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Peer reviewedEisenberg, Nancy; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Fabes, Richard A.; Murphy, Bridget C.; Guthrie, Ivanna K. – Child Development, 1998
Examined the relations of teachers' and parents' reports of children's shyness at ages 6-8, 8-10, and 10-12 years to dispositional regulation, emotionality, and coping. The overall pattern of findings was partially consistent with the conclusion that parent-rated shyness reflected primarily social wariness with unfamiliar people, whereas…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Context Effect
Peer reviewedFabes, Richard A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Preschoolers' appraisals of others' emotions were compared with adults' appraisals. The accuracy of children's appraisals varied with age and with type and intensity of emotion. Children's appraisals were biased toward attribution of causes to external factors. Attributions to internal factors varied with age, emotion, and type of internal factor.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anger, Attribution Theory, Childhood Attitudes
Peer reviewedFabes, Richard A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Measured the facial expressions, heart rate variability (HRV), and skin conductance of 37 third graders and 29 sixth graders while they viewed a film about a distressed child. Found that high HRV was predictive of children's sympathetic rather than distressed reactions and that, for boys, sympathetic responsiveness positively predicted a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedFabes, Richard A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Mothers of 49 kindergartners and 54 second graders told their children 2 stories about distressed persons to obtain children's emotional, physiological, and prosocial responses. For kindergartners, mothers' perceptions of children's emotional reactivity were positively related to their use of positive facial expressions, whereas mothers'…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response
