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Raver, C. Cybele; Jones, Stephanie M.; Li-Grining, Christine; Zhai, Fuhua; Bub, Kristen; Pressler, Emily – Child Development, 2011
Based on theoretically driven models, the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) targeted low-income children's school readiness through the mediating mechanism of self-regulation. The CSRP is a multicomponent, cluster-randomized efficacy trial implemented in 35 Head Start-funded classrooms (N = 602 children). The analyses confirm that the CSRP…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Preschool Children, Self Control, School Readiness
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Blair, Clancy; Raver, C. Cybele – American Psychologist, 2012
The authors examine the effects of poverty-related adversity on child development, drawing upon psychobiological principles of experiential canalization and the biological embedding of experience. They integrate findings from research on stress physiology, neurocognitive function, and self-regulation to consider adaptive processes in response to…
Descriptors: Physiology, Child Development, Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth
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McCoy, Dana Charles; Raver, C. Cybele – Social Development, 2011
The present study examined the relationships between caregivers' self-reported positive and negative emotional expressiveness, observer assessments of children's emotion regulation, and teachers' reports of children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a sample of 97 primarily African American and Hispanic Head Start families. Results…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disadvantaged Youth, Caregivers, Preschool Children
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Smith-Donald, Radiah; Raver, C. Cybele; Hayes, Tiffany; Richardson, Breeze – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
This study introduces a portable direct assessment of young children's self-regulation--the Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (PSRA). The PSRA was designed to assess self-regulation in emotional, attentional, and behavioral domains by using a brief, structured battery of tasks in conjunction with a global report of children's behavior. Factor…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Behavior Problems, Self Control, Correlation