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Culture and the Development of Theory of Mind in Croatian Preschool Children
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Bruno Barac – Early Child Development and Care, 2025
Theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to attribute mental states and feelings to others, and to understand that those mental states and feelings affect their behaviour. It is one of three core developmental tasks for children in preschool years, along with emotion self-regulation and relationships with parents and family members. Given there are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Theory of Mind, Child Development
Association between Children's Imaginational Overexcitability and Parent-Reported Creative Potential: Cognitive and Affective Play Processes as Potential Mediators
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Fung, Wing Kai; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; He, Mavis Wu-jing – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
This study examined the direct and indirect associations among imaginational over-excitability, cognitive play processes, affective play processes, and parent-reported creative potential of Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children. Participants were 106 parents of local kindergarten children (43.4% girls, mean age = 60.1 months). Parents reported…
Descriptors: Correlation, Young Children, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes
Engineering Literacy and Engagement in Kindergarten Classrooms
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Aguirre-Muñoz, Zenaida; Pantoya, Michelle L. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Background: Little is understood about how kindergarten students respond to literacy-enriched engineering activities and how engineering-centered literature (picture and story books) can be used to support engineering engagement and content understanding. Purpose: This study sought to understand the effect of engineering-centered literature and…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Engineering Education, Learner Engagement, Kindergarten
Learning Others' Point of View: Perspective Taking and Prosocial Behaviour in Preschoolers
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Cigala, Ada; Mori, Arianna; Fangareggi, Francesca – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Perspective taking, defined as the ability to assume another's perspective, can be considered a multidimensional construct which is composed of three different components: cognitive, visual and affective. This study wanted to verify the possibility of promoting perspective taking in preschoolers using ecological training. The maintenance of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Perspective Taking, Preschool Children, Control Groups
The Assessment of Empathy in Adolescence: A Contribution to the Italian Validation of the "Basic Empathy Scale"
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Albiero, Paolo; Matricardi, Giada; Speltri, Daniela; Toso, Diana – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The present study examined the validity of the Basic Empathy Scale (BES) [Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. P. (2006a). Development and validation of the Basic Empathy Scale. "Journal of Adolescence," 29, 589-611; Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. P. (2006b). Examining the relationship between low empathy and bullying. "Aggressive…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Factor Structure, Adolescents
The Primacy of Child-Directed Pretend Play on Cognitive Competence in a Mixed-Age Environment: Possible Interpretations
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Gmitrova, Vlasta; Gmitrov, Juraj – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
The goal was to study the impact of a teacher-directed and a child-directed pretend play on cognitive performance in a mixed-age environment. Twenty-six observations were performed on fifty-one kindergarten children with a mean age of 4.6 years (age span from three to six years) in two mixed-aged classrooms. Data were collected regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Guidance, Stimuli