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Bengtsson, Hans; Arvidsson, Asa – Social Development, 2011
A sample of 209 children was followed longitudinally to examine the impact of growing perspective-taking skills on positive and negative emotionality in middle and late childhood. Perspective-taking skills were assessed through interviews. Teachers rated children's emotional reactivity and capacity to regain a neutral state following emotional…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Children, Perspective Taking, Longitudinal Studies
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Awong, Tsasha; Grusec, Joan E.; Sorenson, Ann – Social Development, 2008
Shortly after the birth of their infants, teenage working-class mothers were assessed on attitudes toward the need for deference to family authority (respect-based control) and anger. Their children's internalizing and externalizing problems and self-esteem were assessed approximately 12 years later. High respect-based control was linked to higher…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Family Environment, Emotional Development
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Pruzan, Katherine; Isaacowitz, Derek M. – Social Development, 2006
Socioemotional selectivity theory posits that emotions become increasingly salient as individuals approach endings. Recent findings have linked the theory with biases in information processing in the context of aging. However, these studies all confounded advancing age and the motivational impact of endings. This study represented an attempt to…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Emotional Response, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes
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Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Hessler, Danielle M.; Annest, Amalia – Social Development, 2007
This article examined emotion competence in children exposed to domestic violence (DV). It also examined the hypothesis that children's emotional competence mediates relations between DV and children's later difficulties with peers and behavioral adjustment. DV was assessed when children were at the age of five, emotional competence was assessed…
Descriptors: Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Family Violence
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Reese, Elaine; Bird, Amy; Tripp, Gail – Social Development, 2007
The current study has two aims: (1) to examine associations between the emotional content of parent-child past event conversations and two aspects of children's self-concept--moral self and self-esteem; and (2) to examine the degree to which talk about past events is uniquely associated with self-concept when compared with talk about ongoing…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries, Emotional Development, Parent Child Relationship
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Dougherty, Lea R. – Social Development, 2006
Over the last 15 years, the role of emotions in children's peer relations has received greater attention. The purpose of the meta-analytic review was to determine the magnitude of the relation between negative emotionality (NE) and positive emotionality (PE) and social status. Based on 54 independent samples, the overall effect size for the…
Descriptors: Social Status, Peer Relationship, Effect Size, Psychological Patterns