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Karrass, Jan; Walden, Tedra A. – Social Development, 2005
This study examined the effects of one unfamiliar adult's warm, responsive interactions or cold, aloof, unresponsive interactions on child emotion and subsequent social initiatives to a second adult. Participants were 32 4 1/2- to 5 1/2-year-old preschool children. Nurturing, responsive caregiving and non-nurturing, unresponsive caregiving were…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Preschool Children, Caregiver Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns
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Kowal, Amanda K.; Krull, Jennifer L.; Kramer, Laurie – Social Development, 2006
This study examined the extent to which children and parents have concordant views about parental differential treatment (PDT) and whether such concordance is linked with variations in sibling relationship quality. Seventy-four 11- to 13-year-old children, their older siblings, and their parents were interviewed about their experiences with PDT…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Parent Child Relationship
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Saarni, Carolyn – Social Development, 2001
Highlights the strengths of the Halberstadt et al. contribution to the literature on social-emotional development. Discusses three issues relating to their model: (1) the inseparability of cognitive representation in both emotional and social functioning; (2) the role played by context; and (3) the significance of goals in any construct involving…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Children, Cognitive Development
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Li, Jin; Wang, Qi – Social Development, 2004
Two studies were conducted to examine perceptions about achievement and achieving peers in 190 U.S. and Chinese kindergartners. Children provided free-narrative responses to story beginnings about an achieving protagonist in school settings. We found marked cultural differences. For achievement, U.S. children perceived more intellectual…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Intellectual Development, Academic Achievement
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Alexander, Kristin J.; Miller, Peggy J.; Hengst, Julie A. – Social Development, 2001
Interviewed 32 families concerning their narrative practices, basic information about the children's story attachments, and the mothers' beliefs and practices concerning their children's attachments. Found that story attachments were social in two ways: Children created relationships with story characters, and formed story attachments with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Diaries
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McDowell, David J.; Parke, Ross D. – Social Development, 2005
Seventy-six fourth-grade children and their parents participated in a study of the linkages among parental control and positive affect, children's display rule use, and children's social competence with peers. Using observational measures of parental behavior and children's display rule use, it was found that parental positive affect and control…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence
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