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Understanding Children's Anger: Recognizing and Working with Young Children's Anger and Frustration
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Honig, Alice Sterling; Miller, Susan A.; Church, Ellen Booth – Early Childhood Today, 2007
This article presents the causes of anger and frustrations of children at different ages. Honig discusses understanding children's anger from ages 0-2 and gives suggestions on how to cope with anger. Miller discusses how children ages 3-4 provoke to anger, and recommends ways to prevent it. Church discusses the cause of anger in 5- and 6-year old…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Young Children, Stress Variables, Developmental Tasks
Infant Emotional and Cortisol Responses to Goal Blockage
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Lewis, Michael; Ramsay, Douglas – Child Development, 2005
This study examined the relation of infant emotional responses of anger and sadness to cortisol response in 2 goal blockage situations. One goal blockage with 4-month-old infants (N=56) involved a contingency learning procedure where infants' learned response was no longer effective in reinstating an event. The other goal blockage with 6-month-old…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Infants, Infant Behavior, Emotional Response
Infant and Maternal Behaviors Regulate Infant Reactivity to Novelty at 6 Months
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Crockenberg, Susan C.; Leerkes, Esther M. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Three issues were investigated: (a) the regulatory effects of presumed infant and maternal regulation behaviors on infant distress to novelty at 6 months, (b) stability of infant regulatory effects across contexts that vary in maternal involvement, and (c) associations and temporal dynamics between infant and maternal regulation behaviors.…
Descriptors: Toys, Infants, Mothers, Infant Behavior