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Watson, Sophie; Costantini, Cristina; Clegg, Miriam E. – Child Care in Practice, 2020
Background: Feeding methods used during infancy may impact upon eating behaviors in toddlers and influence the likelihood of developing weight issues. The aim of this study was to compare eating behaviors and food neophobia (defined as the reluctance to eat, or the avoidance of, new foods) in toddlers between three different complementary feeding…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Eating Habits, Food, Eating Disorders
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Totsika, Vasiliki; Hastings, Richard P.; Dutton, Yoko; Worsley, Alison; Melvin, Glenn; Gray, Kylie; Tonge, Bruce; Heyne, David – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
School non-attendance in autism spectrum disorders has received very little attention to date. The study aimed to provide a comprehensive description of school non-attendance in students with autism spectrum disorders. Through an online survey, parents of 486 children (mean age: 11 years) reported on school attendance over 1 month and reasons for…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Attendance, Correlation
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Reddy, Vasudevi; Liebal, Katja; Hicks, Kerry; Jonnalagadda, Srujana; Chintalapuri, Beena – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Complying with directives is an important indicator of developing cooperativeness and of the awareness of others' intentions for one's own actions. Nonetheless, little is known about the early emergence of compliance. In the present longitudinal study, we explore this phenomenon in naturalistic settings in two cultural groups. Nine middle-class…
Descriptors: Infants, Compliance (Psychology), Cultural Differences, Longitudinal Studies
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Payne, Ruth – Educational Review, 2015
The use of systems of rewards and sanctions within behaviour policies has now been adopted formally in UK schools. Such systems potentially represent competing theoretical ideas when considered alongside current approaches to teaching and learning. There is also opportunity for inconsistent use of rewards and sanctions resulting from the absence…
Descriptors: Rewards, Sanctions, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
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Williams, Joanne M. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
This paper aims to provide developmental data on two connected naive inheritance concepts and to explore the coherence of children's naive biology knowledge. Two tasks examined children and adolescents' (4, 7, 10, and 14 years) conceptions of phenotypic resemblance across kin (in physical characteristics, disabilities, and personality traits). The…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Age Differences, Biology, Physical Characteristics
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Golombok, Susan; Blake, Lucy; Casey, Polly; Roman, Gabriela; Jadva, Vasanti – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Parenting and children's adjustment were examined in 30 surrogacy families, 31 egg donation families, 35 donor insemination families, and 53 natural conception families. Methods: Parenting was assessed at age 3 by a standardized interview designed to assess quality of parenting and by questionnaire measures of anxiety, depression, and…
Descriptors: Donors, Pregnancy, Adjustment (to Environment), Parents
Johnston, David W.; Lordon, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; Suziedelyte, Agne – Centre for Economic Performance, 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Knowledge Level, Health
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Robinson, Elise B.; Munir, Kerim; McCormick, Marie C.; Koenen, Karestan C.; Santangelo, Susan L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
This is the first investigation of the relationship between parental age and extreme social-communicative autistic traits in the general population. The parents of 5,246 children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) completed the Social and Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC). The association between parental age…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Children, Parents, Age Differences
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Majumder, Pallab; Hammad, Hala – Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2006
Background: The clinical profile of depressive disorder in children and young people in Child Adolescent and Family Services (CAFS), Northampton was studied. Methods: Twenty-five patients who had attended the CAFS over a period of 2 years were analysed retrospectively. Results: The age range of subjects was 8 to 19 years. Majority of patients were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Intervention, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse