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Peer reviewedHalberstadt, Amy G.; Denham, Susanne A.; Dunsmore, Julie C. – Social Development, 2001
Describes a theoretical model for affective social competence to include the three integrated and dynamic components of sending affective messages, receiving affective messages, and experiencing affect. Places the model within the context of previous research and theory related to affective social competence and, for each component, examines how…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Children, Emotional Development
Download full textDenham, Susanne A. – 1985
Preschoolers' expression of various emotions and overall social-emotional competency may be related to mothers' emotional responsivemness to children's emotions. This research investigated, through extended naturalistic observation, (1) how maternal emotion displays differ according to antecedent child emotion (happy, sad, angry, or afraid) and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Emotional Response, Imitation
Denham, Susanne A.; And Others – 1993
Two studies investigated children's responsiveness to an adult's negative emotions (anger, sadness, and pain). The studies also evaluated effects of adult scaffolding (labeling and explaining negative emotions, and requesting help). In the first study, subjects were 55 preschool children between the ages of 33 and 56 months. During individual play…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Anger, Child Behavior, Emotional Response
Denham, Susanne A. – 1985
The maternal affective environment to which children are exposed, conceptualized by (1) percentage of total emotional displays (happy, sad, angry, tense, or tender) and (2) global indices of current maternal psychosocial functioning, is likely to be related to children's expression of emotions and overall social-emotional competence. Thus,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Emotional Response, Family Environment
Denham, Susanne A.; Couchoud, Elizabeth A. – 1988
Research was conducted to assess young preschoolers' knowledge of emotion and to explore the relation between children's understanding of emotion and their prosocial behavior. This discussion briefly describes measures devised to investigate knowledge of emotion, and outlines findings. Also discussed are relations between knowledge of emotion and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Competence, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedDenham, Susanne A.; Blair, Kimberly A.; DeMulder, Elizabeth; Levitas, Jennifer; Sawyer, Katherine; Auerbach-Major, Sharon – Child Development, 2003
Assessed preschoolers' patterns of emotional expressiveness, emotion regulation, and emotion knowledge. Used latent variable modeling to identify their contributions to social competence, evidenced by sociometric liability and teacher ratings. Found that emotional competence assessed at 3 to 4 years of age contributed to both concurrent and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedDenham, Susanne A.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Examined effects of emotional communication on preschoolers' emotional competence. Found that the regularities in emotional communication between mothers and their preschool children are associated with variations in the children's emotional competence. In particular, children who witnessed higher level maternal sadness or anger, or responded…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedDenham, Susanne A. – Early Education and Development, 2001
Summarizes this special issue on how children develop emotional and social strengths, as well as difficulties. Highlights three areas of focus among the seven articles: (1) the relation of emotional competence to social competence; (2) the socialization of emotional competence; and (3) attachment as the foundation. (SD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Competence, Developmental Psychology
Denham, Susanne A. – 1998
This book discusses the emotional experiences of young children and explores the connections between emotions, socialization, and healthy relationships. The introductory chapter discusses the nature of emotion, emotional and social competence, and the study of young children's emotions. Chapter 2, "Emotional Expressiveness," describes…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Emotional Problems, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedDenham, Susanne A.; Burger, Christine – Child Study Journal, 1991
A two-year study of preschoolers attempted to identify emotions and prosocial behaviors that reliably predict teachers' ratings of young preschoolers' affective and behavioral social-emotional competence. Results showed that observed emotion, especially anger and sadness, often predicted teacher ratings of social-emotional competence in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Early Childhood Education
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