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Direct linkFarrell, Carmen Brown; Gilpin, Ansley Tullos; Nancarrow, Alexandra F.; Brown, Melissa M. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2019
Self-regulation and social cognition flourish as children begin school and engage with a new social environment. At the same time, this novel setting provides more complex social situations that children must navigate, including understanding when others may be lying to them. Social cognition and self regulatory abilities, such as Theory of Mind…
Descriptors: Self Control, Student Behavior, Social Cognition, Executive Function
Jaggy, Ann-Kathrin; Perren, Sonja; Sticca, Fabio – Early Education and Development, 2020
Pretend play may be beneficial for young children's social development. However, empirical results to date are inconsistent and limited, which is partly due to a lack of psychometrically sound measures for children's social pretend play competence. The current study aimed to compare and validate different assessment methods for children's social…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play, Imagination
Download full textLillard, Angeline S.; Heise, Megan J.; Richey, Eve M.; Tong, Xin; Hart, Alyssa; Bray, Paige M. – Online Submission, 2017
Quality preschool programs that develop the whole child through age-appropriate socioemotional and cognitive skill-building hold promise for significantly improving child outcomes. However, preschool programs tend to either be teacher-led and didactic, or else to lack academic content. One preschool model that involves both child-directed, freely…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Preschool Children
Korucu, Irem; Selcuk, Bilge; Harma, Mehmet – Infant and Child Development, 2017
It is argued that self-regulation skill is necessary both for displaying constructive behaviour and for controlling negative social behaviour, and self-regulation might affect social behaviours by increasing the ability to understand others' minds. In this research, in order to examine different aspects of self-regulation and their similarities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Control, Social Behavior, Executive Function
Seidenfeld, Adina M.; Johnson, Stacy R.; Cavadel, Elizabeth Woodburn; Izard, Carroll E. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Emotion knowledge (EK) enables children to identify emotions in themselves and others, and its development facilitates emotion recognition in complex social situations. Sociocognitive processes, such as theory of mind (ToM), may contribute to developing EK by helping children realize the inherent variability associated with…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Emotional Development, Knowledge Level, Preschool Children
Newton, Emma; Jenvey, Vickii – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This study aimed to investigate whether: (1) the development of "theory of mind" (ToM) is associated with social competence; and (2) social peer play is also associated with social competence in young children. Associations between ToM task performance, frequencies of observed social and solitary free-play and parent-rated social…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Play, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Relationship
