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Wass, Samuel V.; Smith, Celia G.; Stubbs, Louise; Clackson, Kaili; Mirza, Farhan U. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Over the last 2 centuries there has been a rapid increase in the proportion of children who grow up in cities. However, relatively little work has explored in detail the physiological and cognitive pathways through which city life may affect early development. To assess this, we observed a cohort of infants growing up in diverse settings across…
Descriptors: Physiology, Stress Variables, Infants, Urban Areas
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Ofole, Ndidi Mercy; Ohakwe, Pauline Clare Nkem – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
Low health literacy is found to be consistently associated with negative body image. This study examined the effectiveness of Self-Control Therapy (SCT) and Social Interaction Skills Training (SIST) in managing negative body image among senior secondary school students with low health literacy in Southwest Nigeria. The design is pretest-post-test,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Human Body, Body Composition
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Desmarais, Eric E.; French, Brian F.; Ahmetoglu, Emine; Acar, Ibrahim; Gonzalez-Salinas, Carmen; Kozlova, Elena; Slobodskaya, Helena; Benga, Oana; Majdandžic, Mirjana; Beijers, Roseriet; de Weerth, Carolina; Huitron, Blanca; Lee, Eun Gyoung; Han, Sae-Young; Park, Seong-Yeon; Giusti, Lorenzo; Montirosso, Rosario; Tuovinen, Soile; Heinonen, Kati; Raikkonen, Katri; Wang, Zhengyan; Lecannelier, Felipe; Linhares, Maria Beatriz Martins; Casalin, Sara; Putnam, Samuel P.; Gartstein, Maria A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
This study advances the cross-cultural temperament literature by comparing temperament ratings of toddlers from 14 nations. Multilevel modeling (MLM) procedures were utilized to regress negative emotionality (NE) and component subscales on Hofstede's cultural value dimensions while controlling for age and gender. More individualistic values were…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Personality Traits, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response
Dwane Glenn Martinson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored how enrolled freshman college students, ages 18-21, described their experiences and user behaviors while actively using personal communication devices (PCD) and social networking sites (SNS) to complete course-related activities in their introductory psychology class at a four-year public university. Twenty semi-structured…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Public Colleges, Student Experience, Handheld Devices
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Niloo Bavarian; Kendra Lewis; Stephanie Holloway; David DuBois; Brian Flay; Carl F. Siebert – Grantee Submission, 2021
Background: Given its ability to exacerbate health inequities through its disproportionate impact on low-income communities, the need exists to better understand factors that influence substance use among adolescents. Moreover, given its multi-etiological nature, preventing adolescent substance use requires addressing intrapersonal, interpersonal,…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Public Schools, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
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Smith, Rebecca; Nichols, Allison – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2020
The family and consumer sciences (FCS) knowledge base includes three core elements: human well-being, family strengths, and community vitality. In order to increase knowledge in these three elements while enhancing relevancy to contemporary society, FCS professionals might consider mindfulness training as a component of their programming. This…
Descriptors: Consumer Science, Metacognition, Stress Variables, Relaxation Training
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Pantelie, Speran?a Rodica – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
The first year of life is an essential phase for all psychological areas in child development. The key competences, vital for all development processes of the child, focus on the communication and the socio-emotional competencies, mostly because the infant is strongly dependent of the adult care environment. The quality of the primary caregiving…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Communication Skills, Infants, Child Development
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Wimmer, Lena; Dorjee, Dusana – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2020
The present study presents the first attempt at investigating long-term mindfulness training in pre-adolescence, adopting an integrative neurodevelopmental approach. Pupils with an established mindfulness practice (n=33) were compared with mindfulness-inexperienced pupils (n=20) on dispositional mindfulness, executive functioning (EF), emotion…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Executive Function, Self Control, Well Being
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Karami, Sareh; Ghahremani, Mehdi; Parra-Martinez, Fabio Andres; Gentry, Marcia – Roeper Review, 2020
No consensus on a definition of wisdom exists. Hence, 50 articles were systematically reviewed from the fields of psychology, management and leadership, and education to examine points of consensus among conceptions of wisdom. These articles were limited to the most cited peer-reviewed articles published between 2006 and 2018 that include wisdom…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Psychological Studies, Educational Research, Administration
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Tajik-Parvinchi, Diana J.; Farmus, Linda; Cribbie, Robert; Albaum, Carly; Weiss, Jonathan A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Difficulties with emotion regulation are common in children with autism. Although interventions targeting emotion regulation show promise, children's individual treatment responses vary, and it is important to understand the factors that contribute to treatment change. The present study aimed to identify pre-treatment child characteristics and…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Self Control, Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification
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Woodcock, Kate Anne; Cheung, Catherine; González Marx, Daniel; Mandy, Will – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Social decision making is often challenging for autistic individuals. Twenty autistic adolescents made decisions in the socially interactive context of a one-shot ultimatum game, and performance was compared to a large matched typical reference sample. Theory of mind, executive functioning and emotion regulation were measured via direct…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Autism, Adolescents, Decision Making
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Abdi Zarrin, Sohrab; Gracia, Esther – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2020
Academic procrastination is a problem behavior with negative consequences for students. The extent of this phenomenon among students and the negative impact on their academic achievement requires more attention and research on this issue. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating on the role of fear of failure and subscale of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Behavior, Time Management
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Kadir, Munirah Shaik; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Ryan, Richard M.; Forbes, Anne; Diallo, Thierno M. O. – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of an intervention on students' achievement and motivation. The intervention was in the form of an instructional approach named Dual-Approach Instruction since it was designed to facilitate both the cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of students' learning. The intervention effects were…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Grade 7
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Gandolfi, Elena; Viterbori, Paola – Language Learning, 2020
In this study, we explored the role of emerging inhibitory control skills in language acquisition in 62 typically developing children aged 24-32 months and investigated whether early inhibitory control skills are longitudinally associated with language outcome. Specifically, we focused on two different inhibitory processes that develop…
Descriptors: Grammar, Mothers, Educational Attainment, Inhibition
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Hajal, Nastassia J.; Paley, Blair – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Parents' behaviors--particularly their emotion socialization behaviors (ESBs)--drive children's emotion socialization (Eisenberg, Cumberland, & Spinrad, 1998). We propose that a major next step in the effort to promote healthy emotional development is to improve the field's understanding of the most proximal contributor to parent ESBs:…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Emotional Response, Self Control, Emotional Development
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