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Howe, Nina – Child Development, 1991
Observed 32 preschoolers' interactions with their toddler siblings. Preschoolers' references about emotions were more likely to be about the toddler than the self. Preschoolers who were skillful perspective takers talked more about internal emotional states and more frequently about the toddler and themselves than did poor perspective takers. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Perspective Taking, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Nowicki, Elizabeth A. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2006
Research is clear about children's negative biases toward the opposite gender, toward peers of lower learning ability, and toward out-group members in general, especially among younger children. In adulthood, the magnitude and valence of attitudes may be dependent on cognitive, behavioral, or affective response classes, but little is known of how…
Descriptors: Children, Attitude Measures, Schemata (Cognition), Age Differences
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Highlen, Pamela S.; Johnston, Barbara – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1979
Studied 72 college students to determine effects of subject sex and situational factors on affective self-disclosure with acquaintances. Feeling, role, and sex of subject were contextual variables influencing expression of feelings. Responding with positive feelings is the optimal situational context for expression of feelings to acquaintances.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, College Students, Disclosure, Foreign Countries
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Wintre, Maxine Gallander; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Children as young as eight years of age can discriminate between affect-eliciting statements, differentially rate up to five concurrent emotional responses, and predict response patterns similar to those predicted by adults. During adolescence, there are sex differences in the prediction of secondary emotions. (RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children
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Brotheridge, Celeste M.; Grandey, Alicia A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2002
Data from 238 Canadian employees in human services, service/sales, management, clerical, and physical labor occupations indicated that hose performing "people work" did not have significantly higher emotional exhaustion. There were differences between job-focused emotional work (work demanding emotional expression) and employee-focused…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Burnout, Emotional Response, Foreign Countries
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Martin, Jack – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1987
Asserts that cognitive therapies are concerned with human affective experience, but not limited to conscious, rational, affectively-neutral concerns or difficulties. Cites examples of healthy programs of research and theoretical development in cognitive psychology. These therapies hold promise for integrating theoretical and empirical work in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring
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Bullock, Merry; Russell, James A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
A structural model of emotions was used to reveal patterns in how children interpret the emotional facial expressions of others. Tests with young children and adults indicate that children organize the emotional domain in a systematic fashion, initially according to pleasure and arousal and later in terms of adult-like categories. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Associative Learning, Classification
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Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D.; Craig, Kenneth D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994
Divided 90 chronic low back pain patients into those who demonstrated signs that were congruent or incongruent with underlying anatomical and physiological principles. Low socioeconomic status, compensation claims, use of opiate analgesics, greater disability, catastrophizing cognitions, stronger emotionality, and passive coping were more…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Chronic Illness, Cognitive Style
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Pires, Paulo; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study purports that parental rejection and warmth are critical to the development of adolescent drug use, and investigates a model that also considers children's vulnerability and deviant peer affiliations. It tests mediation through the proximal risk factor of deviant peers. Poisson growth curve modeling was used to examine participants from…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Drug Use, Parent Influence, Affective Behavior
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Roy, Aldo R. – History and Social Science Teacher, 1975
General instructional aims and objectives in the affective domain for students in a vocational high school are listed. (DE)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Objectives, Comparative Education, Educational Objectives
Palmer, Sally E. – 1989
Reactions of foster children to separation from their families of origin were identified from case materials of 36 Canadian protective service workers. A broad range of reactions was apparent. Discussion focuses on anxiety, regression, physiological symptoms, denial of feelings, persistent attachment to rejecting or unreliable parents, rebellious…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Experience
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Conway, Michael; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Examines negative emotional response in 124 Canadian college students. Using sad stories and music, tests how information about others' responses influences their casual attributions. Shows subjects informed they had reacted more negatively than others made more internal casual attributions. Suggests consensus information does not influence affect…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Analysis of Variance, Attribution Theory, Emotional Response
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Mandigo, James L.; Holt, Nicholas L. – Physical Educator, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine elementary school students' accounts of optimal challenge. Twenty-seven children (aged 7-9 years) participated in semi-structured interviews during which they were shown a video-recording of their participation in a physical education class and invited to describe their experiences of optimally challenging…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Physical Education, Student Motivation, Young Children
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Karos, Leigh Karavasilis; Howe, Nina; Aquan-Assee, Jasmin – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Associations between reciprocal and complementary sibling interactions, sibling relationship quality, and children's socio-emotional problem solving were examined in 40 grade 5-6 children (M age = 11.5 years) from middle class, Caucasian, Canadian families using a multi-method approach (i.e. interviews, self-report questionnaires, daily diary…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Problem Solving
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Leung, Jupian J.; Foster, Stephen F. – Child Study Journal, 1985
Effects of preaching, recipient deservingness, personality attractiveness, and sex of subjects on pledging and donating behaviors were investigated with fifth and sixth graders. Findings are discusssed in terms of (1) saliency of stimulus object and children's stereotyping of the elderly; (2) children's conception of relationship between…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Altruism, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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