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Effects of Multiple Features of Nonparental Care and Parenting in Toddlerhood on Socioemotional Development at Kindergarten Entry
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Walls, Jill K.; Pellerin, Lisa – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2020
The present study used a subsample of 450 children from the ECLS-B data set to examine longitudinal associations between multiple features of nonparental care at age 2 and socioemotional development at kindergarten entry, taking into account parents' attitudes and behaviors, family composition, poverty status, and child characteristics.…
Descriptors: Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Kindergarten, School Readiness
Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Children's School Readiness: A Longitudinal Study of Developmental Processes
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Bernier, Annie; McMahon, Catherine A.; Perrier, Rachel – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study aimed to test a 5-wave sequential mediation model linking maternal mind-mindedness during infancy to children's school readiness in kindergarten through a serial mediation involving child language and effortful control in toddlerhood and the preschool years. Among a sample of 204 mother-child dyads, we assessed maternal mind-mindedness…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Longitudinal Studies, Child Language, Toddlers
A Secure Base from Which to Regulate: Attachment Security in Toddlerhood as a Predictor of Executive Functioning at School Entry
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Bernier, Annie; Beauchamp, Miriam H.; Carlson, Stephanie M.; Lalonde, Gabrielle – Developmental Psychology, 2015
In light of emerging evidence suggesting that the affective quality of parent-child relationships may relate to individual differences in young children's executive functioning (EF) skills, the aim of this study was to investigate the prospective associations between attachment security in toddlerhood and children's EF skills in kindergarten.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation
Toddlers' Duration of Attention toward Putative Threat
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Kiel, Elizabeth J.; Buss, Kristin A. – Infancy, 2011
Although individual differences in reactions to novelty in the toddler years have been consistently linked to risk of developing anxious behavior, toddlers' attention toward a novel, putatively threatening stimulus while in the presence of other enjoyable activities has rarely been examined as a precursor to such risk. The current study examined…
Descriptors: Proximity, Toddlers, Inhibition, Fear
Mastery of the Counting Principles in Toddlers: A Crucial Step in the Development of Budding Arithmetic Abilities?
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Stock, Pieter; Desoete, Annemie; Roeyers, Herbert – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Counting abilities have been described as determinative precursors for a good development of later arithmetic abilities. Mastery of the stable order, the one-one-correspondence and the cardinality principles can be seen as essential features for the development of counting abilities. Mastery of the counting principles in kindergarten was assessed…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Achievement Tests, Kindergarten, Arithmetic
Do Early Difficult Temperament and Harsh Parenting Differentially Predict Reactive and Proactive Aggression?
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Vitaro, Frank; Barker, Edward Dylan; Boivin, Michel; Brendgen, Mara; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
The goal of this study was to examine the links between difficult temperament (i.e., negative emotionality) and harsh parental discipline during toddlerhood, and reactive and proactive aggression in kindergarten. These links were assessed on a longitudinal population-based study of 1516 boys and girls followed longitudinally from the age of 17…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Aggression, Personality, Prediction