a critical role in the lives of young children, especially through their sensitive interactions. Educators' capacities to engage in high-quality interactions are shaped by their mental health. Studies examining early childhood educators' mental health often focus on psychopathology or negative aspects of mental…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Early Childhood Teachers, Mental Health
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Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh; Damon E. Jones; D. Max Crowley – Child Development, 2025
This study examined the impact of the Head Start Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) preschool intervention on high school outcomes and explored longitudinal mediation. 356 children (58% White, 25% Black, 17% Latinx; 54% female, 46% male; M[subscript age] = 4.49 years) were recruited from Head Start classrooms which were randomized to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, High School Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Paschall, Katherine W.; Barnett, Melissa A.; Mastergeorge, Ann M.; Li, Xiaomin; Vasquez, Maria Belinda – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Preschool teachers' relationships with children are a critical component of classroom quality. We draw from a sample of N = 2,114 children attending Head Start to examine child-centered profiles of experiences across two dimensions of classroom interaction quality that are often considered separately: individual teacher-child…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
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Clayback, Kelsey A.; Williford, Amanda P. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Better understanding the correlates of teacher stress is critical to develop effective, targeted prevention and intervention efforts to decrease early childhood educator stress and ultimately improve outcomes for educators and young children. Previous studies of early childhood educator stress have mostly focused on teacher…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Predictor Variables, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Conditions
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Chan, Megan; Williams, Aya I.; Teng, Yin-Ping Teresa; Zhou, Qing – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Emotion talk (ET) is an emotion socialization practice theorized to promote children's socioemotional competence. The present study examined parent and child ET in two subgroups of Chinese-heritage families in low-income communities: Chinese immigrant families in U.S. (CA) and Taiwanese families in Taiwan (TW). In a sample of 75…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background