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You Get What You Get and You Don't Throw a Fit!: Emotion Socialization and Child Physiology Jointly Predict Early Prosocial Development
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Scrimgeour, Meghan B.; Davis, Elizabeth L.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Prosocial behavior in early childhood is a precursor to later adaptive social functioning. This investigation leveraged mother-reported, physiological, and observational data to examine children's prosocial development from age 2 to age 4 (N = 125). Maternal emotion socialization (ES) strategies and children's parasympathetic regulation have each…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Prosocial Behavior, Psychological Patterns
How Well Does the Theory of Planned Behavior Predict Graduation among College and University Students with Disabilities?
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Fichten, Catherine S.; Nguyen, Mai Nhu; Amsel, Rhonda; Jorgensen, Shirley; Budd, Jillian; Jorgensen, Mary; Asuncion, Jennison; Barile, Maria – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
The goal of this research was to develop a model to predict which students with disabilities will drop out before graduation and to investigate the drop out pattern of students with disabilities. To accomplish this we evaluated potential predictors of persistence and drop-out among 611 college and university students with various disabilities and…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, College Students, Behavior Patterns, Path Analysis
An Examination of Emotion Regulation, Temperament, and Parenting Style as Potential Predictors of Adolescent Depression Risk Status: A Correlational Study
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Betts, Jennifer; Gullone, Eleonora; Allen, J. Sabura – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
Given that depression is a debilitating disorder, it is critical that we advance our understanding about the aetiology of this disorder. This study investigated both traditional (temperament and parenting) and novel (emotion regulation strategy) risk factors associated with adolescent depression. Forty-four adolescents (12-16 years; 64% females)…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Risk, Personality
Self-Injurious Behavior: A Unitary Phenomenon or a Set of Diverse Behaviours?
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Gabony, Peter – British Journal of Special Education, 1991
Questionnaires documenting self-injurious behavior (SIB) among 113 elementary students were returned by 21 London schools. Cluster analysis found patterns of behavior associated with each other, indicating that SIB may not be a homogeneous condition but may comprise a number of distinct syndromes depending on sex, age, mobility, communication…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns, Cluster Analysis, Elementary Education
Individual Differences in Infant Attention Skills, Joint Attention, and Emotion Regulation Behaviour
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Morales, Michael; Mundy, Peter; Crowson, Mary M.; Neal, A. Rebecca; Delgado, Christine E. F. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
This study examined the concurrent and predictive relations between infant attention skills, joint attention, and emotion regulation. Infants' gaze following skills and duration of orienting were assessed at 6 months of age, and collaborative joint attention and emotion regulation skills were assessed at 24 months of age. The results indicated…
Descriptors: Attention, Infants, Individual Differences, Prediction