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Yuzhen Dong; Yaling Hsiao; Nicola Dawson; Nilanjana Banerji; Kate Nation – Cognitive Science, 2024
Emotion is closely associated with language, but we know very little about how children express emotion in their own writing. We used a large-scale, cross-sectional, and data-driven approach to investigate emotional expression via writing in children of different ages, and whether it varies for boys and girls. We first used a lexicon-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Early Adolescents, Childrens Writing
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Gillard, Duncan; Flaxman, Paul; Hooper, Nic – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2018
Guidance for schools regarding the promotion and enhancement of psychological wellbeing represents an invitation to intervene to promote effective, evidence-informed, whole-school approaches for school staff, students and parents. With its transdiagnostic approach and evidence from empirical literature, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Psychological Patterns, Intervention
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Middleton, David; Mandeville-Norden, Rebecca; Hayes, Elizabeth – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2009
The increase in convictions for internet-related sexual offending has led to new challenges for treatment providers. By 2005 nearly one-third of all sexual convictions in England and Wales were for internet-related sexual offending. In late 2006 a treatment programme for internet-related sexual offending (the i-SOTP) was given accreditation for…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Internet
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Jokela, Markus – Developmental Psychology, 2010
In a sample of 7,695 families in the prospective, nationally representative British Millennium Cohort Study, this study examined whether characteristics of the 1st-born child predicted parents' timing and probability of having another child within 5 years after the 1st child's birth. Infant temperament was assessed with the Carey Infant…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Personality Traits