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Early Elementary Trajectories of Classroom Behavior Self-Regulation: Prediction by Student Characteristics and Malleable Contextual Factors
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Zakszeski, Brittany; Hojnoski, Robin L.; Dever, Bridget V.; DuPaul, George J.; McClelland, Megan M. – School Psychology Review, 2020
Self-regulation is a critical component of school readiness and success. Practices for supporting self-regulation may be advanced by a better understanding of factors characterizing children at risk for challenges and contextual mechanisms associated with desirable developmental trajectories. The current study leverages a large national data set…
Descriptors: Self Management, Student Characteristics, Young Children, Kindergarten
The Development of Gait: A Study in African Children Ages One to Five.
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Hennessy, Michael J.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Quantitatively describes the gait development of a group of African children to determine how pattern changes would relate to growth and maturation. A total of 65 children from the Gusii tribe of southwestern Kenya, ranging in age from 13 to 69 months, were selected for study. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Films, Foreign Countries
Origins of Variation in Behavioral Style: A Longitudinal Study of Temperament in Young Twins.
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Goldsmith, H. H.; Gottesman, I. I. – Child Development, 1981
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Genetics, Longitudinal Studies
On the Stability of Stereotyped Behaviors in Blind Infants and Preschoolers.
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Brambring, M.; Troster, H. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
Parents (n=52) of blind and partially sighted infants and preschoolers were surveyed concerning the frequency of occurrence and stability of the children's stereotyped behaviors. Stereotyped behaviors frequently observed in blind children proved to be stable, whereas other stereotyped behaviors were less stable. Age of child and frequency of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Development of Children's Knowledge and Use of Strategies for Self-Control in a Resistance-to-Distraction Task.
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Holdtz, Barbara Addy; Lehman, Elyse Brauch – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Seventy-five 4-, 6-, and 8-year olds participated in a study examining the relationship between children's awareness and use of strategies for self-control. Knowledge of strategies was more highly correlated with process than with performance, and the relationship between knowledge about strategies and actual performance increased with age. (AA)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Childhood Attitudes
Social Comparison and the Young Child: Current Research Issues
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Chafel, Judith A. – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Synthesizes literature on social comparison in young children. Findings center on (1) children's motivations to engage in social comparison; (2) peer targets; (3) age when social comparison appears; (4) developmental sequences; (5) effects upon subsequent behavior; and (6) sex-related differences. Suggests pratical implications for teaching.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Developmental Stages, Interpersonal Competence
Kids Learn from the Inside Out: How To Enhance the Human Matrix.
Randolph, Shirley L.; And Others – 1994
Noting that humans develop according to a genetically encoded timeline and that departure from the timeline limits human potential, this book provides an illustrated practical guide to intervention to help children's bodies work as they should, to nurture children along their developmental timeline, to help children learn "from the inside…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Health