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You Get What You Get and You Don't Throw a Fit!: Emotion Socialization and Child Physiology Jointly Predict Early Prosocial Development
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Scrimgeour, Meghan B.; Davis, Elizabeth L.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Prosocial behavior in early childhood is a precursor to later adaptive social functioning. This investigation leveraged mother-reported, physiological, and observational data to examine children's prosocial development from age 2 to age 4 (N = 125). Maternal emotion socialization (ES) strategies and children's parasympathetic regulation have each…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Prosocial Behavior, Psychological Patterns
Roles of Approval Motivation and Social Reinforcement in Children's Discrimination Learning
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Brannigan, Gary G.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Tests the hypothesis that strong approval motivation is developmentally lower than weaker approval motivation, since the high-approval-motivated individual is more dependent on the external world than on internal cues and norms. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Motivation Techniques
Studies in the Self-Regulation of Behavior: Effects of Contingent Cognitive and Affective Events
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Masters, John C.; Santrock, John W. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
The hypothesis tested was that the evaluations and affective responses which accompany ongoing behavior may operate as reinforcers and punishers, thus exercising control over the persistence of those behaviors. Results indicate potent systematic effects due to the differing content of such evaluations and the associated affect or affective tone.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Evaluative Thinking, Persistence, Preschool Children