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Erik Hygum; Catalina Ulrich Hygum – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2025
The study investigates the wide range of oppositional actions one- to three-year-old children employ in response to staff in two Romanian and two Danish nurseries. The nurseries have similarly structured days, and most oppositional expressions occur during mealtime and on the playground. Generational structure is used as the analytic frame and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Costina-Ruxandra Poetar; Anca Dobrean; Ionut Stelian Florean – Youth & Society, 2024
The aim of this study was to assess the pattern of mutual relations within the Problematic Smartphone Use (PSU) (first network) and between adolescent mental health problems and PSU (second network). The invariance of both networks was investigated across age, gender, and severity of symptoms. The participants were 708 Romanian adolescents…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Mental Health, Adolescents
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Stefan, Catrinel A.; Avram, Julie – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
The current study's aim was to assess the contribution of empathic perspective-taking to the relationship between attachment security and children's risk of maladjustment. A sample of 212 preschoolers aged 3-5 years old was included in this study. Children completed the Attachment Story Completion Task and a modified version of the Kids' Empathic…
Descriptors: Empathy, Perspective Taking, Preschool Children, Attachment Behavior
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Catrinel A. ?tefan; Delia Cristescu; Ingrid Danila – Early Education and Development, 2024
The Social-Emotional Prevention Program (SEP) is a multi-focused intervention combining universal and indicated intervention strategies delivered face-to-face and through the use of technology. The study's objectives were to assess comparatively SEP effectiveness as a function of preschoolers' baseline risk of externalizing problems and to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Prevention, Preschool Children
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Colic, Marija; Dababnah, Sarah; Garbarino, Nicole; Betz, Gail – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often at greater risk of experiencing stress and lower quality of life, in comparison to parents of typically developing (TD) children and other developmental disabilities. Despite vast literature on parental experiences in Western countries, little is known about this topic in Eastern…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Rearing, Coping
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Cucu Ciuhan, Geanina – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2019
The number of school-aged children referred for psychological assessment and psychotherapy in our psychology clinic, who are showing comorbid emotional and behavioural issues, are in continuous growth over the last years. This article presents the correlations between the level of anxiety scales in school-aged children and their aggressive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rejection (Psychology), Anxiety, Aggression
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Buta, Monica; Visu-Petra, George; Opre, Adrian; Koller, Silvia; Visu-Petra, Laura – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Deception is a common phenomenon in everyday life, yet some people generally lie more than others and some people consider lying more acceptable than others do. Current knowledge about lie acceptability across development or about the individual differences in emotion or personality which shape it is still in an incipient stage. We aimed to expand…
Descriptors: Deception, Individual Differences, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Fechete, Gabriela L.; Susa-Erdogan, Georgiana; Benga, Oana – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Internalizing problems are among the most common chronic psychological dysfunctions in childhood, yet the factors contributing to their emergence and persistence in preschool-aged children are still less understood. The contribution of specific individual variables (e.g. temperament), and that of proximal environmental factors, such as family…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Preschool Children, Personality Traits, Mothers
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Chermeleu, Adia – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
The hermeneutics of fairytales, understood as a new way to get their deep significances and therapeutic effects on children by the process of psychic conflicts awareness, represents a frequent topic in the current research, a real source of inspiration for those delivering literature for children or for those using fairytales for therapeutic…
Descriptors: Hermeneutics, Fairy Tales, Therapy, Conflict
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Rescorla, Leslie A.; Ginzburg, Sofia; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Almqvist, Fredrik; Begovac, Ivan; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Chahed, Myriam; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael C.; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Minaei, Asghar; Novik, Torunn S.; Oh, Kyung-Ja; Petot, Djaouida; Petot, Jean-Michel; Pomalima, Rolando; Rudan, Vlasta; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Valverde, Jose; van der Ende, Jan; Weintraub, Sheila; Metzke, Christa Winkler; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Zhang, Eugene Yuqing; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2013
We used population sample data from 25 societies to answer the following questions: (a) How consistently across societies do adolescents report more problems than their parents report about them? (b) Do levels of parent-adolescent agreement vary among societies for different kinds of problems? (c) How well do parents and adolescents in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Parents, Reliability
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Langa, Claudiu – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2014
Rewards and punishments have a major role in behavior change strategies. The purpose of the study is to identify the most efficient modalities of intervening on the child's disturbing behavior applying the punishment-reward duet. The conclusions further to the research provide relevant data for improving pupils' conduct by applying the most…
Descriptors: Rewards, Punishment, Teacher Student Relationship, Mentors
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Stefan, Catrinel A.; Rebega, Oana L.; Cosma, Alina – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2015
Researchers have emphasized the role of the teacher-child relationship on children's adjustment. Children lacking such positive relationships are placed at increased risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD). We propose a qualitative approach to exploring Romanian teachers' knowledge and strategies related to preschoolers who are at…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Problems, Preschool Teachers, Prevention
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Rojahn, J.; Rowe, E. W.; Sharber, A. C.; Hastings, R.; Matson, J. L.; Didden, R.; Kroes, D. B. H.; Dumont, E. L. M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2012
Background: The Behavior Problems Inventory-01 (BPI-01) is an informant-based behaviour rating instrument that was designed to assess maladaptive behaviours in individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID). Its items fall into one of three sub-scales: "Self-injurious Behavior" (14 items), "Stereotyped Behavior" (24 items),…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Self Destructive Behavior, Mental Retardation, Measures (Individuals)
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Brassai, Laszlo; Piko, Bettina F.; Steger, Michael F. – Psychological Record, 2012
Although the role of existential attitudes in adolescent health-related behavior has received increased attention recently, historically it has been underinvestigated in the field. The present study focuses on existential attitudes related to meaning in life and hopelessness. Relations of presence of meaning, search for meaning, and hopelessness…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes
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Le Mare, Lucy; Audet, Karyn – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2014
We examined behavior problems in 80 adolescents (39 male; mean age = 15.74 years) adopted in early childhood by Canadians from globally depriving Romanian institutions. Overall, rates of clinically significant behavior problems were comparable to rates found in younger postinstitutionalized adopted children. The association between duration of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries
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